Plants make decisions about risk in a similar manner to humans and animals despite the fact that the plants have no brain or nervous system. Alex Kacelnik of Oxford University in the United Kingdom and Efrat Dener at Ben-Gurion University in...

Trimming pubic hair has become a norm and is an important change that impacts the health of women. Dr. Tami S. Rowen of the University of California at San Francisco and colleagues revealed the most recent statistics about women’s pubic hair...

Metarhizium brunneum and Beauveria bassiana are naturally occurring fungi that have been adapted by livestock and plant scientists into pesticides that specifically target house flies and stable flies. Dr. Erika Machtinger and colleagues from the...

Southwest Michigan has some of the most beautiful butterflies. The monarch, various swallowtails, and the American lady are just a few. Unfortunately, butterflies like the monarch have had continent-wide declines in their populations. Michigan...

“Launch on Need,” a 2010 novel by Daniel Guiteras, is a hidden gem that needs to be more widely read. The premise of the space alternate history novel is that during the flight of Columbia STS-107, NASA engineers took the idea of a...

Kalkaska sand is Michigan’s state soil and is a valuable asset for agriculture, forestry, and for filtering water. But people who will live on Mars will not have it so good. Martian soil contains heavy metals that are dangerous to humans,...

Einstein’s theory of general relativity has become accepted as a fact because no one can prove it to be in error. James Mertens at Case Western Reserve University, colleagues from Case Western, Professor John T. Giblin Jr. of Kenyon College,...

Autonomous vehicles that are capable of driving themselves will be tasked in the future with making decisions about the safety of their passengers, other people in vehicles, and pedestrians. Jean-François Bonnefon with the Toulouse School of...

Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for the U.S.-led F-35 fighter jet program, has formally unveiled the first airplane built for Israel’s military.The “rollout” ceremony occurred June 22 in Fort Worth, Texas, where the company...

The speed of movement of a type of white blood cell called a neutrophil is vitally important to human health because these cells are the body’s first line of defense against disease invasion. The first worldwide competition between...

Well it has been a while since I wrote an article. I have been busy finishing my Master’s degree and teaching astronomy along with my volunteer duties at the U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum as a Docent. It is summer now and the students are...

Imagine the Great Lakes and the oceans being stripped away from Earth. While that is not happening to our blue planet, it did happen to Venus, our twin planet. According to a new study published June 20, 2016, in the journal Geophysical Research...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced June 21 that it has finalized its first set of rules for the routine commercial use of small unmanned aircraft.The new regulations, which take effect in late August, apply to drones weighing less...