North Carolina farmers and landowners are participating in program to grow giant miscanthus grass for renewable products using underutilized and marginal land. Giant miscanthus grass is a rapidly…

Researchers at Medical University of Vienna say it is possible for a blood test to detect depression. Mental illness in the blood? They say, in principle, depression can be diagnosed.…

Astronomers have taken unprecedented images of the intergalactic medium (IGM) — the diffuse gas that connects galaxies throughout the universe — with the Cosmic Web Imager, which was designed and…

Take a muscle cell, modify it over millions of years, and you can end up with a shocking evolutionary result: the electric fish. Electric fish have evolved several times in varying levels of…

Oh Chipotle, you will a hard time not looking silly when you step into science. No one is believing your cheese is more ethical than anyone else's cheese. @onetruecathal @kevinfolta neither. It's an…

Oh Chipotle, you will a hard time not looking silly when you step into science. No one is believing your cheese is more ethical than anyone else's cheese. @onetruecathal @kevinfolta neither. It's an…

Do you find yourself finishing the sentences of a speaker you are watching? You are not alone. Our brain activity is similar to speakers we are listening to when we can predict what they are going to…

It's official - females prefer courtship over competitiveness. And she may talk with her friends about the size of your mandibles, but it really doesn't matter.    Female mate choice and…

Is La Cosa Nostra running food safety summits? 'If you don't pay us, you will have an "accident"' messages were sent and the administrators forgot to grease the wheels? Or a secret conspiracy,…

Is La Cosa Nostra running food safety summits? 'If you don't pay us, you will have an "accident"' messages were sent and the administrators forgot to grease the wheels? Or a secret conspiracy,…

Here's a picture: You work at the EPA. You just finished a four-year long, incredibly detailed analysis of Product X. The work is comprehensive, thorough, world-class - and no one is actually going…

Real, fake, real, fake, a little scrap of papyrus written in Coptic has Jesus Christ, who made bachelorhood cool long before George Clooney, referring to “my wife”. That's a big deal. In 2012, a…

Real, fake, real, fake, a little scrap of papyrus written in Coptic has Jesus Christ, who made bachelorhood cool long before George Clooney, referring to “my wife”. That's a big deal. In 2012, a…

Genetically modified foods are so common that it seems a little strange to put a label on, basically, everything. But some states are trying. Vermont just did. The governor says he is signing it…

In a previous article I wanted to know if I could use the recording medium from old floppy disk as an infrared (IR) filter to shoot infrared photography on an iPod. I built a simple IR detector using…

Philadelphia was under attack through the winter and spring of 1991. The name of the enemy? Measles. The Philadelphia outbreak – the city’s first since 1954 - began in October 1990, and quickly…

Almost two decades ago, the Sokal affair occurred. A physicist tired of philosophical pseudoscientific gibberish and set out to write a paper of barely comprehensible jargon and get it in a peer-…

Almost two decades ago, the Sokal affair occurred. A physicist tired of philosophical pseudoscientific gibberish and set out to write a paper of barely comprehensible jargon and get it in a peer-…

Treating patients who suffer from a common condition known as arteriovenous malformation (AVM), which causes blood vessels in the brain to tangle, increases their risk of stroke, a study has…

Over the next decade, facial transplants will become more common, done at regional hospitals the way heart transplants are done now, according to a retrospective analysis of all known facial…