Global meat production has tripled in the past three decades and could double its present level by 2050, according to a new report on the livestock industry by an international team of scientists and…

In 1950 Immanuel Velikovsky published his bestselling Worlds in Collision, where he proposed that Venus was once a satellite of Jupiter that went AWOL and caused catastrophes on Earth as it flew past…

CO2 emissions not only have a global impact but a local one as well. As a result of so-called carbon dioxide 'domes,' the greenhouse gas is harming city dwellers' health much more than rural…

A history of alcohol abuse is unlikely to cause long-term memory impairment in men and women, but smoking just might in women, a new study has found. The findings are based on assessments of 115 men…

Children in England see much more smoking in movies compared to their counterparts in the US and are more likely to pick up the habit as a result, finds research published in Tobacco Control. The UK…

In a new article in Nature Reviews Endocrinology, scientists from the University of Liverpool argue that anti-obesity drugs fail to provide lasting health benefits because they tackle the biological…

Palaeontologists have discovered evidence of how an extinct shark attacked its prey, reconstructing a killing that took place 4 million years ago. Such fossil evidence of behavior is incredibly rare,…

Questionable lending helped sink the U.S. economy, but also provided a lifeline that kept countless firms afloat and averted an even deeper recession, according to research by University of Illinois…

Being skinny confers no advantage when it comes to the risk of dying suddenly from cardiac causes, a study presented today at the American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session has found.…

"First of all, FACT agrees that many unsubstantiated claims have been made on jatropha, such as high yields on marginal soils, low water and nutrient requirements, and high resistance to pests and…

There are far too many theories about the best way to teach kids.  Dr. Seuss had the right idea: make it fun.  It's good to have a child actually beg you to read something out loud. Never…

Warner Music Group tries to protect property it doesn't even own: In the first installment of a planned video blog of their American tour, A23’s Tom Shear recorded a nine-and-one-half minute video…

Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance on Entropy and the Meaning of Life: We know that entropy increases as the universe evolves. But why, on the road from the simple and low-entropy early universe to the…

Understanding Climate : #2 - Earth Air Water Fire Climate science is a cross-disciplinary study.  I have listed some of the disciplines in Understanding Climate : #1 - Components Of Climate and…

Autism and your normal mind -the connection. Have you ever been going along having a chat and suddenly your stopped cold?  You then see a "minds eye" thought of uncle joe (or something else).…

Morning Science Quote The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black…

I had previously speculated on how electric and magnetic fields generated by individual neurons may be able to transmit information to other neurons with which they are not in synaptic contact. From…

The "humble hooter" could be added to the list of features used to identify an individual, according to scientists at the University of Bath. Researchers created a system called PhotoFace to scan the…

This weekend, over 10,000 chemists will descent upon San Francisco for the American Chemical Society national meeting.  For those of us that are presenting at the conference, we’re spending this…

Have you ever seen a galaxy ? I mean, not a picture of one. The real thing. A picture is a representation of reality, and as such it conveys to our senses only a pale suggestion of the stimulation…