A secret Nazi military base in the Arctic has been discovered by Russian scientists.  The site – located on the island of Alexandra Land 1,000km from the North Pole 0150 was constructed in 1942, a year after Adolf Hitler invaded Russia.  It was codenamed “Schatzgraber” or “Treasure Hunter” by the Germans and was primarily used as a tactical weather station.

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Submitted on October 23rd 2016 by hxxp

Telling little fibs leads down a slippery slope to bigger lies — and our brains adapt to escalating dishonesty, which makes deceit easier, a new study shows. Neuroscientists at the University College London’s Affective Brain Lab put 80 people in scenarios where they could repeatedly lie and get paid more based on the magnitude of their lies. They said they were the first to demonstrate empirically that people’s lies grow bolder the more they fib.

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Submitted on October 24th 2016 by weekendhobo with 1 comments

NASA is opening up its research library to the public in the newly launched web database PubSpace…and it’s absolutely free. NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan believes that this move will benefit fellow scientists and engineers and accelerate innovation. “Making our research data easier to access will greatly magnify the impact of our research,” she said. “As scientists and engineers, we work by building upon a foundation laid by others.”

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Submitted on October 25th 2016 by junglman

Religious people are more likely to have a poorer understanding of the world and are more likely to believe objects like rocks and paper have human qualities, scientists say. Researchers at the University of Helsinki compared believers in God or the paranormal to people with autism after finding they tend to struggle to understand the realities of the world around us.

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Submitted on October 26th 2016 by canuck with 4 comments

New forests are coming to Europe's most densely developed country, to help it meet its carbon targets. But where will they put them?

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Submitted on October 27th 2016 by gladsdotter with 2 comments

Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns. By Donald Hall.

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by AdelleChattre

After decades of disappointment and resignation, a handful of research groups are making advances in developing potential cold vaccines. By Carl Zimmer.

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Submitted on October 26th 2016 by AdelleChattre

A clever experiment pinpoints the brain region involved in taking the perspective of our future selves or that of others. By Catherine Caruso.

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Submitted on October 26th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments

After struggling for years with involuntary tics and outbursts, Josh Hanagarne found his calling in a job that involves no shortage of shushing.

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Submitted on October 24th 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

In the 1800s, Wilhelm Kühne created an image of a window from the eyes of a rabbit. Was this technology applicable to humans?

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Submitted on October 24th 2016 by rti9

YOU KNOW THE deal with the sun: Don’t look right at it. Don’t fly too close to it. Pretty basic stuff. Not that NASA heeds that advice. For 10 years now, two spacecraft have been orbiting our nearest star, staring into it to unravel its secrets. The region between Earth and the sun, a distance of some 93 million miles, teems with solar flares and solar wind and charged particles. The two Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory probes, dubbed Stereo A and Stereo B, follow orbits just ahead and behind the Earth to provide a stereoscopic view of it all.

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Submitted on October 26th 2016 by Petrox

I had lost so much weight that I looked like walking skeleton. I was ready to give up. By Ann Rodgers. (Aug. 12, 2016)

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by AdelleChattre

In the summer of 2005, Jeffrey Karp, a bioengineer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was working late one night when he spotted a journal article on a colleague’s desk. What caught his eye was not the text itself, but the full-page colour illustration of Spider-Man that accompanied it. Intrigued, Karp sat down and started reading. The article detailed how a group of researchers had created a new synthetic material by mimicking the properties of gecko feet – whose tiny, hair-like pillars allow...

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Submitted on October 27th 2016 by rexall

there are a number of innovations in public transportation specifically aimed at alleviating those woes.

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Submitted on October 24th 2016 by Devang

A rare garden snail with an anticlockwise shell - a "lefty" - has been discovered in London. It's an exciting discovery but sadly for "Jeremy", he can only mate with another unique lefty. Nottingham University's resident snail expert Dr Angus Davison told the Today programme so-called righties and lefties can't get it on because their genitals are in the wrong place, so he wants our listeners to search their gardens to find another "lefty" snail for his to mate with.

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by zritic

You might have read otherwise in some headlines lately, but don't be misled. By Dan Scolnic and Adam G. Riess.

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Submitted on October 27th 2016 by AdelleChattre

Can the woolly mammoth be brought back from the dead? Scientists say it's only a matter of time. By Julie Cohen. (Aug. 25, 2016)

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by AdelleChattre

The research vessel, Chikyu, will look for microbes in the hot sediments of the Nankai Trough, to find life's limits at the hottest temperatures.

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Submitted on October 21st 2016 by swift528491

The international collaboration will enroll up to 90 patients in this country.

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Submitted on October 27th 2016 by jcscher

Slang has always evolved one step ahead of the mainstream. But how is it changing in the digital age, when a ‘wrong’ word so easily offends? By Max Décharné.

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Submitted on October 26th 2016 by gladsdotter