They say that who you hang out with says a lot about who you are. Well, the microbes that hang out on your fingers can point to exactly who you are. B...
The Texas Board of Education has long promoted the teaching of creationism in schools instead of actual science. Its former chairman and current membe...
Dont forget to move your clocks forward this weekend. And then dont forget to be more careful in the days after you adjust your clocks. Because a rece...
Think arranged marriages are loveless? Not so, says psychologist Robert Epstein, a contributing editor for Scientific American MIND magazine. He spoke...
You know how uncomfortable it feels when you really have to go to the bathroom? And you have to hold it in? If researchers get their way, disease-carr...
Last week, the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for energy held its inaugural conference in Washington, D.C.a direct response to a growing sense ...
So, theyre scanning your items at the grocery store, and when the last tomato gets bagged youre stunned at the cost. How did you spend so much? Maybe ...
The food industry leads the nation in pounds of waste produced annually. So, whats second? Its health care facilities. They dispose of more than four ...
Sometimes scientific discoveries are hidden in museum specimen drawers and old journal articles. In two studies in the journal Science, researchers wh...
When an ocean liner starts taking on water, what governs whether its women and children first or every man for himself? According to a report in the P...