In the many well-funded marketing claims of homeopaths and 'alternative' medicine claims, including a US government program that spends $120 million a year legitimizing treatments that don't work,…

An automated system,  the Child Health Improvement through Computer Automation system (CHICA), helps pediatricians focus on the specific health needs of each patient in the short time allotted…

Can you have a real climate treaty when the world's largest polluter says it is a developing nation and can't be bound by emissions obligations?  Add in India and Mexico as exemptions and there…

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, "The Physiology of Taste" The next time you sit down to eat; you may look at your food differently. Freshly squeezed…

Producing research that is accessible, highly-cited, globally visible and impactful is no easy task. Aside from being quality research, it requires multiple other skill sets and competition is fierce…

In the first decade of the 21st century, blogging really took off. In America, it was embraced by the technologically progressive left and therefore immediately exploited as a marketing tool against…

Wolves likely were likely domesticated by European hunter–gatherers over 18,000 years ago and gradually evolved into dogs, according to a genetic analysis. There is debate over when dogs were…

Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a massive storm big enough to engulf the Earth two times over, is one of the solar system's most enigmatic landmarks and a mystery of fluid dynamics  – because it…

Know how many scientists got started wondering about nature by blasting ants with a magnifying glass? Quite a few, actually. While most scientists and engineers don't necessarily like Sid in "Toy…

Growing custom-made, functioning organs will be regenerative medicine's defining moment and it will happen in 2014, predicts Real Clear Science's Alex Berezow. But will it be adult stem cells (it…