The Dutch have always been bold. Not just any culture would make wooden shoes a thing and turn tulip bulbs into a luxury investment. And if you like New York City, you can thank New Amsterdam. Now…

No, it's nothing to do with a reptilian existential crisis – just a name game. Credit: melanie cook/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Dustin Welbourne You have likely been to a zoo at some point and visited…

In an instantaneous, 24-hour news cycle, a lot of being made of current U.S. droughts but the 1934 version was 7X larger than other comparable intensity droughts that struck North America between…

Though the American economy remains in a malaise, with alarming numbers of people chronically unemployed for so long they no longer are considered unemployed because they can't get unemployment…

Mothers are already responsible for propagating the species, a thankless job which men wisely avoid in all ways, but now they may be tasked with a better diet and exercising more also, because it…

The Obama administration only recently banned incandescent bulbs and compact fluorescent bulbs are getting all of the marketing due to generous government subsidies, so light emitting diodes (LEDs)…

It's not a secret that rats carry diseases, they quite literally carried the pests that caused the Bubonic Plague across Europe in the middle ages. But New York City has always felt like their rats…

Bacteria under attack by a flock of bacteriophages. Credit: Graham Beards/Wikimedia Commons By Luc Henry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne Bacterial infections remain a major threat…

High-resolution cryo-electron microscopy has revealed in unprecedented detail the structural changes in the bacterial ribosome which results in resistance to the antibiotic erythromycin.…

In the future, it may be possible to try on clothes even when the shop is closed, thanks tosemi-transparent mirrors in interactive systems presented at the ACM UIST 2014 human-computer interface…

Why is biodiversity is higher in the tropics than in colder regions? It's one of ecology’s unsolved puzzles and has been since the European explorers and naturalists of the 17th and 18th centuries…

Though health care is free, it doesn't always come without a cost. The United Kingdom is behind most countries in lung cancer survival and the big reason is because it goes undiagnosed. It isn't…

The Nobel Committee has asked that the gents who won for blue LED's immediately surrender their awards to Stephen Hawking.  Just Kidding, but the confirmation of Hawking radiation by the work of…

Four urban sections of the San Andreas Fault system in Northern California have stored enough energy to produce major earthquakes, according to a new study of 'fault creep', and three fault sections…

More than 2,000,000 people are incarcerated in the United States, the highest incarceration rate in the world - little surprise when abusing a dog is a felony, there are different penalties for…

The precautionary principle has been around in all countries and for centuries, it seems.  The ancient temple of Perperion, south-east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, contains a vampire…

The precautionary principle has been around in all countries and for centuries, it seems.  The ancient temple of Perperion, south-east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, contains a vampire…

We are only beginning to see what augmented reality can do. Credit: Flickr/Karlis Dambra, CC BY By Nick Kelly, University of Southern Queensland It seems we are headed towards a world where augmented…

With expensive clinical trials, lawyers waiting to sue, and long approval times unless a disease makes it into the New York Times, pharmaceutical companies are leaving the antibiotic space behind.…

I’ve been interfacing with Organic for 50 years. It’s a little scary to say you have been thinking about anything for half a century, but I did first learn about Organic from my grandfather about…