Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
Archaeologists working in the Kenyan Rift Valley have discovered the oldest known stone tools in the world. Dated to around 3.3 million years ago, the implements are some 700,000 years older than stone tools from Ethiopia that previously held this distinction...
John Horgan lists 25 of his favorite science(y) books, from Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams to Joyce's Ulysses
Accelerated testing of compounds that have shown efficacy against the virus may lead to new drugs and vaccines
This week the first wave of research from scientific journals has begun to be published; Current Biology has posted a trio of papers by three different prominent competing color vision labs, each describing their initial studies of The Dress...
As more cultural commodities enter the market, cultural distinctions will become muted to suit the appetites of a wider clientele
The quest to enlist the body's immune system in the fight against cancer is progressing slowly, but surely
The signfiicance of selling a personal substance in the public market.
Root fungi may confer dark but useful powers on their plant hosts
Divers on a research expedition to the Philippines' Coral Triangle uncover a trove marine biodiversity
A study of anti-Roma bias in Hungary seeks to identify the roots of subliminal bias