Posts by Dr. Allen F. Bortrum

Good riddance to 2016!

Rising seas, Alzheimer's, CRISPR among the subjects requiring attention by our incoming president.

Mars in ten years? Tidbits on behaviors or characteristics of species ranging rom octopus to bumble bee.

Will plastic clothing keep us cool?

Is acupuncture a placebo? Maybe not. New planet close by and new galaxy cluster very far away.

A huge region in our universe containing relatively nothing. Is CRISPR the way to fight the mosquito?

Did those "hobbits" on Flores evolve from Homo erectus? Various types of supernovae provided the elements needed for our own origins.

Determining guilt or innocence isn't easy, even with DNA. Number of new planets doubled.

Ancestral liaisons, pooping and Yellowstone.

NASA's James Webb telescope and trying to eliminate opioids in killing pain.