Just don't forget to listen scientists too. Credit: EPA By Toby Miller, Cardiff University Who should political leaders follow when it comes to climate change: environmental scientists, powerful…

On the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington, a chemical reaction caused a glass glove box to explode in 1976 and Harold McCluskey was exposed to the highest dose of radiation from the chemical…

On the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington, a chemical reaction caused a glass glove box to explode in 1976 and Harold McCluskey was exposed to the highest dose of radiation from the chemical…

By Joel N. Shurkin, Inside Science -- The enemy of archeology everywhere is salt. It destroys buildings, disassembles art works, and can turn ancient pottery into piles of dust. How salt lays waste…

Can hamstring injury be predicted?  Hamstring strains account for most non-contact injuries in Australian rules football, football and rugby union, as well as track events like sprinting, and a…

Analysis of more than 8,000 women who participated in the world's largest study of two treatments for HER2-positive breast cancer reinforces clinical trial findings showing that trastuzumab (…

Optical sensors are used all around the world to monitor the condition of difficult-to-access places like the underbellies of bridges, the exterior walls of tunnels, the feet of dams, long pipelines…

Over 40 years ago, President Richard Nixon authorized a War On Cancer, with the goal that cancer could be conquered with the right amount of money and ingenuity. In the last decade there began to be…

Over 40 years ago, President Richard Nixon authorized a War On Cancer, with the goal that cancer could be conquered with the right amount of money and ingenuity. In the last decade there began to be…

Though the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has asked climate scientists not to attribute weather conditions to climate change, a new paper is doing just that.  A team…

A team of researchers has proposed a solution to the problematic chemical composition of Neptune and Uranus, perhaps providing clues for understanding their formation. Uranus and Neptune, which…

A human child can look at a cartoon picture of a chicken and recognize it is a chicken, but that is a show-stopper for machine learning. Unless it matches a cartoon chicken programmed in, it will not…

It's not a surprise that as we get ready for Halloween season, stories will start to appear that relate to the macabre. And nothing is more macabre to modern minds than the tale of Vlad Dracul, who…

There is less saline in Nordic Seas but that can't be blamed on more Arctic waters due to global warming. Instead, it is that the Gulf Stream has provided less salt.  The Nordic Seas have…

In a region where modern humans are believed to have originated roughly 200,000 years ago,    DNA from the skeleton of a man who lived 2,330 years ago has a DNA profile that places it…

Epigenetics has been used and abused in many ways - can it tell researchers that an expectant mother had no electricity for a few days? In January of 1998, what came to be called the North American…

We know our bodies don't just change in size, which makes it an effective metric in a world in motion. Psychologists have found that people tend to perceive their dominant hand as staying…

Sense About Science is a non-profit organization that campaigns in favour of more correct diffusion and use of scientific information. It is a great attempt at increasing the quality of the…

This may surprise, but Ludwig Wittgenstein, for many the greatest philosopher, or anyway the most eminent exponent of analytic philosophy according to Roger Scruton, maintained that music (!) was the…

Encouraged by the successful Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) that reached the Red Planet this week, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists dream big of further space exploration, pondering…