science

Need an excuse to raise a glass? A new study finds that alcohol may reduce both the severity of rheumatoid arthritis and the risk of getting it in the first place. But don't overdo it: more research is needed, and excessive drinking can do more harm than good.

Two trends have emerged from the 2010 International AIDS Conference taking place in Vienna: Science has made great strides to combat the disease, but global demand for drug therapies exceeds the funding available to pay for them.

The popular narrative in the world of higher education is that American students aren't being taught as rigorously as those in other countries, and we're falling behind. But do the scores of high school students on math and science tests really matter for the nation's long-term economic outlook?

King Tut had a pyramid to keep his memory alive, today for the relatively low, low price of $399, immortality seekers can store one gigabyte of digital memories and a DNA sample in a nuclear bomb-proof vault in Gstaad, Switzerland. Forever. "Don't just disappear," cautions the Swiss DNA Bank's...

In a word -- Yes. Thanks to a combination of factors, Scitable, both the science website and the platform itself, has the potential to change the way students learn and, more importantly to students; how much they have to pay for access to up-to-date, credible, high-quality information.

That luscious ahi tuna roll you chowed down on at your local sushi joint? It's the same as eating an endangered Siberian tiger. Well, not quite. But scientists are increasingly worried that ahi, the blood-red belle of the raw-fish ball, is being quickly fished to extinction courtesy of the...

In a story ripe for fright matching Alfred Hitchcock's famous shower scene, researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have discovered that taking a shower can deliver a face full of potentially dangerous bacteria. Researchers analyzed roughly 50 showerheads from nine cities in seven...

If your family is anything like mine, there are certain people (*cough* HUSBAND! *cough*) who have cast aspersions on Twitter, and the time you've spent on it. I mean, come on, we know how valuable it is. Those 8,631 updates don't write themselves! Actually, make that 8,632. I had to tweet about...

The Daily Mail, a UK newspaper, made its own headline today on Twitter after publishing a story linking Twitter usage to an increase in immorality. The article, which relies heavily on a yet-to-be-published research paper out of the University of Southern California Brain and Creativity Center,...

While many pundits bemoan the loss of manufacturing jobs, I'm more concerned about our nation's long-term plan to promote innovation. The U.S. has long been a leader in invention, thanks to the best higher education system in the world and generous federal funding for scientific research. However,...