Life Sciences

A couple of years ago, at a massive conference of neuroscientists — 35,000 attendees, scores of sessions going at any given time — I wandered into a talk that I thought would be about consciousness...

In 2011, Dr. Pawan Sinha, a professor of vision and computational neuroscience at M.I.T., published his answer to an almost-four-hundred-year-old philosophical problem. The philosopher William...

Jupiter's moon Europa sports a chilly version of plate tectonics. The icy shell that encases the moon has sections that slide beneath each other in a similar way to Earth's continents and ocean...

Skeptical Science invited 97 of the world's top climate scientists to each write a short paragraph explaining why human-caused climate change is overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community....

It was one of the key events in the evolution of animals – and now it has been replayed in the lab. Evolutionary biologists reared air-breathing fish on land for eight months and found that the...

Severe pain? Reach for the yeast. Genetically engineered yeasts can now efficiently produce a range of opiates, including morphine and oxycodone. With growing anxieties about supplies of opium...

All About Genetics Genetics is the study of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms It is generally considered a field of biology, but it intersects frequently with many of the life...

My name is Trish Willy and I'm an instructor in the Bioscience technology department here at PCC at Rock Creek. Bioscience technology is really kind of all-inclusive which is a group of companies and...

Dr. Frenzel: Biomedical Informatics is a broad and diverse field and its impact is being felt across medicine in amazing sorts of ways these days as medicine has matured over the last fifty or sixty...

The basic idea in this theoretical framework is that data exists as a difference in the world An irregularity is data, of any kind, any sort But it is completely meaningless. When you add meaning and...