Sandwalk

There have been dozens of studies on the possible harmful effects of glyphosate. There are many well-funded organizations and tons of lawyer...

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup®, is back in the news in the United States so I think it's time to repost an ...

I've been reading Mathew Cobb's biography of Francis Crick and a sentence in the Prologue caught my eye. Cricks' scientifi...

We may not know a lot about how artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms work but the one thing we do know is that they are only as good as t...

The amount of a given protein in Escherichia coli depends on a number of factors such as the amount of mRNA and the rate of translation. Th...

We're interested in the last universal common ancestor of all life (LUCA). In theory, this is a species that gave rise to both Bacteria ...

Over the past few years I've been assessing AI algorithms to see if they can answer difficult questions about junk DNA, alternative spli...

It seems reasonable to assume that there's a genetic component to aging and the human life span. For example, it's clear that if you...

New Scientist has produced a special issue on the best ideas of the 21st century . Here's the complete list.

The National Center for Science Education (NCSE, United States) is an organisaton devoted to defending evolution and climate change. It has ...

American Secretary of State Marco Rubio thinks that the United States of America has been subsidizing the defense of Europe and it's tim...

I was watching Marco Rubio testify before a Congressional committee this morning. I'm interested because I live in Canada and we are one...

The Third Way of Evolution is a strange organization composed of mavericks who think they're not getting enough attention. Here's h...

I follow the posts of Intelligent Design Creationists in order to see whether they have finally begun to understand science. Imagine my exci...

The first issue of Nature in 2026 has an article by science writer David Adam. The Science of 2050 Nature explores the future b...