By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge.

It’s true that Facebook and Twitter have led many away from blogging because they are so fast and easy to use, but they have also both helped to reinforce blogging in many ways.

Conservative candidates are more attractive physically than their liberal counterparts, according to a new study. This trend could benefit right-leaning candidates at the ballot box.

Squatting empty buildings is not a criminal offence. It is, in fact, an ancient right, a tradition that can be traced back over centuries of popular dissent and pragmatism.

Tattooed teachers make students more motivated and more creative, not to mention stand a better chance of getting a positive recommendation from her pupils.

Trees brighten city streets and delight nature-starved urbanites. Now scientists are learning that they also play a crucial role in the green infrastructure of America’s cities.

Over the last month, we've seen that social media can be a powerful tool in assisting revolutions in countries. But can those media be useful in empowering corporate revolutions?

With the emergence of new tools that can measure a person's biological state, computer interfaces are starting to take users' feelings into account, helping the user to focus.

Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, is struggling to maintain his authority in the country as vast swathes of territory in the east now appear to be under the control of pro-democracy protesters.

Last week I had the opportunity to moderate a world-class panel here on campus featuring AU film professor Larry Engel, science education advocate Eugenie Scott, and National Academies science education […]

Charles Spencer of American University Media services did a terrific Web story on the Google science communication fellows program I will be participating in this year.  Here's an excerpt where […]

Why do virtually all men over the age of 90 develop some amount of prostate cancer whereas heart cancer is practically unheard of?

A Georgia Representative has introduced a bill to investigate all unsupervised miscarriages as crimescenes. Don't believe me? Here's the relevant language from HB 1, downloadable from legislature's website: When a […]

The physicist and comic book enthusiast outlines technologies that were once imagined by science fiction writers that have now found social utility.

Medical science has developed a greater awareness of the link between hormonal changes and cancer. Could this information explain not just why we get the disease, but when?

Medical science is no longer in the dark about how certain cancers are able to stage a comeback. But shedding light on the cancer stem cell theory has forced us […]

The previous director of the National Cancer Institute wanted to banish suffering and death from cancer by 2015. Current director Harold Varmus says this claim was not based on reality, […]

Seemingly every year there are new reports that something we consume or use on a daily basis is carcinogenic. But what exactly does that mean on a biological level?

The Cancer Genome Atlas project, already several years underway, is transforming the way scientists think about and treat cancer.