A recent study conducted by the ENIGMA MDD Working Group has shed new light on how depression affects the brain. For years, it’s been the believed that brain damage was the culprit behind chronic or...
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I was certain that I was right that the LA Times/USC Presidential poll was horribly ill thought....
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 ticking hands of the death clock care nothing for any plans we have. The hands remain indifferent to those things that we might yet achieve. They have not one shred of sympathy for the grieving loved...
Our favorite brainiac, the always delightfully irreverent Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, was busy Christmas morning. He did two things that always infuriate the religious right:
Tell the truth.
Be hella offensive (by their definition).
I can hear my...
Earlier, we mentioned that Senator Jim Inhofe, arguably the loudest climate-change denier in the Senate, made a complete fool of himself on national television yesterday. The Oklahoma Republican used a snowball he'd rolled up earlier...
Research shows that a child’s birth month plays a significant role in the diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It has been proven in a recent study that students who are born in August run a much...
Donald Trump (R-N.Y.) finally announced his running mate this week. Out of all of the Republicans from whom he could choose, he picked Mike Pence, who is the Republican governor of Indiana. He is also a...
A new bill being introduced in Oregon is aiming to better regulate how farmers use antibiotics on their livestock.
The practice of administering antibiotics to entire herds of livestock has been fairly common, although antibiotic-free meats...
Is this video deflating ?DeflateGate?? Or, is science so obvious not even ESPN can deny it?
After causing significant uproar publishing a damning article accusing the New England Patriots of cheating, ESPN is now distributing a...
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Currently, one in five species on Earth faces extinction. According to the Biological Extinction Conference held at the Vatican last week, that percentage will rise to 50% by the end of the century unless we take immediate urgent action...
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...
The anti-vaccine movement is at the intersection of conspiracy theory and pseudo-science. Therefore, it is of little surprise that those pathetic fools in this so-called “movement” see an ally in President-elect Donald Trump.
According to a...
With California facing one of the worst droughts in its history, Governor Jerry Brown (D) had to declare a state of emergency back in January. Since then, the state has had to deal with multiple...
This week in science, there are many new and exciting things going on!
A lady had her cranium replaced with a 3D printed plastic one (3D plastic prosthetic parts are the future!), amber pieces that were...
We love cats. Well, most of us anyway. I suppose it makes sense that in some parts of the world, felines have become the preferred animal companion for most humans. After all, cats provide us...
I have some great news for you guys. Well, I think it's great news. We are all talking about former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Donald Trump (R-N.Y.). I have another option for...
A recent article published on the Huffington Post website is arguing for the peaceful coexistence between Darwinian theory of evolution and creationism, but it ends up arguing for a quasi-New Age belief system truce. The article...
