The moon is just a big rock in Earth's orbit now but things could have gone a lot differently in the distant past. In fact, there may have been two early windows of habitability for Luna. In a new…

If you are up for a job, and four other candidates are weak, your chances are obviously better than if four other candidates are strong. In the World Cup just completed, statistically there will…

Wrinkles and hair loss are perfectly natural aspects of aging - but science is all about defeating the nature that wants to kill us off. One aspect of aging is a decline in mitochondrial function. A…

I had what seemed like rather a good idea a few weeks back. Building on some prominent findings in social psychology, I hypothesized that politicians on the right would wipe their bum with their left…

Paracelsus famously noted Sola dosis facit venenum - "Only the dose makes the poison." His wisdom was accepted for centuries, from the least educated to the most. Until conspiracy theory progressives…

Everyone knows that water is a molecule in which a single oxygen atom is linked to two hydrogen atoms - H20. But the story of water gets a lot more scientifically interesting the deeper you go.…

Across Europe, 95 percent of people claim to have seen seen litter when they visited the coast - yet they say they don't litter. And they don't trust scientists, corporations or government to solve…

Sub-Saharan Africa has around 80 million people infected with hepatitis B, a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus, but it infects around 250 million people worldwide. It can be a mild…

A review of data on nearly 20 million people has concluded that having diabetes significantly raises the risk of developing cancer. For women the risk is even higher, not just of cancer but also…

States that have expanded Medicaid coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act have higher numbers of individuals with disabilities employed that states that did not. Medicaid is a taxpayer-funded…