Building the LHC has cost the world's taxpayers more than £5bn so far. Lawrence Krauss explains why understanding particle collisions is, like great art, music or literature, a vital part of human culture
The theory of childhood, also known as child origin, is a damnable, loathsome and indefensible lie. How can any thinking person suppose all humans used to be babies once? Just consider these arguments: There is no development path from babies to adul...
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As a PhD student in life sciences, I'm more than comfortable with language having a high concentration of technological jargon, acronym and newly constructed terms. I noticed Griffith Univers...
Today I got done with my final exams for my college classes, was hanging around, when I heard that MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) was doing some sort of lecture on campus. I figured, why not? Maybe the...
Researchers shed light on the effects of circadian disruption on breast cancer, obesity, sleep disorders and other health problems. Growing evidence indicates that exposure to irregular patterns of light and darkness can cause the human circadian sys...
Olivia Judson is absolutely right - let's get rid of the terms "Darwinist" and "Darwinism". She writes, among else: I'd like to abolish the insidious terms Darwinism, Darwinist and Darwinian. They suggest a false narrowness to the field of modern evo...