Patients with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, have difficulty with action verbs: Why action verbs and not regular verbs or nouns?  According to some…

This is a commonly used argument, indeed often taken for granted. We can simulate physics on a computer. So, the argument goes, what is to stop us eventually simulating your whole body including your…

In the NFL, teams share revenue from national television contracts and to sell local tickets, if a team has not sold at least to a specific threshold, the game is blacked out locally. If enough…

Proof of life beyond earth is coming. Stargazing image via Shutterstock By David A. Weintraub, Vanderbilt University How will humankind react after astronomers hand over rock-solid scientific…

Let’s talk about gastrulation. For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s not as disgusting as it sounds. Gastrulation is a process in early embryonic development which leads to the generation of the…

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford By Ian Bailey, Lancaster University Scientists working on an experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US have taken a step…

Over a mile beneath the West African ocean, off the coast of Angola, are over 2,000 mounds of asphalt containing a wealth of deep-water creatures. A paper in Deep-Sea Research 1 examined the…

Sunglasses are the first line of defense for celebrities. Marie Havens/Shutterstock By Vanessa Brown, Nottingham Trent University The fame of Lady Gaga is the stand-out phenomenon of 21st-century…

Will the medicines you take make their way back into your food?  They might, especially of you take your cue from an old Yorkshire song which deals with human recycling in the food chain, via…

Think of our poor sister world Venus – almost the same size as Earth, it probably had oceans at the beginning. But Venus orbits closer to the sun -- and was never in the Continuously Habitable…