By Marsha Lewis, Inside Science From the classrooms to research facilities a cell phone could morph into a portable science lab. "If we could use a cellphone as a microscope that would be a very…

NASA proposes to return a sample from Mars in the 1920s and recently announced details of the successor for Curiosity which will drill and cache samples for return. But is this the best approach in…

One form of drug counseling to help young people with drinking problems makes people in a 'we must do something' culture feel better may be of limited benefit, a new systematic review suggests.…

Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) was once used in dry cleaning and as a fire-extinguishing agent but once it was found to be a cause of ozone depleted, it was regulated in 1987 under the Montreal Protocol…

A brain imaging study that looked at chronic users of codeine-containing cough syrups found deficits in specific regions of brain white matter and associates these changes with increased impulsivity…

Hot on the heels of the incident I wrote about in Even Seattle Yogis Can't Live On Sunshine And Water, GreenMedInfo mystical guru Sayer Ji is promoting this light business again, but calling it…

Humans are all one species but we are not all the same. We're not even evolving the same, if you look at it on a surface level. Americans are taller on average than a hundred years ago and the Dutch…

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A 'kitemark' that identifies randomized-controlled trials reviewed by specially trained peer reviewers would improve public trust in the robustness of clinical trials, according to an opinion piece…

http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2014/06/data-check-u-s-producing-mo... So when President Obama was Senator Obama and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress in 2007, they decided to replace…