With cities becoming larger and larger, transporting a lot of people without the traffic that usually comes with it is a real challenge. The The Dahir Insaat corporation has developed a proposal to make this kind of transportation more fluid, but wit ...

A clinical trial of more than 10,000 heart attack patients reported today supports a novel way to protect them from a stroke or a second attack: with drugs that stop inflammation. The approach has been advanced by some scientists for years, but this ...

Man-made disasters, the kinds that are caused by a lack of preparedness, willful ignorance, corruption, and normalcy bias, are very common. They happen every day. There’s nothing “natural” about corruption and mismanagement. That’s what’s really resp ...

25 artists working in Britain today. They don’t have to be British but they do have to be resident so visitors from elsewhere who rock up, do an amazing mural and leave, are not included.

Results from the Guttman scale indicated that alcohol represented the “gateway” drug, leading to the use of tobacco, marijuana, and other illicit substances. Moreover, students who used alcohol exhibited a significantly greater likelihood of using bo ...

There would appear to be just a slight conflict of interest among these 4 companies who can profit from the treatments of diseases their products cause.

2014

A ‘ghost building’ isn’t a haunted mansion or a spooky house.. in fact it isn’t a building at all. But rather, ghost buildings are the outlines of a demolished building that is no more, but you can still see their imprints preserved on a shared part ...

Ever wondered where you'd end up if you started digging to the exact other side of the world?

Mary Nohl (1914–2001) was a wood-carver, painter, sculptor, ceramist, printmaker, potter, writer, illustrator, and jeweler. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is restoring the Wisconsin art environment of Mary Nohl to what it looked like around 1998 ...

The situation is entirely too catastrophic in magnitude for humans to control it. Fishing industries in the region have been toppled by contamination reports ran on fish. And now there are even studies providing evidence that fish off the coast of th ...

One in 12 doctors received payments, totaling a whopping $46 million from pharmaceutical companies to push opioid painkillers, in just over two years.

A team from the Universities of Liverpool and Oslo have just discovered how goldfish and Crucian carp are able to turn lactic acid into ethanol. Goldfish can survive without oxygen because they take lactic acid and convert it into ethanol which flows ...

Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with m ...

The annual event was held at a fairground in Palisades Park, New Jersey, from 1946 to 1955. These photos from the golden era of baby racing are amazing, and will transport you to a time before Uncle Bureaucracy stalked our lives with his endless red ...

You might be surprised at what the research says about how art changes consciousness and the functioning of the brain.

1993

In a recent study, researchers looked into how people react to robots that mess up. Surprisingly, participants liked the faulty robots much more than those who performed without a hitch.

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Scientists from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Centre have come up with what sounds like a science fiction - a nanotechnology device that can switch the cell functions in such a way that the failing organs are revived using a single touch. ...