Have it your way! In a world where you can customise everything from sandwiches to sneakers, the boom in consumer genomics should come as no surprise. The advent of cheap DNA testing via companies ...

In April, Senator Tom Coburn released a report examining wasteful spending at the National Science Foundation. His report attempted to highlight incidents of "mismanagement of taxpayer funds," acts of ...

Early in this year's movie season we heard about the far-fetched plot where the Earth's core mysteriously stopped spinning and a rag-tagged group was recruited to restart it with a well placed nuclear ...