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A 'grimace scale' to help find better painkillers: Scientists have for the first time created a sliding scale of pain for mice based on facial expressions, according to study published on Sunday.
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Girl frozen in time may hold key to aging: Scientists are hoping to gain new insights into the mysteries of aging by sequencing the genome of a 17-year-old girl who has the body and behaviour of a tiny toddler.
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A software to turn blurred photos into clear images: A team of engineers has developed software that can transform blurry photographs into clear pictures.
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In mobile age, sound quality gets sacrificed for portability: At the ripe age of 28, Jon Zimmer is sort of an old fogey. That is, he is obsessive about the sound quality of his music.
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Henna dye linked to high leukaemia rates: Henna dye may be linked to high rates of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in women, according to a new research conducted by a university in the United Arab Emirates.
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Here comes the Kug: Mug that doubles as a kettle: A mug which doubles as a kettle and features a heating element that can boil water in just 90 seconds to make a cup of tea or coffee has been developed.
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What's siphon? OED to correct 99-yr-old error: An Australian physics professor has prompted the Oxford Dictionary to correct a 99-year-old mistake after he discovered that the definition of "siphon" was wrongly stated since 1911.
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65 feet under the sea, astronauts to prepare for Mars: Astronauts will not be sent by the US to the Moon or Mars for at least a decade, but they can still get an idea of what it would be like by living 65ft underwater.
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In 300 yrs, Earth will be too hot for humans: Climate change could make much of the world too hot for human habitation within just three centuries, research released on Tuesday showed.
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Bounce your way to fitness without hurting your knees: It's all in the bounce when it comes to rebounding, the group fitness class that uses mini-trampolines to pump up the cardio without slamming the knees and joints.
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Living online? Tell-all gen draws a curtain now: Min Liu, a 21-year-old liberal arts student at the New School in New York City, got a Facebook account at 17 and chronicled her college life in detail, from rooftop drinks with friends to dancing at a downtown club. Recently, though, she has had second thoughts.
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Cringe parties: When you blush & blurt out childhood secrets: On a Tuesday night in Washington DC, in front of a crowd of 300 strangers at the trendy Town Danceboutique, a 32-year-old gallerist called Brooke recounts her unrequited crushes from summer camp, when she was 11.
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Blank slate? 6-mth-old can tell good from bad: Contrary to the Freudian theory that humans start their lives with a moral "blank slate", children may be born with the ability to tell good from bad, according to a new study.
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Spacecraft to test Einstein's relativity theory: In what is billed to be the largest scientific instrument ever built, scientists plan to use three spacecraft flying three million miles apart to fire laser beams at each other across the emptiness of space in a bid to finally prove whether a theory proposed by Albert Einstein is correct.
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Ultrasound waves as contraceptive?: Researchers from University of North Carolina believe a blast of ultrasound to the testes can safely stop sperm production for six months.
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