David Nutt: Governments should get real on drugs David Nutt, professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, was chairman of the UK government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs until he was dis...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have converted a 2001 Scion xB into an electric commuter vehicle that will serve as a test bed for a new community-based approach to electric vehicle design, c...

Insects may have tiny brains , but they can perform some seriously impressive feats of mental gymnastics. According to a growing number of studies, some insects can count, categorize objects, even recognize human faces ...

The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa . Jin Changzhu and colleagues of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Pala...

The Republican National Committee ’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.” Federal Election Commission Records sh...

Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc . epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often misleading, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documen...

Peasants waving pitchforks and torches are not exactly storming the castle, but the scientists are sure restless. Yet another scientific study has come out questioning whether cell phone use is good for your brain - and th...

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Bones, jewelry and weapons found in Egyptian desert may be the remains of Cambyses' army that vanished 2,500 years ago. The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian deser...

Lately, sky watchers have been reporting a growing number of "upside-down rainbows." Here's one that appeared Monday over Lansford, Pennsylvania. "This was just amazing and beyond exciting," says photographer Brenda P...