If you had a baby in Indiana after 1991, chances are your child's blood and DNA samples are being stored by the state. Originally meant for research, no samples have… Read the rest of the article: Baby blood samples stored for research without parent permission

Popular Science has a nice follow up to the news about the discovery of decades-old smallpox samples — including the fact that scientists found 327 vials of other forgotten disease… Read the rest of the article: After smallpox find, big questions about safety in federal research labs

Stress does affect the body in numerous ways. But how we think about what stress is, what it does, and its connection to pop psychology, have all been shaped by… Read the rest of the article: Behind the science of stress, the hand of Big Tobacco

The "kaffir" in "Kaffir lime" is actually a racial slur. At National Geographic, Maryn McKenna struggles with how to deal with foods that have offensive names. I ran across a… Read the rest of the article: When food has an offensive name

A particularly depressing addendum to the story of a passenger jet shot down in Ukrainian air space: Of the 298 people on board, roughly 100 were people flying to an… Read the rest of the article: Malaysia Airlines crash kills AIDS researchers

Until 2013, chikungunya was an Old World disease, writes Maggie Koerth-Baker. Not any more.

Anomalocarids are the ancient ancestors of spiders. They look like menu items from H.P. Lovecraft's seafood restaurant.

Here's the patent application. The "good" news: It's just conceptual. Regulators wouldn't let Ryanair sell standing room tickets, so maybe this would be banned as well?

It's fun to take, but the results of a Myers-Briggs personality test are basically meaningless — inconsistent and based on unsupported, philosophical ideas about how the brain operates.

Your risk of contracting norovirus — that scourge of cruise vacations — depends both on the strain of the virus and what your blood type is.

Most babies babble by 7 months of age. Most don't start talking real words until they're a year old. What's going on in their heads in the meantime? This is… Read the rest of the article: What happens in babies' brains between babbling and speech

To make your cheese, cows eat and process food that we are incapable of eating and processing. This video explains how the chemistry of the land (and grass) change the… Read the rest of the article: The relationship between cheese flavor and the land cows graze on

Lara Parker at Buzzfeed writes about her experience with vaginismus and vulvodynia — chronic pain conditions with no known cause, no known treatment, and a big impact on love and… Read the rest of the article: What it's like to have chronic vaginal pain

We have found only 17 mammoth specimens that are more than half complete with their soft parts preserved. All but one died a horrible death.

This is just a crazy level of fraud. A Taiwanese computer scientist has been caught creating more than 100 fake email accounts that allowed him to "peer" review his own… Read the rest of the article: Scientific journal retracts 60 papers linked to sock-puppet peer review

What this boils down to: A colon cleanse doesn't do much to help you and it does harm the good bacteria that really help your intestines work properly.

Jeanne Calment, who died at 122, is the oldest person whose age has been verified. Turns out that's hard to do, but UCLA's Gerontology Research Group is on it.

A child, treated for HIV infection at birth and reported as possibly being cured of the virus, is showing signs of infection at age 4.

Later this month, scientists will set explosive charges on Mount St Helens as part of an effort to study the seismic geology of the Pacific Northwest.

Over the past few months, West Africa has been experiencing the biggest and most deadly Ebola outbreak on record and deforestation is a key part of why.