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The Nature Geoscience journal published a paper called “Supervolcano eruptions driven by melt buoyancy in large silicic magma chambers” by scientists Wim Malfait and Carmen Sanchez-Valle of ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen (Switzerland), Okayama University (Japan), the…
Do expensive vitamins and mineral supplements really work wonders to our body? According to a top medical journal, no, they do not work! The recent publication strongly advised most Americans to stop taking vitamins, saying they are largely useless and…
As impossible as it may seem, two surgeons at University Hospitals Leuven have discovered an entirely new part of the human body. It is a new knee ligament it appears to play a role in patients suffering from a tear…
Astronomers from the University of California at Riverside published a paper in the October 2013 issue of the journal Nature saying that they have discovered the most distant galaxy so far. And the oldest galaxy too! In the study entitled…
The 2012 Science Edition of Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Report has released the top peer-reviewed journals in Remote Sensing based on the Impact Factor score. So which Remote Sensing journal has the highest Impact Factor in 2012? Which Remote Sensing…
Who is more intelligent — atheists or religious people? Researchers from the University of Rochester analyzed 63 scientific studies and concluded that there is “a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity.” In other words, the study suggested that atheists…
Stanford scientists concluded in a research that climate change is occurring 10 times faster than any change recorded in past 65 million years. The findings come from a review of climate research by Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental…
According to a research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a new broccoli is in town to combat the effects of aging. The Beneforte broccoli is anti aging, said the British scientists led by Professor Richard Mithen from…
A study suggests that men who often are skipping breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of developing heart disease. The study conducted at Harvard University was published in a prestigious journal “Circulation.” About 27,000 people were studied in the…
Hannes Schwandt, 30, from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, did a research that revealed the ages that people are most happy in life. He studied happiness results for 23,161 individuals aged between 17 and…