Science can be a rather slow process. Sometimes the technology needed to confirm a hypothesis is not there yet, and has to be invented by subsequent generations. Sometimes repeated trials are necessary to make sure the conclusion is correct. It can take several generations of scientists building upon each other’s work to come to a …
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For an expert radiologist a computed tomography (CT) scan provides a wealth of information, and helps to establish diagnoses such as lung cancer. Because forming a diagnosis often requires finding anomalies in a scan, you would think that radiologists are best equipped to detect
any anomaly.
However, a recent study by a team of scientists at …
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What would it take for you to believe in bigfoot? Grainy footage of a Sasquatch
spying on campers? Or one
streaking across a dark highway? A ruddy
footprint in the mud? Not good enough?
How about a
genome sequence?
Well, now one exists. Allegedly.
This has to be one of …
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Science, art, philosophy: rational appreciation of the natural world
