Could any life form survive in the stomach’s sizzling acid? Most thought there was no chance! And yet…there were occasional unexplained sightings&hellip…

Scientists plotted in their labs, looking for a chemical target to stop the acid. The first lead was a hormone trigger for…

For hundreds of years, doctors battled dim light that burned! Lenses and gadgets that showed too little! But when the breakthrough to…

Digestion! Stomach grinds, fermentation sparked by vitalism… Even Pasteur believed it! But others said chemistry could do it. They found… acid. But…

A few million people use PubMed every day – many pretty much every day. And everyone’s got their own habits, shortcuts, and…

Physicists set a new record this year for number of co-authors: a 9-page report needed an extra 24 pages to list its 5,154…

1894: “[T]he acknowledged leaders of the great generation that is now passing away, Darwin notably, addressed themselves in many cases to…

I blame the writing and research impact advice we get. At least in part. It doesn’t prepare us as well as it could…

Many trials end with a whimper. But some end with a bang. Press release, press conference, lots of fanfare &ndash…

On 11 September, some 9,300 participants in the SPRINT trial were sent a letter from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The letter told…

The potential harms of interventions are tricky to get a handle on. Our feelings about them are, too. It wouldn’t be…

Update 2021: I wrote this post back in the Gamergate-affected Twitter era. While the issues here about degrees of separation are still…