Researchers have identified a key factor responsible for declining muscle repair during aging, and discovered how to halt the process in mice - using a common drug.  The findings are early-stage…

Well, kind of. David Wineland and Serge Haroche have not endangered any living beings. That is to say: probably not in their physics experiments.  Yet, although they stayed at a safe distance…

Bumbling coverage on phthalates underscores how activist journalism endangers ‘public science’ Last year, campaigning journalist Susan Freinkel noted that she wrote her anti-chemical book, Plastics:…

There may be good news for the blood donation business; the shelf life of blood has perhaps gotten longer. In a finding that runs counter to commonly held beliefs about fresh blood being better, a…

Five percent of men are affected by infertility and some new insights into sperms' swimming skills could shed light on why. In a new study, researchers have shown how a protein called RABL2 affects…

A neuroprotectant drug has been shown to protect the human brain against the damaging effects of stroke. The clinical trial was a randomized, double blind, multi-center trial that was conducted in…

Five years ago I was fascinated by an analogy used by my friend Michelangelo Mangano to explain the problem of naturalness, a crucial issue in fundamental physics, and maybe the biggest single…

To celebrate International Cephalopod Awareness Days, I decided to comb through all the cephalopod news since last October (and there's been quite a bit of it) to bring you the top ten essential…

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for – you guessed it- stem cell research. Or more specifically, “for the discovery that mature…

A recent study published in Environmental Sciences Europe has attracted attention because it documents a net increase in pesticide use on genetically engineered crops in the US.  The author,…