Barefoot Running
Barefoot Running Original Article: Lieberman, D.E. et al., Nature 463, 531 (2010). The modern running shoe was not…
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Is the Shape of the Earth Changing?
The Earth’s shape is becoming rounder as a result of the construction of projects like the Three Gorges…
The Trembling Sun
In 1962 a group of researchers discovered that the sun oscillated backwards and forwards once every five minutes.…
From Genes to Proteins: A New Level of Complexity
Newspapers frequently run articles reporting a study about a gene linked to some disease. Thanks to such wide…
Search for Life on Planets Orbiting Other Stars
Introduction For a long time astronomers have talked about the nine planets orbiting the Sun. These nine heavenly…
Confinement Systems for Fusion
The world’s energy sources are limited and in four or five decades they will be in short supply.…
On the Unscientific Basis of the Crusade of Some Scientists against Religion
The voices as well as popularity of certain anti-religion scientists have increased lately. Such figures as evolutionary biologist…
Science and Faith:Is it Possible for a Scientist to Believe? An Overview of the Western Tradition
The relationship between science and religion can hardly be described as a good friendship. Indeed, as part of…
Nanotechnology in Sponges
Sponges, though it is still not clear whether they are plants or animals, are inspiring the solution to…
Belief in God: A Matter of Life and Death
Odd as such a question might sound, do you think God is still alive in the twenty-first century?…
Lessons from Nature
Scientists are always trying to find more effective ways of making high performance materials with minimum consumption of…
Phytoplanktons and the Climatic Balance
At the oceans’ shores, the dominant odor one can feel is that of iodine, a salty smell that…
A Dead End for Science or A Call to the Creator
The scientists of the world have been engaged in solving the problem of deciphering the so-called human genome…
Gen-ethic Anxiety and Some Reflections on the Genome Project
The Genome Project was started at a research institute known as HUGO, which is short for the Human…
Darwin’s Black Box
Over since the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin in 1859, his theory of…