Current global conditions provide numerous challenges for future generations. The United States has a mind-boggling federal deficit. Developing countries have rapid population growth that will lead…

“Personalized medicine! What is that?” Your question is justified.  It was also something that Terry Procter from Peterborough, Ontario thought when he was sent a questionnaire for his opinion…

If you are an organic food or paleo diet lover and think it means your gut microbiome resembles your ancestors in any way, you are wrong.  We aren't even close to 100 years ago much less ancient…

Science can make better corn and, well, better everything - except perhaps the Christmas tree. The genome of conifers like spruce, pine and fir has remained pretty much the same for the last 100…

A NASA photo error showed just how many sheep in science media are blindly regurgitating anything about space they read.   NASA got a snapshot from Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko on the…

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is using X-rays to measure, in atomic detail, a key process at work in extreme plasmas like those found in stars,…

Wilms' tumors, a type of cancer typically found in the kidneys of young children, might have a new weapon against them. A new therapeutic approach that one day might be used to treat some of the more…

In a little less than three weeks, a federal budget sequestration, which would have severe consequences for agencies that fund scientific research, will take effect unless a deal can be made between…

Bacteria have lived for millions of years in our planet where, with an impressive capability to adapt, they now colonize virtually every environment, including us. But as tiny one-cell organisms they…

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected seven primitive galaxies formed more than 13 billion years ago, and also a candidate, at redshift 11.9, for the record for the most distant galaxy found to…