Pharmaceuticals don't have a discovery problem, or a financing one, they have a political one that impedes everything else. Politics have a greater direct effect on the pharmaceutical industry than…

A new study has identified hundreds of previously unrecognized small aftershocks after Utah's deadly Crandall Canyon mine collapse in 2007, which suggest that the collapse was perhaps bigger than…

Some breast cancer patients report difficulties with memory, concentration and other cognitive functions following cancer treatment. Determining whether that is psychosomatic or a sign of underlying…

Are the eyes more accurate than the nose and tongue in determining the taste of food?  Some people can actually see the flavor of foods, and the eyes have such a powerful role that they can even…

Horseback riding hasn't been my favourite activity. Not that I do not like horses, au contraire. I have also tried various kinds of horseback riding; like cowboys on the prairie in Texas and New…

Genital warts prevalence in Australian women plummeted 59% since a nationally funded quadrivalent human papillomarivus (HPV) vaccination program  for teen and pre-teen girls was introduced in…

FBI Releases Images of Two Suspects The FBI today released images of two males suspected of planting the Boston Marathon bombs. Shortly afterwards the FBI website crashed, no doubt due to demand for…

The Kepler mission revealed the existence of potentially habitable planets slightly bigger than Earth.  The spacecraft named for Johannes Kepler was launched in 2009 and now it has found two new…

When we say "off the grid," we often mean off the power grid. "Off the grid," however, can also mean off of any interconnected network including the Internet. Back in the day before the World Wide…

In quantum physics, objects can be in more than one place at a time and future events can change the past - don't get caught up too much in that or you won't sleep at night. A new paper says quantum…

With 25,000 journals in existence today, thanks in large part to the open access movement which charges a fee to print a study, keeping up with current scientific literature is a daunting task.…

In America, a person who cuts your hair for $8 has to be licensed and obey minimum safety standards, but dietary supplements, which accounted for more than half the Class 1 drugs recalled by the…

While the United States is now back at early 1990s levels of CO2 emissions, thanks to a switch to natural gas in the energy sector and a moribund economy, that doesn't apply to Asia. The middle class…

Research has established that caffeine interferes with processes in cancer cells that control DNA repair, a finding that has generated interest in using the stimulant as a chemotherapy treatment, but…

"It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to…

I have decided to rescind this proposal.  Stars in a galaxy travel at one velocity, light at the speed c.  There is only one velocity involved in applying the product rule to the…

Researchers have taken a step forward in efforts to help people with memory loss tied to brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease. Using sea snail nerve cells, the scientists reversed memory loss…

X-ray astronomy is only 50 years old but nothing shows the progress of the technology like a new view of a supernova scientists watched over a thousand years ago.  SN 1006 got its name because…

In 2013, stem cell therapy is touted as the future of medicine by proponents in Europe and Asia while scientists in America urge caution. Contrast that to a decade ago, when the concern was that…

Some people just don't know how to put patterns and colors together. Or anything about style. Some of that is cultural, of course. No one really wears corsets any more, for example, and good…