Sandwalk

Scientific American has endorsed Kamala Harris , a candidate for president of the United States. I think this is a mistake and so do many o...

China has become a science powerhouse and it achieved this goal, in part, by sending its young scientitsts abroad to train in universities i...

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to understand the scientific literature even in subjects that I've been following for decades....

There's an old saying that birds of a feather flock together. It means that people with the same interests tend to associate with each o...

New names for very large and very small weights and sizes have been adopted. Last November's meeting of the General Conference on ...

Don't bother trying to reason with a publisher. All of them have different views on proper style and every single one of them is absolut...

A friend recently posted a figure on Facebook that instructs authors in the correct way to prepare a summary paragraph (abstract) for public...

So many books ... so little time.

Most of us learned that science provides good answers to all sort of questions ranging from whether a certain drug is useful in treating COV...

Richard Dawkins has written an essay for The Spectator in which he says, "[Science is not] a social construct. It’s simply true. Or a...

When doing an exeriment, it's important to keep the number of variables to a minimum and it's important to have scientific controls ...

Dan Riskin: The Good, Bad, & Natural: What Mother Nature says about morality? Thursday, April 12, 2018 7:30 - 10:00 pm The Franklin...

We were discussing the field of evolutionary psychology at our local cafe scientific meeting last week. The discussion was prompted by watch...

You probably know that climate change is real and humans are a major cause of global warming. You probably know that life has evolved and th...

A recent letter in Nature draws attention to a serious (?) problem in modern society; namely, the persecution of junior scientists by older...

An article on Nature: INDEX reports on a recent survey of scientists: Cutting corners a bigger problem than research fraud . The subtitle s...

I came across this paper while doing research on alternative splicing. The introduction annoyed me. It illustrates what to my mind are some ...

ScienceDebate.org is a group that wants a "science" debate between Presidential candidates in the upcoming American election. That...

My friend and colleague, Alex Palazzo, alerted me to an interview of Bill Martin published in the July 11, 2016 issue of Current Biology [...

Here's an interesting article about the biggest problems in (American) science: The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 ...