Imagine a site where the lead developer supported the Discovery Institute, the Tea Party, the Mitt Romney campaign, Greenpeace, Joe Mercola, Just Label It, and various other political activist and…

A recent study has found that some Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bugs in United Kingdom hospitals can be traced back to a type of bacteria found in farm animals. A strain of drug…

Academic science has been in a bit of a cultural schism; groups like the National Science Foundation and universities have spent billions of dollars promoting the idea that academic science is the…

A professor with a company and the idea of commercial success with something they developed is very common, in everything from biotechnology to software. But the 'Valley of Death' between the lab and…

If one believes the backers of mandatory labeling initiatives in Colorado and Oregon, Tuesday’s vote is simple common sense: It’s about the “right to know” what’s in our food. This is the beguiling…

Natural pollen makes honey bees significantly more resistant to pesticides than an artificial diet and pesticide exposure causes changes in gene expression related to diet and nutrition, according to…

Abraham Lincoln. Wikipedia By Joanna Cohen, Queen Mary University of London Voters going to the polls in Illinois’s 12th congressional district in this year’s US midterm elections have a choice to…

Improve your eating habits and will improve your health, common medical wisdom goes. A new article in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology finds that we might as well keep eating poorly. They contend…

A new test may help eliminate onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, which is a leading cause of preventable blindness in Africa. The SD BIOLINE Onchocerciasis IgG4 antibody-based test is…

Modern biology has a problem - how to find meaning in the rising oceans of genomic data, such as the reams of cancer mutations that genome-wide studies are publishing every week. The challenge is…

William Murphy/flickr  By: Alexander Hellemans, Inside Science (Inside Science) -- Researchers around the world are studying how to destroy chemical and biological warfare agents without anyone…

Antibodies that recognize and home in on molecular targets are among the most useful tools in biology and medicine - now those kinds of techniques are getting smaller and easier to produce in the…

Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, after arriving at the SpaceShipTwo in Mojave Desert, California on Saturday, acknowledged that his dream of commercial space tourism may have ended in the…

The way this is usually presented is - that we can simulate physics on a computer. So what is to stop us eventually simulating your whole body including your brain? And if so, is it not just a matter…

The brain is based on physics, and we can simulate physics on a computer, so what is to stop us eventually simulating human beings in a computer, your whole body including your brain? Many…

Villa Bajo Flores in Buenos Aires. Roy Maconachie, CC BY-SA By Séverine Deneulin, University of Bath and Roy Maconachie, University of Bath In recent years, many films have portrayed the landscape of…

Improved behavior and learning in the classroom by primary school students can be achieved in just for minutes according to new research by Brendon Gurd.  Since the education industry needs to…

A study that collected sea lion fecal samples and mussels from the ocean near the mouths of rivers as well as from the shore near sea lion haul-out sites along the central coast of California found…

An active region on the sun labeled AR 12192 rotated into view on Oct. 18th. It was already an area of intense and complex magnetic fields and soon grew into the largest such region in 24 years. It…

The IPCC is clear on the dangers of fossil fuels. Pete Markham, CC BY-SA By Simon Buckle, Imperial College London The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is set to publish the “synthesis…