To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...
The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
Lucky would be an understatement to describe Justin Smith. The 26-year-old Pennsylvania man not only beat the reaper after being nearly frozen to death,...
Have you ever found yourself completely exhausted by mid-day, virtually incapable of finishing that lengthy to-do list you wrote up in the morning or...
A long sought weapon against cancer is gaining ground as doctors develop new immunotherapy technologies that empower the immune system to better attack previously...
A new match-sized invention is expected to return independent mobility to paralyzed patients as early as next year.
Australian researchers have developed a stent-based electrode...
