On Oct. 25, 2014, the sun emitted its fifth substantial flare since Oct. 19. This flare was classified as an X1-class flare and it was a long duration event, beginning at 12:55 pm EDT, peaking at 1…

A family-focused intervention program for middle-school Mexican-American children leads to fewer drop-out rates and lower rates of alcohol and illegal drug use. .  High-school aged youth that…

A recent survey found that 50% of final year veterinary students in the UK don't feel confident discussing dental problems or doing oral cavity examinations of small pets. Most vets just dread the…

A recent study shows plants may absorb more carbon than we thought. Jason Samfield/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Pep Canadell, CSIRO Through burning fossil fuels, humans are rapidly driving up levels of…

When obese children with asthma run out of breath it could be due to poor physical health related to weight, yet it is considered asthma often enough that there could be high and unnecessary use of…

Remember the big, somewhat bulky Mercedes Benz cars of the early 1990s?  State-of-the-art at that time, they left their competitors behind on Germany’s Autobahn. Mercedes is still here today,…

Three years ago, a patient at Sahlgrenska University Hospital received a blood vessel transplant grown from her own stem cells. Two other transplants were performed in 2012. The patients, two young…

In a new study, researchers have shown that shutting off the blood supply to an arm or leg before cardiac surgery protects the heart during the operation. The research group wanted to see how the…

Focus on greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has led to a lot of confusion among the public: bad storms are caused by global warming but a lack of warming is not. There may be a reason things don't…

California is no stranger to anti-science beliefs; from anti-vaccine to anti-agriculture to anti-energy, you can stick a pin in a map of the coast and find alarmingly one-sided views on politics,…

California is no stranger to anti-science beliefs; from anti-vaccine to anti-agriculture to anti-energy, you can stick a pin in a map of the coast and find alarmingly one-sided views on politics,…

Source Dr. Tae, the skateboarding physicist, "Can Skateboarding Save Our Schools?" (Did I mention he’s a physicist AND a sk8r?) Sir Ken Robinson’s “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” A stand-up set on…

 Massive amounts of erupting lava have connected with the fall of civilizations, the destruction of supercontinents and dramatic changes in climate and ecosystems.  Since August 31st,…

Though Ebola tends to occur in waves, the filoviruses family to which Ebola and its lethal relative Marburg belong, are at least 16 million years old. Filoviruses likely existed in the Miocene Epoch,…

There may soon be a new way to use stem cells in the fight against brain cancer. A team has created a way to genetically engineer stem cells so that they can produce and secrete tumor-killing toxins…

Right now, the police can't do much to help you until after a crime has been committed. In a science-fiction tale about free will and psychological determinism, Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report"…

El Niño is nothing new for fishers. Long before it was being used as evidence of climate change, fisheries management experts knew they would have to adjust, just like they will have to adjust this…

The femur that led to the oldest modern human genome. Credit: Bence Viola, MPI EVA By Daniel Zadik, University of Leicester When a human bone was found on a gravelly riverbank by a bone-carver who…

By Jay Rosen, New York University If extreme polarization is now an enduring feature of American politics — not just a bug — how does that change the game for journalists? I have some ideas, but…

Capturing an asteroid. Credit: NASA By Monica Grady, The Open University The golden age of ocean exploration had voyagers navigating new sea routes to uncharted territory. These territories were then…