In every sport, an athlete who has enjoyed long-term success has the opportunity for free agency, when they can join the highest bidder. Though every athlete has the same contract-year motivation,…

Excess abdominal fat is an indicator for heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer and a person's measure of such belly fat is reflected in the ratio of waist circumference to hip circumference. Some…

Obese children exposed to high levels of air pollutants were nearly three times as likely to have asthma, compared with non-obese children and lower levels of pollution exposure, according to a new…

"Adam", our most common male ancestor, walked the earth 209,000 years ago, 9,000 years earlier than previously believed and within the time frame of his other half "Eve", the genetic maternal…

A new biofuel has been created from yeast and ordinary table sugar. The yeast produces oils and fats, known as lipids, that can be used in place of petroleum-derived products.  It has…

Comments on anti-smoking public service announcements (PSAs) in online forums like YouTube degrade the persuasiveness of the videos - even if the comments are positive. PSAs lose their…

Why does beer transform from a liquid to a foamy state after an impact? Science is on the wave propagation case. As you know, if you shake a carbonated beverage, it will foam over when you open it.…

Would you want to live on a "snowball planet", covered with ice sheets and glaciers all the way to the equator? Mars only looks warm because the photos are digitally adjusted to match brighter…

How did we get limbs from ancestral fish fins? It's a fascinating topic, a science enigma. Our first four-legged land ancestor came out of the sea about 350 million years ago. Watching a lungfish,…

There is a looming drug crisis approaching and the results of a new paper about the FDA understanding of clinical trials is only going to make it worse. Right now, the private sector conducts drug…