The creation of a simple bacterium with completely synthetic genetic material by Craig Venter and co-workers last year created a huge wave…

In a talk given at The Veritas Forum at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in February 2007, Professor Owen Gingerich, who has…

Less than two metres tall and only lasting about 70 years — can we matter in a universe that is so big and so old, so dark and so cold?

Is our own experience the final and only arbiter for what we can accept as true?