Periodontitis, gum infection that damages the soft tissue and destroys the bone that supports teeth, is the sixth most prevalent condition in the world affecting 743 million people worldwide,…

Ryan Rykaczewski, an oceanographer and assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, is part of a team that are looking deep into the ocean's past, and they have shown that natural…

Ice ebbs and flows, that is no secret - but lost in claims that ice is as widespread as ever is the reality that it is now thinner, and the difference is so noticeable the Gravity field and steady…

Vermont recently passed a law putting warning labels on GMOs, but they made sure to have lots of important exemptions - restaurants were exempt, any prepared food was exempt, alcohol was…

By:  Karin Heineman, Inside Science (Inside Science TV) – Dogs and cats can suffer from some of the same illnesses as humans such as allergies, cancer and even Alzheimer's disease. Currently…

Outside the developed world, global population continues to rise but all of the best agricultural locations are in use. If we want people to be self-sufficient (and we do) science is going to need to…

Researchers in Indonesia are releasing the parasitic wasp Anagyrus lopezi in an attempt to save cassava crops from destructive mealybugs. Credit:CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture…

Volcano season. Some think it's the time of the year. Credit: EPA By Robin Wylie, University College London The Earth seems to have been smoking a lot recently. Volcanoes are currently erupting in…

The government says the unemployment level is back at 2009 levels - but they use a metric that no one outside government would consider valid, namely how many people collect unemployment checks.…

The very small is very weird; I explained that the last time in Small Is Ugly 1 already with help of the example of water being in the driest of places (Vastness and Fastness of the Small helps…

There's a common trope in Hollywood celebrities who gain weight and receive attention for it. They talk about how much healthier and better they feel about themselves at higher weight - and then they…

Antidepressants are the most commonly used treatment for social anxiety disorder but we know they don't work for many people and their efficacy goes down over time. New research finds they are not…

Healthy food might be bad for patients. Food for thought. Photo by By Amanda Squire, Cardiff Metropolitan University Imagine you are feeling unwell, in pain, lonely and worried about your future…

The appeal of artificial photosynthesis, in which the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide is used to produce clean, green and sustainable fuels, is that we can turn an atmospheric…

UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and actor Emma Watson launched the HeForShe Campaign at the United Nations headquarters in New York, September 20th. Credit: EPA/JASON SZENES By Evita March, Federation…

Taking over one neuron at a time. Credit: viipeer, CC BY-NC-SA By Nick Bostrom, University of Oxford Biological brains are unlikely to be the final stage of intelligence. Machines already have…

Sympathetic or jealous? Credit: Belly by Shutterstock By Arthur Brennan, St George's, University of London Harry Ashby, the 29-year-old security guard who was signed off work with morning sickness,…

Surprises in the dark. Credit: NASA GSFC, CC BY By Rene Breton, University of Southampton One of the many unanswered questions about the origin of life on Earth is: where did organic molecules –…

A new discovery of thousands of Stone Age tools has provided a major rethink about human innovation 325,000 years ago - and how early technological developments spread across the world.  The…

East Asians and Westerners tend to suffer the same types of food allergies in about the same proportions. But there is an exception. Westerners are roughly twice as likely as East Asians to be…