Science is what scientist do. And the scientific method is the method scientists follow. A tautology you say? Not according to George Ellis and Joe Silk. In an opinion paper in Nature under the title…

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the…

For several years I felt the desire to give readers a positive message around this time of year, as it is the most depressive for many. Alas, as you can tell from my writing ever less, I have little…

Try to avoid making this face when dealing with a climate change skeptic this holiday. bark/flickr, CC BY By Will J Grant, Australian National University and Rod Lamberts, Australian National…

Although prostate cancer will affect over 23,000 U.S. men next year, the individual genes that initiate prostate cancer formation are poorly understood, but finding an enzyme that regulates this…

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of Congress, which exists to support Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and to help…

Over the past decade, ocean acidification has started to receive recognition outside science, though primarily as another weapon in the 'carbon dioxide' culture war on the modern world, similar to…

If you think of quantum physics in terms of information about a system, it is a lot less complicated, according to a new paper. In that context, features of the quantum world previously…

Cockroaches are most often though of as infecting human homes but a new species and a new subspecies discovered in China prefer to live a hermit life, drilling logs far away from crowds and…

blood from a young mouse--or even just a factor known as GDF11 from young mouse blood--can rejuvenate the muscles and brains of older mice. The findings have led to a clinical trial in which…

Butterflies aren't the only ones with snazzy stripes. Ben Sale, CC BY By Callum Macgregor, University of Hull Ask people to describe what they associate with butterflies, and you will probably get an…

Oceanlab Scientists Film Supergiant Amphipod and Deepest Fish Scientists at the University of Aberdeen have set a new record for the world's deepest fish, a species of snailfish, which was filmed in…

It's no secret that universities are left-wing - conservatives have complained about that since the early 1950s, but back then it was mostly in the humanities so only those conservatives who came…

Good Needlwork magazine shows you how to get better bosoms. Image: Dave Whatt By Jo Brewis, University of Leicester When my good friend and long-term collaborator Sam Warren was given a pile of women…

Televisiom programs such as "The Dr. Oz Show" and "The Doctors" have attracted massive followings, primarily due to having charismatic hosts who clearly mean well, coupled with a public desire to…

Freeze your eggs or your career? Shutterstock By Jenna Healey, Yale University The shift towards late motherhood – commonly defined as motherhood after 35 – is often presented as a story of progress…

A terrestrial laser scanning technique that allows the structure of vegetation to be 3D-mapped to the millimeter is more accurate in determining the biomass of trees and carbon stocks in forests than…

Children should be taken into consideration when helping adults with mental health issues. Shutterstock By Sam Cartwright-Hatton, University of Sussex Mental illness runs in families. This is well…

It's no secret that some people are better at navigating than others, but it has been unclear why. In order to successfully navigate to a destination, you need to know which direction you are…

In case you are fooled by the title, and are expecting to learn about a retro-metal group with a really terrible name, I apologize in advance. That's not what this is about. At some point during the…