Researchers across the country are already feeling the effects of the US government's shutdown that began on Tuesday. Due to mandatory furloughs, the National Institute of Health has temporarily lost 73% of its employees. The staff decrease...

Doctoral candidate David Comer Kidd and his advisor, professor of psychology, Emanuele Castano from The New School in New York, New York published new research in the Oct. 3, 2013, issue of the journal Science that indicates reading literary fiction...

According to an October 2, 2013 story in the Washington Free Beacon, the Chinese have successfully tested an anti satellite weapon that is capable of capturing a satellite with a remote manipulator arm, similar to those used on the International...

Dr. Yuriy Stepanenko and physicists from the Laser Centre of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University announced the development of the first successful desktop sized laser...

Erich Fitzgerald, Senior Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museum Victoria, announced the discovery of the most complete fossilized remains of a Diprotodontid marsupial ever found near Sorrento in the Mornington Peninsula National Park of Australia in the Oct. 2...

The U.S. Army announced Oct. 2 that it has asked four aviation firms to design "transformational vertical-lift" aircraft that could someday help replace many existing military helicopters..Under "technology investment agreements" that the Army...

Patchy clouds in the west and clear skies in the east. That is the current weather forecast, not for anywhere on Earth, but for a much more distant world in another solar system. For the first time, astronomers have been...

Being a member of the mile high club can be as prestigious as having lunch with sensational pop star Miley Cyrus – at least, in some circles.But not so for bees, particularly those among entomologist Sue Cobey’s...

Despite the government shutdown that has idled most of NASA, the Mars Curiosity rover will still remain in operation, according to an October 1, 2013 story in The Verge. This is because the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, from which the Curiosity...

Anandasankar Ray, an associate professor of entomology at the University of California at Riverside, and colleagues reported the discovery of the DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide) receptors in insects and the testing of three FDA approved safe alternatives to...

The new Antares rocket has completed its first mission to the International Space Station.Launched on Sept. 18 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the Orbital Sciences-made vehicle delivered its new Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the...

Peter Hochuli and Susanne Feist-Burkhardt from the University of Zürich announced their discovery of the oldest known flowering plants ever found in the world in the Oct. 1, 2013 issue of the journal Frontiers in Plant Science.Two...