Author David Weiner

Researchers have found widespread brain disease in dead NFL players. New figures from the Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center in Boston — the country’s largest brain bank focused on studying...

We think of the periodic table as a static object that is the same in all textbooks. In the periodic tables that appear in our freshman chemistry book, for instance, the ionization energy of each element, the...

Investigating the origin of life has intrigued researchers for centuries. To explain how life originated on Earth requires explaining how organic molecules essential to life — such as amino acids and...

In 1979, University of Geneva Professor Karl Illmensee announced the success of a groundbreaking experiment: the cloning of mice from early embryos. Since 1952, scientists had repeatedly tried and failed to...

As humans, we like to believe that the choices we make are rational and well founded, but by using psychology to look into the subconscious we can see that not all our decisions are totally logical. How do...

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a boy named Jack seizes control over fellow classmates stranded on an island, transforming them into a tribe of hunters and killers. How could Jack and his followers...