In various contexts, for practical, philosophical, and logical reasons, there is a default assumption. In the criminal justice system, for example, someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. T ...

Microorganisms can sometimes lose the ability to perform a function that appears to be necessary for their survival, and yet they still somehow manage to endure and multiply. How can this be?

At the Tokyo Motor Show, which was held at the end of October, exhibitions of many new types of vehicles utilizing cutting edge environmental technology were attracting attention, including fuel-cell ...

The "alien mothership" hypothesis for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is about to have a key test, as it hits solar conjunction ...

The initial application of the hygiene hypothesis for autoimmune diseases proposed in the early 2000s has been confirmed and consolidated by a wealth of published data in both animal models and human ...