Food for drug-resistant bacteria. AthanArk, CC BY-NC-ND By Angelika Gründling, Imperial College London The rise of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics is a growing worry and threatens to put…

By observing and surveying 30 cool solar-type stars in the 2.5 Billion-year-old cluster NGC 6819 an international research team has created an analytical procedure for accurately determining the ages…

For fruit crops such as apples, compromised skin appearance results in reduced market value. Identifying causes of fruit disorders and diseases can help producers modify growing strategies and…

Staying active allows you to age optimally, according to a small study in The Journal of Physiology which analyzed older amateur cyclists and found that many had levels of physiological function that…

Solidarity with France and Charlie Hebdo in Taipei Pichi Chuang/Reuters By Lucas Hollister, Dartmouth College In his 1998 novel, The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq argued that Charlie Hebdo…

The political football of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America is well-known but a new study has found that even immigrants with job offers are less likely to have those immigration…

Higher alcohol taxes curb binge drinking, according to a new paper by Boston University scholars.  In their analysis of survey results, they found that a one-percent increase in alcohol beverage…

With the cultural spotlight shining so brightly on the risks of gridiron football, it was only a matter of time before the unknown risks of youth rugby got some scrutiny, and a senior doctor in The…

Bacteria in our digestive tract have evolved to help us break down and digest the complex carbohydrates that make up the yeast cell wall that give beer and bread their bubbles - and that could…

By Charles Q. Choi, Inside Science - A laser could be created with air in a practical way, a new advance that could one day be used to help spot explosives or pollutants from afar, researchers say.…

Odds are they won't be so happy after Yuletide. Shutterstock By Frederik Pedersen, University of Aberdeen January is a strain for most people. It’s dark and the festive lights don’t disguise this…

Headshaking in horses, a neuropathic facial pain syndrome, often leaves affected horses impossible to ride and dangerous to handle, and can result in euthanasia. It affects between 10,000 and 20,000…

Air Asia Black Box LocatedDetik News reports that divers operating from the vessel KN Jadayat have located the black box from Air Asia flight 8501. Sunday, 01/11/2015 19:26 pm Divers from KN Jadayat…

Winter weather can mean treacherous driving across much of the country. Road crews spread rock salt all over the highways and byways. Though environmentalists and the academics who give them cultural…

The heated national debate on complex issues related to costs of health care was ignited by the implementation the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) in January 2014. There is no national system that…

Abu Hamza addressing worshippers in London under police observation. Stefan Rousseau/PA By Matthew Francis, Lancaster University Abu Hamza has been sentenced to life in a US prison, after being found…

A new study has found that removing native forest and putting in farms can accelerate erosion so dramatically that in a few decades as much soil is lost as would naturally occur over thousands of…

In 1833, Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger published his key observation that warm-blooded animals tend to be more heavily pigmented or darker the closer they live to the equator. This week,…

Theist, gnostic, agnostic and atheist. What is the difference? Link: ben-kay.com By Mark Beeson, University of Western Australia Getting on for 14 billion years ago the universe suddenly sprang into…

A study using geckos has found that evolution can downgrade or entirely remove adaptations that have been previously acquired, giving the species new survival advantages.  What would be an…