Improve your eating habits and will improve your health, common medical wisdom goes. A new article in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology finds that we might as well keep eating poorly. They contend…

A new test may help eliminate onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, which is a leading cause of preventable blindness in Africa. The SD BIOLINE Onchocerciasis IgG4 antibody-based test is…

Modern biology has a problem - how to find meaning in the rising oceans of genomic data, such as the reams of cancer mutations that genome-wide studies are publishing every week. The challenge is…

William Murphy/flickr  By: Alexander Hellemans, Inside Science (Inside Science) -- Researchers around the world are studying how to destroy chemical and biological warfare agents without anyone…

Antibodies that recognize and home in on molecular targets are among the most useful tools in biology and medicine - now those kinds of techniques are getting smaller and easier to produce in the…

Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, after arriving at the SpaceShipTwo in Mojave Desert, California on Saturday, acknowledged that his dream of commercial space tourism may have ended in the…

The way this is usually presented is - that we can simulate physics on a computer. So what is to stop us eventually simulating your whole body including your brain? And if so, is it not just a matter…

The brain is based on physics, and we can simulate physics on a computer, so what is to stop us eventually simulating human beings in a computer, your whole body including your brain? Many…

Villa Bajo Flores in Buenos Aires. Roy Maconachie, CC BY-SA By Séverine Deneulin, University of Bath and Roy Maconachie, University of Bath In recent years, many films have portrayed the landscape of…

Improved behavior and learning in the classroom by primary school students can be achieved in just for minutes according to new research by Brendon Gurd.  Since the education industry needs to…

A study that collected sea lion fecal samples and mussels from the ocean near the mouths of rivers as well as from the shore near sea lion haul-out sites along the central coast of California found…

An active region on the sun labeled AR 12192 rotated into view on Oct. 18th. It was already an area of intense and complex magnetic fields and soon grew into the largest such region in 24 years. It…

The IPCC is clear on the dangers of fossil fuels. Pete Markham, CC BY-SA By Simon Buckle, Imperial College London The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is set to publish the “synthesis…

Chocolate as brain food? Credit: John Loo/Flickr By Meredith Knight, Genetic Literacy Project Scanning headlines last week, one may have been persuaded that chocolate consumption preserves and…

NASA’s Wallops Incident Response Team has completed an initial assessment of Wallops Island, Virginia, following the explosion of Orbital’s Antares rocket shortly after liftoff at 6:22 p.m. EDT…

We should know by now - don't click that link. Bill Buchanan, Author provided By Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Computer security relies on…

Though he is glorified by modern science advocates, Galileo was wrong about a lot of things - for example, when his calculation that the tides only happened once a day and was at the same time was…

Credit: Goldenrice.org By XiaoZhi Lim, Genetic Literacy Project The Green Revolution that began in the 1940s and 50s brought about large increases in crop yields and saved millions of people from…

As happened in both California and Washington state referendums in recent years, what seemed like an easy path to victory for supporters of a mandatory GMO labeling law in Oregon has turned into a…

Ready, set, type! Maksim Kabakou/Shutterstock By Sally O'Reilly, The Open University We live in a culture obsessed with speed: fast-food, Twitter, overnight celebrity, instant make-overs and cutting…