Nine years ago, Dennis Aabo Sørensen of Denmark lost the use of his left hand handling fireworks during a family holiday.  Now he has become the first amputee in the world to feel sensory-rich…

When it comes to discussion about public schools, the administation's education experts call the educators and students they claim to support 'dismal' on a regular basis. But that isn't really so,…

Stars like Sol are relatively easy to understand, because they are numerous, and live for billions of years, but high mass stars are rare and live for only a few million years. As a result,…

First principles are calculations that rely on established mathematical laws of nature without additional assumptions or special models. But when it comes to the early universe, what are those first…

Stock price movements are predictable during short windows, according to a paper written by academics in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. They write that price movements…

We're all capable of committing violence. The person who truly cannot commit violence is quite rare, and likely learned it. Some aspects of behavior depend on interactions in the brain between…

States that have decriminalized marijuana have also seen dramatic increases in children requiring medical intervention, according to research in the Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Association of…

If you listen to political pundits in Virginia and nationwide, House Bill 207 is a covert effort to hinder evolution education. (1)  The bill never mentions evolution, it instead "encourages…

Men, if you want a short term thing and not a lot of talks about "us" and "the relationship", your odds improve if your parents gave you the gift of a wider face. Women see wider faces as more…

Insects taste through hair-like structures on the body called  sensilla.  Sensilla contain receptor nerve cells, each of which is sensitive to a particular substance. In insects like the…

A new study found that the ability to follow another's gaze or look in the direction someone is pointing, two examples of receptive joint attention, is significantly heritable. Determining such…

In 2005,the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa  revealed that the near-Earth asteroid (25143) Itokawa  has a strange peanut shape, leading to questions about why. Now, using ground-based…

'Whole Grain', like 'Natural' and 'Organic', has a lot of definitions. Fortunately for marketing departments, people often read their own positive definitions into those terms. But people invariably…

In the MGM musical "Gigi", Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold perform "I Remember It Well", wherein everything they remember contradicts each other. It's a charming number, and accurate,…

Sometimes it's just public relations. We subsidize nicotine patches but regulators are increasingly interested in banning electronic cigarettes. Such misguided legislation, not backed by sound data,…

The subject of endocrine disruption is not particularly new, with extensive scientific and regulatory attention to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) over the last 20 years or so. A common…

A new paper correlates brain activity with how people make decisions. Based on these images, the authors suggest that when individuals engage in risky behavior, such as drunk driving or unsafe sex,…

Most medications prescribed in primary care contain animal derived products. Are they suitable for vegetarians? Dietary preferences are common in the general population. Influences such as religion,…

The nature of social science is that you will frequently find papers arguing contradictory positions, and nothing shows that like video games. On Science 2.0 alone, you can find dozens of studies…

Lorena Moscardelli of Statoil North America–Research, Development and Innovation in Austin is not the first to claim evidence to support the existence of a Martian ocean during the late Hesperian–…