U.S. researchers at Harvard University have created a soft robot that performs like squid, starfish, and worms – such creatures without hard skeletons. Watch it wiggle around on YouTube.

A long-term study of Danish mobile phone use has unequivocally determined that there is no connection between mobile phone use and various cancers of the brain.  The nay-sayers have rushed to contradict the findings.

A September 2011 published study conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, found that if you embarrass easily, then people are more trusting of you.

Sometimes scientific progress comes from the most unexpected of sources.  Molecular biology researchers harness the ingenuity of online gamers to solve a 10-year-old problem.

Following yesterday's unceremonious prod down the stern slide of HMNZS Tangaroa, 'Happy Feet,' the Emperor Penguin who washed up on a New Zealand beach, is on his way south.  Interested penguin followers can follow him using every kind of technology available.  Unfortunately, he doesn't yet have a Facebook page.

After over 130 years of unknowns, the remains of infamous Australian outlaw and folk hero Ned Kelly was confirmed by scientists with the use of forensic techniques.

Scientists have determined that early humans first used fire to cook meals around 1.9 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought.

Researchers have discovered over 20 polar dinosaur tracks in Otways National Park in Australia. The discovery is the largest discovery of polar dinosaur tracks ever found in the Southern Hemisphere.

According to a report in the journal Public Library of Science One, Japanese scientists have grown a tooth from stem cells that was implanted into the kidney of a mouse. The tooth is not functionally normally.

According to an Australian study, misinformation is never really erased from people's memories, even if the information is corrected later. Such a result implies the importance of getting it right the first time.

A South Korean study has shown a relationship between the length of a man’s penis and the ratio of the length of the index finger and the ring finger. Now, that must have been an interesting study to do!

An Australian-European study has determined that cross-breeding of bananas is important to the future of the banana industry

The “12 Worst Insects” are described by Popular Mechanics magazine, and the author calls them the “most vile insect invaders around.”

According to research performed by the Institute of Economics and Peace, violence in the world in 2010 was very expensive, with a price tag of US$8.1 trillion. Find out the most violent country in the world in 2010, and the most peaceful one through its Global Peace Index.

A Canadian study found that a happy male is less sexually attractive to females than moody or powerful looking males.

According to a U.S. government study, the percentage of developmental disabilities in children within the United States has increased to just over 15%.

Australian researchers at Bionic Vision Australia have brought new microchip technology a step closer to actually implanting its wide-view bionic eye into a patient.

An important piece of evidence was just uncovered in the Hill Country of Texas. It shows that humans were living in the Americas before the Clovis people, as far back as 15,000 years ago.

A new scientific study from researchers at two Illinois universities in the United States has found that Americans have some major regrets of past romances and lost loves, what we're calling "Love Regrets Remembered."

A study has shown that the mosquito and the common house fly are actually distant relatives. New research finds that they branched off about 220 million years ago, which means they probably have been working together to irritate us for many, many years.