The world’s first offshore tidal energy turbine has been launched off the Devon coast in the UK, a first step to the possible widespread use of ocean tides for clean power.

The ocean turbine, developed by Hampshire-based Marine Current Turbines and Cornwall-based Seacore, is similar to a windmill sunk into the ocean and turned on its […]

Animal protection groups in Switzerland are concerned about the increasing popularity of dog and cat meat.

They are being devoured particularly in rural areas of the country.
And dog fat is also being used as medication against bronchitis in some parts of the country.

Slaughtering pets for their meat is prohibited under Swiss law but animal protection groups […]

Through the dot-com bubble and bust, one trend has never wavered. Every year, millions more people around the world are using the Internet to interact in more ways than ever before — to date, find old classmates, check on medical ailments and cures, to read and express alternative views of the news, and even to […]

The leap from the modern digital society in the 1980s and ’90s left the old dating paradigms in the dust. In 1970, 28.3% of the U.S. population was single, according to the Census Bureau. By 2000, that percentage was up to 40.4%. With tens of millions of Americans changing addresses each year, the deep community […]

A new neuroimaging study provides the strongest evidence to date that unusual shyness in children may result from differences in their brains.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine adults who had been unusually shy in childhood. When these people were shown pictures of unfamiliar faces, they displayed significantly higher […]

If the noise of ads blaring out from your TV set has you reaching for the volume control, you may be surprised to learn that broadcasters are all but powerless to do anything about it. But now an international team of sound experts is aiming to give them the tools they need to make commercial […]