An international analysis of conservation biologists finds that they work late at night and over weekends - just like much of the salaried corporate world and science writers.  The paper affirms…

Thanks to athletes like Ryan Braun and Lance Armstrong, doping has gotten a bad rap, but if solar power is ever going to be viable, doping will be essential. Flexible thin film solar cells require…

While cultural pundits are worried about the health impact of obesity and which foods need to be more regulated to prevent chronic disease, a new analysis has found that incidents of ischemic…

The nature of hypnotically suggested changes in perception has been controversial throughout the history of hypnosis.  The major current hypotheses of hypnosis hold that we always actively use…

Sociologists have challenged the perception that there is a "new and pervasive hookup culture" among contemporary college students that is substantially greater than a generation ago. They used an…

People have always distrusted science, just like people have always been afraid of the supernatural (unless it promises a spiritual pot of gold at the end of your particular rainbow) but the…

New research just out in the journal Science Translational Medicine opens the door for treatments capable of stopping Alzheimer’s disease (AD) before its first symptoms, that is to say before crucial…

Excavations of tools at two neighboring Paleolithic sites in southwest France have made the blurred lines between modern humans and Neanderthals more blurry.  Two research teams from the Max…

Near-death experiences may have found a new grounding in science. Whether and how the dying brain is capable of generating conscious activity has been vigorously debated but the near-death…

Researchers have measured light emitted by photoluminescence from a nanodiamond levitating in free space.  Their paper describes how they used a laser to trap nanodiamonds in space, and – using…

During the days of rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan, the military decided to try a science approach to working with the residents there. Unfortunately, they picked an American anthropology field that…

During the days of rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan, the military decided to try a science approach to working with the residents there. Unfortunately, they picked an American anthropology field that…

Ice ages and warm periods have alternated fairly regularly in the Earth's history: 90,000 of every 100,000 years in the past had vast areas of North America, Europe and Asia being buried under thick…

Researchers have described Megaconus mammaliaformis, an unusual mammal that lived about 165 million years ago. Previously, all that was known about this long-extinct mammal was a few little teeth…

A plastic material already used in absorbable surgical sutures could also administer antibiotics to patients with brain infections, scientists report in a new study. Use of the material, placed…

Detectives of both the amateur and occupational variety know that the best way to solve a mystery is to visit the scene where it began and look for clues. Cosmological detectives do that too, by…

When I walk in a seminar or lecture room, it looks mostly as 30 or 40 years ago. Then lifting my eyes I would notice that the "data"-projector is still there hanging from the ceiling, in addition to…

Steven Pinker has written a long essay in The New Republic embracing scientism. That's really too bad, because this way Pinker joins a disturbingly long list of scientists (and a few philosophers)…

We're in a hyper-regulated society. Everyone wants to regulate other people while they claim to care about freedom and choice. If you claim to care about freedom and then want to ban marriage or IVF…

An international team has found evidence of substantial overlap for genetic risk factors shared between bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia and less overlap between those…