Knowing where all our ingredients come from is the first step toward improving drug quality.

Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.    In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist...

The very fact that an American president talks about extremist Muslims validates them as the most important and significant of Muslim individuals.

Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

Quick: How many kinds of gasoline do we use in America? Most people would say three or six: regular unleaded, mid-grade, and premium, along with the ethanol blends of the same that have become nearly universal. The actual number is somewhere above 45, though hard to pin down exactly, according...

Thisbookdiscusses the flaws of destination-based taxation and makes the theoretical case for origin-based taxation.

After Congress passes FTAs with Korea, Columbia and Panama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) will become the single most important US trade initiative, serving as a building block for a larger Free Trade Area for the Asia Pacific Agreement.

Crossborder sales, through the Internet or other channels, are commonly taxed on the basis of their destination, not the country or state of their origin. This structure is uniformly acknowledged as terribly complex, burdensome, and inefficient. Sales and purchase decisions are distorted by the tax advantage enjoyed by crossborder...