Seedless watermelon, salmon, and strawberries all have one thing in common - unlike most eukaryotic multicellular organisms that have two sets of chromosomes, these organisms are all polyploid,…

Consuming an alcoholic beverage may make men more responsive to the smiles of others in their social group,  but now women. That suggests to psychologists behind a new paper in Clinical…

I wonder how interesting can be to an outsider to learn that the mass of the sixth quark is now known to 0.38% accuracy, thanks to the combination of measurements of that quantity performed by the…

Almost everyone agrees the Western world is over-prescribed; except the people doing the prescribing. Symptom-based medicine stopped being used 50 years ago but when it comes to mood disorders, it is…

University of Illinois nutritionists say they have found compounds that boost liver detoxification enzymes nearly 5X, and they've found them in the crushed seeds left over after oil extraction from…

Credit: Flickr/Steve Jurvetson, CC BY By Kelly E Matthews, The University of Queensland Research suggests science graduates are struggling with essential quantitative skills and science degree…

Certain bats may be approaching wind turbines after mistaking them for trees, according to a study, and that could be leading to disaster. Propped up by government mandates and subsidies, both solar…

Mathematicians have introduced a new element of uncertainty into an equation used to describe the behavior of fluids, which might make it possible to better reflect the inherent uncertainties of the…

Norway to the rescue? Credit: Travis Lupick, CC BY-NC-SA By Steffen Böhm, University of Essex and Katharine Rockett, University of Essex Despite all the treaties, pledges, export bans and labeling…

Planetary geologists have speculated for decades that glaciers might once have crept through Valles Marineris, the 2,000-mile-long chasm that constitutes the Grand Canyon of Mars. Using satellite…