The smell of space will linger for the seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery long after they return to Earth on Saturday.
“One thing I’ve heard people say before, but it wasn’t so obvious, was the smell right when you open up that hatch,” Discovery pilot Dominic “Tony” Antonelli said after a March 21 spacewalk. “Space definitely has a smell that’s different than anything else.”
A specially-equipped Roomba robot vacuum cleaner can now sense human emotional states. University of Calgary researchers published their results in a paper titled “Using Bio-electrical Signals to Influence the Social Behaviours of Domesticated Robots.”
Video games with lots of action, such as the shoot-’em-up variety, can improve your vision, a new study finds.
Players became up to 58 percent better at perceiving fine contrast differences in the tests.
Half a century after the discovery of pheromones in animals, scientists have yet to conclusively identify a single such chemical in humans. Yet the term is bandied about regularly in reference to people and the supposedly silent means by which they communicate.
People who take in the caffeine equivalent of three cups of brewed coffee (or seven cups of instant) are more likely to hallucinate, a new study suggests.
The researchers found that people with a caffeine intake that high, whether it came from coffee, tea, chocolate or caffeinated energy drinks or pills, had a three-times-higher tendency to hear voices and see things that were not there than those who consumed the equivalent of a half-cup of brewed coffee (or one cup of instant coffee).
Striped rabbits, bright pink millipedes laced with cyanide and a spider bigger than a dinner plate are among a host of new species discovered in a remote wildlife hotspot.
The Greater Mekong is described as one of the last scientifically unexplored regions of the world and it abounds in life seen nowhere else in the world.
A soldier in a war lives a life exposed to danger – both inside the compound fence and on assignment on the outside. If the container he lives in is struck by a direct hit, it can be transformed into a clump of twisted metal in a matter of seconds.
A virus that commonly infects potatoes bears a striking resemblance to one of the key proteins implicated in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and researchers have used that to develop antibodies that may slow or prevent the onset of AD.
Eating rats is the best way for rich and poor people to solve the global crisis of rising food prices, an Indian official said Wednesday as he unveiled his plan to put rodents on menus.
The next time you hear someone blaming “beer goggles” for their behaviour, you may have to believe them. People really do appear more attractive when our perceptions are changed by drinking alcohol.
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