It’s easy to ignore a grandparent who says a storm is coming because their knees are “acting up.” It’s even more ridiculous to think that Karen from “Mean Girls” knows when it will rain,...

As the semester begins to unfold, students may find they have an old friend returning for a visit. It’s a friend no one really likes, but many find themselves running into him at the most inconvenient...

If walls could talk, what would they say? What about appliances? With the rapidly developing technological field, this concept may soon become a reality. Although household appliances may not be able...

Darwinian theory suggests that humans are evolutionarily evolved from primates and share many bodily structures and functions with them.  A new study suggests that human emotions may be connected to primates...

It is not unheard of for someone to walk down Commonwealth Avenue late on a weekend night and see a student or local stumble or fall because of intoxication. However, a study published in the December...

Delegates from about 200 countries gathered in Doha, Qatar yesterday, kicking off the latest international conference to discuss global warming, its implications and solutions for it.  As the international...

Scientists are using an online test to study how people cope with pressure in sports and everday life.   Everyone has sunken into a stress response when expected to perform, minutes before a test...

One of the most subjective analyses — that of measuring a person’s consciousness — is now moving toward greater objectivity in differentiating between patients in vegetative and minimally conscious...

For students looking for a way to focus their minds while studying, researchers at the Strong Foundation have an answer. Their website, Brain Shift Radio, launched after three decades of research on music-based...

A study on smiling shows how perceptions of power and status influence one’s likelihood to mimic smiles. The eyes may be “the window to the soul,” but a smile can reveal a lot about a person, whether...

The recent announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners, John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, has stirred emotions in the Boston University scientific community. Gurdon and Yamanaka,...

The ability to learn during the hours of sleep might seem like only a dream to college students, but a new study suggests that learning during sleep is actually possible. The study, published in Nature...