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The 2016 presidential election season is already off to a hot start, but what if the candidates were told that the old debate between science and religion is all in our heads? New research from scientists at Case Western Reserve University and Babson College believe this may be the case. If so, it would inevitably play in …
Cue the “Jurassic Park” theme song. In a study published in Evolution, researchers from the University of Chile detailed a recent experiment involving the mutation of a chicken leg to give it the shape of a dinosaur leg. The scientists inhibited the early maturation of a leg of a chicken embryo to yield the results. Alexander Vargas, one of the researchers, stated …
European storks are known for migrating during the year, but new research shows that Portugal and Spain’s storks are starting to stick around — for the sake of trash. A study published in BioMed Central showed that the birds are learning to feed off of the waste in landfills. In turn, they’re opting out of …
Editor’s note: This post has been updated and broken links removed. Please see our policy on broken hyperlinks for more. Editor’s note: This piece is identified as bad science communication. The research was biased and tied to grants that gave out money that tied anything to climate change AKA global warming. Nothing in this piece notes that …
Next time you feel bad about dipping your hand into a bag of potato chips, remember that you’re not alone. In fact, a new study shows that about half of what Americans consume can be categorized as “junk food.” In the study, which was published in BMJ Open, “junk food” was defined as ultra-processed food (think added …
Editor’s note: This post has been updated and broken links removed. Please see our policy on broken hyperlinks for more. If you can die of a broken heart, you should be able to die of enormous joy, right? It might not make much sense, but new research shows that your heart and overall health may be at …
Once in a while, you might ponder what’s really up there in the night sky. Now, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Solar System Research and McMaster University believe that if there is extraterrestrial life, it’s had a good chance to discover our planet. When a planet passes in front of a star, it can …
Nintendo’s upcoming mystery gaming system codenamed NX has been the talk of the internet cloud computing circles in the last couple of months. Nintendo themselves did not reveal any information regarding this system, however, speculations around patents which Nintendo filed reveal quite a lot about the system. This figure in particular was quite the flare: …
The hypothesis that our immune system plays a role in detecting and killing transformed (cancerous) cells was first proposed over 50 years ago, remaining little more than a theory until the early 2000’s. In the past decade this theory has not only gained traction as being a critical function of the immune system, but has …
Although the long-extinct dodo bird may be at the center of many jokes, new research suggests that maybe we should all lay off a bit. A study published in the Zoological Journal of Linnean Society has discovered that the size of the dodo’s brain in relationship to its body is on par with its closest relative — the …