Credit: Yamanaka Tamaki/Flickr By Meredith Knight, Genetic Literacy Project What’s the fastest expanding section at your local grocery store? Here in Austin, Texas, gluten-free foods, once…

Jean Tirole's theories, capturing reality as an afterthought? IMF, CC BY-NC-ND By David Spencer, University of Leeds It’s that time of year again – when academic economics, thanks to the Nobel Prize…

Sun is in a real solar flare frenzy recently, continuing a week's worth of substantial flares beginning on Oct.19, 2014. It emitted two mid-level solar flares on Oct. 26 and Oct. 27. The first…

In the United States, Democrats have long insisted that women should vote for Democrats, because abortion was the most important issue. Abortion is not really an issue any more. It was allowed by…

In the 1960s and '70s, population bomb reality was said to be as settled as climate change is today. No less than Dr. John Holdren, current Obama administration Science Czar, co-authored a book…

This morning, a large active region on the sun erupted with another X-class flare, its fourth since Oct. 24th.  Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare…

The first images of a nova during its early fireball stage - when it ejects material and gases expand and cool - have been delivered from a nova that erupted last year in the constellation Delphinus…

Saturday, I launched my first Experiment.com project to crowd-fund my PhD dissertation research in science communication Louisiana State University. Robert Couse-Baker, Flickr.com.…

We never miss pharmaceutical companies until they are gone. Lawsuits, terrifically expensive drug development cycles and trials coupled with a short window for sales before a drug is declared out of…

If you take an online practice test, which answer is most likely to stick with you, the ones you got correct or that one you got wrong? A new paper finds that making mistakes while learning can…