It appears that the act of voluntarily sharing something with another is not entirely exclusive to the human experience. Researchers writing in Current Biology observe that bonobos—a sister species…

Should there be restrictions on the amount of sodium in processed and restaurant foods? Many public health advocates think so. They argue that people consume excessive amounts of sodium without even…

Drilling firm Lapindo Brantas has denied that one of its gas exploration well was the trigger for the Lusi mud volcano, which killed 13 people and displaced thirty thousand in East Java, Indonesia on…

Get your mouse-clicking fingers ready, everybody - time to vote on your favorite NYC condom wrapper design! Five finalists were selected from nearly 600 entries, and the winning image will be the…

Dairy Farmer Makes BS Claim The Utah House has passed a resolution questioning the science behind global warming. Rep. Mike Noel, the Legislature's chief climate-change skeptic, declared Thursday…

Have you ever pondered public radio fund drives? Whether you’ve supported the station or not (I do), the drive persists; they keep asking for money the whole, dreary week. If you pay on the first day…

Of Snakes And Oil A headnote explaining the need for the footnotesThe author not wishing to superimpose an overabundance or superfluity of operose terms, has subpended copious footnotes for the…

Some Gems Of Comment Spam We get a few spam comments here, promoting all sorts of rubbish web sites. Currently, we seem to be targeted by people who want to do our writing for us.  Now, given…

The question of whether record snows in the Northeast US says something about climate change is a scientific question. The NY Times shows us how not to report on a scientific issue: Skeptics of…

Wondering if the "natural" cleaning product you're using is really all that natural? Well, soon you won't have to wonder - the Natural Products Association (NPA) released a set of guidelines today…

There are known effects of Promoters used in expression of foreign DNA incorporated into the stranger host of choice but unknown effects of promoters used are not known. A promoter is used for the…

A team of scientists from Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey are attempting to unravel the secret lives of cancer cells that go dormant and self-cannibalize to survive…

When administered in lethal levels, antibiotics trigger a fatal chain reaction within  bacteria that shreds the cell's DNA. But, when the level of antibiotic is less than lethal the same…

An analysis of available research on the topic (three studies) suggests that eating choclate may reduce your risk of stroke. Chocolate is rich in antioxidants called flavonoids, which may have a…

Data collected on speleothem encrustations, a type of mineral deposit, in coastal caves on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca indicate that sea level was about one meter above present-day levels…

Arizona State University researchers have developed the first versatile DNA reader that can discriminate between DNA's four core chemical components, the key to unlocking the vital code behind human…

Depicting a cause-and-effect scenario that spans thousands of miles, scientists report in Geophysical Research Letters that ocean waves originating along the Pacific coasts of North and South America…

Every galaxy we know about has a collection of black holes that can each be up to 10 times the sun’s mass. In addition to these black holes, there is one to rule them all; a supermassive black hole…

Electronic cigarettes fail to deliver nicotine to the consumer and be should be regulated and packaged in a manner consistent with the product's effect – even if that effect is a total failure to…

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego have discovered the origin of strains of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among men who have sex with men. The team says the results are…