A brouhaha blew up on the blogosphere after the editor in chief of leading science publication Scientific American removed a shocking entry from one biologist-blogger.
A personal genetics firm was recently granted a patent on a system that lets you predict the traits of a baby -- but the company promises not to use.
Politicians have their pick of strange-sounding studies when they want to call for cuts to science spending
Authorities in New York say they've found hundreds of snakes including two 6-foot Burmese pythons at an animal control officer's house.
Google on Wednesday announced Calico, an ambitious new company that aims to solve some of the biggest problems facing humanity today: illness, aging, diseases, and ultimately, maybe even death itself.
People who think they are drunk also think they are attractive? Lost dung beetles can use the Milky Way to find their way home? Yep, it's the Ig Nobel awards again.
The brain does have a “sixth sense” beyond taste, smell, touch, sight and hearing, researchers say, but it’s nothing worthy of the X-Men.
Wearing glasses and a lab coat, and holding out two Erlenmeyer flasks, Professor C. Bodin (as her nametag reads) is Lego's first female scientist.
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