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The latest report from David Reich's genetics lab at Harvard is that "Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia." In other words, humans have been continuing to ...

Residents of different countries don't age the same. This should be pretty obvious. Some countries are vastly more developed than others. Their inhabitants enjoy a higher quality of life, with better ...

Technology billionaire Peter Thiel has been warning about stagnation in American science. In a recent conversation with Jordan Peterson, Thiel observed that the pace of scientific progress in the ...

It's 3am. The room is dark, the house is silent, but your brain is suddenly wide awake. Many people find themselves waking at roughly the same time each night and start to wonder whether something ...

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu (Shark Bay). To the untrained eye they look like a collection of rocks and ...

The State Department ought to revoke Charles Lieber's passport. He has gone to work for China and his work poses a danger to the United States. Our government was lax when it let Lieber leave the ...

As a mathematician--and given the recent buzz over UFO disclosures--I find myself entertained by a specific hypothetical: If a silver saucer crewed by extraterrestrials ever touched down, then what ...

By 2040, an estimated 80 million Americans will be 65 or older. Of these, 14 million will be at least 85, more than doubling their numbers from 2022. Where will all of these elderly Americans live?

The best athletes are often called "explosive." That's an apt description. In the ten seconds that elite sprinters dash 100 meters, they produce about 25,000 joules of energy, about the same released ...

Cosmological expansion is widely treated as a proven fact. It is not proven. For nearly a century, cosmology has told a simple story about a universe that began in a hot, dense state and has been ...