Is your cell phone a known carcinogen? Do cell phones give you cancer?  Well, the precautionary principle contends unless you can prove cell phones can't give you cancer, then they are a concern…

I didn't need to be persuaded that evolution happened. In fact, upon finding out in my teens that there were people that rejected it, I can say that my reaction was one of utter confusion. Why on…

As a society we tend to fuss about creativity and its role in society.  While there is little doubt that creativity and innovation are immensely important in many endeavors, it is still an open…

If you've ever wondered just what it looks like to go fishing for Humboldt squid, here's one view--a video by Philip Friedman, shot off Long Beach: Of course, it's a bit different fishing for…

It's "Second Life"...for monkeys.  And a lot more real.   Scientists have demonstrated a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body - they learned to employ brain…

Did comets deliver a significant portion of the Earth's oceans millions of years after the Earth formed?  Some new evidence in Nature lends weight to the idea. Using HiFi, the Heterodyne…

Sarah Churman: “I had an implant put in 8 weeks ago called The Esteem Implant by Envoy Medical. I was born deaf and have worn hearing aids from the age of 2, but hearing aids only help so much. I…

“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so…

Bribery and corruption rise and fall with the level of collective feeling in a society, according to research by Pankaj Aggarwal, University of Toronto Scarborough professor of marketing in the…

We've done articles on rainbows, and double rainbows and even showed you how to make a rainbow appear for that special someone - but have you ever seen a triple rainbow? Scientific reports of…