An Ochre starfish, in healthier times. Amanda Bates, Author provided By Amanda Bates, University of Southampton We live in a time when our climate is warming more rapidly than ever before. Rising…

Iowa corn farmers have a lot of clout during the political cycle in America. Former US Vice-President Al Gore even sided with environmentalists and embraced ethanol - which all of science said…

By Sue Thomas, Bournemouth University Looking over the landscape I could see an old tree standing frozen and seemingly dead, its branches coated with icy rime. Around it, mossy grass and small rocks…

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible picture of Tropical Storm Adjali on Nov. 19th at 9:05 UTC (1:05 A.M.…

In bean sprouts, a collection of amino acids called a protein complex allows them to grow longer in the darkness than in the light. In humans, there is a similar protein complex called CSN, and its…

The Lacey Act, introduced in 1900 by Republican Congressman John F. Lacey of Iowa, was originally designed to stop illegal game across state borders but was then expanded, notably by President Ronald…

The LHCb experiment collaborators at the Large Hadron Collider have announced discovery of two new particles in the baryon family. The particles, known as the Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-, were predicted…

Bacteria are everywhere and so efforts to make cleaner energy using them are ongoing. A report today shows how electrons hop across otherwise electrically insulated areas of bacterial proteins, and…

Oh, no, wait – it's the 21st century! Carl Guderian By Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia It’s official: men are better writers than women. The news came as something of a shock to a…

Historical acid deposits have greatly reduced calcium levels in Canadian lakes and that is dramatically impacting populations of calcium-rich plankton such as Daphnia - water fleas that dominate…

It is commonly believed that one key issue in brain again is that it becomes less flexible - plastic - and that learning may therefore become more difficult. A new study contradicts that and shows…

Scientists have found that seed dormancy, a property that prevents germination when conditions are not right, was present in the first seeds 360 million years ago. Seed dormancy is a phenomenon that…

Time is relative. What is a long time to humans is nothing to a mountain. Like humans, mountains usually burst on the scene, then they stand tall and finally age wears them down and their sharp…

Following a woman in high heels up out of the subway is like discovering America. Following a woman in flip-flops up out of the subway is like riding the subway. - Rich Brookhiser Women judge men by…

On a quest to design an alternative to the complex approaches currently used to produce electrons within microwave electron guns, a team of researchers have demonstrated a plug-and-play solution…

Dr. Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) and Andrew (Miles Teller) in Whiplash By Lauren Rosewarne, University of Melbourne A decade of piano lessons with a woman who never allowed my lack of passion, prowess or…

Where it begins. Nature By Andy Tattersall, University of Sheffield Dirty Harry once said, “Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one”. Now that the Internet has made it easier than ever to share…

There are cosmic alignments over the largest structures ever discovered in the Universe - the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in quasars billions of light years apart are…

A new America? Warner Bros. Pictures By Peter Bloom, The Open University "Interstellar" has been praised for its attempt to make the “hard science” of astrophysics both accessible and exciting to a…

You're twice as likely to chat about vaping than you were in 2013. Tibanna79 By Robbie Love, Lancaster University Selfies were so 2013. But vaping’s in: Oxford Dictionaries have announced vape as its…