We all have bad days. Sometimes "bad" is a woefully insufficient adjective. Ask Dr. Mehmet Oz (henceforth known as The Lizard of Oz). He had a really bad day this week, courtesy of Senator Claire…

"Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize. " R. Feynman, People magazine, 1985 I sure cannot disagree more with Dick than on the above sentence !

Spiders are traditionally viewed as predators of insects but zoologists have published a study that finds spiders all over the world also prey on fish.  That spiders are not exclusively…

Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki has described a very interesting case of a cancer patient named Daniel. Daniel was a fit man in his mid 30's and was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. Within two months it had…

A paper presented at the ACM SIGMETRICS conference today revealed a crucial security problem in Google Play, the official Android app store where millions of users of Android, the most popular mobile…

Transportation is a big cause of CO2 emissions so when pop star Will.i.am takes a helicopter to a climate event to tell everyone else to be more environmentally responsible, or when environmental…

A recent study evaluating HER2 testing in a large cohort of women with breast cancer found important limitations in the conventional way HER2 testing is performed in the US and internationally.…

CLEVELAND, Ohio (June 18, 2014)—Calcium and vitamin D are commonly recommended for older women, but the usual supplements may send calcium excretion and blood levels too high for some women, shows a…

More and more people are being diagnosed with diabetes and other hormone conditions and that is making a problem become obvious; there aren't going to be enough endocrinologists. Endocrinologists are…

In the modern American political climate, we see echoes of 40 years ago, when Richard Nixon was president. Federal agencies are being used as hatchetmen for the administration, copies of messages…