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Yawn: The Doomsday Clock Created By Anti-Nuclear Activists Is Still Close To Midnight

The Doomsday Clock, a public relations stunt created by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1) remains stuck at two minutes until midnight. Just like it was in 1953, the height of the Cold War,…

Science Journalists Are Optimistic About Their Field

Recent survey results by SciDev.Net/CABI reveal that the majority of science journalists (633 respondents from 77 countries) believe that the field is not consolidating the way some other mainstream…

Event Horizon Telescope Image: An Interesting Nothingness?

Media hyped black hole images will show a whole lot of nothing. Look at the simulations put out by the research team showing what they expect to find, nothing, at least at the location of the…

Ancient Andeans Modified Wild Tubers Into Potatoes, Then The Potatoes Modified Them Back

Recent DNA analyses show that ancient populations in the Peruvian highlands adapted wild tubers into potatoes - and then those potatoes in turn modified them in ways distinct from other global…