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There is continuing confusion, and even consternation, over what seem to be disparate policies, recommendations and mandates emerging in response ...

Same-sex sexual behaviour may seem to present a Darwinian paradox. It provides no obvious reproductive or survival benefit, and yet ...

[As of January 8, we had only] vaccinated 1.38% of our population [in the United States, while Israel had] vaccinated ...

A simple nasal spray that stops SARS-CoV-2 in its tracks? That could block the coronavirus in the nose, before it ...

Across social media they celebrated. The electronic victory laps commemorated Bayer’s decision to remove the herbicide Roundup from the residential ...

In recent years, precision biotechnologies have appeared on the Latin American horizon, introducing new ways to modify genomes affordably easily ...

Stanford, which consistently ranks among the top U.S. colleges and universities, is one of the great research institutions in the ...

The avalanche of TV ads for Prevagen that coincided with my reaching Medicare age has inspired me to investigate what’s ...

I’m tired of writing about COVID from a geneticist’s point of view, so I thought I’d let a virus speak ...

Now that COVID-19 is winding down, perhaps it’s time to go back to trying to do something about our country’s ...

The “lab leak” hypothesis about the origin of Covid-19 has been getting a lot of attention lately, and deservedly so ...

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) is an international agreement developed by governments and environmental organizations opposed to the commercialization ...

The Government was right to make provision for a temporary and limited derogation for the use of the neonicotinoid seed ...

A recent DNA Science post considered the ebb and flow of treatment possibilities for Alzheimer’s disease. This week, it’s Huntington’s disease. Like ...

For the last century, each generation has produced an alternative approach to farming that is aimed at a central challenge ...

Everyone knows the difference between male and female brains. One is chatty and a little nervous, but never forgets and takes ...

Few people are aware of the heroes behind the surge in yields of wheat and other crops that began in ...

Across the eastern seaboard, the majestic American Chestnut tree once dominated forests. A main source of timber for cabins, shipbuilding, and ...

At 70, Linda Findley has long been active in her small town of Fort Scott, Kansas, which sits more than ...

Anyone active on social media is aware that there is a great deal of passionate but ill-founded opposition to vaccination, ...

British economist Thomas Babington Macaulay challenged a thread of pessimism writing in 1830: “On what principle is it that, when ...

Consumers have been so saturated with vague marketing claims that nearly 50 percent can't correctly identify what is claimed to ...

Winston Churchill famously observed that in wartime the truth must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. Many of my ...

Recently, I was asked to speak about the weedkiller glyphosate on Radio Colombia. As is often the case with media ...

From Borneo to Britain, it’s the scientific breakthrough that captured the world’s attention. No, not the Perseverance rover landing on ...

In the face of climate change, the expectation for evidence is doubled because of the dramatic implications ...

The long evolutionary journey that created modern humans began with a single step—or more accurately—with the ability to walk on ...