W hen one is aware of the fact that life is the result of the evolutionary process it is only natural to think about the implications for h...

T he factoid of the day is the excitement that New Horizons Pluto explorer is about to take a few snaps of the dwarf planet, assuming it poi...

Y esterday's Big Story of the microsecond on the BBC's web page  was the profound discovery by scientists that people age at differe...

S ome people feel that scientific issues should be kept separate from science politics.  But is that even possible?  The fear is often voic...

O ne of the most stubborn tenets of a strict Darwinian view of the world is that we are inherently selfish.  Thus, everything we do is to en...

B y total serendipity, I recently learned from an ornithologist friend of a fascinating letter in an 1870 issue of the Proceedings of the ...