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What separates us from our fellow apes is a question that, rightly or wrongly, distracts anthropologists periodically. Their discussions... Read More
Astrobiologist Alberto Fairén of Cornell University and the Center of Astrobiology in Madrid, Spain, asks a provocative question in a... Read More
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced ten threats to global health in 2019. Outlining these challenges at the beginning of... Read More
Suppose you toss a coin and get four heads in a row – what do you think will come up on the fifth toss? Many of us have a gut feeling... Read More
Science is sometimes caricatured as a wholly objective pursuit that allows us to understand the world through the lens of neutral empiricism.... Read More
Anyone who has ever enjoyed a few alcoholic beverages and then pictured themselves being told to blow into the plastic straw presented to... Read More
As the well-informed readers will realize, I am hat-tipping Hank Campbell and the catchy title of his best-selling book "Science Left Behind"... Read More
My best friend in college was a straight-A student, an English major. In part he got all A's because he is whip smart—his essays were... Read More
A diet has been developed that promises to save lives, feed 10 billion people and all without causing catastrophic damage to the... Read More
Patches of seemingly meaningless DNA dotted throughout the genome might actually have a function: helping cells to survive starvation.Two... Read More
Over the past decade, Steve Bannon has brought a number of uncomfortable and unpleasant topics into the public discourse. Still, it came as a... Read More
One of the core challenges of modern AI can be demonstrated with a rotating yellow school bus. When viewed head-on on a country road, a... Read More
One of the last acts of NASA's Cassini spacecraft before its death plunge into Saturn's hydrogen and helium atmosphere was to coast between... Read More
The number of asteroids colliding with the Earth and Moon has increased by up to three times over the past 290 million years, according to a... Read More
By combining deep learning algorithms and statistical methods, investigators from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), the Centro... Read More
Scientists say they can predict whether a person can expect to live longer or die sooner than average, by looking at their DNA.The team has... Read More
Synthetic biology is like genetic engineering on steroids. Using cutting edge computational design, synthetic biology aims to design novel... Read More
Remember Innerspace, the comedy sci-fi movie from the ‘80s about a microscopic manned pod injected into a human? Although we're years... Read More
This year has had its share of science and technology advances from Army researchers. The RDECOM Research Laboratory, the Army's corporate... Read More
Researchers from 15 institutions have completed the most comprehensive genomic analysis of the human brain yet, generating new insight into... Read More
More From Real Clear
I talked a bit on Twitter last night about the Past Hypothesis and the low entropy of the early universe. Responses reminded me that there are still some significant misconceptions about the universe (and the state of our knowledge thereof) lurking out there. Read More
A British geneticist is worried that He Jiankui—the Chinese scientist responsible for the birth of genetically modified human twins—could face the death penalty for corruption and bribery charges.When He Jiankui went missing back in early December, we suspected big trouble ahead for the rogue scientist, but as Sarah Knapton reports in the Telegraph, his predicament is even worse than we though Read More
