You are the first to arrive to a dinner party and must choose the table where to sit, relying on your past experience of how handsome members of the opposite sex (you're straight) usually choose…

Researchers have found a way to prevent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, the most common cause of chronic liver disease worldwide, in mice. By blocking a path that delivers dietary fructose to the…

Observations with the 1.6-meter telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in California, the most powerful ground-based instrument dedicated to studying the Sun, have resulted in the highest-…

Kapteyn's Star, named after Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn, who discovered it at the end of the 19th century, is the second fastest-moving star in the sky and belongs to the Galactic halo, an…

Deep sea fish help keep more than one million tons of CO2 from UK and Irish surface waters every year - that's worth £10 million per year in carbon credits, if anyone actually paid full price for…

Dr. Francis Collins, former head of the Human Genome Project and current Director of the National Institutes of Health, has a $30 billion problem. Taxpayers are spending that much money each year,…

The May 26th 2014 issue of Chemical&Engineering News reported on a promising drug with a future to be determined by the courts. Cancer researcher Wafik S. El-Deiry of Pennsylvania State…

A team led by Gregorio Valdez, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, have created a search engine called EvoCor that identifies genes that are functionally linked.…

Individuals who are hospitalized for the skin conditions of Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis appear to have a high risk of recurrence, according to a new study. Stevens-Johnson…

The good news is that science remains, for the most part, self-correcting. After peer review, numerous errors are uncovered and one site, Retraction Watch, is devoted to being an internal watch dog.…

One of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces, a self-portrait, was drawn in red chalk on paper during the early 1500s. As you can imagine, a chalk drawing on paper from the Renaissance is in extremely…

A new study in the journal Molecular Psychiatry has linked children who later developed autism with exposure to elevated levels of steroid hormones (for example testosterone, progesterone and…

Liver cancer is among the fastest-growing and deadliest cancers in the United States with a 17 percent three-year survival rate. Vaccines help direct the immune system to attack invaders by showing…

Researchers have reported the discovery of 46 ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs (marine reptiles)  in the vicinity of the Tyndall Glacier in the Torres del Paine National Park of southern Chile.…

PHILADELPHIA (June 2, 2014) – A new study from researchers at Drexel University adds evidence that using common antidepressant medications during pregnancy may contribute to a higher risk of autism…

In 15 seconds, name as many drugs as you can. What did you come up with? Does the list include heroin, marijuana, and meth? Maybe you also thought of cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, alcohol, or the wide…

The federal government could save taxpayers over $5 billion in the first year by changing the way the government assigns Part D plans for Medicare beneficiaries eligible for low-income subsidies.…

Either male hurricanes need to break through that glass ceiling of really dangerous storms, or we underestimate storms with female-sounding names and that puts more people in peril, or business…

There is a joke among abortion proponents that if men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be more common on city streets than Starbucks coffee shops. If that is so, the best way to get…

They key issues in the discussion of the BICEP2 result center around the way BICEP2 accounted for dust in the foreground.  They based their analysis on a presentation graphic which was shown at…