With unpredictable annual rainfall and drought about once every five years, the potato is becoming a more important crop there. Semagn-Asredie Kolech, a Cornell doctoral candidate, shuttles between…

With unpredictable annual rainfall and drought about once every five years, the potato is becoming a more important crop there. Semagn-Asredie Kolech, a Cornell doctoral candidate, shuttles between…

Female mosquitoes are predators of mammalian blood, relying on blood proteins to lay their eggs. While certain mosquito species are attracted to mammals by their emission of body heat and carbon…

University of New Mexico professor Geoffrey Miller is a social/evolutionary psychologist so it's no surprise he is clueless about people - like what it takes to have the willpower to get a Ph.D,…

A Kansas farmer has sued Monsanto over genetically modified wheat in Oregon. The attorney who talked to the Associated Press from Dallas said lawsuits were the only way to police the agricultural…

A Kansas farmer has sued Monsanto over genetically modified wheat in Oregon. The attorney who talked to the Associated Press from Dallas said lawsuits were the only way to police the agricultural…

The last open seam on the steel outer cover of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device was closed last week, which means the core of fusion device and the installation stage has been completed and it can…

A new paper suggests women can remember faces better than men, in part because they spend more time studying features - without even knowing it. In our modern science miracle culture, they have…

Some Paleo Diet believers think neither food nor humanity has evolved but anthropologists disagree. They have found that diets were a 'game changer' in ancient African hominid evolution, even 3.5…

Congressman Raul Grijalva, (D-Arizona), has some interesting ideas about science. Namely, he thinks that all of the government scientists in the State Department who did numerous environmental impact…

In October 2014 and February 2016 Proxima Centauri, the red dwarf star nearest to our sun, passes in front of two other stars. Astronomers plotted Proxima Centauri's precise path in the heavens…

Fibromyalgia affects up to 2% of the U.S. population, mostly older women. What is it? No one really knows, it is a blanket term for symptoms like widespread pain, unexplained fatigue, headaches, and…

You've heard of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) but less well-known is canine compulsive disorder (CCD).  The causes of OCD, which affects about 2 percent of the population,…

So it was that in the summer of 1988 I discovered America. Now doesn’t that sound like a very ‘arty’ sort of statement?  It comes from Forever Today by Deborah Wearing, and though the lady…

It seems like a great idea, doesn't it, to send an automated rover to Mars to gather samples of rocks and dust, and return it to Earth, to study in laboratories with all the specialist…

Nick Duffy is co-founder of the West Midlands Ghost Club (1989) and since then members of the club have been visiting the spookiest and scariest places around the region, using audio visual equipment…

Nick Duffy is co-founder of the West Midlands Ghost Club (1989) and since then members of the club have been visiting the spookiest and scariest places around the region, using audio visual equipment…

Rogue wheat is growing in wheat fields in 127 countries around the world! Should consumers be concerned? Ok, I'm indulging in a poor imitation of the emotive language common in sensational…

All animals live in a microbe rich environment, with immense numbers of bacteria, archaea, fungi and other eukaryotic microbes living in, on and around them. For some of these microbes, the…

In the 2004 documentary "Super Size Me", Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's food for a month.  He felt terrible at the end of it, but it was for art.  Fast food has a lot of…