Science & Society

President Obama is getting credit for one odd thing in a new paper - diminishing American exceptionalism and confidence. America is a lot less egotistical than it used to be. American exceptionalism…

If you are skeptical of nutrition advice in general, or Miracle Vegetable of the Week claims in mainstream media, you have good reason: In a world where the United Nations body on cancer meta-…

The latest Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa also took its toll socially on one of the fastest growing populations in the United States - African immigrants. Guy-Lucien Whembolua, a University of…

Organic food has managed to wrap itself in both a health and ethical halo and a lot of the credit for that has to go to outstanding marketing and the work of trade groups that represent organic…

A new survey reveals that couples enjoyed more frequent and satisfying sex for both partners when men made a fair contribution to housework. The same paper also says there's no relationship between…

38 percent of state public health workers plan to leave the public health workforce by 2020 but it isn't just retirement, they want to get out of a health care system that is even more micromanaged…

This year to celebrate Halloween, Digital Science have compiled their top five spooky scientific research papers.   Supernatural movement A group of Dutch physicists have studied one of the…

Citations are a time-honored measure now used to assess scholarly standing and evaluate academic productivity by funding committees that control government research. For that reason, citations that…

It's no secret that cigarettes and heavy drinking are linked, people who engage in risky behaviors tend to do so in multiple ways, but a link to e-cigarettes, which have no tobacco, is new. A paper…

Only 2 percent of Internet pages with information on firearm storage correctly identified all four practices that encompass safe gun storage. In frontier days, gun safety was a given but in the…