When it comes to flying, many avid travelers may notice jet-lag symptoms are particularly bad when heading east instead of west. That may seem to be a figment of your imagination, but it's actually a known phenomenon confirmed by science. Today researchers from the University of Maryland's Institute for Research in...
IN a huge breakthrough for astrophysics, scientists believe that they have detected the first neutrino to have originated from outside our galaxy. Neutrinos are invisible yet high-energy particles that are one of the fundamental ingredients of the universe. Little is known about them due to the fact that they rarely interact...
FEARS a catastrophic earthquake is building today grew after a fourth major tremor struck the same region in just 48 hours. There have been three large earthquakes recorded in recent days, including a major one in southern Japan which destroyed buildings and left at least 45 people injured, after Myanmar was rocked on...
Rumors are circulating that scientists have finally discovered gravitational waves – one of the most important variables in Albert Einstein’s understanding of how the universe works. If confirmed, the observations could become the biggest leap in physics in a hundred years. When Einstein published his general theory...
A Japanese professor has discovered a way of reading thoughts before a person actually voices them. The study centered on finding a connection between sound waves made by speech and the brainwaves elicited just before that. To arrive at his conclusions, Professor Toshimasa Yamazaki of the Kyushu Institute of Technology asked...