The Ord River dam, completed in 1971, formed Australia's largest artificial lake in the far north west. Graeme Churchard/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Willem Vervoort, University of Sydney Some 27…

Science can't tell us exactly when the rising oceans will swallow up the Maldives, but it can give us a good idea. Credit: Hiroyuki-H, CC BY-SA By Richard Pancost, University of Bristol and Stephan…

Playing violent video games in 3-D makes everything seem more real –  and in a new study researchers found that people who played violent video games in 3-D showed more evidence of anger…

The Slave Trade painted by a French abolitionist artist. By Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas People think they know everything about slavery in the United States, but they don’t. They think…

Though it has been in the works since 1996 and long passed both its original 2011 completion date and even the most aggressive budget estimate, the James Webb Space Telescope has a milestone…

It's easy to sneer at people for protecting their backyards, but what if there's a compelling reason to do so? Mickey DeRham photos, CC BY-NC By Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at…

There are some things that Republicans and Democrats share in common with Palestinians and Israelis and lots of other groups where human conflict seems intractable. A new sociology paper in…

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…