The debate over policy implications of climate science can have no clear winners - everyone claims science is on their side and that scientists on the other side are misguided. Though both sides are…

Science media is a tough place to be independent and it just got tougher. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, the part of the family company that owns Nature and Scientific American and others, with…

Science media is a tough place to be independent and it just got tougher. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, the part of the family company that owns Nature and Scientific American and others, with…

Scientists have extracted DNA from mysterious marsupial megafauna that roamed Australia over 40,000 years ago -  Australia's extinct giant kangaroos. The team extracted DNA sequences from two…

A molecule known as coenzyme A plays a key role in cell metabolism by regulating the actions of nitric oxide. according to a new study. Cell metabolism is the ongoing process of chemical…

Chemical analysis of some of the world’s oldest rocks has provided the earliest record yet of Earth's atmosphere and shows that the air 4 billion years ago was very similar a billion years later,…

Dinosaurs once flourished in Europe but when an asteroid hit 66 million years ago, they died quickly, according to a new study. That an asteroid killed off the dinosaurs is widely held, but until…

According to the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction, cocaine is the second most commonly used illegal addictive in Europe, after cannabis.  A discovery related to the…

After mass bleaching in 1998, more than half of coral reefs in the Seychelles have slowly recovered. Nick Graham By John Pandolfi, The University of Queensland Coral reefs are the poster child for…

Picture this scenario: A politician is appointed to run NASA who thinks its budget is too high and then half its money and a third of its workforce is on its way to evaporating. Public support for a…

Some alternative 'milk' products are startlingly low on nutrition and many are packed with additives despite their 'natural' tag. Iryna Yeroshko/, CC BY-SA By Suzie Ferrie, University of Sydney There…

In space no one can hear you bleed, but what about on a private spacecraft?  The commercial aviation industry has medical care standards, as does NASA for traditional space missions. Eventually…

Air Asia Fuselage Found - Photos The fuselage of Air Asia 8501 has been found.  Underwater photos taken by a ROV were posted on Facebook by Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen, reposted below.…

If you want to make your children neurotic, clinginess and overprotectiveness on your part - helicopter parenting - is the way to go. Assuming you don't want to cause that, it is still okay to hover…

For most people, they can extend their healthy lifespan by walking for 20 minutes a day. Yet most people don't do it. It's become a popular sport to criticize obese people while lamenting that our…

If you want a career in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, you have probably been cautioned that academia, awash in Federal money promoting STEM careers, can maybe employ 15 percent of the…

In the future, if we use money to fund basic research for solar and stop subsidizing existing technology that does not work very well, there will be no energy crisis. In the time it takes you to read…

The change in global sea level rise since the beginning of the 20th century has been significantly larger than previous estimates according to new estimates in a new paper. The paper, co-authored by…

Conformity is a bad thing, in media portrayals like Apple advertisements - yet then they have a lot of people who look a lot alike all standing in line to buy the latest iPhone. In reality, despite…

People love that earthy smell after it rains. It turns out there is a good science reason for it, and it's been captured using high-speed imaging. Petrichor is the  phenomenon first…