Winter weather can mean treacherous driving across much of the country. Road crews spread rock salt all over the highways and byways. Though environmentalists and the academics who give them cultural…

The heated national debate on complex issues related to costs of health care was ignited by the implementation the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) in January 2014. There is no national system that…

Abu Hamza addressing worshippers in London under police observation. Stefan Rousseau/PA By Matthew Francis, Lancaster University Abu Hamza has been sentenced to life in a US prison, after being found…

A new study has found that removing native forest and putting in farms can accelerate erosion so dramatically that in a few decades as much soil is lost as would naturally occur over thousands of…

In 1833, Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger published his key observation that warm-blooded animals tend to be more heavily pigmented or darker the closer they live to the equator. This week,…

Theist, gnostic, agnostic and atheist. What is the difference? Link: ben-kay.com By Mark Beeson, University of Western Australia Getting on for 14 billion years ago the universe suddenly sprang into…

A study using geckos has found that evolution can downgrade or entirely remove adaptations that have been previously acquired, giving the species new survival advantages.  What would be an…

Air Asia 8501 - Tail Section Raised The tail section of Air Asia 8501 has now been raised.  Detik News reports that Army Commander General Moeldoko cannot confirm whether the FDR or black box is…

Since it is only January 8th, most people have not yet given up on their New Year's Resolution to get in shape so this is still relevant. Despite what supplement salespeople - and an alarming number…

Maybe fat gets a bad rap. Immune responses matter but when it comes to skin infections, those response may depend greatly upon what lies beneath, according to a paper published in Science. Fat cells…