NASA's sun-focused Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, twin spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year.
Saturday can be the worst enemy for our waistlines. Researchers found that study subjects on strict diet and exercise programs tend to lose weight more slowly than expected because they eat more on weekends than during the week.
Intuition, or tacit knowledge, is difficult to measure, so it is often denigrated. A new dissertation in education research shows that there is a neurobiological explanation for how experience-based knowledge is created. "Skate where the puck's going, not where it's
Researchers have developed a series of tests that for the first time accurately measure the normality of taste (gustatory function) and smell (olfactory function) in young children.
Three-year old Madeleine McCann disappeared from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on 3 May 2007, sparking an international police investigation coupled with many months of fundraising and campaigning by her parents in an effort to find her. Now
A state court jury on Tuesday found two major pharmaceutical companies defrauded Alabama in a long-running Medicaid drug pricing scheme and ordered the firms to pay more than $114 million in damages. (AP)
New York City's Health and Hospitals Corporation agreed on Tuesday to increase the monitoring of patients at a public psychiatric ward in Brooklyn. The agreement came after a videotape surfaced showing a patient collapsing onto a floor after waiting nearly
Two International Space Station residents will conduct a pair of spacewalks outside the Russian segment of the complex July 10 and 15, with coverage of both planned for NASA Television.
NASA is considering the development of a university-based, student-led satellite development initiative to begin passing the space exploration torch to a new generation.
The New Times' RWEMBEHO STEPHEN attended an Education Quality (Edqual) workshop in Kigali Institute of Education, where scholars were brainstorming on how to use ICT in teaching science and mathematics. The two leaders of the project, Dr. Paul Denley and
