Heightened regulation, increased lawsuits and a resulting lack of venture capital has meant the western pharmaceutical industry faces a looming crisis but companies outside America and Europe may…

Bisphenol A, widely known as BPA, has recently become a controversial science issue, along with climate change and every food, energy and medicine study. In the modern world, the only legitimate…

The world produces a lot of food, but it is not produced equally. Agriculturally rich areas like American and Europe can fret about whether natural or synthetic toxins are on their food, and how much…

A group of political scientists says a growing field of research has found links to genetics and political preferences - well, sort of. They don't come right out and declare a genetic component…

How often do meteorites and objects from space hit us?   Actually, pretty often, we just don't have cameras and detection equipment everywhere, so when a sonic boom-inducing event like in the…

Forcepflies, commonly known as earwigflies, because the males have a large genital forceps that resembles the cerci of earwigs, are part of a family that was widespread  from Australia to…

Pediatric Crohn's Disease is a chronic, debilitating condition of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract that affects up to 200,000 children worldwide. CD, which is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (…

In the ongoing quest to optimize alternative energy sources like biofuels, researchers are looking more to plants that grow in the wild, such as switchgrass. But domesticating wildgrowing plants has…

What a spectacular coincidence! A meteor hitting Earth on the day the asteroid 2012 DA14 is passing close by! When I was contemplating what kind of natural disasters I should throw in the scenarios…

There are culturally appropriate ways to prevent obesity among Latino children, according to a new collection of studies from Salud America! Those might involve guided grocery store trips, menu…