Tropical Storm Simon, once a hurricane, is expected to bring heavy rain to portions of the central Plains and Midwest on today and tomorrow. Since it is not hitting New York City during presidential…

Credit: Millionaire Chess tournament When I was a kid, no one outside Texas played Texas Hold 'Em. We played Stud, we played Draw, we played Liar's, but not Hold 'Em. Like Esther Williams movies and…

Naomi Klein: To fight climate change, we have to end capitalism. Mariusz Kubik, CC BY By Matthew Nisbet, Northeastern University Earth is “f---ed” and our insatiable growth economy is to blame. So…

Tropical Cyclone Hudhud formed on Oct. 8th and began moving from east to west across the Bay of Bengal in the Northern Indian Ocean.  NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Hudhud today and took a…

No matter what type of chemotherapy you attack a tumor with, many cancer cells resort to the same survival tactic: They start eating themselves. This autophagy process happens when two proteins pair…

Who doesn't want more brain power? Credit: James Steidl By Elizabeth Maratos, University of Leicester The practice of physically stimulating the brain in order to alleviate symptoms of illness and…

The evolution of new traits with novel functions has long been studied by evolutionary biology and a new study of the color markings of cichlid fish has shed some new light on it. Swiss scientists…

Sometimes organic food kills and there is nothing more natural than locally-hunted wild meat bought at a local market.  Now it turns out that ebola, as with many emerging infections, may have…

A close up of one of the hand stencils found in the prehistoric caves in Indonesia. Credit: Kinez Riza, Author provided By Paul S.C.Taçon, Griffith University; Adam Brumm, Griffith University, and…

Credit: Institute of Responsible Technology By Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project It’s perplexing that strident anti-GMO critics who regularly harp on the “danger” of harvesting a …

Elephants are among the most intelligent non-humans, arguably on par with chimpanzees, and both African and Asian elephants are endangered.  In 1995, 16-month old Kumari, the first Asian…

A once-in-a-century supernova, dubbed SN2014J, in a the nearby galaxy Messier 82 - the Cigar Galaxy - 12 million light-years away has been spotted; a pulsating dead star beaming with the energy of…

Credit: Shutterstock One thing certain about nature - it sure isn't efficient. Just take a look at the human male reproductive system and you get the idea that if it was designed, it was designed by…

Commotion outside house of infected nurse Teresa Ramos near Madrid. Credit: EPA By Peter Barlow, Edinburgh Napier University The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the worst in recorded history. There…

Violent rhetoric appeals to disaffected young men because it gives them a challenge to express aggression as 'proof' of manhood. Credit: Sillouetted children playing as soldiers/Shutterstock By David…

Winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry: Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner. Credit: Matt Staley, HHMI / Bernd Schuller, Max-Planck-Institut / K. Lowder By Mark Lorch, University of Hull…

Despite the publicity of high-profile celebrities having their iPhones hacked and private pictures distributed across the Internet, a new paper confirms that substantial numbers of teens are sexting…

The NASA satellites, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Terra, have provided data on clouds, rainfall and the diameter of the eye of Super Typhoon Vongfong as it turned north in the…

What could the natural diversity and beauty of plant leaves have in common with the violin, one of mankind's greatest musical inventions? More than you think. Dan Chitwood, Ph.D., assistant member,…

Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of radioactive waves known in the universe but how they're made and where they come from have been something of a mystery.  Using highly detailed radio…