Gerovital H3, one of the "fountain of youth" miracles drugs that crop up once a generation, was banned in the United States in 1982, but the alternative medicine crowd that never let go of homeopathy…

The noses of industrial livestock workers in North Carolina containeddrug-resistant bacteria- livestock-associated Staph- while the noses of antibiotic-free livestock workers did not,…

A ten-nation analysis of media systems and national political knowledge funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the United Kingdom found that women living in the world’s most…

Over past centuries, the crews of ships regularly measured some basic properties of the waters through which they sailed, such as temperature and salinity.  Though their accuracy has to be…

How much money would you be willing to spend to find out if supersymmetry - SUSY - is real or not? It was always known that discoveries made by the Large Hadron Collider would require the…

The American FDA allows ingredients that are banned in other countries. Like in stories about bat boys living in caves, it's always best to use foreign lands few people visit (like West Virginia) in…

The Solar Impulse airplane, brain-child airplane of Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg (who co-piloted the entire journey) that can fly day and night without fuel or polluting emissions, has ended…

One of the sillier arguments regarding gender inequality (and most of them regarding the developed world are pretty silly in 2013) is that Wikipedia, with anonymous editors of suspect credibility, is…

The Qinling-Dabie orogenic complex, part of a large east-west mountain range in the heart of China, plays a key role in helping scientists understand the formation and breakup of the supercontinent…

A recent increase in polar mesospheric clouds - diffuse collections of water ice crystals in the mesosphere near the poles at altitudes of about 50 miles - could be due to a recent increase in…