Music, be it a Bach symphony or the snarling punk of the Sex Pistols, can relieve pain and lessen anxiety, according to two studies.

It is not just our bodies that become stiff in old age. Skin cells also appear to become more rigid. The discovery might just lead to new ways to rejuvenate skin.

The Solar Death Ray is made of 112 mirrors mounted on a platform 4 feet wide and 6 feet tall. Each mirror is a square roughly 3.5 inches on edge. Great photos.

UK banks are being urged to confront the problem of identity theft and fraud and put to rest a culture of ‘not on my watch’ denial which is holding back the fight against such problems.

Doctors have replaced a man’s penis with one grown on his forearm.

Karl Mahlburg, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, US, has spent a year putting together the final pieces to the puzzle, which involves understanding patterns of numbers.
The solution may one day lead to advances in particle physics and computer security.

A German scientist has calculated a formula for a happy relationship where criticism needs to be cancelled out by five compliments.

Scientists analyzed records from more than 88,000 wildfires that occurred in the U.S. between 1970 and 2000. Both the size and frequency of the fires track what is known as a power-law relationship.

Brad Feld:
In our term sheet series, Jason Mendelson and I have been focusing first on “the terms that really matter.” We are down to the last one – the pay-to-play provision.