Climate change and the loss of biodiversity are two of the greatest environmental issues of our time. Is it possible to address both of those problems at once? In Australia, farmers and landholders…

Shaved heads have come in and out of fashion over the past few decades, but some people don’t have the option of allowing their locks to grow. Thankfully, for those who do suffer from hair loss, or…

A remote gas planet has been detected about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most distant planets known. The Poland-based Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) Warsaw…

Like virtual water and virtual emissions, looking at organic food through a prism of implicit benefits translated into estimated dollars makes it look a lot more economically viable than it otherwise…

New Little Lotus baby blankets, which are getting a Kickstarter campaign today, are advertised as a phase-change material designed by NASA contractors to constantly absorb and release heat. If it is…

A new study has found that after just five days of eating a high-fat diet, the way in which the body's muscle processes nutrients changes. When food is eaten, the level of glucose in the blood rises…

Having once lived in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, on occasion I would drive to those old gigantic relics of steel mills. They were behemoths and so were the buildings that housed them. They…

On April 11th 2015 I delivered a presentation on the subject of Quantum Gravity in which I questioned the basic assumption that quantum is more fundamental than relativity.  Relativization is…

The tragic death recently of a young Queensland boxer raised the question of safety in the sport and whether boxing should be banned. Claims that boxing is safer than a number of very popular and…

 By identifying and comparing the sequences of more than 400 receptors in the genomes of two fruit flies and three mosquito species, entomologists have unlocked one of the hormonal mechanisms…