While solar energy is clearly the future, it isn't ready yet. Two large obstacles are cost versus efficiency and storage. Wind power is advocated by a much smaller group, because its obstacles are…

Music makes people nostalgic, it has long been said that music can bring us back to specific points in time.  Young adults surveyed recently are even fond of and have an emotional connection to…

Low levels of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) were in crops irrigated with recycled sewage water, according to the first study conducted under realistic field conditions.  …

When people think about the benefits of science to agriculture, they often think about American dematerialization. Farmers are producing far more food on far less land with far less ecological…

Medicine of the 21st century is getting a hand from an idea Henry Ford had in the 19th century and implemented in 1908 - the concept of continuous mass production. Billions of tablets, capsules…

Kopi Luwak, coffee made from berries extracted the feces of Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), is all the rage. At our neighborhood Labor Day party we had not only that in attendance, but…

Research into the role of proteins called sirtuins in enhancing longevity has yielded contradictory results from many different scientists - while it's been fine for mouse studies, weaning human…

Every once in a while I feel compelled to write in clear what should be self-evident to anybody with a working brain; to give a sort of "advice to surfers". I don't expect that such an advice be…

While the Plantagenets are getting all of the attention in England these days due to the discovery of Richard III's remains (though the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha family currently holding the…

Obese teenagers who lose weight are at greater risk of developing eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, a sign that there may be a psychology issue regarding their…