Image: TBIT (Pixabay) The Food and Drug Administration is doing a poor job of making sure the doctors who review drugs for possible approval are free of bias, alleges a new investigative report published this week in Science. Many of these reviewers, while having no clear financial conflicts of interest prior to their work for…

Galaxy cluster Abell 370 and beyond.Image: NASA, ESA, Jennifer Lotz and the HFF Team STScI If you think we have problems now, just wait a few billion years, when the accelerating expansion of the Universe triggers an energy crisis of cosmological proportions. Sounds grim, but as a new paper points out, an advanced civilization faced…

Photo: Melanie Ehrenkranz (Gizmodo) When I was in high school, before phones and cars directed you to your destination, I would sharpie directions on the tops of my hands so I could read them as I drove. It was an effective (if problematic) way to get from point A to point B without looking down…

The SiV0 diamondPhoto: Brendon Rose “Diamonds are forever” is a cliche that fails to fully encapsulate the many strange properties of diamonds. But a new kind of diamond, one loaded with impurities, relies on a sort of foreverness that could be useful in future quantum technology—maybe even a quantum internet. That probably sounds meaningless, so…

Fireworks explode under cloudy skies as Disney dignitaries and characters appear in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle at the close of ceremonies for the 50th anniversary of Disneyland May 5, 2005 in Anaheim, California.Photo: Getty Disney’s massively popular resorts on both coasts of the United States are in a state of meltdown, as a company-wide…