Richard Feynman on Doubt [Fill in she instead of he as appropriate...] "The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance…

An "Irrational Attachment to The Theory of Evolution"? In Gail Collins' NY Times column today, she says this: Huckabee seems to be a nice guy, but conservatives are afraid he’d break up the old…

I got spammed with a 'carnival' that looks suspiciously like another self-promotion effort, namely because it's chock full of the usual suspects and a few token outside pieces from people no one…

The new journal Evolution: Education and Outreach is now available online and free to download. My contribution to the first issue is "Evolution as fact, theory, and path". Feel free to distribute…

Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects as much as 10% of the world population above 65 years of age but after years of research it is still not understood exactly how the disease appears and, even less,…

A recent issue of Genome Research contains a report of the cat genome sequence (Pontius et al. 2007), adding Felis catus to the rapidly growing collection of animal genome sequences. One of the…

Of all the 'Greatest Scientific Breakthroughs' of 2007 heralded in the pages of various newspapers and magazines this past month, perhaps the most unsung one is the entrance of next-generation DNA…

Recently there has been some discussion in the blogosphere about student-advisor relationships in science. Some of this has been triggered by the article by Peter Lawrence in Current Biology (The…

Four years of observations from the European Space Agency’s Integral (INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) satellite may have cleared up one of the most vexing mysteries in our Milky Way…

When people in a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study were told that anorexia nervosa had a biological or genetics-based cause they were less likely to put any personal accountability on…