Air Asia 8501 - Some Factual Information "Based on the available data regarding the location of the lost aircraft, weather is a factor in the triggering of the incident. The most likely weather…

Folk wisdom has long held that people are more likely to catch a cold in cool-weather or damp conditions but some recent claims have disputed that and found the virus transmits just as often…

Bowhead whales can live to be over 200 years and show little evidence of the age-related disease that are apparent in humans in our senior years. There may soon by answers why, thanks to a…

How might you make a new Earth? Our Terran "test kitchen" has given us a detailed recipe, it just wasn't clear how transposable it was in other areas, the same way a recipe in Los Angeles might not…

Controlled-release fertilizers are a widely-used method of delivering nutrients to nursery container crops, because they contain encapsulated solid mineral nutrients that dissolve slowly in water,…

Cold and damp is bad, no matter what you may have heard recently about it making no difference. The common cold virus reproduces itself more efficiently in the cooler temperatures found inside the…

The obesity paradox - where obese people remain quite healthy - defies convenient epidemiological and nutritional thinking. But age catches up to us all. Everyone gets less healthy over time - age is…

A  study that  followed participants in a study of nurses established in 1989, which surveyed more than 116,000 participants about their diets and other health habits every two years,…

In 2006,  Dr. J. E. McPherson, professor emeritus at Southern Illinois University, was working with colleagues on a key to the nymphs of three midwestern species of assassin bug in the…

The village of Nichoria in Messenia was located near the palace of Pylos during the Greek Bronze Age, when Greece was considered a Superpower of the Mediterranean. The region thrived on its trade and…

The death of a three-year-old child caused by drinking unpasteurized milk late last year invited much commentary about food safety and regulation. But little has been said about the man who gave his…

Many consumers today feel out of touch with how their food is produced and are disturbed by a lot of what they hear about it through their social networks or other sources of information. If it is…

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If we want to maximize creativity, tying cash to creative output is a bad idea. tanakawho/Flickr By Dan Hunter, Swinburne University of Technology Imagine you were asked to write a law that…

Neutrinos almost never interact, 10,000,000,000,000 neutrinos pass through your hand every second but fewer than one actually makes contact with any of the atoms inside us.  When neutrinos do…

The following is a guest post by David Orban, CEO at Dotsub, faculty and advisor at Singularity University, and trustee of Network Society Research. When I implanted an NFC chip in my left hand about…

Humans who eat a lot of red meat are known to be at higher risk for certain cancers but other carnivores are not, which is a bit of an epidemiological puzzle, mostly because cancer rates in animals…

I think it's time for a little snow - C.P.Snow, that is.   Charles Percy Snow was an English physical chemist, novelist and civil servant. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of…

It's commonly said that moderate alcohol consumption is good for people, but no one knew why and the determination of moderate was arbitrary. A new study of 618 Swedes with coronary heart disease and…

It's never too late to start balancing the calorie ledger. rangizzz By Lee Hamilton, University of Stirling Like many high school students I completely misunderstood the philosopher Herbert Spencer’s…