Past your bedtime? Mikael Damkier/Shutterstock By Elizabeth Englander, Bridgewater State University About three years ago, a teenage girl was talking with me and other students about using her cell…

Excerpt from “The Terrorism Delusion” by Meuller and Stewart: We have argued that terrorism is a limited problem with limited consequences and that the reaction to it has been excessive, and even…

Reductions in government healthcare spending in the European Union (EU) increase maternal mortality rates, suggests a new paper in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BJOG…

Mobile Phones - No Link To Cancer Although some members of the public express concern that mobile phones may cause cancer no credible evidence exists for a causal link between cancer and the weak…

With the successful flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft on Dec. 5, a new space era for has started for America and its aerospace industry. Companies engaged in space exploration like Lockheed…

The discovery of the mechanism that enables the enzyme Lecithin: retinol acyltransferase (LRAT) to store vitamin A, a process that is indispensable for vision, may provide a boost for designing…

It's no secret that a happy worker is a productive worker and a new analysis by scholars at The University of Texas at Dallas finds that family-friendly policies are beneficial for increasing…

Alexander von Humboldt. Self portrait By Richard Gunderman, Indiana University-Purdue University Gaze at Alexander Von Humboldt’s 1814 self-portrait and you peer into the eyes of a man who sought to…

A multi-center, non-randomized phase-Ib clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability and antitumor activity of bi-weekly infusions of pembrolizumab (MK-3475, marketed as Keytruda®)…

Malaria is one of the most serious health problems worldwide, registering 200 million clinical cases and more than 600,000 attributable deaths per year, according to information from the World Health…