The man responsible for one of the most significant public health threats of our time has been exposed as a fraud.Andrew Wakefield, the discredited British scientist whose study "linked" vaccines and autism, has been accused of falsifying data.According to...

Tomorrow, 12th February, is Darwin Day. As it happens, this is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth (and "On the Origin of Species" was published 150 years ago in 24 November 1859). Sadly there are no dawin Day evnts in Adelaide, but there are in several...

As the annual meeting of the world's largest scientific society kicks off in Chicago, Illinois, this morning, there's an atmosphere of celebration despite the chilly temperatures outside. It's not just the double anniversary of both Darwin's and Lincoln's birth....

On February 3rd, Dave Conyers of the US House of Representatives re-introduced a bill to repeal the National Institute of Healths public access policy, which says that research funded by this agency must be made freely available on a database called PubMed...

Two hundred years ago today, Robert Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England. Over his 73 years of life, he was an ardent observer of nature and a prolific writer who published tracts on Pollination of Orchids, Formation of Volcanic and Coral Islands,...

Want people to improve their health? Pay them to do it.There’s more evidence suggesting financial incentives work. A study published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine found smokers who were paid to quit succeeded far more often...

It was pretty much smooth sailing, with questions about climate change, climate science, and scientific integrity at the February 12 Senate confirmation hearing for John Holdren, director-designate of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,...

Follow up reposted from ScienceDebate: Several people have emailed asking about the cuts to the proposed increases to DOE/Office of Science, and what about NIH, USGS and other agencies we didn't mention.  Some clarifications are in order. 1. These are...

According to theaberrant salience account of schizophrenia, the positive symptoms of the condition - the hallucinations and delusions - come about because patients see meaning where there is none. The neurotransmitter dopamine, associated with learning and...

A recent paper in PLoS argues that variation in genes that regulate dopamine (5-HTTLPR) and serotonin neurotransmission (DRD4) influences financial risk taking: at the 5-HTTLPR gene, one homozygous form (two identical copies or alleles) took on 28 percent less...