The Mediterranean fruit fly is a serious agricultural pest, it infests more than 300 types of cultivated and wild fruits, vegetables and nuts and causes extreme damage to crops all around the…

An analysis of autism research covering genetics, brain imaging, and cognition seeks to modernize our understanding of why autism potentially occurs, develops and results in a diversity of symptoms…

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding the supermassive black hole Markarian 335: a compact source of X-…

Treatments that involve neck manipulation may be associated with strokes, according to an American Heart Association Scientific Statement written by lead author Dr. Jose Biller, chair of the…

Depending on the analysis strategy used, estimating treatment outcomes in meta-­analyses may differ and may result in major alterations in the conclusions derived from the analysis, according to a…

Police know that when a mysterious death of a married woman or man occurs, look at the spouse first. That apparently applies to beekeepers too.  A lot has been made of colony collapse disorder…

Descent with modification means that all life on Earth probably came from one common ancestor – a single-celled organism – We just have to speculate and create models for what it may have looked like…

Installing hand sanitizers in  classrooms has not led to reductions in the rate of school absences in children, according to results of a cluster randomized trial that that randomly assigned 68…

This is something James Lovelock, author of the Gaia Hypothesis, predicted, way back in 1967. He said that Mars is lifeless, based on nothing more elaborate than the simple observation that it's…

Scientists have sequenced the genome of Belgica antarctica, the Antarctic midge – the smallest in insects described to-date –  and believe it can explained by the midge's adaptation to its deep-…