Quoted: About half of all adults take some form of dietary supplement, but are these extra vitamins having any effect?

Quoted: My mother is fond of telling me I'm overthinking it -- "it" being anything from the virtues of organic mulch for my flower beds to which booster seats to buy for my daughters -- so you can imagine how she feels about my religious ambivalence.

finally, some (potentially) good news on the environmental front

Quoted: Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose -- but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months. The Waterloo,

medicine is so weird

Quoted: The food dye that gives blue M&Ms their colour can help mend spinal injuries, researchers have claimed after tests on rats.

Quoted: A new study by the Pew Research Center finds that the GOP is alienating scientists to a startling degree. Only six percent of America's scientists identify themselves as Republicans; fifty-five percent call themselves Democrats.

this does not make sense to me

Quoted: Authors say cosmology misses the big picture unless it includes biology

Quoted: Forty years ago Buzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon but suffered a breakdown soon after. He tells Stephen Moss how he has finally managed to fill the space left by space

Quoted: With just a few weeks of training, you can learn to see objects in the dark using echolocation the same way dolphins and bats do. digg_url