Why popcorn tastes better when you eat it with chopsticks

If you are not enjoying your favorite things as much as you used to, new research…

Anger overlooked as feature of postnatal mood disorders

Women in the postpartum period should be screened for anger in addition to depression and anxiety,…

Women know what they want; men get pickier with age

Online dating is a multi-million-dollar growth industry. Research shows men and women take a different approach…

Physicists set limits on size of neutron stars

How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to sixteen kilometers. Astrophysicists have…

Twisted meta-molecules as they really are

Physicists have devised a new and highly sensitive method to truly test the chirality of a…

Computational model analysis reveals serotonin speeds learning

A new computational-model reveals that serotonin, one of the most widespread chemicals in the brain, can…

Tropical ‘banana eater’ birds lived in North America 52 million years ago

A fossil of an ancestor of modern tropical birds has been found in North America, proving…

What nipple size means for evolutionary biology

Nipple size varies markedly from woman to woman, whereas male nipples are more uniform. This finding…

Geologists detail likely site of San Andreas Fault’s next major quake

Geologists identify the San Andreas Fault's 'Durmid Ladder' structure, a a nearly 15.5-mile-long, sheared zone with…

New oceanographic insight pinpoints marine ‘hotspots of risk’

Using a novel, high-resolution 'Lagrangian Coherent Structures' mapping technique, scientists are able to model dynamic features…