Can homeopathy actually work if someone knows it is a placebo? What if, for example, a skeptical Science 2.0 group was told they got a placebo and that nutritionists were getting medicine? Would we…

In the last 30 years, the United States has grown more food using less land and with less environmental strain than ever believed possible. Fertilizers are better, pesticides are better and genetic…

Hey, does anyone want this comet? For the first time, mankind has successfully landed on a comet - a journey over 10 years in the making. After a seven-hour final descent, Rosetta’s Philae probe…

The Six Billion Dollar Man is getting a little bit closer, not just to movie theaters, but in real life.  A new development toward a prosthetic retina could help counter conditions that result…

Trans fats are bad, they damage metabolic health in kids, according to experts and policy makers. So they were banned. Happy Meals too. And drinks with sugar. It's fashionable in nutritional circles…

FK506 binding protein 51 (FKBP51) is an Hsp90 co-chaperone and regulator of the glucocorticoid receptor, and consequently of stress physiology. It regulates acute and chronic effects of…

Did you spend those pre-school years telling your child how smart and wonderful they are? School is going to be an unwelcome dose of reality.  While we all want kids to be self-confident,…

When it comes to human life, we never think about culling the herd, instead the goal is to keep as many people alive and healthy as possible. But in nature, that isn't the best approach. Some plant…

Policy makers and amateur psychology pundits think "necessity is the mother of invention" - and sometimes it is, that is why that became a saying, but plain old opportunity matters a lot. Natural gas…

As baby boomers, originally the children born in 1946, after soldiers returned home from World War II in 1945 but later extended out to be an entire generation, move into old age, the financial…