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…

If you have read mainstream media reports on suicides, you recognize a common theme: men are painted as angry and rejected, while women are regarded as sociable and mentally ill. A new analysis…

While the modern talk is all about how antioxidants and good and free radicals are bad, biology has never been so simple. Rather than being simply destructive to tissues and cells, free radicals…

By Marsha Lewis, Inside Science (Inside Science TV) –   You've seen toys and prosthetics made on a 3-D printer but now, scientists are using 3-D printers to build implants that help babies…

Credit: Wing-Chi Poon, CC BY-SA By Sana Suri, University of Oxford The 2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to three neuroscientists for their pioneering work on the brain’s…

A research team has discovered that a snail long confused with a far more common snail is actually distinct - and so they named it Aegista diversifamilia. 'Diverse family' being in honor of the…

Cholesterol has gotten a bad reputation, thanks to mainstream media's penchant for alternating miracle vegetables with scare journalism, which prompts shady diet fad book authors to promote whatever…

A new computer model has estimated ocean circulation during the last ice age, about 21,000 year ago, and believe that icebergs and meltwater from the North American ice sheet would have…

Very little has been published on VivaGel in peer-reviewed literature. Credit: Morgan/Flickr, CC BY By Bridget Haire The Australian biotech company Starpharma has announced the imminent launch of a…

Dark matter is ill-defined and never detected so how can a group of astronomers say current measurements are off by 50 percent? Most of the matter in the universe is hidden. It's not stars, it's not…

Sharing travel tips is always a smart thing to do ahead of a long and challenging journey. It’s even more important when you’re embarking on a million miles long mission to asteroid. Being aware of…

Credit: Ed Bierman, CC BY By Clive Trueman, University of Southampton Fish are acutely aware of sea temperature; it’s one of the key reasons particular species of fish live where they do. As the…

Stick 'em up. Credit: Me2, CC BY-NC-SA By Toby Miller, Cardiff University October 9 2014 was a big day in eco-activism: Lego announced that it would not renew a product-placement deal with Shell,…

People concerned about human-insecticide exposure have stimulated interest in alternative bed bug control materials, including oil-based pesticides and detergent insecticides. But how well do they…