You definitely didn't have one? Honestly? Shutterstock By Lara Warmelink, Lancaster University Lying is often seen as bad behavior in children. Fairy tales and folk stories, from Aesop’s Peter who…

How much science is in pop music? Can pop culture enhance science communication? A sociology duo recently explored the occurrence of science in the lyrics of Taiwanese pop music. Their results…

"Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour," could be still an actual description of our ability to predict asteroid threats to Earth. The sentence from the Bible (Matthew 25:13) sound…

Some people eat when they are hungry and stop when they are not. Others eat until they are full. For that second group, science may soon have a way to help keep them slimmer. Inulin-propionate ester…

You may not have been born a criminal, but experiences influence how genetic variants affect the brain and therefore behavior, according to a new paper.  The study used a survey of 1,337…

Your brain is still you. Andrew Mason, CC BY By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University Imagine that Brian promises to drive you to the airport but never shows up, and you miss your flight. When…

All complex life, including plants, animals and fungi, consists if of eukaryotic cells, cells with a nucleus, transport mechanisms and often organelles like mitochondria that perform the functions an…

A new analysis to be presented next week at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco says that extreme climate and weather events such as record high temperatures, intense…

"You think you're in pain now, but this is not going to look good on Facebook tomorrow." Stefano Bolognini/National Museum of Denmark By Arosha K Bandara, The Open University The immense popularity…

The latest paper by the ATLAS Collaboration is a very detailed report of the search for Higgs boson decays to W boson pairs in Run 1 data. The H->WW* process contributes significantly to the total…

A study of 1,500 Americans found that media reports about behavioral genetics create unfounded beliefs about what genes can and cannot do, which defeats the purpose of scientific reporting, according…

All the better for hearing you with. Boris Roessler/EPA By Victoria Ratcliffe, University of Sussex and David Reby, University of Sussex Sometimes it may seem like your dog doesn’t want to listen.…

Diseases of dysfunctional mitochondria, also known as mitochondrial diseases, have a prevalence of  up to 1 in 2,000 people and predominantly affect children, though adult-onset disorders are…

Braving the eye of the bomb. Danny Lawson/PA By Edward Hanna, University of Sheffield A dramatically-named “weather bomb” exploded across the UK in the past week, bringing winds gusting up to 144 mph…

Charles Hatchett - Tribologist to the Royal Mint Charles Hatchett is widely known as the discoverer of Niobium, but he deserves recogniton for other acheivements also.  He was the first…

In all of the money and outreach trying to convince more Americans to become scientists, what is most often left out is we train lots of scientists that we then force to return home, where they…

Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein made black holes hot, my latest work shows just how cool they really are.   I have derived a formula for the temperature of a black hole which has the…

In 1992, some shipping containers got washed overboard on a trip from Hong Kong to Tacoma. Among the losses was one containing 28,800 plastic bath toys known as Friendly Floatees - frogs, turtles,…

Researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Barcelona have used data from astronomical surveys to measure a standard distance that is central to our understanding of the expansion…

Since it's Science 2.0, the most popular articles are not going to be the same as mainstream media, with Miracle Vegetables and Scare Journalism and outrage over an ESA engineer's shirt.  Like…