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A recent article in The Guardian raised an interesting question. Is cholesterol denialism a valid form of skepticism or pseudoscience? Is... Read More
As soon as John Midgley got back to camp and opened the small jar, he knew he had found something incredible.In the light of the crackling... Read More
Scientists are setting out to explore a marine realm that was hidden from the Sun for more than 100,000 years.In July 2017, a giant iceberg... Read More
Welcome to the hot stove science league.On Thursday, with great fanfare, officials from the U.S. National Science Foundation and U.K.... Read More
Scientists are dreaming up ways to probe the nature of the Universe's smallest bits—quarks—by observing ultra-dense neutron stars... Read More
When Karen Davis attended a presentation at a dental conference in 2013, she unexpectedly discovered a service that could help her daughter,... Read More
In late April 2015, Tim Nutbeam was smuggled onto a plane carrying a big bag of blood to attempt a rescue mission in Antarctica. It was the... Read More
In its early stages, chronic kidney disease can lurk silently in the body, causing no symptoms at all. Eventually, as these vital organs... Read More
This story starts with my research team currently deploying alligators* (3 total, 2 – 2.5 meters in length) at three different sites... Read More
Several comprehensive, international reports released in 2018 confirmed the precarious state of the environment. In October, the... Read More
In his celebrated book On Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau wrote: “We need the tonic of wildness.... At the same time that we are... Read More
The keto diet is often called a fad diet. Make no mistake: it is. But unlike other trendy diets, the keto diet is unique because it actually... Read More
The cosmos has been expanding for 13.8 billion years and its present rate of expansion, known as the Hubble constant, gives the time elapsed... Read More
Sperm that live for longer before fertilising an egg produce healthier offspring – according to new research from the University of... Read More
In a study published this week in Science, Princeton geophysicists Jessica Irving and Wenbo Wu, in collaboration with Sidao Ni from the... Read More
An international research team with representation from the University of Copenhagen has created a better understanding of Alzheimer's. They... Read More
In the Feb/March 2019 issue of Free Inquiry magazine, there was an article by John Frantz, MD, titled “The Biology of Addiction”.... Read More
The advantages of growing up in a bilingual home can start as early as six months of age, according to new research led by York University's... Read More
In the supplement world, vitamin D is a bit like a Kardashian. Its fame seemed to come out of nowhere about a decade ago, garnering so much... Read More
“Learn a new language while you sleep!” may sound like the start of a bad 3 a.m. infomercial, but new research has found some... Read More
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Now here's a paper with an interesting title: The dark matter of the brainAuthor Saak V. Ovsepian argues that “the great majority of nerve cells in the intact brain do not fire action potentials, i.e., are permanently silent.†This is a remarkable claim, and it raises the question of what these silent neurons are doing. However, I didn't find myself convinced of the existence of this ‘dark Read More
On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown was born in Oldham, England, the first human born through in vitro fertilization, through the work of Patrick Steptoe, a gynecologist, and Robert Edwards, a physiologist. Her birth was greeted with strong (though not universal) expressions of ethical dismay. Read More
