Real Clear Science

Ethan Siegel, Big Think

All throughout the Universe, different types of signals propagate. Some of them, like sound waves, require a medium to travel through: the waves are...

Edzard Ernst, Edzard Ernst

For decades, European health systems have maintained an uneasy coexistence between evidence-based medicine and a range of so-called alternative medicines (SCAMs)....

Kiran Kumbhar, Aeon

South Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, or 'India' in its pre-nation-state meaning, boasts a remarkable diversity in ethnicities, cultures and languages. For more than...

Holly Barker, Knowable Magazine

On a bright afternoon in Jiangsu, China, Xin Yin is playing personal trainer to some mice. One by one, he sets the rodents on a miniature treadmill that...

Ricki Lewis, PLoS Blogs

Eman, our informally adopted son who is a physician in Monrovia, Liberia, is recovering from the measles. He contracted it from a teen patient.'

Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica

They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival. They passed their newborn screening tests. Some made it to their 2-week...

Jamie Ducharme, BBC

Artem Kirillov is not, by nature, the kind of person to take it easy. "I prefer to push myself further, even if I feel a bit off," says Kirillov, who is 40, lives in...

Steven Novella, Neurologica

Richard Dawkins is a public intellectual of some renown, although not without his controversies. So it is noteworthy when he

Elizabeth Howell, Space.com

A new mission will attempt to chart a mysterious ring-shaped current surrounding the Earth, so that researchers can better protect satellites and power...

Ed Cara, Giz

Hot spring lovers beware: Recent research shows these popular vacation spots can harbor a deadly species of amoeba that feasts on brains.