Science Square (Issue 99)
Elephants can distinguish human languages Elephants can determine ethnicity, gender, and age from acoustic cues in human voices.…
Issue 99 (May - June 2014)
21 articles
Reproducibility in Today’s Science
Recent advances in science have led to longer lives, better health care, and healthier societies. Science develops through…
Consanguineous Marriages Perspectives from Social Taboos, Religion, and Science
There is a great deal of suspicion about consanguineous unions in the world. Whether this suspicion relies on…
Embrace Mortality
Most of us operate under the assumption that there will always be a tomorrow, that there will always…
Jefferson’s Qur’an
Thomas Jefferson occupies a special space among the Founding Fathers as the principal author of the Declaration of…
Electricity in the Heart
Our heart is like a pump that never rests. The distribution of the dirty blood to the lungs…