The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...
Misinformation isn’t just human. A new study shows how false signals spread across biology, from bacteria to bird flocks.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s CDC just funneled a $1.6 million dollar grant to researchers to carry out an unethical and scientifically unjustified randomized clinical trial of the birth dose o ...
Senior biologist Zhang Hong, a member of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences, fears genuine innovation may be at risk ...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is probably one of the most devastating diagnoses that we should all hope to never hear. Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, or motor neuron disease, ALS is a prog ...
As head team physician for the New York Giants, I routinely have athletes asking about supposed ‘breakthrough’ stem cell ...
New ultrasound technology developed at Johns Hopkins can distinguish fluid from solid breast masses with near perfect ...
Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and ...
Federal health officials are reshaping long-settled science by suggesting that vaccines may cause autism — a claim contradicted by decades of large, peer-reviewed studies, writes retired Santa Cruz ...
Thai police have charged a 72-year-old woman for spreading false information on social media claiming that American ...
People who lean politically to the right are more likely to fall for conspiracy theories than those on the left—but not for ...