Here's a diet tip that is certain to work: Eat nothing and drink nothing except water from 6 PM until you wake up the next day. With no dieting at all, you are certain to lose weight unless you go…

In America, it is no surprise to see obese people. They know they are obese, they just don't care. In Britain, you see just as many obese people, but they don't care because they don't think they are…

If you like coffee, here is a delightful taste of confirmation bias. If you usually make fun of epidemiology, put your skepticism back in the pot, because coffee reduces diabetes. As many as 380…

I am using my blog to advertise the opening of PhD positions in Padova University, to work at several research projects and obtain a PhD in Physics. These are offered to Chinese students through the…

Kakadu National Park, Australia. Rita Willaert/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Bob Pressey, James Cook University and Euan Ritchie, Deakin University While we can never know for sure, an extraordinary number of…

Most of the world that has access to the Internet knows two things about the Rosetta mission - it landed on a comet and a European engineer wore an ugly shirt that offended a lot of American women on…

The bobtail squid and bioluminscent bacteria are just one of hundreds of examples of mutualism. Klaus Stiefel/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Alex Jordan, University of Texas at Austin Reproduction for a female…

How has domestication humbled house cats? Moyan Brenn/Flickr, CC BY-ND By Bryonie Scott, The Conversation House cats are a great source of companionship for many people – 3 million cats are kept as…

We may talk about a battle of the sexes when it comes to our species, but in the rest of the primate world, it really is a battle. We have the luxury of cultural hand-wringing about the shirt a…

Low standards breed poor results. I have been waiting for the biological revolution for quite a while now, and it always seems to be just around the corner.  Synthetic biology, genomics, protein…