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I have fond memories of two summers spent in York, England in 1994 and 1995 carrying out research in a colleague’s...

Every spring we go through this. It’s night and all is dark, so Sherry and I don our reflective safety vests and...

Science is always looking for inexpensive and innovative ways to diagnose disease states. For those who have been...

I have written before of drugs that were developed for a particular disease, but, surprisingly, were later found to...

It’s finally spring and the time of year when migrating birds return to Wisconsin. Sure, we get the usual...

Nanotechnology is the use of extremely small particles to carry out an ever-increasing number of functions in a...

Screaming plays an important role in animal behavior. The first non-human animal screams were probably in response...

Last week I discussed a typhus epidemic in the Warsaw ghetto during WWII.  During that same time, secret research...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all too often heard the words, “Follow the science.”  Unfortunately, the...

There is a newly completed subdivision near where we live, and the other day while driving past one of the houses,...