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The recent rapid advance in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) applications I think qualifies as a disruptive technology. The…

On the relationship between the pointless cosmos and purposeful living organisms. I am a firm believer in miracles—a confession that…

Remember The Last Starfighter from 1984? In that movie a trailer-park kid with limited prospects spends his time on an…

Telegony is a long-discredited concept of sexual heredity that has been making a surprising comeback in recent years—particularly within digital…

Last week I wrote about the possibilities of genetically engineering humans. The quickie version is this – we are already…

Creationism, in all its various manifestations, is sophisticated pseudoscience. This makes it a great teaching tool to demonstrate the difference…

How common is life in the universe? This is one of the greatest scientific questions, with incredible implications, but we…

This is a tiny ray of light in what has been a gloomy year for science-based federal health policy. Recently…

In the decades before the Wright brothers historic 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk there were many claims of powered heavier-than-air…

Practically everyone has heard of the tick-borne infection known as Lyme disease, even if they don’t live in a high-risk…