Biology has just gotten a new set of standards for graphically representing biological information, biology's equivalent of the circuit diagram in electronics. Researchers at the European…

100 years ago you had to be rich to be fat.  Now apparently you have to be rich to stay thin.  And women add more pounds being poor than anyone. A nationwide study that followed…

Magnetotactic bacteria are the smallest organisms to use a biological compass but exactly how these bacteria create their cellular magnets is a mystery. In a study published online in Genome Research…

Language networks are built based on different principles and, for the most part, are designed to be scale-free.  Global statistical properties of language networks are independent of linguistic…

Despite the overwhelming abundance of water on the planet and in our lives, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery. In all, water exhibits 66 known anomalies, including a strangely…

There are many hypotheses about the early days of black holes.  Researchers writing in The Astrophysical Journal Letters have undertaken simulations using data taken from observations…

Acupuncture has been used in East-Asian medicine for thousands of years to treat pain and some people swear by it, but if and how it works at the cellular level is largely unknown. Using brain…

If you're the family member of a critical care patient, you prefer doctors to keep their opinions on life support decisions to themselves, according to new research that challenges a long-held belief…

Tangential Science: it's not necessarily science, but it's still funny. 1.  You've all heard that blondes have more fun.   There is even a recurring urban legend that they are becoming…

What would you do in this situation? In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a…