A few weeks ago, in the west of Ireland, I spent a night in the Gallarus Oratory, a tiny 7th-century church of unmortared stone, the oldest intact building in Ireland, probably one of the oldest in Europe.
Articles from December 2021
The interior of the Gallarus Oratory • Photo by btwashburn (CC BY 2.0)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis • CDC/ Dr. Ray Butler; Janice Carr (Public Domain)
Thus we behold a deadly beauty
On the evening of March 24, 1882, an unknown country doctor delivered one of the most important scientific lectures of all time to the Physiological Society of Berlin.
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
Cloning humans: It’s going to happen
Ever since Dolly the cloned sheep made her bombshell debut last year, everyone is asking, “What do you think of cloning?”