Got your own smartphone with you on a starry night watching the sky through your new telescope? Good! Now you can start observing ultra-high energy cosmic rays. How? A new research conducted by the…

Think twice before you over-react. Image: Jim Bourg/Reuters By Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia Whatever you do, don’t turn to Twitter for news about Ebola. The volume and tone of…

Disrupted circadian clocks are listed as a possible reason that shift workers experience higher incidences of type 2 diabetes, obesity and cancer. The body's primary circadian clock, which regulates…

Too much to ask. wavebreakmedia / shutterstock By James Hayton, University of Warwick Facebook and Apple have come under fire since it was revealed that their female employees are offered financial…

No one is going into deep space any time soon, the modern political climate is such that it will now be common for one president to cancel his predecessor's program. As President Obama did to Bush,…

Nutrigenomics is a branch of nutrition which believes the food we eat affects our genes - and the Food4Me project had gotten €9 million from the EU to put science to belief. Proponents are looking at…

Human volunteers for Ebola vaccine. Image:niaid By Connor Bamford, University of Glasgow The world has been warned that the current Ebola epidemic may not end without the use of a vaccine – and no…

In 2005, John Ioannidis wrote a paper in PLOS Medicine showing that most published research findings are false.  The reason is because research is subject to a range of biases which mean that…

What makes Americans afraid is the topic of the first comprehensive nationwide study by Chapman University. According to the Chapman poll, the number one fear in America today is not Muslim…

How much more glacial melting can the planet stand? NASA By Micheal Mann, Pennsylvania State University and Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology Industrial civilization must become…

Getting high on own supply. Dance by Shutterstock By Adam Winstock, King's College London Despite the language we use about drugs, many people don’t see themselves as “drug users” but as rational…

Not enough tobacco company money is going into public health campaigns. Credit: REUTERS/Daniel Munoz By Nicholas Freudenberg, City University of New York The #20 Million Memorial created earlier this…

Fewer cords, smaller antennas and quicker video is the goal of a microwave circuit that has set a new world record for data transmission.  As we all know, watching a film clip on a tablet or…

Alpine goats appear to be shrinking in size, according to scholars at Durham University, and that is due to global warming over the past 30 years, they say.   Young Chamois now weigh about…

Since December 2004 there have been 18 quakes of 8.0 or greater on the moment magnitude (Mw) scale – a rate more than twice that seen from 1900 to mid-2004. Some of that difference could be due…

Why were so many middle-aged adults hit especially hard by the H1N1 influenza virus during the 2013-2014 influenza season?  Vaccines work by stimulating the immune system to produce antibody…

Sperm donation for fertility issues has been common for some time and ovum donation has become increasingly accepted by women as well. That leads to sociological questions about selection; everyone…

Some children are allergic to milk, so they drink milk substitutes such as soy or rice. And almond milk has become a well-marketed fad to due health claims. But there may be negatives: though many of…

Even depressed people are essentially optimistic - they believe that tomorrow will be better, even though that belief probably won't lead to better outcomes. That is true optimism. A paper in…

I did almost all of them when I was a kid, except superglue my fingers together. I had a few pocket knives but my favorite was the Swiss Army knife. This is what I use today to void product…