I recently watched the History Channel show "Alone" and for all but one season(1) it is just what it sounds like. They take 10 people and throw them into a difficult situation where they have to…

I've never commissioned a survey of e-cigarette users, because surveys are unreliable (on surveys, for example, few deny vaccines, they all invoke choice) but in years and years of talking to e…

I've never commissioned a survey of e-cigarette users, because surveys are unreliable (on surveys, for example, few deny vaccines, they all invoke choice) but in years and years of talking to e…

While a vegan diet is fine for adults, in children it is a human rights violation - and it can send parents to jail. John P. and Katrina Miller of of Crestline, Ohio, have been indicted on one count…

While a vegan diet is fine for adults, in children it is a human rights violation - and it can send parents to jail. John P. and Katrina Miller of of Crestline, Ohio, have been indicted on one count…

A recent paper has linked two types of heart problems and one of the most commonly prescribed classes of antibiotics. Data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's adverse reporting system plus a…

One of biology's most fundamental sets of building blocks may have special properties that helped bootstrap itself into its modern form - or it may be "cui bono?" thinking where people find an event,…

Hemophilia, a rare inherited bleeding disorder in which blood doesn't clot normally - meaning any cut can be deadly - is a lot less rare than previously estimated.  A new paper states that…

Fat shaming, slut shaming, you name it and someone is complaining that other people are being judge-y about we choose to live our lives. On Twitter the only things it is okay to shame in 2019 are…

Fat shaming, slut shaming, you name it and someone is complaining that other people are being judge-y about we choose to live our lives. On Twitter the only things it is okay to shame in 2019 are…

Though bees can live for years, their mating period is brief so male honeybees use a bee version of Flunitrazepam (Rohypnol - colloquially roofies) to improve their chances of being the successful…

Call it Atlantis if you want. but geologists have reconstructed the quarter-of-a-billion-year-long history of a long-submerged landmass. It just isn't beneath an ocean, it is below southern Europe.…

Call it Atlantis if you want. but geologists have reconstructed the quarter-of-a-billion-year-long history of a long-submerged landmass. It just isn't beneath an ocean, it is below southern Europe.…

Four years ago, I can't recall having heard of JUUL despite ending smoking, which means supporting smoking cessation and harm reduction tools like vaping, being a cornerstone of my science and health…

Four years ago, I can't recall having heard of JUUL despite ending smoking, which means supporting smoking cessation and harm reduction tools like vaping, being a cornerstone of my science and health…

During puberty, male and female brains clearly become more distinct, with boys showing an increase in connectivity in certain brain areas previously identified as conferring risk for mood problems in…

How cool were astronauts? If you were born in the 1960s or earlier, just about as cool as you could get. They were fighter pilots, they were smart, they had The Right Stuff, and if you were an…

How cool were astronauts? If you were born in the 1960s or earlier, just about as cool as you could get. They were fighter pilots, they were smart, they had The Right Stuff, and if you were an…

If we want to understand why one political group denies vaccines and another that pollution is bad, we need look no farther than press releases touting mouse studies or statistical correlation as…

On August 20, in occasion of the "5th International Workshop on Nucleon Structure at Large Bjorken x", organized at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, I had the pleasure to accompany at the piano my wife…