There is culture cold war in America over education. One side says American kids are under-performing because teachers are not using agreed upon criteria and so students don't do as well as some…

As you know, when heat in soup is increased, it will eventually boil. When time and space are heated, an expanding universe can emerge, without requiring anything like a "Big Bang", according to a…

The Promised Land means different things to different people. To geologists, the site of some of the largest volcanic eruptions in earth's history might fit the bill, and that means Utah is a pretty…

The 3,000-kilometer-long Transantarctic Mountains are a dominant feature of the Antarctic continent, yet up to now scientists have been unable to adequately explain how they formed. In a new study,…

The eco-terrorism that made Greenpeace famous is no longer in vogue and a large part of their traditionally liberal base has been turned off by their irrational anti-science crusades against food,…

There are examples of positive political campaigns - Ronald Reagan appealed to what America could be, for example - but even that message of hope had an undercurrent of fear, namely that if things…

Mothers get all the blame these days but a new paper led suggests that the father's diet before conception may play an equally important role in the health of their offspring. It also raises concerns…

In his examination of health care globalization, Going Global in Century XXI: Medical Anthropology and the New Primary Health Care (2004), Craig Janes addresses the problem of a lack of innovative…

A new review outlines the health effects of silica, and calls for action to reduce illness and death from silica exposure at work. For centuries, too much silica exposure, such as when workers cut,…

The home team holds the advantage over visitors, at least in the plant world, but a handful of genetic adaptations could even the playing field, according to a new paper. Genetic tradeoffs, in part,…