Ross Pomeroy
Editor, RealClearScience
Steven Ross Pomeroy is the editor of RealClearScience. As a writer, Ross believes that his greatest assets are his insatiable curiosity and his ceaseless love for learning. Follow him on Twitter @SteRoPo.
"The accuracy of our memories is not measured in how vivid they are nor how certain you are that they're correct."
The original observation was effectively a lack of an observation. The conclusion was dinosaurs.
Humans can contract the parasite by ingesting anything contaminated with cat feces.
You've undoubtedly heard the maxim "Life finds a way." Well, if life has indeed found a way on one of the other trillions of planets in our Milky Way Galaxy, it would likely not be our way.
41 million Americans sleep fewer than six hours each night. But it wasn't always this way.
Are all true scientists destined to become atheists? The answer is no, or at least that doesn't seem to be the case judging by statistics.
Is there any meaningful correlation between guns and violence? A survey of scientific studies reveals some surprising -- not to mention controversial -- insights.
Science is often awkward and frustratingly uncertain and mindbogglingly complicated. It is also what enriches our lives.
Experiencing the "overview effect" appears to be transformational. Studies show that feelings of awe make subjects more patient, less materialistic, and more willing to volunteer to help others.
Due to arduous competition for limited scientific funds, the pie-in-the-sky ideas that may potentially hide brilliance underneath, are often ignored, abandoned, or simply never undertaken in the first place.
The brilliant Albert Einstein didn't believe in this realm, and yet he won a Nobel Prize for playing in it.