About 1% of the population has synaesthesia, the conflation of several modes of perception into one. Some synasthetes always associate a pa...

A new paper in PLoS Biology reports the release of a better and more thoroughly documented genomic DNA sequence for a major strain of lab...

"Who started walking out of Africa? Not everybody walked. Very few people walked, and they walked to the ends of the Earth. The gene...

We have just reviewed a book by CE Cosans, called Owen's Ape & Darwin's Bulldog: Beyond Darwinism and Creationism (Indiana Univ...

There are many ways in which everyone is a conceptual prisoner, encaged in culturally based limits. We are born to, and trained in and entr...

A new paper in the journal PLOS Pathogens , described here , reports that hypertension, or high blood pressure, may be due to infection wit...

Ironically, there's a story today on the BBC website about an Australian ostrich farmer who needed emergency care for lung paralysis a...