It's totally a thing! The vast majority of squid caught off the west coast of the Americas, both North and South, is shipped to the other side of the Pacific Ocean to be processed in Asia. Much of it…

More bizarre news out of Florida. What do you think this has in common with this? If you answered, "they both look really disturbing," then I can't disagree. But the more pertinent answer is that…

I confess. I am a stem cell scientist.I might even be an evil scientist because you see my lab works with human embryonic stem cells. Hopefully even if I am an evil scientist, I am not an evil…

A Democratic president banned the use of federal money for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, a Republican president restricted federal hESC funding to existing lines and a Democratic…

This just to report progress on the Quantum Randi Challenge. It has changed a lot, so please have a look to see whether you think it is now attractive enough for you to help “internetizing” it, which…

In the criticisms of American education, it is often noted that Asian children perform better on standardized tests that seek to measure knowledge across cultures so American schools last decade ago…

For over 20 years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been tasked with pooling and making publicly accessible the knowledge gleaned from climate-change research. Its efforts…

HUDDINGE, Sweden, July 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Medivir AB (OMX: MVIR), is an emerging research-based specialty pharmaceutical company focused on infectious diseases. Medivir today announced that…

The naked mole rat (or Heterocephalus glaber) (see figure 1) is a strange mammal. As their name already implies, they have little hair. Furthermore, their eyes are very small and their visual…

Check out this ice cream manufacturer in Aberdeenshire which is entirely carbon neutral - it produces 10 million quarts of ice cream per year andthe factory is completely powered by the wind. Mackie'…