An Institutional Review Board has granted ethical permission to a biotech company to conduct experiments on human test subjects. Bioquark Inc. will spend the next year testing controversial therapies on 20 brain-dead patients in an...
A study performed by the University of Alabama (UA) says that conservatives are less likely to be interested in new scientific data.
Dr. Alexa Tullett, an assistant professor of psychology at UA, authored a project called...
Bobby Azarian, a neuroscientist, wrote this article for Raw Story. He was offended that we covered his excellent content and did not credit him or Raw Story. An honest mistake on our part, as we...
Scientists at the University of Nebraska are stepping out to let the government know, they won't tolerate political hindrance in matters of science. This comes shortly after the state legislature passed a bill that commissions...
Recent Martian expeditions have paid dividends as of this morning, when NASA scientists shocked the world by announcing the presence of liquid water on Mars.
How could that be? Mars is a barren hellscape with a...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has decided to go after the Food And Drug Administration (FDA). He called them the "food police," and wants to cut back food safety regulations.
According to a fact sheet on his...
Virgin Births - It's Not Just For Mythology
Background
There are many myths which have tales of mothers?giving birth without conception. In our current reality, no human has this ability. ?This isn't the case however for?some sharks,...
Rachel Harding is a scientist at the University of Toronto studying Huntington's disease. She has begun blogging her research results. Harding is a post-doctoral fellow working with Structural Genomics Consortium. The gene that causes Huntington's disease was identified in...
Science is an amazing discipline. At its core, it's just a bunch of people being curious about stuff. The invention of the microscope helped scientists to be able to look more closely at the stuff...
The Creationists say that the Earth is only 6,000-years-old because the Bible tells them so. But, does it really say that?
Dating the Earth isn't even in the Bible at all. So, where do they get...
This has been a divisive issue for many years. Some states are starting to legalize it. Besides getting intoxicated, the marijuana plant has many other uses. There is a bill up for vote in Alabama...
On Tuesday, September 15, President Barack Obama signed an executive order promoting the use of behavioral science data in policy making and the design of government programs. The order states,
"Where Federal policies have been designed...
Former neurosurgeon and 2016 presidential hopeful Ben Carson didn't have to study or have a chemistry tutor for his college classes. He got his answers directly from the ULTIMATE chemistry tutor -- God himself, in...
Health officials in Nevada County, California are worried about a possible measles outbreak after a student tested positive for measles in a school with a large number of unvaccinated children.
An unnamed student who attends the...
Hurricane Matthew, is headed for the East Coast. Thousands of people are traveling inland to avoid it. It is hitting Florida and South Carolina today. Florida Governor Rick Scott said:
"We are preparing for the worst,...
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the most quotable of the United States' scientists. He outdid himself at Drake University in his lecture for the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture series though. During the question-and-answer...
Absorbing caffeine through the skin with a bracelet? Yes, it's possible, according to the creators of Joule, a new product for caffeine junkies.
Mashable brought attention to the product through its Indiegogo campaign, where their initial fundraising...
In June of 2015, Donald Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords.
So much has transpired the past two years, it's easy to forget.
Yet...
The FDA just approved new technology that allows a syringe to inject sponges into open bullet wounds.
The revolutionary XStat Rapid Hemostasis System, commonly referred to as a "bullet wound tampon," has the potential to save...
