Nutrigenomics is a branch of nutrition which believes the food we eat affects our genes - and the Food4Me project had gotten €9 million from the EU to put science to belief. Proponents are looking at…

Human volunteers for Ebola vaccine. Image:niaid By Connor Bamford, University of Glasgow The world has been warned that the current Ebola epidemic may not end without the use of a vaccine – and no…

In 2005, John Ioannidis wrote a paper in PLOS Medicine showing that most published research findings are false.  The reason is because research is subject to a range of biases which mean that…

What makes Americans afraid is the topic of the first comprehensive nationwide study by Chapman University. According to the Chapman poll, the number one fear in America today is not Muslim…

How much more glacial melting can the planet stand? NASA By Micheal Mann, Pennsylvania State University and Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology Industrial civilization must become…

Getting high on own supply. Dance by Shutterstock By Adam Winstock, King's College London Despite the language we use about drugs, many people don’t see themselves as “drug users” but as rational…

Not enough tobacco company money is going into public health campaigns. Credit: REUTERS/Daniel Munoz By Nicholas Freudenberg, City University of New York The #20 Million Memorial created earlier this…

Fewer cords, smaller antennas and quicker video is the goal of a microwave circuit that has set a new world record for data transmission.  As we all know, watching a film clip on a tablet or…

Alpine goats appear to be shrinking in size, according to scholars at Durham University, and that is due to global warming over the past 30 years, they say.   Young Chamois now weigh about…

Since December 2004 there have been 18 quakes of 8.0 or greater on the moment magnitude (Mw) scale – a rate more than twice that seen from 1900 to mid-2004. Some of that difference could be due…