Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us.

The University of Amsterdam discovered that when insect pests are exposed to the smell of their predators they go dormant. Scientists are developing a "predatory perfume" to control them, as noted in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.

Opening the door to Hogwarts, Scientists demonstrate how to make a hidden portal.

Australian scientists said Monday they had discovered in an outback mountain range a reef that was under water 650 million years ago and could provide fresh insight into early life on Earth.

In a dramatic illustration of the potential for microbes to prevent disease, researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago showed that mice exposed to common stomach bacteria were protected against the development of Type I diabetes.

The aging but intrepid Mars rover Opportunity is set to embark on a two-year mission it may never complete,a 7-mile(12-km)journey to a crater far bigger than one it has called home for two years,NASA said on Monday.The golf-cart-sized robot with a wobbly>

People who startle easily in response to threatening images or loud sounds seem to have a biological predisposition to adopt conservative political positions on many hot-button social issues

Plants make aspirin when they need an immune boost, according to new research, sending a form of the compound airborne to signal a health problem to the rest of the tree or to other trees.

Plants facing stressful conditions like drought produce their own aspirin-like chemical, US researchers say. The chemicals are produced as a gas to boost the plant's biochemical defences, say scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in

If the night sky seems less tranquil on nights when the moon is bright, the observation probably isn't imagined since a new study has determined that at least one bird's level of activity dramatically increases with moonlight.