You're a vegetarian? But your subconscious ordered the Meat Lover's! BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA By John M. Henderson,University of South Carolina If you prefer to order your pizza without going through…

The jellyfish highway. By Stefano Piraino, University of Salento and Bella Galil, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research For a month or two every summer, beaches across the south-eastern…

Macrophages sweep up cellular debris and pathogens in order to thwart infection - sometimes even before the white blood cells, which are designed for that task.  Neutrophils, white blood cells,…

There are not a lot of new stories to be found by the humanities in ancient parchments, but millions of documents stored in archives could trace agricultural development across the centuries,…

Women over the age of 70 with certain early-stage breast cancers don't get much benefit from radiation therapy, according to studies, but they still get it.  The reason is because doctors were…

Great - after posting a blog on alpha_strong and the new CMS measurement of its value yesterday, today I am leaving for the US. My internet connection is going to be shaky during my trip, and…

Great - after posting a blog on alpha_strong, I am leaving today for Mexico. My internet connection is going to be shaky, and right now I am living on the free airport wifi in Paris. But fortunately,…

Great - after posting a blog on alpha_strong, I am leaving today for Mexico. My internet connection is going to be shaky, and right now I am living on the free airport wifi in Paris. But fortunately,…

Psychology lacks the methodological rigor of science, but bold claims are popular in corporate media and so they become paper of consumer belief. One recent popular claim is that being bilingual…

What made the wealthy elites in San Fransisco and Seattle who deny the benefits of child vaccines suddenly clamor for government action to create more vaccines? Two cases of Ebola in the United…

Despite the high capital costs, nuclear ticks boxes. Kaissa By Malcolm Grimston, Imperial College London An experiment in liberalizing power markets has been underway in the UK since the 1980s and…

Using commercial solar cells, researchers have converted over 40 percent of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. Since plant photosynthesis, the…

For many men, the down sides of PSA testing outweigh the benefits. Gerald Streiter/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Ian Haines, Monash University Cancer Council Australia and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of…

A study has found that elite Kenyan athletes have greater brain oxygenation during periods of maximum physical effort, which contributes to their success in long-distance races. Dr. Jordan Santos…

Researchers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) and NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries today announced the discovery of an intact "ghost ship" in 2,000 feet of water nearly 20 miles off the…

Wind farms like this one probably wouldn't exist if the government didn't provide a hefty subsidy. Shutterstock By Randy Simmons, Utah State University Congress passed the wind production tax credit…

Undiscovered Worlds and Pale Blue Dots May 9th 2015 will see the inauguration of Cornell University's new Institute for Pale Blue Dots.  Details here. The first image of a "pale blue dot" was…

One of the funniest misnomers in particle physics is the naming of coupling strength parameters of the fundamental interactions as "constants". We speak of a fine structure constant (alpha) to…

The chemical messenger dopamine, colloquially called the 'happiness hormone', is important outside social psychology articles on Valentine's Day also; it has been linked to motivation and motor…

Skin color varies according to latitude and therefore by the intensity of incident ultraviolet light; according to biologists, that is why individuals living at low latitudes developed darker skin,…