More than 50 years after helping to uncover the double-helix structure of DNA, James D. Watson has seen his own genome, and said on Thursday he will publish it...
Parents, and now states, are trying to work it so that some children are a year older when they enter school. This could lead to better test scores — and...
In an interview, Jack Kevorkian says he will no longer advise terminally ill people how to die. But he still combatively advocates physician-assisted suicide. ...
Mint feels cool and soothing. The heat of chili peppers or wasabi can make you cry. Now, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have figured...
The inverse square law trumps the law of attraction http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=13&articleID=72C0E84D-E7F2-99DF-3D281803B61E675C...
Polynesians, who first colonized much of the Pacific, brought chickens to South America by the early 1400s—about a century before Columbus arrived. ...
Italy's prehistoric iceman "Otzi" died from a shoulder wound inflicted by an arrow, according to research into his perfectly preserved 5,000-year old body. ...
If a technique used in mice can be adapted to human cells, it would let scientists use a patient's skin cells to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells. ...
Dog owners have long maintained that their pooches have a lot more going on between their furry ears than scientists acknowledge. Now, new research is adding...
Since there is no persuasive evidence that blondes and athletes are less intelligent than others, such jokes pose a puzzle. Where do the underlying stereotypes...
Sean B. Carroll reviews The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism by Michael Behe http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/316/5830/1427...
The notion that East Asians, Japanese in particular, are self-effacing and have low self-esteem compared to Americans may well describe the surface view of...
Asked their views on whether human life is a result of God's creation or a product of evolution, one quarter of Americans chose both conflicting theories, a...
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