A chemical found in cannabis can act like an antidepressant, researchers have found.

Dead bodies could be freeze-dried, shaken to a fine powder and used as compost under proposals to introduce a new, more eco-friendly method of corpse disposal in the UK.

Now you can extend that truism about oil and water to water and itself. Water and water don’t always mix, either.

A story on National Geographic News cites a study claiming that 20% of all human genes ‘have been patented in the United States, primarily by private firms and universities.

An 80-page, handwritten working manuscript score of Beethoven’s ‘Grosse Fuge’ that went missing 115 years ago has been found by a librarian near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Police are chasing a con artist who used hypnotism to steal tens of thousands of dollars from bank tellers in Moldova - eastern Europe’s poorest country.

On the macroscopic scale there appear to be 3 dimensions of space and 1 of time. For instance to locate an event (say meeting a friend), one has to give 4-ordinates. 3 involve space. Distance left-right, distance forward-back and distance up-down. One involves time - for instance 10′clock. […]

San Francisco VA Medical Center researchers say they’ve identified a set of key immune-response genes that do not turn on in a weightless environment.