Many may jump to the conclusion that ‘Uninformative Advertising’ simply provides a route by which a manufacturing corporation can ‘burn its money’ – but this may not always be the case, as explained…

Wildfires turn millions of hectares of vegetation into charcoal each year but it wouldn't seem like it ends up in the oceans. Yet researchers have found that this charcoal does not remain in…

Pharmaceuticals don't have a discovery problem, or a financing one, they have a political one that impedes everything else. Politics have a greater direct effect on the pharmaceutical industry than…

A new study has identified hundreds of previously unrecognized small aftershocks after Utah's deadly Crandall Canyon mine collapse in 2007, which suggest that the collapse was perhaps bigger than…

Some breast cancer patients report difficulties with memory, concentration and other cognitive functions following cancer treatment. Determining whether that is psychosomatic or a sign of underlying…

Are the eyes more accurate than the nose and tongue in determining the taste of food?  Some people can actually see the flavor of foods, and the eyes have such a powerful role that they can even…

Horseback riding hasn't been my favourite activity. Not that I do not like horses, au contraire. I have also tried various kinds of horseback riding; like cowboys on the prairie in Texas and New…

Genital warts prevalence in Australian women plummeted 59% since a nationally funded quadrivalent human papillomarivus (HPV) vaccination program  for teen and pre-teen girls was introduced in…

FBI Releases Images of Two Suspects The FBI today released images of two males suspected of planting the Boston Marathon bombs. Shortly afterwards the FBI website crashed, no doubt due to demand for…

The Kepler mission revealed the existence of potentially habitable planets slightly bigger than Earth.  The spacecraft named for Johannes Kepler was launched in 2009 and now it has found two new…