Friday is science day on this blog (sometimes) and it is most certainly Science day, ie, the day that my favorite scientific journal is published. A…
Read moreA team in Leipzig, Germany has announced a rough draft of the Neandertal nuclear genome, which promises to tell us--eventually--a lot more not only a…
Read moreBack in 2002, a team working at Blombos Cave in South Africa reported finding two 77,000 year old pieces of ochre (one of which is pictured here) etc…
Read moreScience 's online news service, ScienceNOW , today features three depressing stories about the effects of climate change. The first , by our clim…
Read moreThat's the title of the Turkish translation of my book , "The Goddess and the Bull," which has just been published by Istanbul-based Ho…
Read moreThat's a pretty cool logo, no? It's the banner for Science 's new policy blog , to which yours truly is proud to be an occasional contrib…
Read moreThe findings of Stanley Milgram, the psychologist whose infamous 1960s studies demonstrated that average people would administer potentially fatal le…
Read moreToday on Science 's online news service, Science NOW, I report on a very cool paper that claims very early genetic evidence for the nuclear fami…
Read moreThat's the title of a fascinating, four-page story in the current Science by my partner on the journal's anthropology beat, Ann Gibbons. The…
Read moreToday on Science 's online news service, ScienceNOW , I report on a spectacular archaeological find in Israel. A team led by Leore Grosman of …
Read moreIn today's issue of Science , I write about two papers--one published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , the oth…
Read moreJohn McCain has displayed spectacular ignorance of science during this election campaign, first when he ridiculed spending on understanding bear gene…
Read moreIt's science time again! Today my partner on Science 's anthropology beat, Ann Gibbons, and I pull a double whammy with two important stories…
Read moreThe Adler Planetarium in Chicago released this statement today (with thanks to DanO for alerting us to this on Marc Cooper's blog .) It is an ex…
Read moreAlthough I have shifted my focus to archaeology and human evolution in recent years, I served for a long time as Science 's backup man on AIDS co…
Read moreMy Science colleagues Martin Enserink and Jon Cohen report on the Nobel prizes for medicine announced today, which went to Luc Montagnier (photo at …
Read moreA friend has just alerted me to a must-have product for cleaning the inside of your computer screen, where a lot of dirt accumulates but is very hard…
Read moreWhile McCain and Obama were sparring over the economy yesterday evening, McCain brought up the "millions" of dollars spent on "bear D…
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