Mohs surgery, developed in 1938 by Dr. Frederic E. Mohs, is the most effective technique for removing basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. It is a fairly common outpatient procedure…

As network carriers debate the next Ethernet standard, and whether transmission speeds of 400 gigabit per second or 1 terabit per second should be the norm, engineers are working on new ways to…

Unlike a cryptic phrase, a cryptic species in biology is outwardly indistinguishable - until you look inside their genes. Two University of Michigan marine biologists have identified three cryptic…

The bacterial foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of listeriosis, a debilitating disease linked with about 2,500 illnesses and more than 500 deaths in the U.S.A. each…

Carlo Rubbia discussed the prospects of constructing a muon collider to produce large amounts of Higgs bosons and study their properties in detail, crucially measuring the natural width of the…

A short note to mention that starting today, and until Friday, I will be blogging from the "Neutrino Telescopes" conference in Venice. This is a conference dedicated to the study of neutrinos, and…

The LHCb collaboration published on the Cornell Arxiv yesterday a preprint describing the observation of a rare decay of the B_c meson. In this landscape of failed SUSY searches,  no-shows of…

Cell phones and cancer, nuclear power and cancer, GMOs and...cancer. If there is an anti-science position, someone in Europe is embracing it, and food is no different. But practicality sometimes…

Cell phones and cancer, nuclear power and cancer, GMOs and...cancer. If there is an anti-science position, someone in Europe is embracing it, and food is no different. But practicality sometimes…

A year ago, raw milk believers thought the Indiana General Assembly was going to allow raw milk to be sold in the state - instead they got a new requirement that raw milk be labeled as “not for human…

A year ago, raw milk believers thought the Indiana General Assembly was going to allow raw milk to be sold in the state - instead they got a new requirement that raw milk be labeled as “not for human…

There's a bit of a scandal in Europe due to horse meat being passed off as other kinds. Imagine the shock in Iceland, where its 320,000 people list horse meat from its 100,000 horses as a chief…

There's a bit of a scandal in Europe due to horse meat being passed off as other kinds. Imagine the shock in Iceland, where its 320,000 people list horse meat from its 100,000 horses as a chief…

A culture that digs up dead female corpses to bury with single deceased men has unsurprisingly embraced probiotics. Starting in the 1990s,  the fast-growing yogurt, supplement, pharma and feed…

It had been shown that the origin of pumpkins and cucumbers can be traced back to India and a new genetic analysis has updated that data.  Compared to grains and pulses, vegetables are under-…

Is your body shape predetermined? Some role for heritage is obvious and there efforts to fix people into an epigenetic destiny as well but it may be that diet and exercise can only do so much. A new…

A protein known as mini-chromosome maintenance (MCM) has been found to change DNA topology and make DNA twist up into a so-called "supercoil". Supercoiling can be thought of as similar to…

Video games can be difficult, even frustrating at the harder levels. That is part of their appeal. It turns out that frustrated people are attracted to video games also. The temptation to steal or…

People with more money may live longer, if not better, than poor people but attempts to link high socioeconomic status to better health and lower mortality have been ineffective because it's unclear…

A new study found that women who take aspirin have a reduced risk of developing melanoma. The longer they take it, the lower the risk, suggesting that aspirin's anti-inflammatory effects may help…