You don't need to show kids a frying egg in a pan to get the message across about drugs; just show them this statistic.  Heroin and cocaine addicts in Spain have a fatality rate that is 14.3…

50,000 years ago, the Arctic tundra was not as drab as you might think, being an Ice Age - it was filled with colorful wildflowers and these wildflowers helped sustain woolly mammoths and other giant…

A lot of coffee is grown on and around Kilimanjaro, which towers almost 20,000 feet in the air.  The most traditional form of cultivation can be found in the gardens of the Chagga people. In…

Stampedes occur often, and not just in wild animal herds. Previously, physicists developed numerous models of crowd evacuation dynamics based on disasters such as the yearly Muslim Hajj or of the…

Wal-Mart caters to people with less money and there has long been a link between poverty and crime. Criminologists have instead taken the additional step of implicating Wal-Mart in crime rates.…

A journal that published papers on something called 'ethical leadership' wouldn't seem to need any strong evidence basis, just a lot of surveys and weak observational claims with pretty words…

A drug given to pregnant mice with models of autism prevents autistic behavior in their offspring, according to a new report, and though the drug could not be administered prenatally in humans -…

Researchers have discovered an unusual bacterial protein that attaches to virtually any antibody and prevents it from binding to its target. Protein M, as it is called, probably helps some bacteria…

The autism community agrees that autism has its origins in early life—fotal and/or postnatal. A team led by Yehezkel Ben-Ari, Inserm Emeritus Research Director at the Mediterranean Institute of…

Satellite observations of global sea-surface temperature have shown that a 30-year upward trend slowed in the last 15 years.  It can't be due to successful mitigation, since outside the United…