Despite the rigorous academics associated with science, many scientists fall subject to the same weakness: they can’t write. Science magazine explores the importance of reading, writing and debate in an article published this week.

Soon one of everybody’s fantasy super powers will be a reality: invisibility. Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany published an article in Science that they have found a way of masking 3-D objects from sight.

The creators of The Cove, the recent Oscar winner for Best Documentary, uncovered a sushi restaurant this week in Santa Monica serving whale meat. Whaling is illegal in the U.S. and the restaurant will face a $200,000 fine for serving the endangered species.

Bigger muscles, faster metabolism, enhanced endurance. You too can have it all with just a few minor changes – to your genes, that is. Science magazine published an article February 5th concerning the ethics and practices of gene doping in sports, just in time for the opening of the 2010 Olympic Games. Gene doping has [...]

How could something as small as a mantis shrimp be the hottest thing to hit technology since the DVD? Dr. Nicholas Roberts of the University of Bristol has found that this organism from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia has the most complex eye found yet in the animal kingdom.

STOP READING! Well, after you read the paper- stop, take a breath and go outside. Autumn is finally coming into its own and giving the campus that extra New England feel. Many of us are not from areas of the world lucky enough to experience the phenomenon of fall foliage.

Sitting in Abbey Buck for the year’s first gracious dinner last week brought on a feeling I hadn’t felt in the past few weeks: quietude. Perhaps it was sleep deprivation finally catching up with me, but something about sitting there with good friends and good food caused a neurological right in my head.

The Obamacare reforms have recently seen much backlash not only from Republicans but many moderate Democrats as well. Up until now Obama has been criticized for being too open-ended on how the new universal health care system will work.

Some of his goals include federal regulations on insurance companies in order to stop them from charging higher premiums based on a person’s sex, age or medical history.

Reports of West Nile Virus have been substantially increasing in the Midwest due to an increase in the number of abandoned houses with pools. As the recession continues to force families out of their houses, many without much notice, untreated pools are left exposed.

If Gertrude Stein had been an evolutionary biologist, her famous poem may have read more like “an evolution is an evolution is an evolution.” Luckily, Sean Carroll, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, has found a way to make the history of evolutionary discovery as fantastic to learn about as the theories themselves.