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We always thought purging was about ‘reaching a number’, but this is  so far from the actual truth. While purging might start out for many as a means of losing weight, it goes far deeper than that. To understand why a person would willingly choose this behavior we must abandon all logic and attempt to see the disorder from the point of view of the victim. And yes, we used the word victim , as the people who suffer from this disorder are held hostage by it, to the point where they are willing... Read Full Story

When we hear the word outsourcing, we often get the negative image of someone overseas taking away jobs; however, the outsourcing movement in science is something completely different. Science has gone from an age of wonder to an era of fulfilling needs. Many people believe there is no limit to the answers research can provide; but as the tasks grow to become more complex, so does the need for specialized scientists to fulfill these roles. In fact, there are times when research is held up as... Read Full Story

As the pictures from Japan keep pouring in we find ourselves wondering, could we be next? How safe will we be when the next big earthquake arrives? Is there any place on Earth that’s free of such natural disasters? Perhaps the best way to get such answers is to dive into the facts … and we’re not so sure you’re going to like some of the answers. However, the best way to avert any natural disaster is to be informed of the possibility, which is why we are presenting this article. To start, we... Read Full Story

While we would like to believe we know everything about our own home planet there is still so much being discovering every day that keeps rewriting what we knew. For instance, life thrives in conditions we once thought impossible. In fact, wherever we have found water we have found life clinging on to exist. That’s why the NASA search for life initiative has taken on the mantra, ‘ follow the water ‘. More than anything else, the existence of extremophiles has changed our view on the... Read Full Story

Having easily beat the brightest human minds at Jeopardy, we have to wonder what Watson’s next game will be. Given it’s ability to scour through volumes of information quickly and cough up highly accurate answers, we can think of so many real world applications for this new technology. Of course, so can its creators, and Watson has already been assigned its next task. What will be Watson’s next performance? Well, interestingly enough, Watson might soon receive the moniker ‘Dr. Watson’ as its... Read Full Story

Venus was once thought to be a tropical Eden, populated by a race of beautiful people. In reality, truth proves itself to be tragic, as Venus is more akin to Hell. If life exists anywhere on Venus it won’t be found on the surface. With surface temperatures reaching towards 500° C we find ourselves asking, what makes Venus so hot? To understand just how hot Venus is, hold a piece of lead in your hand. What you feel is a solid piece of metal that is malleable, but not without tools. So, what... Read Full Story

How does one create a faster and safer spacecraft to take men to Mars? Perhaps the best answer is not to bother, when such a vehicle already exists. In fact, the answer has been in front of us all along. All we needed to do was look up into the heavens and realize the highway we wished to travel across was already full of perfectly capable vehicles. Many people think it’s the time of the journey or the rigors of Mars that keep us from stepping onto our red neighbor, and while these issues... Read Full Story

When Kepler was launched  in 2009 we fully expected it to find earth-sized worlds, but we also knew it would take some time to confirm such observations. Two years later, we’re excited to hear Kepler has now found five of them, and we’re ecstatic to hear they are in the habitable zone! While this doesn’t necessarily mean that these worlds possess liquid water or that they are capable of sustaining life, it does mean that earth-sized worlds are anything but rare, and we can already start... Read Full Story

While Mercury is the closest planet to our sun, it might interest some to know that it’s not the hottest planet in our solar system – that honor goes to Venus and its runaway greenhouse effect. Even more interesting is the fact that Mercury records some of the coldest temperatures in our solar system. How is this possible for a planet that’s so close to the Sun? It’s interesting that we often use the element Mercury to measure the temperature here on Earth. By placing this element into... Read Full Story

The Mayan doomsday calendar has many people scrambling to determine how the world will end in 2012, but it also has some people looking for something very different and spectacular. For some, its the foretelling of a spectacular stellar event which makes the most sense, given the Mayan’s fascination with the heavens. Is it possible the Mayan doomsday calendar is actually counting down the demise of the supergiant star Betelgeuse? The Mayans definitely knew of Betelgeuse; in fact, they called... Read Full Story