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I just received an invitation to a meeting ... On behalf of the international organizing committee, we would like to invite you to a conf...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! These are my great-grandparents Thomas Keys Foster, born in County Tyrone on September 5, 1852 and Eliza Ann Jo...

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...

A group of scientists, mostly from the University of Ghent 1 (Belgium), have posted a paper on bioRxiv. Lorenzi, L., Chiu, H.-S., Cobos, F...

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...

Nature has now published a series of articles celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of the draft sequences of the human genom...

This is the fifth (and last) post in celebration of the 20th anniversary of publishing the draft sequence. The first four posts dealt with: ...

We know a lot more about the human genome than we did when the draft sequences were published 20 years ago. One of the most important discov...

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first drafts of the human genome sequence. Science choose to celebrate the a...

It's been 20 years since the first drafts of the human genome sequence were published. These first drafts from the International Human G...

The first drafts of the human genome sequence were published 20 years ago. The paper from the International Human Genome Project (IHGP) was ...

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

I've been writing some stuff about epigenetics so I've been reading papers on how to define the term [ What the heck is epigenetics?...

Michael Denton is a New Zealand biochemist, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the author of two Intelligent Design Creationist...

Michael Behe has published a book containing most of his previously published responses to critics. I was anxious to see how he dealt with m...