Food and biotechnology companies spent $63.6 million in 2014 alone to oppose mandatory labeling of genetically modified food ingredients, or GMOs, according to a new analysis by EWG.…

The genetic modification of humans make many people feel very uncomfortable. Credit: Tatiana Vdb/Manuel/Flickr, CC BY It all started with a rumour. Then just six weeks…

This news release is available in German. At first glance, there is not the slightest doubt: to us, the universe looks three dimensional. But one of…

A security guard recently told me he didn’t know how much he’d be earning from week to week because his firm kept changing his schedule…

It’s amusing to see how our staunch progressives — who believe so deeply in a level playing field and fair play, who railed so vociferously…

Perhaps the most extraordinary aspect of President Obama’s announcement Thursday that two hostages of Al Qaeda, an American and an Italian, were killed in a…

A republican form of government is one in which power resides in elected officials representing the citizens, and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law.…

The almost daily murders of young black men and women by police in the United States—a crisis undiminished by the protests of groups such as…

The untapped riches in the world’s oceans are estimated at nearly 24 trillion dollars – the size of the world’s leading economies, according to a…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently classified glyphosate, the active substance of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, as “probably causing cancer in human beings.” Germany is charged…

Yemen is short of many things, but weapons is not one of them. Yemenis own between 40 and 60 million guns, according to a report…

In disclosing the deaths of two Western hostages in a U.S. drone strike on an Al-Qaeda compound, President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he had ordered…