The day had started out calm and sunny, until, for some strange reason, I opened the newspaper. There I learned that there is a mad scientist working to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth. Seriously. A company named Colossal is working…
Harvard University has had a rough few months. It seemed as though the series of scandals that beset the once-revered university had culminated in the resignation of Claudine Gay, its former president. But this week brought forth revelations that dealt…
Observation. Question. Hypothesis. Experiment. Analysis. Conclusion. It’s a progression we all learn in middle school — so ingrained in us that we perhaps never wonder if science was ever done differently. But, solely applying skeptical inductive reasoning to the natural…
In 2022, the country’s two preeminent kidney associations, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrologists (ASN), made changes to the definition of chronic kidney disease (CKD) that will likely revoke diagnoses in an estimated 5.51 million…
In my last article, I described what I called ignorance to the third degree: ignorance that is proud of itself, that boasts of having discarded vast fields of human knowledge. Since any sane person will be a bit embarrassed when…
In the last week or so, I’ve run into quite a few people who profess to be appalled by the supposed scientific ignorance of the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, inasmuch as he “does not believe in evolution.” …
The “disease” of “hysteria” was the scourge of the front parlors and hospitals of the European elite in the 19th century. Even Sigmund Freud had a conflicted diagnostic go at hysteria. It was in the medical textbooks, in the meetings…
Before the internet, artificial intelligence, the International Space Station, and the mapping of the human genome, there was science fiction, which predicted it all. Where and when the genre began is debatable: among the ancestors of today’s science fiction are…
Forget about artificial intelligence. The next big development in the tech industry is not chatbots that can respond to you as though they’re human — it’s computers that solve complex problems the way the universe does: with quantum physics. On…
For centuries, humans have searched for the fountain of youth. But according to recent research, the fountain of youth isn’t some water with magic properties — instead, it seems there is power in the blood … human blood. Gen Magazine…