Do you rush to buy a particular brand of chicken because it is anti-biotic free? Are you more likely to buy beef that uses "ethical, sustainable" practices like no added steroids or hormones. I don't…

Do you rush to buy a particular brand of chicken because it is anti-biotic free? Are you more likely to buy beef that uses "ethical, sustainable" practices like no added steroids or hormones. I don't…

Plasmas are a soup of charged particles in an electric field. While most commonly a part of lightning bolts and stars, the use of high voltage equipment has more practically meant very small plasmas…

The fifth skull to be discovered in Dmanisi displays a combination of features unknown to researchers before the find - the largest face, the most massively built jaw and teeth and the smallest brain…

The 'education is terrible' trope made the rounds again last week, along with the predictable 'abysmal' charge leveled at teachers and students and attempts to keep America ahead in a globalized…

A study in mice has found that the space between brain cells may increase during sleep, allowing the brain to flush out toxins that build up during waking hours.  Get a good night's sleep…

If you are new to a yoga class, you are stunned by how flexible and strong its participants are - but if you are blind in a visual exercise world, it takes a little more creativity to feel the burn.…

There was once a perception that nature was somehow unspoiled and humans changed that. It was never really true, it was just an arbitrary naturalistic fallacy, but it caught on among…

Pigs, jellyfish and zebrafish don't seem to have much in common with each other, much less humans, but the different species are all pieces of a puzzle which is helping to solve the riddles of…

Miscarriage is commonly believed to be rare and its causes are misunderstood. This can lead to a guilt-ridden experience for women who have one, according to a new national survey presented  at…

Dear Science 2.0 writers: Do any of you want to collaborate on developing a Science, Play and Research Kit (SPARK)? Here's the press release: October 15, 2013 (Palo Alto, Calif.) – The…

Worrisome news for retired American football players.  Though former players in a new preliminary study were not diagnosed with any neurological condition, brain imaging tests revealed unusual…

When most people think of the Antarctic, they think of snow, ice and glaciers - but the continent and surrounding waters are littered with fiery volcanoes. The Marie Byrd Seamounts in the Amundsen…

A new analysis of data on over 3,000 elderly Americans strongly suggests that people over the age of 75 with normal cognition who used diuretics, angiotensin-1 receptor blockers (ARBs) and…

You wouldn't think the brightest exploding stars ever discovered in the universe could need some light shed on them, but they got it anyway. A new paper proposes that the most luminous supernovae –…

Food, medicine and energy are three of the most crucial problems we face today - and they are all protested by a common demographic. Science tends to think on the supply side - how to feed more…

Schizophrenia patients often suffer from a breakdown of organized thought, accompanied by delusions or hallucinations - neuroscientists have observed the neural activity that appears to produce this…

A new paper says that babies can tell when something is wrong — as early as 18 months. Psychologists Sabrina Chiarella and Diane Poulin-Dubois demonstrate that infants can detect whether a person's…

The intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) was developed to help scientists learn more about the complex nature of celestial objects in the universe and began searching the skies for certain…

A new study has revealed that the ancestors of chelicerates (spiders, scorpions, etc.) branched off from the family tree of other arthropods, such as including insects, crustaceans and millipedes,…