Magic and sparkle? Diliff, CC BY By Isabelle Szmigin, University of Birmingham As well as the tell-tale signs of decorations going up, the rolling out of Christmas advertisements has become a key…

I have been given the privilege of publishing during the Beta test period in the Open Access journal The Winnower for no cost but my time and care.  I was also given assistance by the…

What if whether you got a job was determined by which web browser you used? Shutterstock By Mark Burdon, The University of Queensland and Paul Harpur, The University of Queensland Staff recruitment…

New age ways of teaching where the children guide their learning rather than the teacher are perhaps not as effective. Shutterstock By Kevin Donnelly, Australian Catholic University Seventy teachers…

As we move closer to the highly anticipated first ever test flight of the Orion spacecraft, there's an aerospace company which would be keeping its fingers tightly crossed during this nail-biting…

The retina is the neural tissue in the back of the eye that initiates vision. It is responsible for receiving light signals and converting them into neurologic signals, which are then transmitted via…

Sometimes you don't need to travel to the unexplored corners of the globe to discover a new species of plant. Sometimes they can be really close to home, you just have to spend 40 years of your life…

Communications with NASA's STEREO Behind spacecraft were interrupted on October 1, 2014 immediately after a planned reset of the spacecraft performed as part of a test of solar conjunction…

It's pretty common in culture, from Turkey to Tennessee, for a public that otherwise does not condone rape to joke about it when it comes to male criminals. And the more heinous the crime, not only…

Scientists have identified four new genes associated with a severe food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), which has only recently been recognized as a distinct condition. Its hallmark is…

Archaea are a family of single-celled organisms that can thrive in environments like boiling hydrothermal pools and smoking deep sea vents deep underground, which are too extreme for most other…

It's a story as old as medicine. When it comes to treatments, people don't always obey the written word. When it comes to antibiotics, for example, people may stop taking them when they feel better…

According to NASA’s official blog a leak of the khladon gas (Freon-218), used in the air conditioning system has occurred at the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the International…

Frank Priestley, President of the Idaho Farm Bureau, notes that some consumers will benefit from GMO labeling laws - if those consumers are organic farmers and have an audience so educated by…

L'Aquila is still in repair. Roberto Taddeo By Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology It has been five years since an earthquake hit the Italian city of L’Aquila leaving 309 people dead…

King's College Chapel: beauty, art, profundity – but truth? Tom Thai, CC BY-SA By Simon Blackburn, University of Cambridge My idea of bliss is a Sunday walk that takes in first some English…

Doubling and even nearly tripling saturated fat in diets does not drive up total levels of saturated fat in the blood, according to a controlled diet study. The researchers found that total saturated…

Retired baseball stars Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro each have Hall of Fame-worthy numbers, more than 500 home runs. Yet each is clouded by suspicion or admission of steroid use.…

Want to improve tomato crop yields without using more fertilizer? Try  verimcompost leachate. That is a soil ameliorant, which is basically a fertilizer but made of an organic liquid produced by…

New findings about carbon deep beneath the Earth's surface suggest it might have influenced the history of life on the planet - and diamonds. There is little understanding of how carbon behaved deep…