Oil and gas development from shale fields leads to high-paying jobs and a boost to property taxes, sales taxes and state-collected severance taxes or fees. Do they outweigh the increased costs…

We are surrounded with an abundance of clean energy, if we only had a way to harness it it. Most people probably know about solar energy, that we would only need to harness a tiny fraction of it to…

Reducing medical resident duty hours may have unforeseen consequences; changes must be made carefully and evaluated rigorously to ensure patient safety and resident well-being, according to an…

A study led by scientists from the Polytechnic University of Marche (Ancona, Italy) involving researchers from the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM, CSIC) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona…

The first "Global Matrix" using nine indicators of children's physical activity has ranked video game-obsessed Scots among the least active in the world. So much for the days when active Scottish…

For several decades, there has been speculation about the formation of the enigmatic, vegetation-free circles frequently found in certain African grassland regions. Now researchers have tested…

Using artificial intelligence, computational geometry and geo/ultrasound techniques, a project begun in 2009 at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV) have a success to report - a…

Is life great or what? We have all kinds of wonderful choices available to us. Yankees or Mets (better still, neither), Frosted Flakes or Cap'n Crunch, Homeland or The Walking Dead. Awesome. …

The laws of physics are absolute - in theory.  And with an exception. So absolute doesn't always mean what we think it means. How heat and temperature related to energy, the laws of…

She will tell you it doesn't matter. But it does, men. It does. Up to a third of all men have had premature ejaculation - it's all good for them, but a University of Zurich sex researcher says…