S cience, like any other human enterprise, is largely reactionary.  People in established positions of influence like to have their own way ...

By Anne Buchanan and Ken Weiss Q uestions about cause and effect in the natural world have been bandied about since long before Aristotle...

S cientists often talk about how complex their field is, and of course often they are right.  But a word like 'complexity' may be us...

T he 19 February issue of Nature has many papers reporting a major human epigenomics project (other Nature journals have other papers from...

P redicting complex disease is the latest genomics flavor of the day. Or rather, it's the old flavor with a new name -- precision medici...

T here is widespread acknowledgment that we have generally not achieved the biomedical (or evolutionary) predictive power that our research...

I was alive when the two bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man, were dropped on Japan, but I was too young to know about it.  Only years later did ...