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It's not unusual to fumble when trying to recall one's family medical history --especially in the absence of integrated electronic health records (EHRs). But those cumbersome forms and recitations help doctors to predict patients' risks for disease later in life, especially for partially heritable afflictions, such as breast or colorectal cancers.

By David Cyranoski of Nature magazine After the Fukushima nuclear disaster spewed radiation across northern Japan in March, some feared that farming there would be shut down for years.

Would you buy a product that promised that 60 percent of the time it works every time? Maybe for caricature news anchors like Ron Burgundy , there is no question that a method (exotic cologne) with this type of track record (for attracting women) would be a good investment

Citizen scientists with birding experience can help New Jersey study its migrant shorebird habitats [More]

Recent media attention to coyotes snatching up and eating pets in New Orleans has highlighted spring flooding as the possible culprit. While flooding may be playing a minor role, it's really Hurricane Katrina that is to blame, according Kenny Ribbeck, chief of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' wildlife division. [More]

In studies that observe the brain in action, the right hemisphere seems to be the sexy hemisphere. It lights up during orgasm--so much so that, in one study , much of the cortex went dark, leaving the right prefrontal cortex as a bright island

The 1988 arrival of viral hemorrhagic disease (VHD) in Spain devastated that country's European rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ) population and, in the process, possibly doomed the local species most adapted to hunt rabbit, the Iberian lynx ( Lynx pardinus ). [More]

Will al Qaeda respond to the death of Osama bin Laden with serious cyberattacks? The short answer is no.

TOKYO, July 12 (Reuters) - Beef from areas around Japan'scrippled nuclear plant will be inspected after meat with [More]

Decades of research have suggested that our sodium habit is killing us via hypertension and heart disease. But other research suggests it's not salt's fault after all

You’ve heard of tennis elbow. Well, a friend of mine has gamekeeper’s thumb. When he told me his diagnosis, it rang a bell

Watch Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina host the first Google Science Fair awards dinner.

By Marian Turner of Nature magazine The unique physiology of the human liver means that the toxicity of some candidate drugs is not picked up during preclinical tests in animals. [More]

At a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Bill Borucki , principal investigator for NASA's planet-finding Kepler spacecraft, provided an update on Kepler's hunt for distant worlds, especially those Earth-like planets that might be habitable: [More]

The brain is an amazing organ.