Science

A gentle introduction.

Analysis of the genome of an Amazon parrot and 26 other bird species revealed that parrots and other long-lived birds share a large number…

An obscure but powerful integration technique most commonly known as differentiation under the integral sign, or as "Feynman's Technique".

Let us imagine a working Mars colony of one thousand people. How can it be economically viable? It cannot export ores to Earth — the…

The hype for a new paradigm in Alzheimer’s disease research is not overplayed. The Church of Holy Amyloid is crumbling.

Direct observation of problem-solving skills in male budgerigars increases their attractiveness to females and this mate preference may…

Despite being wild birds, house sparrows occur almost everywhere that people live, and are almost never found where people are absent. Did…

It doesn’t interact with baryonic matter and it’s completely invisible to light and other forms of electromagnetic radia….

Space-Based Assets for Technosignature Searches

Can “technosignatures” be the ground of a rapprochement with NASA?

Detective work by scientists has shown that a unique songbird found by a citizen scientist in Pennsylvania is the offspring of a hybrid…

The study, published in Nature Medicine yesterday, is actually quite good methodologically, but the premise is wrong.

In a word, yes. Yes it does matter if just one species goes extinct because animals and plants depend upon each other, so the loss of one…

A female honeybee with two fathers — and no mother — has been discovered; the first ever of her kind observed in nature

A newly-discovered hummingbird species was found high up in Ecuador’s Andes Mountains, but its small population is threatened by human…

The Wright brothers are timeless examples of how private entrepreneurs can outperform heavily financed government backed organizations.

A framework for identifying key narrative elements and distinctions in place-based writing.