Elon Musk says he wants to create a backup of Earth on Mars, and several brilliant people have suggested this should be one of our main objectives for sending humans into space, not only Elon Musk.…

Elon Musk says he wants to create a backup in space, and Stephen Hawkins also says that humans have to move into space to survive. For some reason, hardly anyone seems to question this. I can see…

There is a culture where 98 percent of the people eat red meat, 50 percent of the people are obese and 45 percent of people smoke cigarettes. Yet they have incredible longevity. All of those…

Abortion has been federal law in America for over 40 years, yet every election cycle politicians in Democratic Congressional districts campaign on the issue - and sociologists write about this common…

Over 200,000 United States troops who fought in the 1990-1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invaders have been diagnosed with a set of chronic health problems dubbed Gulf War Syndrome. The…

What are the most important discussions to have among doctors, patients and families? It seems obvious to just ask but there is a gap between what patients would like and the care they actually…

Credit: SAN_DRINO/Flickr By Meredith Knight, Genetic Literacy Project Melinda developed breast cancer early in life, age 29. She tested positive for BRCA1, a gene that increases the risk of breast,…

String theory is a hypothetical framework where particle physics is replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. It was originally proposed as a way to explain the strong force, then advocates…

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…