I don't usually weigh in on cases like this, but those who think that the charges against Polanski should be dropped without him showing up in co…
Read moreFinally, an end , or at least a new chapter, in the saga of this brave young man . The U.S. Army, having failed to convict him by court-martial and h…
Read moreWhy is it that you have to go to the Israeli press to find good sense about the Israel-Palestine conflict? Gideon Levy provides a little balance to B…
Read moreAs many readers will know if they have been paying attention during this 150th anniversary of its publication, On the Origin of Species makes no men…
Read moreI see an interesting juxtaposition between two news stories published in the past 24 hours. The first, a piece in yesterday's New York Times by…
Read moreThat's the conclusion my colleague John Travis, European Editor of Science , comes to about this otherwise laudable attempt to portray the human …
Read moreI'm on my way home from a meeting in Gibraltar, so stopped off for a day in this southern Spanish town nestled in Andalusia's rugged Serrania…
Read moreIt might seem intuitively likely that people without health insurance are at a higher risk of death, but here is a new study in the American Journal…
Read moreIt has been 25 years since a team led by Allan Wilson extracted mitochondrial DNA from a museum specimen of the now-extinct quagga. On Science 's…
Read moreIn this week's issue of Science I report on a possible sighting of the oldest known woven fibers, from a cave in the Republic of Georgia (see p…
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