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We are constantly told about the rapid advances in science but every once in a while there's an announcement that makes you give pause.

The incredible meteor strike in Russia's Ural Mountains might make you wonder, has anything like this ever happened before?  We know that in prehistory we have evidence of large objects striking the earth.  Since 1900, the largest and best known meteor strike is the 1908 Tanguska Event.

Mind over matter, people! According to this video, when you change your mind, you physically change your brain.

Something very strange happens at the 1:15 point in this video. When these three clear solutions are combined on a stir plate, the result changes color — and keeps changing!

If you're a fan of J.K. Rowling's hit 'Harry Potter' series, you must have longed for your own invisibility cloak so that you could go off on your own magical adventures just like Harry himself. But invisibility cloaks are merely fictional, right? Wrong!

When you look at someone, you are immediately drawn to their eyes. Scientists have been unsure if this is because humans are programmed to stare at eyes or at faces in general. Alan Kingstone, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, had been working on this quandary and was having trouble thinking of an experiment which separated the eyes from the center of the face. He was telling h

We know -- the first thing we thought when we saw this was "who draws that well on white board" too! Once we got over that, we realized we should actually be paying attention to what this guy's saying. It's a step by step guide from asapScience to achieving lucid dreams -- dreams you are cognizant of and can control...

Millions of Americans may be out of work, but numerous surveys have shown lots of job opportunities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (dubbed STEM by the analysts) — so why aren’t more students considering them? A new study indicates many kids feel getting into those professions would simply be “too challenging.”

Why in this day in age aren’t there a lot of female scientists? Well many women are afraid. Not afraid of the subject, afraid of other factors.