Our solar system started as a disk of microscopic dust, gas, and ice around the young Sun and the amazing diversity of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets came from this primitive dust.  NASA…

Norm Borlaug, “Father of the Green Revolution,” got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work advocating science to feed the poor. Because of his work, a strain of “miracle rice” 10 times more…

Norm Borlaug, “Father of the Green Revolution,” got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work advocating science to feed the poor. Because of his work, a strain of “miracle rice” 10 times more…

Can scientists learn from listening to public reaction to the products they develop? And should they? As a philosopher by training (and as a science journalist by profession) I am delving into…

An open letter to the office of the president of Boston University Dear Sirs!   Saida Grundy, who is apparently still on track to become an assistant professor at Boston University in the…

Back in 1982, the Almeida Family was saddened to learn that their beloved pet, Manuela, a young red-footed tortoise, had gone missing. Their house was under renovation at the time, so the family…

Back in 1982, the Almeida Family was saddened to learn that their beloved pet, Manuela, a young red-footed tortoise, had gone missing. Their house was under renovation at the time, so the family…

Many of us are familiar with electrolytic splitting of water from their school days: if you hold two electrodes into an aqueous electrolyte and apply a sufficient voltage, gas bubbles of hydrogen and…

An international team, including archaeologists from the University of Southampton, has found evidence suggesting leprosy may have spread to Britain from Scandinavia. The team, led by the University…

Tomorrow at TedX Sydney’s Opera House event, high-profile neurosurgeon Charlie Teo will talk about brain cancer. Last Saturday Teo was on Channel 9’s Sunrise program talking about the often…

At the 2015 American Urological Association annual meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Jonathan Harper will present the findings of an FDA-registered "first in humans" trial to non-surgically propel and…

Males rule in most of the animal world. But when it comes to conventional gender roles, lemurs -- distant primate cousins of ours -- buck the trend. Lemur girls behave more like boys, thanks to a…

Everyone recognizes that the public needs honest answers about genetically-modified foods - oddly corporations are the ones least likely to defend science. Not only will they not defend them,…

Everyone recognizes that the public needs honest answers about genetically-modified foods - oddly corporations are the ones least likely to defend science. Not only will they not defend them,…

Swedish clinicians recently reported the first live birth after uterus transplantation, which was followed by two more uneventful births and another pregnancy that is near term. In a new Acta…

Toxins known as perfluoroalkyl substances have become virtually ubiquitous throughout the environment, and various national and international voluntary phase-outs and restrictions on these compounds…

Male Callosobruchus chinensis seed beetles have spines on their genitalia, which increase their fertilization success but injure a female’s reproductive tract—especially a female of a related species…

Liquid metal electronics like antennas are intriguing because the shape and length of the conducting paths that form an antenna determine its critical properties such as operating frequency and…

Objections to automated driving seem a little silly, since millions of lives are lost in car accidents and human error is estimated to cause more than 90% of them. It may just be fear of the unknown,…

Unless you are a hippie growing organic, vegetarian, free-range chickens in Oregon, you probably recognize that nature is out to kill you. But nothing is out to kill you like nature in Australia. But…