The world has gone digital in just about everything we do. Almost every iota of information we access these days is stored in some kind of digital form and accessed electronically -- text, charts, images, video, music, you name it.

Students from Asian countries were top performers in math and science at both the fourth and eighth grade levels, according to TIMSS 2007, the world's largest assessment of student math and science achievement, with 425,000 students surveyed across 59 countries.

Researchers have devised a new research tool that could help unpick the complex cell interactions that lead to cancer and also allow social scientists to mine social networking sites such as Facebook for useful insights.

Bridging the often-large gap between the commercial imperatives of digital content providers and the requirements of users who buy their content has been achieved by a team of European researchers.

Grid technology offers a new way to do business, with partners working simply, seamlessly and 'virtually' around a common goal. It is already having a big impact, in a variety of applications.

Nearly 50 years after one of the most controversial behavioral experiments in history, a social psychologist has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they believe are painful electric shocks to others when urged on by

How do we make proper movements? A new study in Psychological Science suggests that when we see an object, a number of motor programs in the brain are involuntarily activated (each with a different potential movement we can make), which

To whom would you rather give money: a needy person in your neighborhood or a needy person in a foreign country? If you're a man, you're more likely to give to the person closest to you -- that is, the

In everyday social exchanges, being mean to people has a lot more impact than being nice, research has shown. Feeling slighted can have a bigger difference on how a person responds than being the recipient of perceived generosity, even if

Chimpanzees recognize their pals by using some of the same brain regions that switch on when humans register a familiar face. The study -- the first to examine brain activity in chimpanzees after they attempt to match fellow chimps' faces

Researchers have found a potential clue to the roots of epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia and other neurological disorders.

Testing patient's blood for two proteins or biomarkers that occur when inflammation is present could help doctors identify which patients are more likely to have a stroke, according to a new article in the journal Stroke.

Prozac is regularly prescribed to ease the emotional pain of patients who are being treated for cancer. But can this common anti-depressant help to fight cancer itself?

MRI brain scans should be included as a diagnostic test for early Alzheimer's disease, experts conclude.

Men consistently outperform women on spatial tasks, including mental rotation, which is the ability to identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in space. A new study shows a connection between this sex-linked ability and the structure of

A greater commitment by science faculty to focus on science education could drive education reform at universities and K-12 schools, according to a new report by a team of researchers. The report evaluates the role that science professors who specialize

Children who participated in family-based or parent-only group weight-management programs were not as overweight after six months as children in a control group.

Greek researchers describe a quick and easy artificial intelligence approach to working out heart attack risk. Physicians could use their system to provide patients with a personal risk factor and so advise on lifestyle changes or medication to lower their

Prenatal alcohol exposure can cause a wide array of problems, including cognitive dysfunction. New findings demonstrate that alcohol can damage the microstructural integrity of fetal cerebral white matter in the frontal and occipital lobes of the brain. These areas of