Researchers developed a novel way to synthesize and optimize a naturally-occurring antibiotic that could one day be used to fight lethal drug-resistant infections like MRSA, with two new antibiotics: micrococcin P1 and thiocillin I…

Violent crime rates rise in warmer winters in study that compared temperature and crime patterns since 1979

Ancient Chaco Canyon population likely relied on imported food

Governments that do the best job protecting the rights of the accused have the lowest murder rates, while those that neglect due process have the highest

Rats injected with a beneficial bacterium were exposed to a stressor, and the immunized animals showed lower levels of a stress-induced protein

Natural gas and wind energy killed coal, not 'war on coal'

Children raised in a rural environment, surrounded by animals and bacteria-laden dust, grow up to have more stress-resilient immune systems and might be at lower risk of mental illness than pet-free city dwellers…

System can quantify methane leaks as tiny as 1/4 of a human exhalation mile away

Older adults who take a novel antioxidant that specifically targets cellular powerhouses, or mitochondria, see aging of their blood vessels reverse by the equivalent of 15 to 20 years within six weeks…

Marijuana may not be as damaging to the brain as previously thought; easier on the brain than booze, study finds