What Caused Sweden's Celiac 'Epidemic'?

What Caused Sweden's Celiac 'Epidemic'?

Celiac disease, defined as a 'chronic small intestinal immune-mediated enteropathy precipitated by exposure to dietary gluten in genetically predisposed individuals', affects about one percent of the…
The Solar Power Backlash

The Solar Power Backlash

In Europe, Spain and Germany, whose populations bought into the 'subsidize legacy technology now and it will be cheaper later' myth, there is a backlash against solar power. Politicians are seeing…
Tax Evasion Happens In Socialist Countries Too

Tax Evasion Happens In Socialist Countries Too

While the overall population of Greece benefits from government services and doesn't want those to change, the people who pay the most also evade the most, says a paper.  If their estimates are…
Synchrotron X-Rays Bring New Light To Old Fossils

Synchrotron X-Rays Bring New Light To Old Fossils

Synchrotron-based imaging techniques of a 50 million-year-old lizard skin have identified the presence of teeth which are invisible to visible light, demonstrating for the first time that this fossil…
Sopranos - Under MRI

Sopranos - Under MRI

The first scientific study to employ real-time magnetic resonance imaging  (RT) MRI to obtain midsagittal vocal tract sequential image data from a total of 5 soprano singers was published in the…