Editor's Note: Now that the corporations have penetrated Mother Earth, on every continent, polluting rivers and pristine wilderness and robbing indigenous people of the wealth beneath their homes and villages we have this new for-profit adventure. Of all places for billionaires to put their money as national economies collapse and... » read this article

Editor's Note: Actually, Col. Muammar Qadaffi discovered and developed what these scientists are talking about a long time before. "The Great Man-Made River Project" (GMMRP) was conceived in the 1960s and built in the 80s. Col. Qadaffi made Libya self-sufficient in food and clean water. Buried underground deep in the... » read this article

"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." -- Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994 "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of... » read this article

Japan is almost completely free of nuclear power now, after the shutdown on March 26, 2012 of the Number 6 reactor at the country’s Kashiwasaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. No nuclear reactors are now operational on the Japanese mainland. When scheduled maintenance closes the Number 3 Tomari reactor on the island... » read this article

23 September 2011 A newly reported fossil discovery from the Malapa, South Africa may provide greater insight into the evolution of the genus Homo from our australopithecine ancestors. The fossils consist of remains of two individuals, an adult female and juvenile male, possibly a mother and son. They appear to... » read this article

Original Version in Spanish at El Mundo “The U.S. was looking for a place were they could find people already infected with these diseases and in that time in Guatemala it was legal to bring a prostitute into the prisons for sexual services, which made the study easier. The U.S.... » read this article

How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers? Who are the most ruthless capitalists in the Western world? Whose monopolistic practices makes WalMart look like a corner shop and Rupert Murdoch look like a socialist? You won’t guess the answer in a month of Sundays. While there are plenty of... » read this article

Note aux lecteurs de français : Beaucoup d'entre vous ont demandé de lire cet essai en français. La traduction française suit au dessous de la version anglaise. - Axis of Logic It took nearly a year since the start of Haiti's cholera epidemic for scientists to get conclusive proof that... » read this article

Editor's Note: Dengue fever infects around 100 million people in the tropics each year. Some sources say the disease is fatal for 40,000 people a year while the article below says 12,500. I don't know who is doing the counting! Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that is passed from one... » read this article

Introduction: The scientific world is all aflutter about a report that describes a strong bias in funding from the National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.).  The report notes that the N.I.H. tries to make its evaluation process "color blind". This, of course, is impossible when scientists normally promote their work by... » read this article

June 21, 2011: Record snowfall, killer tornadoes, devastating floods: There's no doubt about it. Since Dec. 2010, the weather in the USA has been positively wild. But why? Some recent news reports have attributed the phenomenon to an extreme "La Nina," a band of cold water stretching across the Pacific... » read this article

Severe weather events are wracking the planet, and experts warn of even greater consequences to come. The rate of ice loss in two of Greenland's largest glaciers has increased so much in the last 10 years that the amount of melted water would be enough to completely fill Lake Erie,... » read this article

A parasitic wasp protects itself from predators while cocooned by turning its ladybird host into a "bodyguard". After a female wasp injects its egg into the ladybird, the larva munches on its host's internal tissues before breaking out through the abdomen. In some cases the partially paralysed ladybird remains sitting... » read this article

Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade Physicists say sunspot cycle is 'going into hibernation' What may be the science story of the century is breaking this evening, as heavyweight US solar physicists announce that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell... » read this article

The giant pumps propelling water to some of California's biggest cities and farming districts trapped and killed 6 million young splittail last month, enraging conservation groups and further stoking the fiery debate over operation of the state's sprawling water system. The killings are also renewing calls to relist the splittail... » read this article

Washington DC (SPX) Jun 02, 2011 - Laboratory hamsters that were fed rations spiked with blueberry peels and other blueberry-juice-processing leftovers had better cholesterol health than hamsters whose rations weren't enhanced with blueberries. That's according to a study led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chemist Wallace H. Yokoyama. Yokoyama... » read this article

May 26, 2011 This week the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited Fukushima Daiichi, to investigate the accident, and TEPCO’s emergency response actions.  At Fukushima, massive amounts of high radioactive waste have been created, with no clear plan for long-term or permament storage.  Spent nuclear fuel is about 95% Uranium,... » read this article

"I told the crew in the beginning: We have to think of this as a science fiction film that's shot today. I want the audience to experience a kind of afterworld, in a sense." So says Michael Madsen - the Danish conceptual artist, not the American tough-guy actor - about... » read this article

As the shale gas boom sweeps across the United States, drillers are turning to a controversial legal tool called forced pooling to gain access to minerals beneath private property–in many cases, without the landowners’ permission. Forced pooling is common in many established oil and gas states, but its use has... » read this article

Editor's Note: We have always heard that time is not an absolute but rather, an invention of mankind that rules our lives. This fascinating Amazonian tribe have no concept of time; nor do they have the concept of "river" as we know rivers; nor do they measure their lives in... » read this article