Only a small fraction of bacteria can be grown in laboratories; apparently nobody understands what they need in their environment well enoug...

The American Heart Association this week issued widely publicized recommendations about how Americans are drowning in sugar, and they sugges...

A paper in the August PLoS ONE (Ants, Cataglyphis cursor , Use Precisely Directed Rescue Behavior to Free Entrapped Relatives, Nowbarhari e...

A study out of the University of Indiana, described on the BBC website today, reports that married people have better cancer survival than u...

We have tried not to get immersed in the so-called debate or controversy over evolution vs religion. But one can only bite one's tongu...

Calamari lovers, take a look at an interesting evolutionary story at the BBC web site of a fossil squid. This little gem is an estimated 1...

There's a report in this week's Nature of Francis Collin's announced agenda for the NIH ("Collins sets out his vision for ...