The Lacey Act, introduced in 1900 by Republican Congressman John F. Lacey of Iowa, was originally designed to stop illegal game across state borders but was then expanded, notably by President Ronald…

The LHCb experiment collaborators at the Large Hadron Collider have announced discovery of two new particles in the baryon family. The particles, known as the Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-, were predicted…

Bacteria are everywhere and so efforts to make cleaner energy using them are ongoing. A report today shows how electrons hop across otherwise electrically insulated areas of bacterial proteins, and…

Oh, no, wait – it's the 21st century! Carl Guderian By Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia It’s official: men are better writers than women. The news came as something of a shock to a…

Historical acid deposits have greatly reduced calcium levels in Canadian lakes and that is dramatically impacting populations of calcium-rich plankton such as Daphnia - water fleas that dominate…

It is commonly believed that one key issue in brain again is that it becomes less flexible - plastic - and that learning may therefore become more difficult. A new study contradicts that and shows…

Scientists have found that seed dormancy, a property that prevents germination when conditions are not right, was present in the first seeds 360 million years ago. Seed dormancy is a phenomenon that…

Time is relative. What is a long time to humans is nothing to a mountain. Like humans, mountains usually burst on the scene, then they stand tall and finally age wears them down and their sharp …

Following a woman in high heels up out of the subway is like discovering America. Following a woman in flip-flops up out of the subway is like riding the subway. - Rich Brookhiser Women judge men by…

On a quest to design an alternative to the complex approaches currently used to produce electrons within microwave electron guns, a team of researchers have demonstrated a plug-and-play solution…