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In the late 18th century, when a crop failed, farmers and agricultural enthusiasts traded theories about what was to be done in the pages...

“Even though she’ll be a spinster, she’ll be able to support herself.” These lines, uttered in 1948, were the gateway to a professional...

When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for...

In terms of cell count, ninety percent of you isn't you at all.  Bacteria, though by mass they only make up about two percent of a human...

Over the course of the last two decades, humanity has taken its first quiet steps from being the blind victims of genetic-molecular...

Science is a creature of lurches and inchings, presided over by two (mostly) mutually exclusive castes.  We know the lurchers well,...

The human body is a truly wonderful place to live, if you can fit in it. It's warm and protected and, because humans are such clever at...

We are all mutants, our genes loaded with the steadily acquired variations of three billion years that gradually changed a collection of...

If you were to ask an ancient Greek how it is determined that a baby is born a boy or a girl, they would have had some interesting and...

To the uninitiated, there seems a dizzying amount of carnage wrapped up in advancing biological knowledge. Every scrap of information...

As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either sitting in a chair...