Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and McGill University have found here is new permafrost forming around Twelvemile Lake in the interior of Alaska.  Twelvemile Lake, and many others…

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a burdensome conditions, known for its dramatic highs of extreme euphoria, racing thoughts and decreased need for sleep, as well as its profound lows of sadness and despair…

How were the earth and the moon formed? A giant impact between Earth's ancestor and a planet-sized body occurred At the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Sacramento, researchers from the…

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves….” Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act 1, scene 2. Our fire problem has been a long time in the making. It did not happen overnight. We…

Take a quick guess; what law addressed a problem everyone in America knew we had, was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, it had Republican John Boehner and Democrat Ted Kennedy hugging…

In April, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the most detailed data in its history about $77 billion worth of physician billings to Medicare. In analysis of the data,…

Can you imagine how difficult it is to juggle peer review for 10,000 published studies per year? That's 40 every single working day, without the time it took to look at the ones that got rejected. It…

What did USC biomedical engineering assistant professor Megan McCain think when she first saw a real human heart, with all of those thin valves that have to open and close every second of our lives…

People may associate the concept of the chastity belt with medieval Europe but other parts of the animal kingdom used them long before that. Male dwarf spiders, for instance, have evolved a…

Last month, the National Climate Assessment report did what the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has repeatedly asked science bodies and journalists not to do, no matter how well they…