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The National Institutes of Health have a budget of approximately $31 billion. Within the NIH there is a center that uses taxpayer money to fund all sorts of studies on New Age therapies - the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). Below are just a some of the questionable [...]

PRINCETON (US) - "Is evolution predictable? To a surprising extent the answer is 'yes'," says Princeton professor Peter Andolfatto. New research by Andolfatto and colleagues published in the journal suggests that knowledge of a species' genes-and how certain external conditions affect the proteins encoded by those genes-could be used to determine a predictable evolutionary pattern driven by outside factors.

There are lots of great research questions that stem from this post. When thinking about topic 1, what questions do you have about the data collected and how the data was collected?

By Gretchen Cuda Kroen Frozen water droplets take on a whole new shape when they freeze: Instead of staying round, they form a pointy tip, and eventually sprout a tiny forest of ice crystals on their surface. In order to observe these effects, researchers dripped tiny beads of water on a plate kept at a chilly -20°C.

Scientists in the US have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative technique that someday could be used to prevent babies from inheriting certain rare incurable diseases. The researchers at Oregon Health & Sciences University said they are not using the embryos to produce children, and it is not clear when or even if the technique will be put to use.