Generally, people on the autism spectrum tend to be personally cautious and socially withdrawn. As you would expect, previous research shows that people with autism tend to have low rates of…

Can addiction be predicted? That's always been the goal and conjecture has focused on everything from family to environment. But there are just as many fails as wins. A child who grew up in a house…

We all know how fire works, the same way we know how gravity works. But, like gravity, there is a lot we don't know about combustion.  There are many reasons to delve into its secrets. For…

Stanford researchers envision a crystal that can form a monolayer three atoms thick. Their computer simulations show that this crystal, molybdenum ditelluride, can act like a switch: its crystal…

We all have some idea how solar panels work by now; a photovoltaic cell gets bombarded by photons from the sun, which knocks loose electrons that flow as electricity, hopefully while wasting as…

The dominant hypothesis for the reason that northern Europeans developed light skin is that they needed to absorb more ultraviolet (UV) light to make more vitamin D, which is vital for healthy bones…

Though the central coast of California is some of the best farmland in the world, organic farmers who don't want to use modern science have a difficult time producing crops for their $35 billion and…

A child's illness and hospitalization is stressful for children and their parents and also clinicians.  20 years ago, the Four Habits Model of Highly Effective Clinicians, a core set of…

If you own an electric car, you spend a lot of time thinking about where you will recharge it - and how long it will take. In Silicon Valley, where electric cars are the newest fad, charge rage is…

When it comes to urine, it's all relative. We can't prove Sir Isaac Newton was thinking about how animals urinate when he was developing his laws of gravity but he can't prove he wasn't either. What…

Jill Abramson was recently ousted from her position as the executive editor of The New York Times. Her defenders said it was because of her gender (yet she got the job) and her demand for more…

In previous articles I’ve demonstrated how to use littleBits and erector set parts to build a magnetic stirrer and a sample rotator. Since I was able to drive Erector set machines with the littleBits…

Recently findings could help to reduce health care charges while also protecting childhood cancer survivors from heart ailments caused by drug therapy.  The paper reviewed data from patient…

The Jacobi iterative method, a 169-year-old math strategy, may soon get a new lease on life. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, a prominent German mathematician, unveiled it in 1845 as a way to solve systems…

In a recent study, researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center used video observation to assess  anesthesia provider hand hygiene compliance. They observed an average of 149 hand hygiene…

It's unclear why there is a natural medicine craze in the modern era. Real medicine was invented because natural medicine didn't help people. If natural medicine survived double-blind clinical trials…

Antihistamines, which help reduce watery eyes and runny noses during allergy season, might also help ward off tumors too. A new report suggests that antihistamines may have significant anti-cancer…

Surveys show that managers hold more negative attitudes to private use of social media at work - they should know what a time waster it is, they use it more than subordinates. 11,000 Norwegian…

At first glance, Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has little in common with Earth. Titan's surface temperature dips tp nearly 300 F below zero, its seas slosh with liquid methane, and its sky is a…

It's not a bad idea to think about water. Though Earth is literally overrun with water only 2% is usable and current energy and technology limitations make it impractical to bring it to the areas…