As many readers will know if they have been paying attention during this 150th anniversary of its publication, On the Origin of Species makes no men…
Read moreI see an interesting juxtaposition between two news stories published in the past 24 hours. The first, a piece in yesterday's New York Times by…
Read moreThat's the conclusion my colleague John Travis, European Editor of Science , comes to about this otherwise laudable attempt to portray the human …
Read moreI'm on my way home from a meeting in Gibraltar, so stopped off for a day in this southern Spanish town nestled in Andalusia's rugged Serrania…
Read moreIt might seem intuitively likely that people without health insurance are at a higher risk of death, but here is a new study in the American Journal…
Read moreIt has been 25 years since a team led by Allan Wilson extracted mitochondrial DNA from a museum specimen of the now-extinct quagga. On Science 's…
Read moreIn this week's issue of Science I report on a possible sighting of the oldest known woven fibers, from a cave in the Republic of Georgia (see p…
Read moreHave you been wondering why so many American rightwingers have gone ballistic over President Obama addressing the nation's schoolchildren and urg…
Read moreThe California Nurses Association has published a study showing the astronomically high claim rejection rate among the state's insurance compani…
Read moreIn this week's issue of Science , I write about an ancient DNA study ( also published in the journal) which concludes that farming was brought …
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