The Clovis people, Paleo-Indians whose tools were known for their distinctive 'fluted' points, were once thought to be the original settlers of North America about 13,000 years ago.    The…

The past few years have seen a decline in the percentage of Americans who believe what scientists say about climate science.  The science community shares some of the blame, obviously; the IPCC…

Quanta lost by electrons could be detected by proteins within the nose, say a group of physicists, and odor molecules could absorb these quanta and thereby be detected.   If their hypothesis is…

What do you get when you are against fighting and for talking with crazy dictators while you are running for high office, yet decide to fight the elected leader of a country which is no threat to…

The news media are flush with stories this week claiming global warming is crushing global crop production. According to the media, global warming is putting the hurt on two of our favorite…

Writing more than 150 years ago, Charles Darwin identified the central problem with humanity’s ability to understand nature’s complex interactions. We believe we are intelligent enough to sort out…

In the first post I introduced a view on 'complexity thinking' which presupposes a life-world where ambiguity, uncertainty, indeterminacy and other hard to grasp concepts play an important role, both…

We are developing past the merely human stage. We couldn’t stop it if we all really wanted to. Techno-future will be. The transhumanism crowd has understood what evolution is all about while many…

I think one of the first things that got me interested in evolutionary biology was finding out that whales used to have legs. It's pretty incredible that the sleek, powerful whales of modern day…

GENEVA, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- WISeKey announced the appointment of Cristina Valls-Taberner Muls as a member of its Advisory Board, as part of the new approach of the company to bring leading…