If you care about what is in your food, you have no greater sympathetic intellect than me. But if you are an anti-science activist, you may not understand the distinction between what is in your food…

Backboned animals, at least the ones with jaws, have four fins or limbs, one pair in front and one pair behind. Thanks to that random prankster known as evolution, these have been modified into a…

Can a big name lead to a boost, even for low-profile work? Indeed it can, according to an analysis which found that scientific papers written by well-known scholars get more attention than they…

It's believed that humans discovered fire over a million years ago but when it became something controlled and used for daily needs is unknown. Fire is central to the rise of human culture and a…

In a way, you could be walking on water right now. Water is carried to the mantle by deep sea fault zones which penetrate the oceanic plate as it bends into the subduction zone. Subduction, where an…

Around 25.8 million Americans have diabetes and up to 79 million may be at risk for for it. A paper in the European Journal of General Practice  says that a simple blood test reveals an…

A new study has found that  a therapeutic music process that includes writing song lyrics and producing videos helps adolescents and young adults undergoing cancer treatment gain coping skills…

Children suffer from the consequences of maternal drug exposure during pregnancy and Cannabis is one of the most frequently used substances. A new study was done using mice and human brain tissue to…

NGC 5194, also known as M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, is one of the most spectacular examples of a spiral galaxy, with two spiral arms curling into one another in a billowing swirl, this galaxy hosts…

Chapter 10 of the report on the 2013 community summer study held at Snowmass, titled "Communication, Education, and Outreach" is available since Jan 24th in the Cornell ArXiv. It is a 26-pages…