LONDON, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- - As Food Waste Awareness Week Starts, Ocado Reveals That Brits Throw Away Enough Food at Dinnertime to Feed 19 million. The kitchen is the heart of the home but over…

California thinks you shouldn’t be allowed to see your OWN fingerprints (of the DNA variety) without a doctor’s permission. Last week, the California Department of Public Health sent "Cease And…

What does it take to get a job in science, and what role do universities play? There has been some discussion of these issues in the blogging community lately (here, here, and my thoughts are here).…

If you were going to guess at who would uncover a flaw in game theory, you wouldn't guess it would be a fiction writer though, if you did, you almost certainly would not guess it would be Edgar Allen…

I don't attend the big conferences in my field that often anymore. I have been to SSE, SMBE, and ESEB in the past, but I find the long drive, several days of talks, and shmoozing a bit exhausting.…

There are lots and lots of ways to reach the site but, for contributors, basically two ways to write blogs and articles (well, 2.5, but one is quite rare.) There are significant new releases of…

I received this from my mother this morning.  Looks like my home town is having a little event.  I live a few hours away, so I won't be present. This part rules: In case it isn't legible…

Like several other insect orders, the Lepidoptera is staggeringly diverse -- there are about 180,000 described species in the order and an untold number that remain unknown to biologists. (For…

This material originates from volcanoes but in synthesized form it takes up around a third of the average packet of washing powder and it also helps refine 99 per cent of the world's petrol (*) -…

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston say they have pinpointed a new, previously unrecognized group of stem cells that give rise to cardiomyocytes; heart muscle cells. These stem cells, located…