Crotchety old men seem to have won this argument. Modern pop music is too loud and does sound all the same, just like angry old types have been saying for 70 years.  A team from Spain analyzed…

Anti-science activists in a war on genetically modified organisms are for more pervasive than right-wing types who limited federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research 10 years ago -…

Man has been killing man and beast since whatever critter of common descent crawled out of the primordial ooze. And likely before, there's just no way to know it. But some things can be known and one…

A contaminated river and a polluted sky are proof that environmentalism isn't just for the rich any more, say sociologists. Obviously it never was, in many countries.  In the developed world,…

If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely poor farmers will invent more than billion-dollar corporations or highly paid academics. Or so believes Prof. Anil Gupta, who has spent two…

With the Supreme Court decision to uphold mandatory health insurance purchasing under the Affordable Care Act, it's going to get more expensive. But for thousands of years people were able to go into…

It’s a scientist’s duty to be properly skeptical, says Berkeley physics Prof. Richard Muller, who still says that much, if not most, of what is attributed to climate change is speculative,…

The brain is like a muscle; it can get into a routine.  But mixing up the workout a little is healthy in both cases.  In the brain, however, it isn't without difficulties. Learning a new…

What exactly happens to your face when you smile spontaneously, and how does that affect how old you look? Computer scientists from the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Science recorded the…

A  giant human sculpture has been unearthed at the Tayinat Archaeological Project excavation site in southeastern Turkey. The head and torso of the human figure is intact to just above its…