Science Archive

Do you spend a lot of your time playing computer games? Do you get withdrawal symptoms if you haven’t checked your social networking account of choice for a few hours? Or do you have a spread sheet so that you can document …

A ‘Hypnic Jerk’ also known as a ‘Hypnagogic Jerk’, a ‘Sleep Start’ and a ‘Night Start’ – is an involuntary twitch which happens during hypnagogia. This is the stage just as a person is about to fall asleep and it often causes …

In the year 1977, a year when most people were focused on the surprising death of rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley at the age of 42, a man in Ohio remembered this year for a much more different reason. A 37-year-old man named …

A little less than a decade ago, the potential benefits of ecstasy in fighting cancer cells in blood became known to the scientific community and the world. A study published in 2006, by a team of researchers from the University of Birmingham, …

The brain is one of the biggest and most complex organs in the human body. It is responsible for many different bodily functions and is capable of extraordinary things, so why has research shown that each time you recall a past event, …

Known as “The Glowing Lake”, the phenomena is quite a unique tourist attraction. There is however an explanation for this. The lake is swarming with tiny microorganisms, called Noctiluca scintillans that have a natural luminescence. These organisms glow a ghostly blue and …