The first truly semi-aquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, has been announced. New fossils of the massive Cretaceous-era predator reveal it adapted to life in the water some 95 million years…

The seasons are about to change and that means a new round of projections, prognostications, sooth-saying and doomsday forecasts. If you think you know which of those are done by the civilized world…

Modern genetic modification, where biologists cause a plant to express a natural protein taken from another plant that wards off pests, is protested by environmental groups and organic farmers.…

When it comes to defense against viruses, the immune system has an arsenal of weapons at its disposal, including killer cells, antibodies and messenger molecules, and when a pathogen attacks the…

China has 18 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of its diabetics. When the numbers are a staggering 1.3 billion, such a startling disparity in representation means a major public health…

The object actually appears as it is pictured. It is not an optical illusion. The image was not created using an “in camera” special effect (no special lighting, no filters other than the built-in…

In the UK, where health care is paid for by the government, and in the United States, where health care is increasingly government controlled, fat shaming has become the norm. Since everyone will…

Forget lettuce, adults who consume a high-protein diet are at a lower risk for developing high blood pressure (HBP), according to a paper in the American Journal of Hypertension. One of three U.S.…

Venus is uninhabitable for humans yet from a distance, using statistical wobbles, a Venus-like planet and an Earth-like planet are very similar. While the Earth has oceans of water and relatively…

A protein called Nrf2,continually moves in and out of the nuclei of human cells to sense the cell's health and vitality and when Nrf2 is exposed to threats to the cell's health, it oscillates faster…

The public has long suffered from green fatigue, where constant doomsday prophecies by environmental groups have become background noise, but there is good news too. It just has to come from the…

What do leopards in India do when prowling at night? Like with smaller domestic cats in America, evidence from a GoPro video around their necks would probably horrify pet owners, but scat…

Image credit:  Gianluca Rasile via shutterstock http://shutr.bz/1o2xR50 By: Benjamin Plackett, Inside Science (Inside Science) -- From the strip malls of the Midwest to the boutiques of…

Evolution is still the favored theory, according to fossil records. Credit: Flickr/Brent Danley, CC BY-NC-SA By John Long, Flinders University Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, first published in…

There are numerous methods for maintaining electricity supply when renewables are in the grid. Credit: Johan Douma/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Anthony Vassallo, University of Sydney The recent review of…

Quasars are supermassive black holes that live at the center of distant galaxies. They are the most luminous beacons in the sky, and shine across the entire electromagnetic spectrum due to rapidly…

Objects in space spin, most people know that, but what is less known is that they spin in a way that's totally different from the way they spin on earth. It comes down to where their centers of mass…

The Obama administration recently began claiming that the unemployment rate had dropped to 6.1 percent, evidence that its economic policies were working. Yet over 90 Americans of working age are…

VFH and UFH portions of the radio spectrum are reserved for over the air television broadcasts and the FCC keeps plenty of space between channels to prevent interference. But unused UHF TV spectrum…

Some people avoid risk while others will roll the dice with wealth, health, and safety. Is it just personality? Media influence? Researchers led by Ifat Levy, assistant professor in comparative…