With an increased desire to be healthy, consumers and governments are putting the pressure on food companies to produce more nutritious snacks and beverages without compromising taste or quality — a challenge for science...

Medicine can be described as a wealth of knowledge that has grown over time. Only time, innovation and experimentation have given us what we know today in areas such as antibiotics and radiation therapy....

Stress is something all students suffer from, with varying degrees. We go about dealing with stress in equally different ways; however, many students find that a little drinking and partying is a quick and...

Most of us are all too familiar with the BP oil spill that took place early this summer in the Gulf of Mexico. Mainstream media coverage of the catastrophe and controversy has pretty much...

Let’s take a look at the economy in a few other parts of the world and their effect in North America. In the first week of October, Japan lowered their interest rates from 0.1...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was a no-holds-barred race between the USSR and the United States in an effort to be the first to explore beyond the boundaries of our own...

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, the French-American mathematician, described as the founding father of fractal geometry, lost his battle to pancreatic cancer on Oct. 16. In the mid 1970s, Mandelbrot coined the term “fractal,” derived from...