The USDA Organic certification was a mandate from the Clinton administration to create a way for his constituents in the organic food space to market their product as distinct from conventional food.…

EVO2 is a Large Language Model trained using 9 trillion DNA base pairs from all domains of life. It can, their Nature paper says, predict everything from noncoding pathogenic mutations to clinically…

Companies know to go with the political flow. It is better to help manage the process than protest just because a populist belief defies science and end up with mandates handed down by Congress that…

A little over a week ago, artificial intelligence company OpenAI announced ten advances in mathematics and computer science made with their as-yet unreleased model Astra. The discoveries cover a wide…

An experiment at Kungl. Drottningholms Golfklubb (Royal Drottningholm Golf Club) in Stockholm incorporated the Trackman 360 to create shot tracers on the 14th tee and it shows what many of you had…

I have been preparing a poster for the MODE Workshop, which will take place in the splendid location of Kolymbari, in the Greek island of Crete, from September 1 to 7. The poster is not about one…

About a third of the world's corn production uses a legacy hybrid rather than modern science and a new study finds that  grain yield in intermediate-maturity hybrids could be plagued by a…

The 1844 edition of the widely used schoolbook written by William H. McGuffey, “Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader,” includes a dialogue about the difference between “true and false philanthropy”:…

Very few people with knowledge of Chinese science believed their BSL-4 rating (bio-safety level) in Wuhan was legitimate. Even Russia has strong controls over high-threat biological pathogens and…

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, is reviled by elitists in the literature field because things he wrote, such as "the pen is mightier than the sword" and "it was a dark and stormy night…

Across Europe, running a home – whether you need to keep it cool in the summer or heat it during winter – usually means burning imported gas. That wastes energy and creates carbon emissions,…

It is with quite a bit of sadness that I received this evening the news of the passing of Antonio Rosino. Antonio, born in 1942, graduated in mathematics in Padova, after which he taught Maths and…

Halloween is the most rumor-prone of holidays. If you read the folklore that passes as social media, Halloween has its own holiday character, like Santa, but he's named Secret Sadist and putting…

Every summer is getting hotter. Wildfires are blazing, and the worst is yet to come. There’s nothing to be done – we’re doomed! Sound familiar? This “climate doom” narrative can dominate the news…

In 1986, a film entered theaters and left almost immediately with little acclaim; because it had not even earned back half its budget.(1) Yet The Highlander went on to spectacular success in the…

There are conflicting cultural beliefs about human evolution; one sphere thinks early man was eating berries and plants while the other contends they were more carnivorous. In every case diets were…

Protein-maxxing is the latest rage in people who learn just enough science to be wrong about nutrition health, but if you adopted a gluten-free diet despite not being celiac, that vaccines cause…

Wormhole begins quickly. Hannah McElhinney’s cousin, who has travelled to Malaysia for a medical treatment, has sepsis. She’s in a coma. One page later, she’s dead. The pacing of the book’s opening…

Thinking used to be so fast that it was the pinnacle of speed to people. In 1849, Hermann von Helmholtz set out to make the mystical quantifiable and measured nerve impulses. They were electrical and…

Intermittent fasting, and fasting in general, has been a popular fad health gimmick, but the science isn't on its side. Instead, proponents believe mice are little people so if mice weaned on…