Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) argued the US has to grow its domestic energy industry because it is “locked in a global battle to determine who will produce oil and gas in the world in the future” during Saturday’s GOP Weekly
The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift argued the Republican “war on science” was 2015’s most under-reported story on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Clift said, “I guess I would give it [the award for Most Under-Reported Story] to the Republican ongoing war against
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nullified a 30-year ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.
SHENZHEN, China (AP) — At least 91 people were missing Monday, a day after a man-made mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Saturday morning in San Ramon, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:34 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 5.6 miles.
A South Bay hospital is trying to track down more than 350 newborns and their mothers because they may have been exposed to tuberculosis.
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, D-MA, has long labored in the shadows of the Bay State statesmen who preceded him, but Tuesday the Congressional lifer managed something few solons from Massachusetts or anywhere else have ever accomplished.
How can you have a debate about climate, when the topic of the debate is out of bounds of polite conversation? At lunch I noted to colleagues that most (but not all) journalists seemed to disappear from the scientific session, and the zombies had wandered off to seek other brains to devour. Science seemed not to be the topic of interest, even when science was the actual topic.
The heated battle over cultural insensitivity at Yale University has a new victim: Science.
The CEO and lead scientist of the world’s largest cloning factory says that they now have technology capable of replicating human beings. “The technology is already there,” said Xu Xiaochun, the 44-year-old Chairman of the Boyalife group, which is building
Wisconsin parents quickly united to block a pro-homosexual activist from pitching her pro-transgender claim to their six-year-old kids, despite getting only one school day of warning from local school officials.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is responsible for some of the world’s most significant scientific and technological breakthroughs.
American medical researchers have just announced the potential end of daily insulin injections for Type 1 diabetes suffers through an innovation that restores insulin production for up to a year.
In a Philadelphia court earlier this week, the NFL sought to exclude the families of plaintiffs diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after the settlement from receiving payments from the billion-dollar pool set up for retired players. In a Boston court last week, Joanna Leigh pled guilty to defrauding Boston Marathon charities of nearly $40,000 after claiming a non-existent brain injury from the 2013 bomb blast. A thread beyond brain injuries ties the two cases together.
A viral trend involving placing cucumbers behind cats has been deemed cruel and harmful behavior by some experts.
A researcher who investigated the new study that shows increased death rates among middle-aged, middle-class whites has revealed something even more jarring — since 2005, all the extra dead were women, not men.
It’s on its way! A “Godzilla” El Niño could devastate Los Angeles. City leaders are warning residents to be prepared.
A Roseville man who has been a vocally staunch opponent of California’s mandatory vaccination law has been charged with willful cruelty to a child after a feud over a handicapped parking spot at his son’s school led to his arrest.
“Does God exist?” is, perhaps, humanity’s oldest philosophical question.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infects around 3.7 billion of the world’s population under 50-years-old.
Scientists have rounded on the World Health Organisation (WHO) for claiming that sausages, bacon and ham could pose as big a cancer risk as cigarettes. Breitbart London reported yesterday how the WHO is due to add red and processed meats
Bacon, sausages and burgers are as likely to cause cancer as smoking, the World Health Organisation is set to announce. Also due to join its ‘encyclopaedia of carcinogens’ is fresh red meat, which has been deemed only slightly less risky.
Huge numbers of women are opposed to fracking because they don’t understand the science behind the process, a leading female scientist has claimed. Men are nearly twice as likely to support fracking as women, research has shown. Professor Averil Macdonald
In spite of the hubbub surrounding the appearance of “clock kid” Ahmed Mohamed at the White House, President Obama didn’t make him the center of attention during an event that was squarely focused on astronomy.
Deputies arrested an East Texas economics professor on alleged child pornography possession charges after inappropriate images traced back to him on the business college’s computer.
