Fertility rates in the relatively secular blue states are 12 percent lower than in the relatively religious red states, according to Philip Longman in the...
William Shockley left two extraordinary legacies to posterity. One is the transistor, which is to the electronic world what cells are to the living one. The...
Animals are on the run. Plants are migrating too. The Earth's creatures, save for one species, do not have thermostats in their living rooms that they can...
Early human embryos grown from unfertilised eggs are not viable - but this means that their stem cells could be used to treat disease without upsetting...
People with a syndrome called déjà vécu spend much of their time living through experiences they are convinced have happened before. Researchers think the...
A review of Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists by Jerome H. Barkow (Ed.). 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 302 + vii. $49.95...
A review of The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution by Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 155. ISBN...
When Warren Buffett announced last week that he will be giving away more than $30 billion to improve health, nutrition and education, people all over America...
Teenagers have been drinking alcohol for centuries. In pre-Revolutionary America, young apprentices were handed buckets of ale. In the 1890's, at the age of...
The United States could easily fall from its privileged perch in the global economy unless it does something about the horrendous state of science education at...
All Things Considered, July 1, 2006 · The human body contains 20 times more microbes than it does cells. In fact, a visitor from outer space might think the...
In the decade after the birth of the world's first cloned mammal, scientists have been busy copying animals from Asian oxen to pet pooches—while the debate...
Grover Krantz's Last Wish Was to Remain With His Friends. And He Has. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/04/AR2006070400992.html...
Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in East Asia — Taiwan, Malaysia and Siberia all are likely locations. He — or she — did...
July 6, 2006 — A baboon hand gesture appears to send the message "go ahead, make my day" to other baboons — suggesting that gesturing may have been a...
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