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I'm on the editorial board of an education journal so I've been following the pedagogical literature for many years. The idea of act...

COVID-19 vaccinations are soon going to be available for children in Ontario, Canada. Will parents vaccinate their children? The Toron...

Here's an interesting presentation by Sean B. Carroll, the evolutionary biologist and author of several books on evolution. He's als...

I just read a review in Science of Douglas Futuyma’s new book How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals About Their Origin, Lives, and Diversi...

You can't get much more anti-science than a book about Adam and Eve. Nevertheless, Stephen Schaffner —a computational biologist at the B...

Dogs can be trained to detect fresh cadavers but can they detect bodies that have been buried for months or years? Can they detect places wh...

Lots of people seem to be confused about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The investigating commit...

The generation of ATP in mitochodrial membranes is driven by the energy from a protonmotive force caused by the movement of protons from a h...

An interesting paper on COVID-19 infections in the USA during 2020 was recently published in Nature . The take-home lessons are: abou...

Science writers have always had articles published in the leading science journals such as Science and Nature but over the past few decade...

I want to address a recent article on science writing: When editors and scientists meet: communicating science without dumbing it down . The...

The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) is a pretigious society of workers in the field of molecular evolution. I am a member...

The creationists are committed to proving that most of our genome is functional because otherwise the idea of an intelligent designer doesn...

A recent review in Science has the following subtitle, "Why most scientists say it's unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a la...

Here's a link to a recent review on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 written by 21 scientists from seven different countries. They are all reco...