Biofuels. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. What was once a darling of the green energy contingent has now been shown to be another bust by the 'if we mandate it, capitalism will love it and make it…

I was able to find the EYESPY Spydercam at Goodwill. Several hacks for it came to mind, but the simplest is attaching it to a remote control vehicle. I have an old Lego remote control car that’s been…

Yield is economically important in field corn production, and there is no question that has been a success, but sweet corn has an additional metric for being considered a win. It's reported that…

Voice voting is still used at some civic, local and county meetings. In more of a traditional sense, it's also still employed in Congress and some state meetings. But new paper finds that a…

Everyone claims to care about diversity, individualism and tolerance. Very few people (R.I.P. Pete Seeger) really do. Instead, they want their beliefs affirmed and they want to demonize the…

Why were there old, enormously massive galaxies no longer forming new stars in the very early universe? The first stars already emerged in the very early universe about 200 million years after the…

What separates us from other primates? The psychologists behind a new MRI study say it is key components in the ventrolateral frontal cortex area of the human brain, and how these components were…

Military veterans exposed to the herbicide Agent Orange may be at higher risk for certain types of skin cancer, suggests a new report. Agent Orange is a defoliant famously used by the British…

If you can't get by without caffeine and won't give it up even if you have a condition that may be impacted by it, such as pregnancy, a heart condition, or a bleeding disorder, you may have…

 A new whole-body, diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan could improve care for myeloma  - cancer of the white blood (plasma) cells, one of the most common forms of blood…