For more than 20 years, scientists treated ghrelin as the body’s master hunger switch. A new look at snake genomes suggests ...

A simple idea leads to a strange result—eat a fish and suddenly become one. What starts as a quick experiment quickly turns into something unexpected. The transformation changes everything, making ...

I know what it feels like to almost die from a snake bite. You can’t move. You can’t breathe. Your diaphragm’s frozen. But you can hear everything. So when I was in the ICU, I could hear the doctors ...

This video documents a controlled experiment designed to observe how the human body reacts to the hottest peppers on Earth. Specific segments show the immediate sensory impact, followed by escalating ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...

I love pondering this moral question about whether or not it's immoral to eat dogs. So far, I have yet to see even a single compelling argument as to why eating dogs is morally worse than eating any ...

SINGAPORE – The world’s first tropical climate data centre test bed was launched here on Nov 29 for researchers and industry partners to develop and test cooling technologies that use up to 40 per ...

sense2vec (Trask et. al, 2015) is a nice twist on word2vec that lets you learn more interesting and detailed word vectors. This library is a simple Python implementation for loading, querying and ...

SINGAPORE – Environmentalists and green groups are perplexed by a recent social experiment by the National Environment Agency (NEA) which seemed to generate more waste while raising awareness about ...

The rattlesnake’s warning sound, a grating ch-ch-ch, is one of the most spine-tingling noises in nature—because if you can hear it, you’ve already wandered too close. But according to a new study ...

Orlando, Florida — Standing curb-side, about a block away from a congested intersection, Rob Greenfield is counting grapefruits—over a baker’s dozen he plucked from a nearby tree. He’s more than a ...