(Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism)Hans Reichenbach’s The Rise of Scientific Philosophy is among the most accessible and illuminating statements of logical empiricism. Although the book can be read as an introduction to philosophy, the central message of the work is that most of what constitutes philosophy is either (outdated) ...

At the very core of evolution lies the fundamental component of movement, it allows everything that is governed within evolutions standard to be dynamic and function with a sense of worth and direction. Movement is the core variable in which life becomes complex, it is allowed to conquer things and be dynamic in its scope and above all, without ...

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In just a few years, perhaps in just a couple of generations, humans will finally reach the long-awaited dream of being in control of their own destiny and they will re-create themselves deciding the direction of their own evolution, according to author, businessman, and academic Juan Enriquez, chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy (www. ...

Lonely men ought to flaunt their copies of New Scientist. Women looking for both one-night stands and long-term relationships go for geniuses over dumb jocks, according to a new study of hundreds of university students. "Women want the best of both worlds. Not only a physically attractive man, but somebody in the long term who can ...

The Vatican said on Tuesday the theory of evolution was compatible with the Bible but planned no posthumous apology to Charles Darwin for the cold reception it gave him 150 years ago. The Church of England this week also accepted that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas. A leading Anglican churchman, ...

Aging insight: Scientists have found that aging in the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans (shown here) may result in part from a developmental pathway gone awry. Credit: Yelena Budovskaya

Environmental stresses and cell damage play a role in the longevity of humans and simple soil-dwelling nematodes. But new research from Stanford University shows that in the short-lived worm Caenorhabditis elegans, such stresses have no effect on the changes in gene expression that accompany worm aging, hinting that another process is at ...

Did the first modern humans in Europe share a bed with nearby Neanderthals? Almost certainly not, according to a new analysis of 28,000 year old Cro-Magnon DNA. The Cro-Magnons were the first modern Homo sapiens in Europe, living there between 45,000 and 10,000 years ago. Their DNA sequences match those of today's Europeans, says Guido ...

A new publication answers centuries' old questions regarding the mechanism and function of humour, identifying the reason humour is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and its continuing importance in the cognitive development of infants. Alastair Clarke explains: "The theory is an ...