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The first issue of Nature in 2026 has an article by science writer David Adam. The Science of 2050 Nature explores the future b...

There's been a lot of talk about how to teach science literacy. The discussion in the USA centers around STEM (science, engineering, te...

I'm a Canadian who's always been puzzled about American primaries. It seems to me that the purpose of these primaries is to help a p...

There's been so much bad news this week that I though you might enjoy a little humor to lighten your day. Here are some devout Young Ear...

The expression of genes is regulated at many levels but one of the most important is regulation at the level of transcription. Transcription...

I recently reported that Google's AI program does a horrible job of summarizing the junk DNA controversy. [ The scary future of AI is re...

Here's the post on Science & Culture ( sic ) by Casey Luskin: Happy New Year! No. 1 Story for 2025: Bombshell Overturns Myth of 1 P...

I complain a lot about the quality of science writing but today's post is very different. I want to highlight an article by Michael Le P...

Today I did a Google search for the term "JUNK DNA" and, as usual, the first thing I saw was the Google AI description of junk DNA...

There is considerable controversy over the total number of genes in the human genome. The number of protein-coding genes is pretty well esta...

The current best model of the human genome is that only 10% is functional and 90% is junk. This model was first developed over half a centur...

If you align similar regions of the human and chimpanzee genomes they turn out to be about 98.6% identical in nucleotide sequence. The total...

90% of the human genome is junk DNA. Today I did a routine search for "junk DNA" "2025" to see if misinformation i...

I'm giving a talk next Wednesday (October 1st) to the members of the Senior College (retired faculty). It's at the University of Tor...

A recent paper on characterizing endogenous retrovirus sequences has attracted some attention because of a press release from Kyoto Universi...