Nitrogen is essential to all life on Earth, and determines how much carbon dioxide ecosystems can absorb from the atmosphere, says UC Davis assistant professor Benjamin Houlton. There are puzzling…

The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was wrong, say a group of researchers, but not about whether there was global warming. Rather, the report underestimated its effects…

Patients diagnosed with colon cancer who had abundant vitamin D in their blood were less likely to die during a follow-up period than those who were deficient in the vitamin, according to a new study…

A new mass spectrometry test can help sports anti-drug doping officials to detect whether an athlete has used drugs that boost naturally occurring steroid levels. The test is more sensitive compared…

NASA hopes to use the the new Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures film WALL-Eto promote interest among schoolchildren in science and technology. They have signed a Space Act Agreement for a series…

I have come to a conclusion that the "Snow Devils" I see once in a while during spring time might be connected to gravity and it's waves. Usually, the polynyas are situated on a water body that is…

The newly sequenced genome of a dainty, quill-like sea creature called a lancelet provides the best evidence yet that vertebrates evolved over the past 550 million years through a four-fold…

The Nazca booby, a Galápagos Island seabird, emerges from its shell ready to kill its brother or sister. Wake Forest University biologists and their colleagues have linked the murderous behavior to…

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have devised the first computerized method that can analyze a single photograph and determine where in the world the image likely was taken. It's a feat made…

Two stars, each with the same mass and in orbit around each other, are twins that one would expect to be identical. So astronomers were surprised when they discovered that twin stars in the Orion…

The pageantry of Oprah Winfrey’s talk show, the Coca-Cola empire, Michael Jackson’s turn from the King of Pop into an iconic global recluse: American pop culture – Hollywood cinema, television, pop…

At her NY Times blog, Olivia Judson looks at the upcoming year of Darwin celebrations (July 1, 1858 was when Darwin first presented ideas on natural selection, both his own and those of Alfred…

Global warming is caused by weight redistribution of oil extraction by the oil companies operating up north in the Arctic Ocean I think. This oil, which is insulating us from the Extreme heat of the…

Bacteria survive everywhere. Under the sea, in the air, even in some of the hottest environments on Earth. How are microbes seemingly so smart? Bacteria don't just react to changes in their…

"Most people will have a hard time accepting that their fundamental existence turns out to be the subject they hated in high school." Discover magazine has an interesting interview with MIT…

I have a healthy respect for electricity. After all, it is both deadly and wondrous at the same time. One of the benefits of studying science at this level is that you get to learn about how ordinary…

It's an ingredient found in dandruff shampoos and, if you're a movie buff, you also know it was used to help fight off alien invaders in the film "Evolution." Scientists at the University of…

Between 54 percent and 64 percent of hospitals had chaplaincy services between 1980 and 2003, despite changes over the last fifteen years in national accreditation guidelines making the religious and…

Could injecting a gene into a patient with severe heart failure reverse their disabling and life-threatening condition? Physician-scientists are setting out to answer that question in a first-ever…

The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) today released the Citation…