I t looks like a food-fight at the Precision Corral!  Maybe the Big Data era is over!  That's because what we really seem to need (of co...

W e often want our accounts in science to be consistent with the facts.  Even if we can't explain all  the current facts, we can always ...

T here is so much being published in the science literature--a veritable tsunami of results.  New journals are being started almost monthly,...

W here did we get the idea that our entire nature, not just our embryological development, but everything else, was pre-programmed by our ge...

W e tend to think of Friedrich Engels as Karl Marx's pal, co-author, supporter--and financial benefactor.  That's all true.  But...

I n 1633, Galileo Galilei was forced to recant before the Pope his ideas about the movement of the Earth, or else to face the most awful pen...

S o this week's  Big Story in health is that processed meat is a risk for breast cancer.  A study has been published that finds it so.....