Imagine lying in bed the morning after a binge as you reconstruct the night. Oh right! Now you remember going from the first party to the second. You remember the drink that put you over the edge.…

If there is one thing wealthy elites across the developed world share in common, it is increasingly denying vaccines and genetically modified foods. One organic food marketer is laying it right on…

The code for every gene includes a message at the end of it that signals the translation machinery to stop but diseases like cystic fibrosis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy can result from mutations…

We often think of April 1st as more of a modern event, because it's sort of stupid and we think of our ancestors as being more serious.   Not so. Even the eminent biologist Charles Darwin got…

The deepest areas of the Baltic Sea have always had a low oxygen content. The inflow of fresh water is actually limited by low thresholds at the entrance to the Baltic Sea. At the same time, there…

It finally happened. One of the purple striped socks my daughter Lana had given me as a birthday present in Winnipeg a few years ago vanished at some stage while I was doing laundry in Los Angeles,…

The obvious way to avoid getting a speeding ticket is to always obey speed limits. But there's no science or thought in that, there is just conformity. Instead, figuring out how to fool a speed…

The Dig for Richard III, authorized by the Leicester City Council and commissioned and paid for by Philippa Langley of the Richard III Society, unearthed a body and it was declared that of Richard…

ndergraduate maths students at the University of Leicester have risen to the challenge set for them by building company Jelson Homes to work out the precise formula for the perfect cuppa- for their…

GWPF Hires Lord Monckton As I.T. Consultant Lord Lawson, founder of the Global Warming Policy Foundation is to pay Viscount Monckton an undisclosed retainer for I.T. consultancy services following a…

Caribou Coffee, founded in 1992, says nationwide surveys show that the number one complaint of coffee-drinkers is the way it stains. Be it coffee rings to drips on white dress shirts to stains on…

Bottom Line: Stiffening of the arteries appears to be associated with the progressive buildup of β-amyloid (Αβ) plaque in the brains of elderly patients without dementia, suggesting a relationship…

Fast food giants are happy to promote healthy menus - they are in the revenue generation business, they will sell what people want to buy. Yet food activists and government officials seem to lack…

There are recurring calls to make scientists more social. Scientists have already accepted government control of academic research and now fellow academics and some in the bureaucracy want to task…

Increasing heat is estimated to extend dry conditions to far more farmland and cities by the end of the century, according to a new paper. Much of the concern about future drought under a global…

Do you live where your job is or do you move to be near people who match your personality as far as being agreeable or conscientious?  California has three Democratic state senators under…

It might seem that when lives are at stake, a little bit of pressure comes with the territory. Doctors who can't take pressure should be doing something besides medicine, like teaching at medical…

An experimental anticancer compound, one of a class of compounds known as PAK inhibitors, appears to have reversed behaviors associated with schizophrenia and restored some lost brain cell function…

DURHAM, N.C. -- Making a snap decision usually means following your initial reaction -- going with your gut. That intuitive feeling sprouts from the limbic system, the evolutionarily older and…

DARIEN, IL – A new study of older men found a link between poor sleep quality and the development of cognitive decline over three to four years. Results show that higher levels of fragmented sleep…