Category: Science
The Historical Significance of Jack Kevorkian
If tomorrow’s history books lionize him as�a visionary leader of freedom, the culture of the West will be as dead as Kevorkian’s 130 “patients.”
"We’re All Just Apes Here"
Why is it, one might ask, that genetic reductionism lives on, despite its odiousness?
An Evolutionary Challenge: Explaining Away Compassion, Philanthropy, and Self-Sacrifice
British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane said, we are told, that he would risk his life for two brothers or eight cousins.
Protein Quality Control Surprise: An Enzyme Can Operate a Stalled Ribosome
"Nature is capable of more than we realize," a biochemist says.
Programmed Cell Death Is Vital to Life, but Where’d It Come From?
Cells die for many reasons — they die to give shape to our fingers and toes, they die to produce our nervous system, and more.