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In a recent article for Forbes, “The Vaccination Debacle,” I discussed the frightening rise in the number of European measles... Read More
Life might be more orderly and easy to understand if biology worked just like this:People come in one of two sexes, male or female. This is... Read More
Levi Draheim is a nine-year-old science geek. He founded an environmental club as a fourth grader and gives talks about climate change to... Read More
Last week, the whistleblowers in the Paolo Macchiarini affair at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet went on the record here to detail the... Read More
In a new paper published in Nature Communications, Alexander Krause from the University of Leeds and colleagues show that about 450 million... Read More
I just came across a strange but quite charming scientific study claiming that human thought alone can make wine taste better.This miracle of... Read More
A hundred years ago this month, the death rate from the 1918 influenza was at its peak. An estimated 500 million people were infected over... Read More
Trent Jackson's life changed abruptly in early 2015. The computer engineer thought he had the flu. His then-wife, Donna Sylvia, thought... Read More
In his recently published posthumous collection of articles and essays, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking forecast that... Read More
Chocolate-coloured Labradors might have a certain high street cachet, but they tend to die younger and get sicker than their yellow or black... Read More
In 1985, a unique skull was discovered lying on Yamana Beach at Cape Shirreff in Antarctica's South Shetland Islands. It belonged to an... Read More
We've all had the dream of traveling back in time. Whether there's a wrong we want to right, a mistake we want to undo, a life we want to... Read More
Quantum computers promise to revolutionize the future of computing. A scientist from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) together with... Read More
Utah State University researchers Paul Rogers and Darren McAvoy have conducted the first complete assessment of the Pando aspen clone and the... Read More
Computer bits are binary, with a value of 0 or 1. By contrast, neurons in the brain can have all kinds of different internal states,... Read More
Many semiconductor fabricators and research labs are under increasing pressure from, of all things, vacuum. These facilities need to remove... Read More
For the 50 million individuals worldwide ailing from Alzheimer's disease, the announcements by pharmaceutical giants earlier this year that... Read More
Preliminary results from the world's largest sleep study have shown that people who sleep on average between 7 to 8 hours per night performed... Read More
“Tonight I would like to share with you an idea that I am extremely passionate about,” the young man said. His long black hair... Read More
Brain surgery is not usually something that people actively seek out. However, there may be an exception: the idea of the removal of the... Read More
More From Real Clear
The late physicist and author Prof Stephen Hawking has caused controversy by suggesting a new race of superhumans could develop from wealthy people choosing to edit their and their children's DNA.Hawking, the author of A Brief History of Time, who died in March, made the predictions in a collection of articles and essays. Read More
