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Danish scientists have looked at the first 785 cases of Omicron variant in Denmark. The most important lesson is that 83% of the cases were ...

Scientists are very interested in the omicron variant and why it is so dangerous. Since vaccinated people are getting infected, it must mean...

I've learned a bit of immunology from hanging out with immunologists so I'm going to try and explain how vaccines protect you from t...

This is a debate sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy on the question "Has science killed philosophy?" It suffers from o...

Michael Hiltzik is first off the mark writing for the Los Angeles Times : These authors wanted to push the COVID-19 lab-leak theory. Instead...

Harper is set to publish Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 in just a few days. The authors are Alina Chan , a postdoc at the Bro...

I'm currently discussing the meaning of "function" with a small group of scientists and philosophers and it's not easy to ...

This is an updated version of what's in your genome based on the latest data. The simple version is ... about 90% of your genome i...

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...