The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to a first-ever global accounting of the dollar…

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections are caused primarily by a single strain—USA300—of an evolving bacterium that has spread with “extraordinary…

Denizens of oceans, lakes and even wet soil, diatoms are unicellular algae that encase themselves in intricately patterned, glass-like shells. Curiously, these tiny phytoplankton could be harboring…

This seems obvious but Everybody Doesn't Need Psychotherapy. Like many other disciplines, a few shysters can make everyone look bad, and then out and out charlatans, like Eugene Landy with Brian…

Climate scientists are teaming up with economics experts to improve forecasting models and assess more accurately the economic as well as environmental impact of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide…

Our bodies sense painful stimuli through certain receptors located in the skin, in joints and many internal organs. Specialized nerve fibers relay these signals coming from the periphery to the brain…

The Tree of Life has lost one of its branches due to the discovery that two formerly separated branches share a similar evolutionary history. It's more than just re-drawing textbooks. The discovery…

58132764 72645831 76125483 81274365 I first saw these numbers in the book “Fun with Mathematics” by Jerome S. Meyer, published in 1961. I have had them on my computer terminal at work for years. The…

I wouldn't touch celery without a swath of peanut butter layered on top. I probably wouldn't touch it even then. Celery is not a stand-alone food for me. But a study in the Journal of Agricultural…

Researchers in Hong Kong have miniaturized technology needed to perform the versatile polymerase chain reaction (PCR) — widely used in criminal investigations, disease diagnosis, and a range of other…

The seminar that I give most often when I am invited to speak at other universities begins with a brief introduction to genomes, sets up some comparisons between bacteria and eukaryotes, and then…

In a major advance in alternative fuel technology, researchers report development of a sponge-like material with the highest methane storage capacity ever measured. It can hold almost one-third more…

Like last year, the North Carolina Science Blogging conference was a hit. I moderated a session on public scientific data with Xan Gregg. Both of our talks were recorded and available here. (I used…

Amid growing consumer demand for more environmentally-friendly cleaning products, chemical suppliers are stepping-up their efforts to provide greener ingredients with the same effectiveness of…

Researchers in Agricultural and Food Chemistry are reporting impressive new evidence that eating broccoli may protect against heart disease. Researchers have known for years that broccoli is a rich…

Oklahoma State researchers are developing a state-of-the-art propulsion system for the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. If successful, the propulsion system will be featured…

An international consortium of scientists has identified multiple genes that are linked to systemic lupus erythematosus, a devastating autoimmune disease that affects between 1 million and 2 million…

Friendships are an important part of developing social skills and cultural confidence but when antisocial teenagers interacted closely with each other and spent their time discussing such things as…

A new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research says that women should avoid caffeine during the first trimester of pregnancy - caffeine equivalent to two cups of coffee per day was linked…

I found a good recap of some recent gene postings at biomarker-driven mental health 2.0. Unlike most of these 'carnivals', this isn't the same cabal of self-promoting monkeys creating these as a way…