A new study shows that the rate of sea-level rise along the U.S. Atlantic coast is greater now than at any time in the past 2,000 years - and a consistent link between changes in global mean surface…

Beluga whales, famous for their human-like facial expressions, don't like artificial materials such as neoprene diving suits, it seems.   So when Natalia Avseenko wanted to help two belugas…

History, Science and the TMT Boundary To the extent that written records show political, religious or other personal bias, it may be truly said that history is bunk.  Or we may say with Henry…

PARIS, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - European Commission approves NULOJIX(R) (belatacept), in combination with corticosteroids and a mycophenolic acid and an interleukin-2 receptor antagonist at…

A group of biologists have discovered seven previously unknown species of mammals on Luzon Island in the Philippines.  All of the species are forest mice, and each species lives only in a small…

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Helsinki University are reporting that DCDC2, a gene linked to dyslexia, has a surprising biological function: it controls cilia, the antenna-like projections…

Sexting, where people send photographs and sexually explicit text messages to titillate them  and perhaps increase the likelihood of a sexual relationship,  is a fairly new phenomenon. The…

As creators of actual good content, we're pretty critical of content farms like Huffington Post or Answers.com or the rest of them - if HuffPo steals a fair-use snippet from our site it will rank…

You've heard or read the scenarios - rapidly escalating levels of CO2 could cause rapidly escalating temperatures, even as much as 18 degrees Fahrenheit.    The problem is that they are…

A satire site composed of lefty science bloggers (well, is there any other kind) at least is not siding with progressives when it comes to their anti-science agenda regarding food.    So…