A diet rich in milk products is promoted as strengthening bones and reducing the likelihood of osteoporotic fractures, but dairy lobby marketing aside, actual research related to the benefits of milk…

It's great to insist that people should just accept science and medicine but it isn't really practical. The nature of coastal California is that they don't trust vaccines the way religious people in…

Confucius stands guard at Beijing's Renmin University. George (Sam) Crane, Author provided By Sam (George T.) Crane, Williams College In today’s China, the philosopher Confucius is back. To mark his…

Regular meditation along with a mindful lifestyle path can help individuals control and recover from many mental health disorders. Meditation is a practice of training the mind to induce another…

The risk to the Australian community from doctors and nurses returning from Ebola-affected countries is minimal. Credit: EPA/ARIE KIEVIT By Grant Hill-Cawthorne, University of Sydney and Adam Kamradt…

If we were aliens, would we be able to detect Earth, using the technology we have now? That was one of the questions answered by NASA’s Kepler team consisting of SETI researchers, during an “Ask Me…

Flying by Shutterstock By Stephen Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania Fear of Ebola has put many on high alert and there is increasing anxiety about the possibility of individuals with minimal…

Courtesy of Guiomar Liste By: Nala Rogers, Inside Science (Inside Science) -- When ducklings head out to bathe in a pool, they usually follow the same individual, new research has found. But do they…

It's not easy to blame childhood obesity on sunsets but scholars at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Bristol say that later daylight couldn't hurt - and they…

In the United States, professional basketball, the NBA, opens its regular season tonight. That means at this time tomorrow there will be talk that some player 'flopped' - fell on the ground to draw a…

Targeting cognition through the body. Cognition by Shutterstock By Michal Schwartz, Weizmann Institute of Science; Aleksandra Deczkowska, Weizmann Institute of Science, and Kuti Baruch, Weizmann…

Men who have had sex with more than 20 women have a 28% lower risk of getting prostate cancer than those who have had only one partner  - but males having more than 20 male partners face…

As the death toll of Ebola continues to rise, especially in the hard-hit West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, the need for a viable cure is growing more and more urgent. Even…

Standing up for science. Credit: Sense About Science By Lydia Le Page, University of Edinburgh The 3rd annual John Maddox Prize has been awarded to Emily Willingham, a science writer in the US, and…

Ebola: EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection, CC BY-SA By Richard Kock, Royal Veterinary College The still growing Ebola virus outbreak not only highlights the tragedy enveloping the areas most…

The social sciences have simultaneously become increasingly specialized and over-lapping. A new field calls itself Continental Shelf Prehistoric Research and it studies the remains of…

Come play with us. For ever. And ever. And ever. Alex Eylar By Baden Eunson, Monash University Recently, the Danish Toymaker Lego announced its plans for a reality TV show to be launched in 2015,…

Economics is a dwindling field. Long called the 'dismal science' it is now considered just another philosophical school of thought; people in the money business who want quantification hire…

If it isn't taxes, it is OPEC but oil prices are likely to go up - people are still going to drive. It's necessary. So is physical fitness but a new economics analysis finds that if prices to swim go…

Talk to long-time anglers with a favorite spot and they will often tell stories of one fish they could never get. In mythical overtones, they will speak of its ability to avoid capture,…