Scientists have found a way to disarm a protein thought to play a key role in leukaemia and other cancers.

The ability of dogs to tune in to needs of psychiatric patients, turn on lights for trauma victims afraid of the dark, remind owners to take medication and interrupt suicide attempts and self-mutilation, has lately attracted the attention of researchers.

I'VE been checking out Internet dating sites recently. No, I'm not in the market (although my husband is a little suspicious of all this "research"). But since many of my friends use them, I was curious.

ScienceDaily (July 25, 2009) -- In a study released online on July 22 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, researchers at Arizona State University and Princeton University show that ants can accomplish a task more---

The eyes of nocturnal bats possess two spectral cone photoreceptor types for daylight and colour vision. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and the University of Oldenburg have detected cones and their visual pigments..

Two men have been jailed after becoming the first in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred via a foreign website. The men's bid for asylum was thrown out by a judge.

Bumblebee colonies which are fast learners are also better able to fight off infection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Leicester.

Anyone who has walked barefoot across a parking lot on a hot summer day knows that blacktop is exceptionally good at soaking up the sun's warmth.

Brandon Dilbeck, has a blog about Comcast's practice of posting ads in its on-screen programming guide. He later received an email from Comcast, thanking him for the feedback and adding that it was working on a new interactive guide

Scientists discovered a strange bacterium living 1 mile below the Earth's surface that thrives in the pitch-black world far beneath our feet. We know more about other planets than we do about Earth's interior. Explained in Doomwatch Legacy by David Kagan.