American Council on Science and Health is an advocacy group consisting of hundreds of scientists, doctors and policy experts devoted to science outreach. They've been around since the 1970s, when the…

Academics share one thing with the corporate world - most people want to climb the socio-economic ladder. A post at an elite university like Oxford or Caltech is the crowning achievement of a career…

Academics share one thing with the corporate world - most people want to climb the socio-economic ladder. A post at an elite university like Oxford or Caltech is the crowning achievement of a career…

A comparison of the genomes of polar bears and brown bears reveals that the polar bear is a much younger species than previously believed, having diverged from brown bears less than 500,000 years ago…

Patients whose lost red blood cells are recycled and given back to them during heart surgery have healthier blood cells compared to those who get transfusions of blood stored in a blood bank,…

If someone fails to meet an obligation, you probably feel a little betrayed, but do you not appreciate it if they exceed expectations? Humanities scholars think that is the case and they use the…

After 20 years of grueling research, unimaginably effective drugs to treat hepatitis C are hitting the market. They are so good that cure rates (aka sustained virological response, or SVR)—…

Some Ecuadorian tribes were famous for making mummified shrunken heads (click for the recipe) from the remains of their conquered foes.  Perhaps they got the idea from nature. Field work in the…

Richard Somerville and Susan Hassol have some recommendations for how to improve science communication. I've written about this before. In the Communicating Astronomy With The Public magazine I…

There are about 9,700 known species of grasshoppers in the world. Now there is one more, and it has beeen named  Grammy-award winning singer and Mexican activist Ana Lila Downs Sanchez. Locals…

Pollution is bad, right? To some animals, it's home. Thousands of shipping containers are lost from cargo vessels each year and many of them sink, never to be found again.  In February 2004, the…

Would reducing smog lead to higher earnings? Yes, say Columbia University professor of Environmental Health Science Frederica Perera  and colleagues. They correlate reduced air pollution to…

 The PRIORI project at University of Michigan says they have created a smartphone app that monitors subtle qualities of a person's voice during everyday phone conversations - and can detect…

You've really got to hand it to all those 15-minute oil change places that dot the American landscape: they know how to pull motorists in. With their brightly colored signs and endless promotions,…

Gluten-free fads are all the rage and a preliminary result by reseachers at the University of Copenhagen want to see if there are health benefits for people who don't have celiac disease.…

Researchers have reported a unique discovery; the marine dinoflagellate Dapsilidinium pastielsii in Southeast Asia, notably the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool.  This unicellular species, with planktonic…

Homemade, inexpensive stink bug traps crafted from simple household items outshine pricier models designed to kill the invasive, annoying bugs. So save your money. Fill a foil roasting pan with…

Media has always been partisan but when it was only partisan one way, that was the norm. It was considered objective and impartial. In the US, there were social conservative Democrats who believed in…

A new study looked into the modulatory effects that musical training could have on the use of the different sides of the brain when performing music and language tasks.  It found that brief…

A new study finds that anxiety about a competitive situation makes even the most physically active of us more likely to slip-up. You didn't need psychologists to tell you the obvious - stage fright…