Readers familiar with this blog know that I am a die-hard skeptic on the issue of physics beyond the Standard Model. However, today I am wearing my fluctuation-enthusiast hat, and I will be trying to…

In reading some posts regarding health care reform, someone made a comment that struck me as unusual regarding the pharmaceuticals, namely that they had a right to make a profit too. What an…

Researchers believe they have located the original source of malignant malaria; a parasite in chimpanzees of equatorial Africa.  The biologists think the deadly parasite was transmitted to…

Our cells are controlled by billions of molecular 'switches' that react to our environment.  All creatures, from bacteria to humans, must monitor their environments in order to survive. They do…

People who engage in 'brain exercise' activities, like reading, writing, and playing card games, may delay the rapid memory decline that occurs if they later develop dementia, according to a study…

Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe and is an insulating gas.  Hydrogen is also the simplest of the elements: it contains one proton and one electron.  But at high pressures…

Like Goldilocks and her porridge, people today want their food to be perfect.   But when you look at something like a pineapple in a supermarket, how do you know what's 'just ripe' and what is…

Many children born outside of marriage are born to parents in unstable relationships and often live apart from their fathers.    New research from the Journal of Marriage and Family says…

Scientists say they have discovered a unique 'DNA signature' in human sperm, which may act as a key that unlocks an egg's fertility and triggers new life.  Drs David Miller and David Iles from…

A new class of antibody drugs may help in treatment of childhood eye diseases but specialists need to be alert for the possibility of serious side effects, according to an editorial in the August…