Like most government spending programs, once environmental lobbyists got their way and renewable ethanol biofuels became mandated and subsidized, they have been difficult to eliminate. Perhaps the…

In 1989 the CDF experiment was sitting on its first precious bounty of proton-antiproton collisions, delivered by the Tevatron collider at the unprecedented energy of 1.8 TeV. One of the first…

Short term over-eating is no problem - just don't make a habit of it and you will be fine, according to a paper in The Journal of Physiology and thousands of years of common sense. Some studies have…

Astronomers have discovered huge active plumes containing water vapour being released from the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.  Jupiter's moon Europa has been a focus of extraterrestrial…

Patients receiving the widely used anesthesia drug etomidate for surgery may be at increased risk or mortality and cardiovascular events, according to a study in Anesthesia&Analgesia which adds…

Combining two innovative technologies, a team of engineers have made steps toward a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints. Farshid Guilak, a professor of orthopedic surgery…

Prisons have started to cut back on fruits and some vegetables for felons because they have discovered how to make booze with them.  It isn't as great as it sounds. Emergency unit physicians…

Dr. Andy Martens,  of the psychology dept. at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and colleagues from the University of Arizona, US, have devised an Extermination Machine [pictured at…

It could be in a billion years, it could start tomorrow, but physicists have long predicted that the universe may one day collapse, and that everything in it will be compressed to a small hard ball…

A new species of fossil horse from 4.4 million-year-old fossil-rich deposits in Ethiopia,  Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli, was about the size of a small zebra, Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli,…