A study in BMJ's Christmas issue, which spares no effort in its annual attempt to see who in science media rewrites press releases without even reading them, has determined why Rudolph, the famous…

A future without fossil fuels is ideal but impractical in the short term.  However, for people not afraid of science, a PNAS paper showing that synthetic biology can be used to manipulate…

New York City is willing to hire thousands to make sure you can't buy a Big Gulp but actual fraud is no big worry. The group Oceana did genetic testing of foods labeled at restaurants and found that…

Organic food is a $29 billion industry, clearly Big Ag, but they have managed to convince believers that they are small farms that use no pesticides and are nutritionally, structurally and morally…

The parasite Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is one of the major causes of food-borne diseases but new insights into how the immune system combats T. gondii could lead to the development of long-sought…

A new paper detailing research from the rainforests of Panama provides an unprecedented level of detail regarding the diversity and distribution of arthropod species from the soil to the forest…

The insurance industry and its $4.6 trillion in revenues isn't going to be caught unaware by climate change.  They are all about risk. Sometimes that can have unfortunate effects in the real…

The plague-causing bacteria Yersinia pestis evades detection and establishes a stronghold without setting off the body's early alarms but new discoveries reported this week help explain how the…

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a self-taught Indian mathematician known for intuiting extraordinary numerical patterns and connections without using proofs or modern mathematical tools. Instead, the devout…

The ability to accurately recall the shapes and spatial relationships of objects has been shown to be reduced by long-term use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), according to a recent paper.…