Decades ago there was a cultural debate about who could best handle recycling, the private sector or government. Though environmental groups today are commonly associated with more government…

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) reconstructed the 3D structure of one of the proteins of Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of malaria and the…

http://www.cirm.ca.gov/StemCellBasics_Questionshttp://sdrmi.org/wordpress/?p=278http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=13523 The California Institute for Regenerative…

Are conservatives more subservient to authority while liberals are more independent and free thinking? If you read social science claims, the humanities, and certainly the fringes of partisan science…

Are conservatives more subservient to authority while liberals are more independent and free thinking? If you read social science claims, the humanities, and certainly the fringes of partisan science…

2 percent of America has celiac disease but over 20 percent of Americans say they are concerned about buying gluten-free foods - and marketing departments are happy to charge 230 percent more to make…

Open-Sourcing Chicken: Breaking Free from Corporate Genetics “These are corporate genetics from huge companies,” says Nigel Walker, proprietor of Eatwell Farm outside Dixon, Calif. “I’m embarrassed…

What's next after the success of the Large Hadron Collider and its success in finding the Higgs boson, the so-called God Particle? America begged off the LHC because of a failure to keep the…

If San Diego has Republicans, anti-vaccine sentiment is bipartisan But even CDC data can be misused if someone sets out to do so. San Diego County had a measles outbreak in 2008, for example. San…

In the United Kingdom's National Health Service, 50 percent of health care workers do not get flu vaccines. Obviously they are not anti-vaccine, they work in health care, so what explains their…

“At this point it would be difficult to revive the project,” Matthew Bunn, a nuclear expert at Harvard University, told Jeff Tollefson at Nature. “All of the people who were working on this project…

The European Union, chided by scientists for wacky science like declaring that cell phones cause cancer, water does not alleviate thirst and you can go to jail if you don't predict an earthquake, is…

Attempts to craft articles with elaborate philosophical rationalizations are the kind of thing that conservatives of the Buckley era used to hate - so it is no surprise that their libertarian…

To anti-science hippies, 'drink this pesticide if it is so safe' is the kind of mic-dropping burn that resonates with the sub-literate primates who don't understand the basics of toxicology and buy…

To anti-science hippies, 'drink this pesticide if it is so safe' is the kind of mic-dropping burn that resonates with the sub-literate primates who don't understand the basics of toxicology and buy…

"Astronomy is about as pure and as clean as you can get, so what’s the big deal?” That's the question an astronomer asked about why, after 13 astronomy experiments on Mauna Kea, 13,000 feet in the…

Thanks to the Internet, amateur volunteers known as "citizen scientists" can readily donate their time and effort to science--in fields ranging from medicine to zoology to astrophysics. The…

A study of risk communication as it relates to altruistic behavior has found that portraying an event as a distant risk, despite highlighting its importance and potential progression, fails to prompt…

The Supreme Court is set to consider Whole Woman's Health v. Cole, which addresses two Texas laws related to abortion clinics. A group has filed an amicus brief arguing that this law violates the '…

Citizen science, amateurs who did science for the love of it rather than as a career, were once well-respected. They were often more elite than those who did it as an occupation, much like Sherlock…