I t's the age of genetics.  Billions of dollars have been spent on identifying genes for important traits like diseases, fun traits like...

T here's a new law of science reporting or, perhaps more accurately put, of the science jungle.  The law is to feed any story, no matter...

T he April 12 issue of Nature has a research report and a main article about what is basically presented as the discovery that people typic...

A ny aspect of society needs to be examined on a continual basis to see how it could be improved.  University research, such as that which...

A while back, Vogelstein and Tomasetti (V-T) published a paper in  Science  in which it was argued that most cancers cannot be attributed ...

I n the bad old days if you as a scientist had something worth saying, a journal would (after vetting through a mainly fair confidential rev...

This morning, Ed Yong published an article that takes on issues that we at the  The Mermaid's Tale  care very deeply about. Link to a...