New therapeutic targets and drugs may someday benefit people with certain types of leukemia or blood cancer. Pre-clinical and pharmacological models found that cancer cells with a mutation in the KIT…

Speculation is rampant that the discovery of the Higgs boson will get a Nobel prize. We'll see. The modern Nobel committee is usually pretty astute and they don't seem to give out awards based on…

A new paper details how methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) regulates the critical crosslinking of its cell wall in the face of beta-lactam antibiotics, the mechanistic basis for how…

Paleontologists usually find fossils jumbled up, broken apart, crushed and spread out over a large area, not in one piece. A whole 35-foot dinosaur may be slumbering inside the rock a construction…

The mystery of why life on Earth evolved has gotten more complicated, not less. Scientists in a new paper say they have ruled out a theory as to why the planet was warm enough to sustain the planet's…

Doctors who abuse prescription drugs often "self-medicate" for physical or emotional pain or stress relief, according to a new paper. Based on focus groups with physicians in treatment for substance…

The Moon landing in 1969 was the culmination of a decade of event-driven technology and it lent momentum to a generation of belief in the promise of a space-faring future. By 1975, the premise of the…

You can think of a capacitor somewhat like a rechargeable battery. It is able to store energy temporarily except that a rechargeable battery will last much, much longer than a capacitor. The simplest…

The left and right hemispheres of Albert Einstein's brain were unusually well connected to each other, according to a paper, which then determines that may have contributed to his brilliance. The…

In an article I did for USA Today's Friday/weekend edition, I noted the recurring meme that American education is 'abysmal.'  It used to be that the criticism of education was primarily coming…