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.
“How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave.”
Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.
The hangover “cures” on the market don’t work. A new hydrogel does.
It’s a proclivity that sometimes leads to internal conflicts and high turnover.
The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.
Poor research can be worse than no research at all.
“Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world.”
In the murder trial of Dan White, the defense touched on diet as a cause for White’s actions. It has become known as the “Twinkie defense.”
“I hope we take a mindset where we are willing to look for weird life in weird places.”
Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the “3 Rs”: rage, resentment, and revenge.
Claims circulating on the Internet — some from dentists’ websites — suggest toothpaste isn’t necessary for dental health. Is that true?
More than 90% of sexually active men will be infected with human papillomavirus in their lifetime. The virus may reduce fertility.
A college education currently provides roughly a 10% rate of return, beating the long-term performance of equities.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer’s breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
Is it genes or their special bond that drives identical twins to offend at similar rates?
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
About three out of every four people arrested in the U.S. are men. That rate is similar across the world.
After listening to the same playlist, people from the United Kingdom, the United States, and China reported feeling nearly identical bodily sensations.
Some of the world’s most satisfied societies are poor, small, and remote.
Big Think spoke to the author of “The 5 Love Languages” about the popular relationship theory — and its lack of scientific support.
A $30,000 electric vehicle with 400 miles of range that charges in under 10 minutes remains a pipe dream over the near future.
If you eat a diet full of refined grains, high-sugar drinks, and sweets, there’s a good chance you have too much insulin.
New DNA analyses raise questions over the theory that Christopher Columbus and his men brought syphilis to Europe.
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
College students once stood out from the pack on IQ tests. Today, they’re about average.
Western societies seem to be getting inflammation achingly wrong.
A new analysis suggests previous “total cost of ownership” studies overlooked key factors.
From Hogwarts to hashtags, kids’ reading habits have changed drastically in recent decades — but data suggests cause for hope.
Smaller family networks, more great-grandparents, and fewer cousins.
The U.S. ranked 59th worldwide.