The reduction of soil carbon stock caused by the conversion of pasture areas into sugarcane plantations is very common change in Brazil in recent years but those worried about the impact on CO2 can…

Acoustic vibrations – sound waves – are produced by radiation pressure inside stars. While physicists have long posited that young stars vibrate differently than older stars, a new study says it is…

PNAS has issued an expression of concern about a study it published where Facebook attempted to manipulate the emotions of members by controlling their news feed (10.1073/pnas.1320040111). But they…

So the USA lost to Belgium in the World Cup elimination round. I predicted a win for the US for a simple reason - Belgium, I said, does not know how good it is, whereas the US does.  That's…

The FDA released its long-awaited Draft Guidance on hospital-acquired pneumonia recently. Their guidance has not changed since I wrote a blog about my last meeting with the FDA…

A couple of weeks ago I reported here about the new measurement of the Higgs boson mass produced by the ATLAS experiment. That determination, which used the full dataset of Run 1 proton-proton…

You know why soup tastes good - and your dogs love it too. It's bone marrow fat. Now it may be healthier to eat delicious. A study has found that the fat tissue in bone marrow is a significant source…

Portuguese government shuts down half of the research units in the country The Portuguese funding agency for science (Fundação para a Ciência e aTecnologia – FCT) has just announced lthat it will…

Want to send a message to possible invaders? Pile dead bodies high and deep. A new species of wasp does just that. This wasp with a unique nest-building strategy was discovered in the forests of…

The human genome and the messages coded by 3 billion letters that determine everything from how nutrients are metabolized to how neurons communicate in the brain. The detection and…