When researchers analyzed thousands of table orders from an Oklahoma restaurant over the span of 19 weeks, they found that people tended to order like their friend regardless of health concerns presented by menus.

A new study which explores impact craters in Argentine soil has found ancient remnants of plant life suggesting that asteroid strikes act to preserve evidence of life long after it has passed away. 

From self-parking cars to voice-recognition software on smartphones, the ability of individual machines to learn from collected sets of data is the forefront of artificial intelligence research.

A Massachusetts company hopes to begin testing a remote-controlled contraceptive device next year with the goal of introducing it to the public by 2018. 

When startups look for investors, it's essential that the company put forward its best ideas, but that's increasingly being done without legal protections that prevent investors from taking those ideas for themselves.

When placed in a room with a machine that delivered a moderate electric shock, most people preferred to gives themselves a jolt of painful electricity than entertain their own imagination.

Researchers stationed at a Zambian animal sanctuary were amused when they observed a female chimpanzee named Julie stick a piece of grass in her ear.

Researchers found that individuals who had actually made art showed a greater increase in brain function than those who merely learned how to appreciate it better. 

For just 99 cents, you can contribute images, text, audio, or video clips to be included in a Mars-bound spacecraft that will await the arrival of future astronauts, greeting them with your message once they've landed.

If increasing agricultural efficiency and reducing global poverty are among our goals, the world must prepare to vastly increase its energy consumption, or so said speakers at the Breakthrough Institute's recent Dialogue conference. 

The burgeoning legal marijuana industry is putting pressure on public utilities, using tremendous amounts of power to grow its plants indoors, shielding them from the elements and thieves alike.

Today's feminist movement--the Fourth Wave--is best characterized by an increasing diversity of voices that, in reaction to the Third Wave of the 1990s, want to establish a bedrock of feminine values rather than follow male ones.

At a time when we threaten to tip the Earth's scales, possibly causing irreversible damage to its ecosystem, the actions of a single individual seem more ineffectual than ever.

After we've extended the human lifespan exponentially and created the means for quick interstellar travel, humanity will set its sights on the ultimate goal: saving our universe from certain destruction.

Despite the rising popularity of incentive pay, nothing motivates us better than having an internal and personal reason to do something, or so says a new study of some 11,000 military cadets.

"One of the greatest challenges to the engineering of large tissues and organs is growing a network of blood vessels and capillaries," said the scientist leading current research efforts.

"Given the heat," said Miller, "people smelled, of course, but some smelled a lot worse than others."

On his blog, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll explains how if you accept quantum mechanics, it is not difficult to accept the multiple universes hypothesis.

Los Angeles dermatologist Eric Finzi has published two studies suggesting that Botox injections can relieve symptoms of depression by keeping the face from expressing sorrowful or painful emotions.

Thanks to a NASA grant, the University of Southern California's Dr. Behrok Khoshnevis is designing robotic machines that could build landing pads, hangars, and roads out of the Martian soil.