Science

Researchers have been combining human DNA with that of mice.  The goal of generating these...

I enjoy it when conventional wisdom gets turned upside down.  A good example appeared in...

I came across this interesting piece in Touchstone from a couple of years ago.  It's by software...

According to the scientific method, experimental results need to be replicable.  That is, for a...

The medical profession enjoys some of the highest level of respect in the country, and...

We finally watched Avengers:  Infinity War.  The super villain in that story is Thanos, who has...

Scientists have discovered a new organ in the body.  In fact, it is the largest...

Leonardo da Vinci was not only a great artist.  He was also a great scientist--and...

According to contemporary physics, at the "Big Bang" at which the universe came into existence,...

Research is showing that religion is not just a learned behavior or intellectual assent to...

Martin Luther was not the only faculty member of the University of Wittenberg to spark...

We are having a good time in Australia, but I greatly regret having to miss the...

A study of DNA from modern Lebanon found that its population is descended from the...

Marijuana is legal in the Netherlands, with "cannabis cafes" being a fixture of university towns....

  For the first time, American scientists have "edited" the DNA of developing children.  The...

Representatives of the world's major religions--well, not ALL of the world's major religions--are being given...

Two geographers have written an academic article arguing that scholars should not cite research by so...

Within a few decades, according to an article in New York Magazine, global warming will make...

The scholastic theology of the Middle Ages was very much in thrall to the philosophy...

Some scientists are saying that it might be possible in a decade or so to...

The bestselling book Homo Deus:  A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari argues that our...

Dragon's Teeth  is based on the real life adventures and misadventures of two rival paleontologists, Othniel...

More from iconoclast Camille Paglia.  In this interview, she discusses transgenderism--its conflict with feminism, how...

Christians who don't believe in baptizing infants generally hold to the notion of "the age...

Addiction to opioid painkillers has killed nearly 200,000 Americans and has devastated far more lives than that....

Quantum physics is oppressive, according to a feminist scholar, because it promotes "binary and absolute...

Human embryos have been produced asexually, as with the cloning of Dolly the Sheep.  Scientists...

Forensic archaeologists have been extracting the DNA that can still be found in old bones...

When a thale cress plant is being eaten by a caterpillar, it responds by sending...

On April Fool's Day, not at the time being able to think of anything better,...