Ross Pomeroy

Ross Pomeroy

Editor, RealClearScience

ross pomeroy

Steven Ross Pomeroy is the editor of RealClearScience. As a writer, Ross believes that his greatest assets are his insatiable curiosity and his ceaseless love for learning. Follow him on Twitter @SteRoPo.

They believe in meritocracy, yet leave their kids massive wealth.
Paradoxically, some do it for erotic reasons.
primordial slime
Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.
Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.
Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
acne
People living in non-industrialized societies don't get pimples.
Most electric car charging is done at night. A grid powered mostly by renewable energy might not be able to meet demand, but there is a solution.
Certain cancers are striking earlier than they used to.
circumcision
"Our risk-benefit analysis showed that benefits exceeded procedural risks... by up to 200 to 1."