If global warming projections hold up, tree crops that rely on the 'winter chill' in California's Central Valley could be in peril, say researchers in a new study.   If you aren't aware,…

A new study conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Georgia State University looked at psychiatrically healthy Americans ages 9 to 17 to determine what…

This is an oft mentioned safety rule that one should employ when driving to ensure an adequate distance is maintained with the vehicle in front of you. When conditions are wet or icy, the rule has…

Let’s examine the demand side of the equation a bit more and explore the impact that credit has on an economy. There is no question that credit can provide a smoother flow of money through an…

I assume all of you know this but, if not, here is the blurb I keep getting from the kind marketing folks at Science. The upside: $25,000 The catch: The topic is limited to molecular biology.  …

Apollomania is sweeping the nation!  Well, not quite mania, perhaps just Apollostalgia.  That's defined as showing an interest in the Apollo program history, while lacking the will to…

New genetic research in BMC Evolutionary Biology found telltale mutations in modern-day Indian populations that are exclusively shared by Aborigines.  The new study indicates that Australian…

Four individual raindrops hitting their highest peaks could easily end up thousands of miles apart, one flowing north to the Beaufort Sea, another reaching the the Gulf of Mexico, a third…

Plant fossils from the Okanagan highlands, an area centred in the Interior of British Columbia, provide important clues to an ancient climate.While the area is referred to as the Okanagan,…

Hornby, one of the northern Gulf Islands on the west coast of British Columbia, has some of the best preserved fossil specimens of the Pacific Northwest. Many species of ammonites,…

Or at least, they should, according to WSJ's Melinda Beck. There are more than 5,200 scientific journals, Beck says in Health Blog, so do we need more? Well, two more couldn't hurt. "I think there…

Toothpaste For Dinner

Last week, scientists announced the interim results of one of modern physiology’s most closely watched experiments: the effects of caloric restriction on the lifespan of non-human primates. The…

A new impact on Jupiter is getting all the attention this week but it can happen here - and has.  Nanosized diamonds found just below the surface of Santa Rosa Island off the coast of Santa…

Purdue University researchers have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic field and can scatter light to produce a pulsating or "twinkling"…

'Sun power for soldiers' sounds like aging hipsters have taken over the military, right?   No, this is still manly; a special "conductive ink" that can be used to make printed organic…

How do individual cells survive conditions that should kill them?  It's long been a mystery of nature but a team of researchers recently tracked the chemical changes in Desulfovibrio vulgaris,…

In all the talk about using skin cells to create pluripotent stem cells that don't need human embryonic destruction,  dental and tissue engineering researchers at Tufts University School of…

When we were kids, you could do stupid things and, if you absolutely needed them to be left behind, you moved away and never spoke to your old friends again.   Now stupid things end up on…

Don't get Michael Schumacher or Jeff Gordon on the phone yet but we could one day be driving on tires made from trees. Wood science researchers at Oregon State University say they could cost less,…