Despite flying being the single fastest way to grow our individual carbon footprint, people still want to fly. Passenger numbers even grew by 3.3% globally last year alone. The hype around “Flygskam”…

If you have never heard of the Journal of International Psychology, you are not alone. Bizarre social psychology claims hit their apex in the early 2000s but began to descend into self-parody after…

Golden Rice, which was created by independent academics to produce higher beta-carotene, which means it will produce vitamin A and prevent blindness, is approved in places like the US and Canada, but…

Golden Rice, which was created by independent academics to produce higher beta-carotene, which means it will produce vitamin A and prevent blindness, is approved in places like the US and Canada, but…

As desert locusts ravage African crops, EU-funded NGOs maneuver in the Kenyan parliament to leave farmers defenseless. Caught flat-footed by the emergency, the FAO struggles to purchase enough…

Some in the pro-science community are a little outraged that the New York Times ran an article in which the two authors wrapped Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop company in the flag of feminism' claiming…

Some in the pro-science community are a little outraged that the New York Times ran an article in which the two authors wrapped Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop company in the flag of feminism' claiming…

Just a few days after Harvard chemistry Professor Charles Lieber was arrested for secretly taking millions of dollars from the Chinese government as part of its "thousand talents" program to groom…

Just a few days after Harvard chemistry Professor Charles Lieber was arrested for secretly taking millions of dollars from the Chinese government as part of its "thousand talents" program to groom…

Neanderthal DNA sequences are more common in modern Africans than previously known, and different non-African populations have levels of Neanderthal ancestry surprisingly similar to each other,…

Sometimes bees die off in large groups. Since the first beekeeping recorded in history, in the 10th century, there have been documented cases where entire hives perished. Some blamed bad bee…

The ATLAS Collaboration has released last week the results of a careful analysis of a large dataset of proton-proton collisions acquired during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider. This is a…

Energy is the great equalizer in human existence.  Don't have enough water? Energy can fix that. Want to make a culture that prizes libraries, art, and education? Give people affordable energy.…

New genetic analysis of 10 genome sequences of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from nine patients in Wuhan finds that the virus is most closely related to two bat-derived SARS-like coronaviruses,…

Pyrus calleryana (Callery pear) is a tree native to China and Vietnam that California government introduced a hundred years ago after natural fire blight wiped out much of the European pear crops…

Plutella xylostella (diamondback moth) does tremendous damage to brassica crops such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and canola. A new strain of diamondback moth developed by Oxitec Ltd, (OX4319L)…

A vegan diet claims to hearken back to primitive days but proponents leave out that it wasn't by choice. Whenever possible, early man ate everything on and inside a bone they could, including brains.…

A vegan diet claims to hearken back to primitive days but proponents leave out that it wasn't by choice. Whenever possible, early man ate everything on and inside a bone they could, including brains.…

Surveys sought to find out how common suicidal ideation and mental health disorders were during combat deployment and to examine the associated risk factors. Some of the greatest risks were being…

An exploratory result, published in Military Medicine, finds that soldiers with traumatic brain injury are more likely than soldiers with other serious injuries to experience a range of…