The Red Queen hypothesis, a popular idea in evolution named after Lewis Carroll's character who in "Through the Looking Glass" described her country as a place where "it takes all the running you can…

Chlamydia trachomatis is a human pathogen that is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted disease worldwide. More than 90 million new cases of genital infections occur each year. About…

A student who shows up on time, listens respectfully and appears fully engaged to teachers might still lack emotional and cognitive involvement with the course material, according to survey results…

Long hours, no money - medical residents have a hard job and it can wear them down. But topping the list are residents in anesthesiology training programs, reports a surve in the July issue of…

Mealybugs only eat plant sap but sap doesn't contain all the essential amino acids the insects need to survive - so mealybugs have developed a symbiotic relationship with two species of bacteria, one…

An assistant professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University is projecting that grazing animals such as bison and cattle will get smaller due to global warming in the Great Plains.…

Laws and Flaws The roots of miscarriages of justice.   Although this article is about the common law, the author hopes that it may be of more than passing interest to scientists and to all…

Nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug and more than 50 percent take two, scholars writing in Mayo Clinic Proceedings say. Antibiotics, antidepressants and painkilling…

Terrorism-induced smoking is a new explanatory factor that will keep public health academics from accepting that free choice happens - some people will do things that are bad for them.  A Weill…

The world really stinks today. We have run out of aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc. Oh wait, no we haven't. But if you are an anti-science…