If you are buying herbal dietary supplements like Ginkgo biloba (G. biloba) to boost cognitive capacity, the first thing you should do is stop spending money on herbal dietary supplements like…

The European Food Safety Authority, most famous for declaring that water does not cure thirst, is now thinking about how to ban acrylamide, which is a chemical that can form in some foods during…

While I do intend to update this blog today or tomorrow with a report on a nice new measurement, my blogging activities have generally slowed down a bit this week, as I am traveling. On Monday I flew…

While I do intend to update this blog today or tomorrow on a nice new measurement, my blogging activities have generally slowed down a bit this week, as I am traveling. On Monday I flew from Venice…

While I do intend to update this blog today or tomorrow on a nice new measurement, my blogging activities have generally slowed down a bit this week, as I am traveling. On Monday I flew from Venice…

When a broken bone protrudes through the skin, causing a puncture wound, it is called an open break. It is understandably traumatizing for kids and perhaps even more so for parents but…

Neatly Scattered Papers In an article in Scientific American* on the possibility of time running backwards, the author states: Increasing entropy is a cosmic certainty because there are always a…

Not now! Roboscribe is busy creating a masterpiece (of heuristic analysis). gastev, CC BY By Peter McOwan, Queen Mary University of London The human race has long designed and used tools to help us…

A new estimate says that microplastic and macroplastic pollution could consist of as much as 269,000 tons floating in the world's oceans. Though there has been no sufficient data to truly…

Two compounds appear to block the cardiac damage caused by the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, according to a report in Science Translational Medicine which indicates that inhibiting the action of the…