Physician attitudes towards mental illness can reflect the general public's prejudice. Dariush M/ Shutterstock By Adam Brenner, UT Southwestern Medical Center Mental illness is a major public health…

Portuguese researchers have developed a new method which uses images of a protein in cells to quantify its distribution (how much protein there is, and where it is in the cell) for that population of…

Statistics on cannabis users skew perceptions of cannabis use. Most statistical surveys of marijuana focus on a single quantitative measurement, “How many people are using?” However, there is a…

Credit: EU By David Glance, University of Western Australia The Parliament of the European Union last week voted to call on member states and the European Commission to investigate the operation of…

Sci-fi realities Mark Bult, CC BY-ND By Ian Crawford, Birkbeck, University of London To date, all human economic activity has depended on the material and energy resources of a single planet…

Imagine a car that can't get dirty or a business in Ferguson, Missouri that can't be graffiti'ed by unhinged protesters. It might be possible with a new class of highly fluorinated super-repellent…

The first Orion spacecraft launch is just days away, so the excitement grows in America for this maiden flight, which will pave the way for future U.S. deep space missions. When NASA asked people…

The Arctic Ocean sea ice cover emerged 2.6 million years ago - and it hasn't changed since. Not in all of the recurring warming cycles we have had and not even in 2006, when pundits predicted it…

Not as simple as black and white. Fred Bchx, CC BY-NC-SA By Ian Rickard, Durham University Evolutionary psychology, the field that uses the process of natural selection to provide a theoretical…

Igor Stepovik Shutterstock By Roxanne Connelly, University of Edinburgh The World Health Organisation has defined obesity in children as a major threat to public health and the UK government treats…