Sandwalk

Cambridge University Press is publishing a series of inexpensive books on biology topics. The books all have similar titles beginning wi...

A few weeks ago I put up a post on Were you lied to in your genetics class? . At the time I thought it was just a fringe view being expresse...

Populous, geographically disperse, species are often subdivided into subspecies, races, demes, or geographically differentiated populations....

You will be surprised to hear that biological evolution is dead in the water according to the authors of a paper published in Progress in Bi...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1928 "for his work on typhus" Charles Jules Henri Nicolle (1886 - 1936) was a ...

John G. West is Vice President of the Discovery Institute and one of the founding members of the Center for Science and Culture. He is a le...

Michael Marshall is a science journalist. He published a short essay in New Scientist where he laments the fact that popular science books ...

Today's molecule is complicated and you may not recognize it right away from the 3D structure. It was discovered in the middle of the la...

There's been a lot of talk recently about scieintific misinformaton on the internet. I started reminiscing about what things were like w...

How can you possibly be against a book devoted to refuting misinformation about Charles Darwin and his views on evolution? This is an anthol...

The November 1, 2024 issue of Science contains three articles on misinformation in science. The articles tend to concentrate on the standar...

The development of protein structure prediction programs began fifty years ago and culminated in the remarkable success of AlphaFold , devel...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 "for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA...

It's Tuesday so it must be time for Monday's Molecule! :-) Today's molecule is the little green ladder-like thing in the fig...

Robert Alexander Hood 1 was born in 1895 in a small village north-west of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He went to France in 1916 when he was ...