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Earthquakes and hurricanes will always wreak havoc, but risk management expert Robert Bea says the greatest tragedies result from hubris and greed....

Since it was first identified by Chinese authorities two months ago, the new H7N9 bird flu has infected 131 people in eastern China.

I am partial to the odd tipple and, as a resident of the licentious, enabling city that is New Orleans, I'm fortunate to be adequately supported in my booze-seeking ways by the high number of bars and restaurants within stumbling distance of my fron...

Whooping cough is staging a comeback.

Sometimes it's the things we see everyday that we don't even realize have gone unexplained for millennia.

For the past year or so I've been getting queries about what I think about Eran Elhaik's preprint on the genetic character of European Jews.

If you judged by the recent buzz in the media world, you might think that 3D printers are good for one thing only: creating untraceable guns, on demand, in the privacy of your home.

National Geographic has an interesting article up, unoriginally titled Australia’s Aboriginals.

Mitochondria are the cell's workhorse, transforming the calories we eat into useable energy.

“Got milk?” It’s not just a ubiquitous ad slogan — a primate infant’s access to breast milk has significant consequences for a species' life cycle.

It's pretty obvious that weather can affect overall voter turnout; many people just don't want to go out in the rain, even if it's to exercise their civic duty.

In the 1980s I was fascinated by the pictorially oriented books on the wildlife of the world which dated to the 1960s and 1970s.

For years, Portland has ranked as one of America's greenest cities.

Einstein's theories have changed how we see and interact with the world.

To the left is a figure which illustrates the phylogenetic inferences from a new paper in Nature Communications, The genomics of selection in dogs and the parallel evolution between dogs and humans (see Carl Zimmer's coverage in The New York Times).