Young adults want to live n cities. No surprise there, cities have more nightlife and activity. What is a surprise is the claims that young adults instead want to live in cities because of mass…

Endocrinologists are warning us in a paper for an upcoming issue of the journal Endocrinology that some of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing - fracking - can disrupt the body's…

Individuals with a family history of premature heart disease, heart attacks or stroke in a first degree relative before the age of 60 years, continue to have a higher risk of dying despite earlier…

Tests conducted by scientists from Rice, Nankai and Tianjin universities at two wastewater treatment plants in northern China revealed antibiotic-resistant bacteria were not only escaping…

Want to boil water in less than a trillionth of a second? Now you can, if you are at the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science and can find someone to build your theoretical concept.…

It seems like common sense to want to avoid foodborne illnesses but the naturalistic fallacy regarding food has extended to milk - with claims that raw milk somehow wards off disease and is better…

Americans' perceptions of income inequality are largely over-inflated due to political and cultural grandstanding, at least when compared with actual census data. California, for example, has weekly…

About ten years ago, what is now the Electron Microscopy Laboratory at the University of Reading, was set up, to take over from individual EM units in other departments by purchasing more modern…

Most science fiction and news stories describe Mars terraforming as a long term but simple process. You warm up the planet first, with greenhouse gases, giant mirrors, impacting comets or some such…

In America, where the Obama administration is using surveillance cameras, tracking website visits and monitoring citizens using GPS, many people feel their privacy is slipping away. It's no…