It doesn't matter if you were a quarterback or a shortstop, past participation in competitive team sports made participants in a recent analysis winners in the competition for better jobs, according…

With the successful leveling off of CO2, a long-lasting greenhouse gas implicated for most global warming, due to a switch to natural gas, activists have been focusing on methane. While some of the…

In Europe, the presence of toxic chemicals has been considered a localized problem affecting only a few bodies of water but a new paper says there are large scale ecological risks for several…

Mitochondria are cell organelles located within animal and human cells. They produce energy for the organism, possess their own genetic material - mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) - and are transmitted…

You might think that with Iraq collapsing and Russia and China preparing for giant land grabs, our foreign policy would consist of more than 'global warming stinks' and 'you other countries should…

Decreased cognitive ability and autistic-like behaviors have been linked to disruption of the function of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) gene by Tufts researchers who deleted the gene from…

"One approach to this hallucination problem is to consider the possibility of a demonic world", writes an article in Springer-published  Journal of Religion and Health.   M. Kemal…

A new study has found that the eye's optical quality deteriorates after alcohol consumption. Not just how the images are interpreted, the way some unemployed guy who is 'getting his band together'…

While probiotics don't do much of anything except make companies rich, fecal microbiota transplantation --- the process of delivering stool bacteria from a healthy donor to a patient suffering from…

Summer is the season we honor our veterans. There’s Memorial Day and the 4th of July, but even beyond these holidays, a summer filled with barbecues and Slip n’ Slides is a time to appreciate the…