Science

You arrive at the office after getting up at the crack of dawn, sitting through two traffic jams, and still half asleep. On your...

Since ancient times, human beings have gazed at the stars and dreamed of travelling in space, and incredible advances have been made in this...

Game Theory is a field of applied mathematics that formally and abstractly studies the optimal decisions that adversaries should make when they are faced...

Vitamin A (also known as retinol) was discovered in 1913 when researchers varied the diet of certain laboratory animals (replacing lard with butter) and discovered that...

When you looked at the cover image for this post, you probably found it hard to avoid the common and contagious action of yawning....

Years ago, popular wisdom said that we had a finite number of neurons. In other words, any accident or problem (such as drinking alcohol...

3D printing offers extensive possibilities in medicine. The latest revolution proposed by researchers in the United States and China could forever change how we study...

Growing plants in space is one of the challenges of exploration promoted by agencies such as NASA. If they can manage to overcome these...

For quite some time, nanotechnology and medicine have been advancing hand in hand towards the goal of taking better care of our health. Biosensors...

The operation was done at  the University Medical Center (UMC) in  Utrecht, the Netherlands, and was actually performed almost three months ago, but the...