The international Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in France was once one of the most respected epidemiology groups in the world. Today, their reputation is in a shambles. They'd like to fix that…

Urban people may believe nature is balanced and peaceful and pristine but biologists know that nature really just wants to suck the nutrients from your dead corpse. Insects have more nature to worry…

Nearly 30 years ago, scientists agreed that for clinical trial results to be valid for both sexes, they needed more women. Yet women seem to be a lot less likely to sign up for clinical trials for…

A fearsome beast soared above the ancient, vast inland sea once that once covered covering much of outback Queensland. This newly found pterosaur, named Thapunngaka shawi, was discovered in Wanamara…

The discovery of a new exotic hadron, named T_cc+,  was announced by the LHCb Collaboration a little over a week ago. Unlike some previous discoveries of other resonances by the LHC experiments…

A targeted systemic pesticide treatment like neonicotinoids, based on nature's defenses against bugs, are great for agriculture because it protects plants from pests when they are most vulnerable and…

Some ecologists who have again taken to claiming there is some special "balance of nature" and engage in butterfly effect speculation about ecosystems. They insist that Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are…

Gilgamesh? Or is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano named Budj Bim the oldest story ever told? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/aboriginal-tale-ancient-volcano-...

Some people swear that turkey makes them sleepy or gluten makes them ill and the science community is not going to spend any time at all thinking about those outside trivia quizzes. And some people…

If you were born prior to 1980, you likely had a parent say that you needed to eat your dinner because people were starving in Africa. And it was true. The Malthusian boom and bust lamented by Paul…