Epidemiologists often follow a set of criteria called the " Hill Criteria " to determine what causes a disease.  The list includes...

A pair of encouraging gene-manipulation stories were reported in the New York Time s on Friday (the graphic is from the story).  Essentiall...

Bob Herbert, columnist for the NY Times, writes on Aug 7  some oft-heard views about the downsliding of American education.  The central com...

Nature reports what appears to be a remarkable find, and this time the remarkableness isn't a crock.  It's a roughly 150 million ye...

On our long driving trips during this week's travels, we heard several Hot New Insights on the various radio programs (mainly on the BBC...

Here 's an interesting story from the NY Times  that appeared while we were out of town.  It's about an idea that cycles around onc...

Charles Darwin was a prolific author of long books. Other than a few, these are now dusty tomes in the reserve annex of university librarie...