From a Different Perspective...

Many people don’t realize it, but a hundred years ago America was something of a scientific backwater. Oh, sure, we had the occasional Nobel...

I found a new way to think about patients in an opinion piece by Ezra Klein: they’re NPCs. For those of you unfamiliar with gaming, NPCs are...

I’m not going to write about the NIH cuts , devasting though they will be (to researchers, universities, and all of America). I’m not even g...

I’d love to be writing about something fun. Something that makes us think about things in a new way, or something exciting that will take us...

Most people probably know about Alexander Fleming “ discovering” penicillin by accident , thus inventing the field of antibiotics. Others ma...

Admit it: until a week or so ago, you’d never heard of the Chinese app RedNote. RedNote logo. Yes, it's in Mandarin. Credit:  Xingin I...

Gosh, who knew that today would be an AI day, with at least three major announcements about “blueprints” for its development going forward? ...