When God sanctions killing, the people listen

When God sanctions killing, the people listen

New research published in the March issue of Psychological Science may help elucidate the relationship between religious indoctrination and violence, a topic that has gained renewed notoriety in the…
Fluid dynamics works on nanoscale in real world

Fluid dynamics works on nanoscale in real world

In 2000, Georgia Tech researchers showed that fluid dynamics theory could be modified to work on the nanoscale, albeit in a vacuum. Now, seven years later they've shown that it can be modified to…
What Is So Wrong About Intelligent Design?

What Is So Wrong About Intelligent Design?

In a thought-provoking paper from the March issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology , Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin) clearly discusses the problems with two standard criticisms of…
Intelligent design and the Loch Ness Monster

Intelligent design and the Loch Ness Monster

  String theory is a leading candidate for a "theory of everything", but there is not a scrap of experimental evidence for it and no obvious way of getting any, either now or in the…
Can Aspirin Help You Get Pregnant?

Can Aspirin Help You Get Pregnant?

Researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Utah are beginning a clinical trial to test whether aspirin can improve a woman's chances of becoming pregnant and of maintaining a…