A longitudinal study has found that while higher income children eat worse at school, low-income kids eat healthier than at home. While the political controversy rages over federal efforts to…

Some people just age better than others and it is isn't due to lifestyle. Most centenarians smoked cigarettes at one point, many were obese and almost all eat red meat.  Perhaps birds can tell…

For mammals, the outer ears of mammals play an important function in helping identify sounds coming from different elevations. Since birds have no external ears, how do they accomplish the same…

A species of small fish uses a homemade coral-scented cologne to hide from predators - the first evidence of chemical camouflage from diet in fish. Filefish evade predators by feeding on their home…

Real Clear Science editors curate science stories from all over the world so they read outside the lines of corporate or government-controlled science media.  That means they are going to find…

Real Clear Science editors curate science stories from all over the world so they read outside the lines of corporate or government-controlled science media.  That means they are going to find…

The Roman empire stretched over three continents, had 70 million people, and had a logistics and infrastructure system that kept them going for centuries. They had smart agricultural practices and an…

Parkinson's disease sufferers have a different microbiota in their intestines than healthy counterparts, they have less Prevotellaceae bacteria, according to a study conducted at the University of…

The drive for energy efficient homes is increasing asthma risk, finds a team at the University of Exeter Medical School. People are so concerned about energy savings they end up with homes that are…

Creativity is a complex and vast construct that has been vital to the progress of human civilization and the development of human reasoning processes. Indeed, the immense array of creative endeavors…

If you are buying herbal dietary supplements like Ginkgo biloba (G. biloba) to boost cognitive capacity, the first thing you should do is stop spending money on herbal dietary supplements like…

The European Food Safety Authority, most famous for declaring that water does not cure thirst, is now thinking about how to ban acrylamide, which is a chemical that can form in some foods during…

While I do intend to update this blog today or tomorrow with a report on a nice new measurement, my blogging activities have generally slowed down a bit this week, as I am traveling. On Monday I flew…

While I do intend to update this blog today or tomorrow on a nice new measurement, my blogging activities have generally slowed down a bit this week, as I am traveling. On Monday I flew from Venice…

While I do intend to update this blog today or tomorrow on a nice new measurement, my blogging activities have generally slowed down a bit this week, as I am traveling. On Monday I flew from Venice…

When a broken bone protrudes through the skin, causing a puncture wound, it is called an open break. It is understandably traumatizing for kids and perhaps even more so for parents but…

Neatly Scattered Papers In an article in Scientific American* on the possibility of time running backwards, the author states: Increasing entropy is a cosmic certainty because there are always a…

Not now! Roboscribe is busy creating a masterpiece (of heuristic analysis). gastev, CC BY By Peter McOwan, Queen Mary University of London The human race has long designed and used tools to help us…

A new estimate says that microplastic and macroplastic pollution could consist of as much as 269,000 tons floating in the world's oceans. Though there has been no sufficient data to truly…

Two compounds appear to block the cardiac damage caused by the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, according to a report in Science Translational Medicine which indicates that inhibiting the action of the…