Farmers and activists from all over the continent converged on European Union headquarters in Brusssels to push for a food policy that is fairer to family farmers and kinder to the environment and…

Farmers and activists from all over the continent converged on European Union headquarters in Brusssels to push for a food policy that is fairer to family farmers and kinder to the environment and…

A study in Food and Chemical Toxicology into the health effect of a GM-tolerant maize crop and the herbicide Roundup suggested lab rats developed mammary tumors and were more likely to die…

You have heard of biofeedback, controlling bodily responses using audio or visual cues to map performance.  It may be possible to do that with learning, a kind of neurofeedback, according to…

In the last few days CMS released four new publications, which you can download from the Cornell arxiv site. These are exquisite new measurements in the fields of top physics, exotica searches, and…

Scientists have been 'abuzz' with the results of a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience in which it was reported that differences in the behavior of honeybees correlated to variations in…

If you were to ask me yesterday what did the most harm to romantic relationships, I would have said 'romantic comedies' followed by 'advice from women'. Why?  Let's face it, you would get…

Landscapes are bound to change if population is growing and demand for housing is increasing and industry and home require food, fodder, and fuel that is obtained from forests legally or illegally.…

Early in the morning of September 12th the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), the most powerful sky survey instrument yet built, mounted on the Victor Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-…

An international team of scientists say they may have discovered why female killer whales have the longest menopause of any non-human species - it could be they worry about their adult sons. New…

A massive Roman mosaic, from the apex of Imperial reach and power, has been unearthed in southern Turkey. The 1,600-square-foot decorative handiwork is believed to be the biggest mosaic of its type…

A natural product secreted by a soil bacterium may lead to a new drug to treat tuberculosis, report scientists in a new study.  Pyridomycin, a natural antibiotic produced by the bacterium…

Anti-science people with a 'natural' fetish don't understand that the random and unpredictable nature of...nature...is a bad thing.  All of the funding campaigns and Internet rants of…

Elsevier and SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) have announced the integration of more than 18,000 geological maps from SEPM into Elsevier's web-based research tool, Geofacets. The integration…

The latest test drive marks the final chapter in a three year long project which has seen the development of the next step in autonomous driving technology, 'vehicle platooning'. Since 2009, Volvo…

The MESSENGER spacecraft has been orbiting Mercury since March 2011 and has been revealing new information about the surface chemistry and geological history of the innermost planet in the solar…

A third of UK men are so overweight they are unable to see their genitals due to a protruding midriff, so medics are encouraging men to make one potentially lifesaving resolution and weigh up their…

Like the rest of the developed world, Europe is getting a lot fatter, and public health experts in Europe have found a correlation for the upward spike in youth obesity - the low birth rate. They say…

On the road to true Open Publishing, where taxpayer money isn't used to pay to publish or to read already taxpayer-funded studies at all, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing (SCOAP)…

“Our results raise important questions about our representation of tastes and flavors and could also lead to applications in the marketing of food products.” - say a research team who have been…