If you donate money to Greenpeace and get a tax deduction, is your act less moral? Indeed it is, at least in the perception of other people, according to a new psychology paper on the "tainted…

Messier 83, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, is one of the largest and closest barred spiral galaxies to us.  At 15 million light-years away, it is one of the most conspicuous galaxies of its type…

Children believe the world is far more segregated by gender than it actually is, according to a psychology paper which analyzed classroom friendships in five U.S. elementary schools.  …

The most scientifically interesting objects are not the bright blueish white ones in the center of the image, but the small reddish looking ones off to the sides.  Here's how and why. …

Today the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Collaboration announced that they have measured the scale of the universe to an accuracy of one percent.    BOSS is the largest…

At the 1962 Rochester conference in Geneva, the prediction that a particle later called the Omega minus should exist, already proposed in a paper by Glashow and Sakurai, was not considered important…

The clymene dolphin is a small and sleek marine mammal living in the Atlantic Ocean. A new study has found this dolphin is a rarity in mammals - a genetic hybrid that is closely related to spinner…

Hubble's Frontier Fields observing program is using the magnifying power of enormous galaxy clusters to peer deep into the distant Universe and Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster,  is …

Fish that glow and various other creatures that are given that ability due to genetic modifications often make the news for shock value.  Huffington Post got an opportunity to 'shock' and 'amaze…

In a future where the public will be paying for health care, the patience for preventable diseases, like those related to smoking and overeating, is dwindling. But current weight loss messages and…

Have you ever seen a demonstration of any of the principles of General Relativity?  What about The "famous" "rubber sheet" analogy, where a heavy ball, like a bowling ball, is placed on a rubber…

Because of the prevalence of sports in popular culture, there is a belief that younger is always better. But coaches know differently. They talk about the value of a 'veteran' presence on the field.…

We hear a lot about carbon storage and the impact on the atmosphere if CO2 is release during warming, but how does that work? Carbon is not evenly distributed in soil, instead the kinds of carbon hot…

One of the best arguments for using science to allow people to grow food in difficult climates, rather than having wealthier nations donate it to them, is that wealth leads to better lives in lots of…

Dinosaur fossils are exceptionally rare in the Arabian Peninsula but researchers have uncovered the first record of dinosaurs from Arabia itself. What is now dry desert was once a beach littered with…

Though the War on Drugs has been a complete failure, and led to making poor people poorer and the rich in that market richer, scholars are touting the War on Cigarettes as a complete success - 8…

Welcome to the first big solar flare of 2014. The sun emitted a significant solar flare peaking at 1:32 p.m. EST on Jan.7, 2014. This is the first significant flare of 2014 and follows on the heels…

An in vivo study reveals how a protein in the brain, alpha2/delta-1, helps regulate food intake and body weight and may help explain why medications that are prescribed for epilepsy and other…

African-Americans having a shorter life expectancy and a greater likelihood of suffering from aging-related illnesses at younger ages compared to European-Americans.  A new paper claims that it…

In a guest post written three years ago Giorgio Chiarelli told us the story of how the CDF detector saw its first proton-antiproton collisions, during the night of October 13th 1985. It was a very…