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Fightback Needed as Science and Life Support System Under Attack

Environmentalism is under assault; yet this planet is the only home we have; providing our food, air, water... It's our life support system.

Several projects are underway in the quest to discover ways to harness fusion power, which is akin to a holy grail of nuclear physics.

Fossils found in Liaoning, China, offer a wealth of insight into the origins of birds, albeit without simplistic missing links.

Off-the shelf headsets and DIY implants can help get you started.

Frederick Sanger made pivotal contributions to studying the chemistry of life, primarily by finding how molecules are assembled.

Darwinism has been questioned and tested wherever possible. becoming a pillar of modern science, but subject to non-scientific attacks.

Though “immune system” is a familiar term, there is still much to be learned about how our bodies defend against diseases.

Sleep science did not really begin till 1953, the same year the structure of DNA was discovered.

For the most part, there might be little harm in idiotic anti-science. Yet there can also be far-reaching consequences.

Recent discoveries are helping show that our solar system is a weird place; several of these involve moons, but planets yield surprises too.

From volcanoes on Java, to a supervolcano in Hong Kong, and dormant supervolcanoes today.

Picture an atom, and you may imagine spherical electrons orbiting a nucleus packed with particles: this is the Bohr atom, a simplistic model.