Not all objects are equal in our minds. A Picasso sculpture is not the same way as a hammer, no matter how fancy the hammer.  The reason? We see the Picasso more as a person than an object,…

America leads the world in adult science literacy, science output and social media. That means broad social networks. And it means, unless some field of science is your particular hot-button…

Proposition 65, which mandates warning labels on just about every product in every store in the state, insures that Californians have no clue what actually can be harmful or not. What doesn't 'cause…

Proposition 65, which mandates warning labels on just about every product in every store in the state, insures that Californians have no clue what actually can be harmful or not. What doesn't 'cause…

Facial recognition software works pretty well. It measures various parameters, such as the distance between the person's eyes, the height from lip to top of their nose and various other metrics and…

A team of researchers has developed a new model to study the motion patterns of bacteria in real time and to determine how these motions relate to communication within a bacterial colony. The…

For lovers of wild foods, autumn means things like mushrooms and fungi of dizzying variety. Intrepid treasure hunters scour the woods in search of delectable wild mushrooms and their not-quite-meat,…

You lookin’ at me?Gareth Fuller/PA By Tom Foulsham, University of Essex Are you being recorded? Thanks to the ubiquity of CCTV and camera phones, the answer is more than ever before likely to be “Yes…

By Marsha Lewis, Inside Science (Inside Science TV) – One of the deadliest forces on earth is the humble mosquito. Mosquito-borne diseases like malaria, chikungunya, yellow fever and West Nile virus…

That DNA makes RNA which makes protein is a simplified explanation molecular biologists use to explain for how genetic information is deciphered and translated in living organisms. The process is…

After four months of frenzy by over 1500 teams, the very successful Higgs Challenge launched by the ATLAS collaboration ended yesterday, and the "private leaderboard" with the final standings has…

The farside of the moon may have had some extremely explosive volcanic eruptions hundreds of millions of years ago. The findings, reported in a paper submitted to the Journal of Geophysical…

Can the brown anole lizard outrun climate change? Credit: Ianaré Sévi, CC BY By Amanda Bates, University of Southampton Lizards from the deserts of Australia to the tops of mountains in Costa Rica…

If we get sugars down to 3% of total energy intake, it may put dentists out of business, according to a paper in BMC Public Health which analyzed the effect of sugars on tooth decay and found…

Calculating the pros and cons is a time-honored method for making analytical decisions but focusing too much on numberscalculations, especially those involving money, can lead to negative…

Is this really necessary? Credit: EPA By John Weeks, SOAS, University of London The Obama administration has proposed several ad hoc multi-country economic agreements, and in doing so has abandoned…

Good nose. Credit:  Lowjumpingfrog, CC BY By Joao Pedro de Magalhaes, University of Liverpool Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122, remains the oldest person on record. One might…

Molecules containing carbon-halogen bonds are produced naturally across all kingdoms of life and constitute a large family of natural products with a broad range of biological activities.  The…

In 2010, McGill Redmen receiver Charles-Antoine Sinotte suffered a concussion during his last home game. "It was like nothing I had experienced before," recalls Sinotte. "I felt like I was out of…

Researchers have discovered "the most famous wheat gene," a reproductive traffic cop of sorts that can be used to transfer valuable genes from other plants to wheat, which clears the way for wheat…