By Rob Brooks, UNSW Australia. Settle in for a long read. Over the coming weeks you will be bombarded by shorter, snappier pieces about a controversy inflaming the front where evolutionary and social…

Statistics - learning from data and of measuring, controlling and communicating uncertainty - has become important to science and it is vital to the future of science, Science 2.0. Over the last 200…

After the last wave of 'American children don't perform well on international standardized tests' articles in news media, the Obama administration gutted No Child Left Behind, the program approved…

A protest against the killing of journalists by the Islamic State. Credit: Mast Irham/EPA By Kevin McDonald, Middlesex University Over recent weeks there has been a constant background noise that…

America is a liberal democracy.  Given the modern colloquial connotation of 'liberal' and its undertones of social authoritarianism, calling the United States a liberal democracy will make…

Generic drugs and biosimilar drugs are conceptually equivalent, though a biosimilar drug is not a generic drug. Generics drugs are equivalent copycats - exact copies of molecules that were developed…

Treatment with xenon gas reduces the extent of brain damage after a head injury reduces the extent of brain damage, according to a new study. Head injury is the leading cause of death and disability…

Tiny single-cell organisms living underground could help with the problem of nuclear waste disposal, according to a paper in the ISME (Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology) Journal.…

Reducing hyperactivity in kids may be as simple as getting them out to play. Kids are full of energy so having them trapped in a classroom all day from a young age isn't easy. For some, it is…

By pairing two unconventional forms of carbon – one shaped like a soccer ball, the other a tiny diamond – scientists have created a molecule that acts as a rectifier - it conducts electricity in only…