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.
A few key moments are linked to significant shifts in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Bad news: Sleeping in on the weekends probably won’t cut it.
Studies on “growth mindset” interventions fail to show significant benefits.
Can targeted interventions save Americans?
Today, many Maya sites are polluted with toxic levels of mercury. The contamination likely originated from cinnabar paints and art.
A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.
Pain relievers like acetaminophen and ibuprofen are made with chemicals derived from oil. Scientists have shown how to make them from trees.
Uncovering the ideology of “Karens” and “Kens.”
AI programs like ChatGPT can create “thanabots” based on deceased loved ones’ digital communications, allowing us to talk with the departed.
If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.
Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.
“I am not sick at all but everyone around me becomes sick.”
There were many similarities, but also some profound differences.
We’re separating the facts about EVs from the fiction.
Unless you’re drinking a dozen diet sodas per day, you have nothing to worry about — and maybe not even then.
“It is healthy and normal to be afraid of death.”
Don’t feel compelled to start a napping routine just yet.
The biggest nuclear blast in history came courtesy of Tsar Bomba. We could make something at least 100 times more powerful.
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A dog’s breed isn’t as predictive of behavior as many think it is. Environment and upbringing play a much larger role.
Despite the claims of speed reading apps, it turns out that you actually have to read the book if you want to learn from it.
Your brain is trying to show you the future.
Over the past two decades, the proportion of those who identify as bisexual increased from 1.2% to 4.5%.
Since 2012, the amount of time that teenagers spend socializing in person has plummeted. Is it a coincidence that depression is more common?
It is generally ineffective, occasionally poisonous, and driving numerous species to the brink of extinction.
Genetic profiles of many dog breeds appear as if siblings mated.
The fear of deep bodies of water may be evolutionarily ingrained.
To advance the gender-affirming healthcare of all those who transition, we must also understand the nature and causes of those who detransition.
More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Pessimism reigned supreme.
Cancer likes glucose. So take it away.