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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.

In spite of what you might have read, the human genome does not contain one million functional enhancers. The Sept. 15, 2022 issue of ...

Graduate students, postdocs, and other "academic workers" are on strike for higher wages and better working conditions at Universi...

I discuss a recent editorial in Science that advocates expanding university education in order to prepare students for jobs. I believe ...

I just read an annoying article in Boston Review: The Inflated Promise of Science Education . It was written by Catarina Dutilh Novaes, a Pr...

Nature Methods is one of the journals in Nature Portfolio published by Springer Nature. Its focus is novel methods in the life sciences. ...

Here's an example of a press release that distorts science by promoting incorrect information that is not found in the actual publicatio...

(This is a copy of an essay that I published in 2006. I made some minor revisions to remove outdated context.) Overheard at breakfast ...

I've been trying to reason with creationists for more than 30 years, beginning with debates on talk.origins back in the early 1990s. Som...

Can natural selection occur by chance or accident? No, with qualifications. Can evolution occur by chance or accident? Yes, definitely. ...

Wikipedia has a way of assessing the quality of articles that have been posted and edited. The rankings are somewhat confusing and it’s hard...

On Sept. 5, 2012 ENCODE researchers, in collaboration with the science journal Nature , launched a massive publicity campaign to convince th...

The ENCODE article on Wikipedia is a pretty good example of how to write a science article. Unfortunately, there are a few issues that will ...