Antioxidants are natural food ingredients that protect cells from harmful influences. Their main task is to neutralize so-called "free radicals" which are produced in the process of oxidation and…

Neonatal intestinal disorders that prevent infants from getting the nutrients they need may be caused by defects in the lysosomal system that occur before weaning, according to a new study. Lysosomes…

Both the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have recently released assessments that strongly support the safety of bisphenol A (BPA).  In both…

Jean Valentine, a bombe operator at Bletchley in the 1940s. Rui Vieira/PA By Bryony Norburn, University of Buckingham Bletchley Park is a name on everyone’s lips at the moment thanks to the generous…

Almost 2,500 women of child-bearing age in the United Kingdom are at risk of transmitting mitochondrial disease to their children, evidence of how many families could potentially be helped by…

90 percent of the American public consider themselves spiritual so why is there a belief that 'religious' people are less likely to accept science? Environmentalism is certainly akin to its own…

Electric cars are fine for people who have another car as a back-up or who only make short trips or who are not afraid of a little charge rage in the office parking lot. For everyone else, electric…

Cancer uses a little-understood element of cell signaling to hijack the communication process and spread, according to Rice University researchers. A new computational study by researchers at the…

Despite enormous progress in cancer therapy, many patients still relapse because their treatment addresses the symptoms of the disease rather than the cause, the so-called stem cells. Work in the…

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of a long-necked dinosaur.  Qijianglong (pronounced "CHI-jyang-lon") was about 45 feet long and lived about 160 million years ago in the Late…

Arctic sea ice extent plunged 2001 to 2007 but then rebounded between 2007 and 2013. Warming world or not, periods of no change - and rapid change - at the world's northern reaches are the new normal…

Spider-Man's breakfasts must be unreal levels of eggs. warriorpoet By Mark Lorch, University of Hull While stuck in a hotel room I got sucked into watching the 2002 "Spider-Man" movie. And it struck…

A European consortium is developing an unmanned robot equipped with non-invasive advanced sensors and artificial intelligence systems which will help manage vineyards. The robot will be able to…

Can big data analytics predict population-level societal events such as civil unrest or disease outbreaks? That is the subject of a two-year analysis of the Early Model Based Event Recognition using…

GOCE gravity satellite. ESA We might like to think of the earth as fixed and unmoving but that is not the case. Things are always shifting, even if we may not have noticed in the past. But when sea…

Write Your Story, Improve Your Health Studies have shown that writing about yourself and your personal experiences can improve mood disorders, improve health after a heart attack, reduce…

More than 2 million years of life have been saved by solid-organ transplants since 1987, according to a new report in JAMA Surgery.   The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) maintains a…

The two hemispheres of Mars are dramatically different - more distinct from each other than any other planet in our solar system. The northern hemisphere is non-volcanic, flat lowlands while…

Wine has gotten more than its share of Miracle Product mainstream media coverage so it's no surprise that beer has been left behind - smooth, balanced beers, the kind of thing that made large brands…

Balloons are common at childrens' birthday parties - we can thank Professor Michael Faraday of The Royal Institution for inventing "caoutchoucs" - but ever since the Montgolfier brothers took their…