To sane people, parents who kill their kids are both horrifying and tragic, though levels of acceptance and blame flow with cultural trends. Once upon a time, when a mother in Texas killed her…

People who live in cities love the infrastructure, the nightlife, the hobos, the fact that you can find a Starbucks on every corner. People who live in the country love the cleaner air, the openness,…

A study led by Manchester scientists has shown promising results for a new treatment approach in follicular lymphoma. Follicular lymphoma is a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a blood cancer, that…

Do you think pharmaceutical companies are creating problems that don't exist in order to keep selling drugs to an increasingly over-medicated population? Do you think scientists are unethical if they…

Genetic engineering of tobacco plants so that they produce moth pheromones demonstrates the potential of genetically modified plants to act as factories for the synthesis of insect pheromones, write…

If you ask aging environmental activists, the worst thing that can happen to nature is to have people step onto it. This is the completely wrong approach, but one adopted by their corporate leaders…

Is depression as dangerous as smoking? A 12-person panel has published a paper in the journal Circulation saying that their review of literature indicates that depression should be listed with…

A new research effort in Ethiopia seeks to improve the productivity of chickpea varieties by harnessing the genetic diversity of wild species. The federal Feed the Future Initiative is the latest…

When I was a young guy, there were predictions of doom based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  Weirdly, it is still discussed in media reports every single day, even though it doesn't tell…

When I was a young guy, there were predictions of doom based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  Weirdly, it is still discussed in media reports every single day, even though it doesn't tell…

You may not know it but on our biosphere - Earth - there is also a relatively unknown world hiding in plain sight. It is composed of microbes that live on floating pieces of plastic floating on the…

New battery management technology could boost Li-ion capacity by 40%, quadruple recharging cycles Long-life laptop battery the tech industry doesn’t want you to have ? Fed up with the dwindling…

Do you know the difference between throughput and speed? If you don't, you certainly would not after reading TechCrunch (the deal “may be legally outside of the traditional net neutrality rules”) or…

Do you know the difference between throughput and speed? If you don't, you certainly would not after reading TechCrunch (the deal “may be legally outside of the traditional net neutrality rules”) or…

Teach For America is a national group that recruits recent college graduates to teach in poorer public schools. Presumably the students would be better served than they would be by regular substitute…

Teach For America is a national group that recruits recent college graduates to teach in poorer public schools. Presumably the students would be better served than they would be by regular substitute…

The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is still getting important particle work done, years after the closure of the Tevatron was announced. Scientists on the CDF and DZero experiments have…

Methane has 23X the impact of carbon dioxide on warming and livestock produces methane - burping cows burp. But it is a tiny fraction of climate change impact unless you are in the activism business,…

A new study has found that several types of aquatic algae can detect orange, green and blue light. Land plants have receptors to detect the common visual optical wavelengths in the air, light on the…

Long after gluten-free, low-fat and tapeworm diets have been consigned to the dustbin of quaint health fad history, vegetarians will still insist their way of is better. In at least one way, they may…