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.

Five people stand or sit around a large, ominous hole in the ground, under a cloudy sky, reflecting on their struggles and supporting each other in raising mental health awareness.
Mental health awareness is more widespread than ever. Some professionals think it may have gone overboard — especially on TikTok.
A digital collage featuring a woman's face split with computer code and abstract geometric shapes in green, black, and gray tones, representing the complexity of decision-making.
"How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave."
A female physician wearing a lab coat and glasses examines medical images on a lightboard. The background consists of a green and purple abstract design.
Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.
An assortment of half-empty drinks in various plastic cups, some with ice and garnishes, is spread across a dark surface—a telltale sign of the previous night's hangover remedy attempts.
The hangover "cures" on the market don't work. A new hydrogel does.
It's a proclivity that sometimes leads to internal conflicts and high turnover.
a collage of photos of people talking on their cell phones.
The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.
A spoonful of non-sugar sweeteners on a dual red and orange background, with sweetener grains scattered around the spoon.
Poor research can be worse than no research at all.
Digital illustration of earth with glowing network connections across a starry space background, symbolizing global communication values.
"Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world."
A digitally rendered yellow sponge, inspired by the "Twinkie defense," depicted within geometric wireframe shapes on a black background, symbolizing conceptual and design analysis.
In the murder trial of Dan White, the defense touched on diet as a cause for White's actions. It has become known as the "Twinkie defense."
A realistic illustration of earth in space, bathed in sunlight with a visible blue glow from the GaiaSignatures atmosphere.
"I hope we take a mindset where we are willing to look for weird life in weird places."
A pixelated image of a person in a white hoodie walking in the woods, with the person's face obscured by pixelation. The background features reddish handwritten text overlay.
Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the "3 Rs": rage, resentment, and revenge.
A toothbrush with blue and white bristles, topped with a large dollop of minty toothpaste.
Claims circulating on the Internet — some from dentists' websites — suggest toothpaste isn't necessary for dental health. Is that true?
A person with a bandage on their arm after receiving an HPV vaccination, with a focus on a vial of the Gardasil vaccine.
More than 90% of sexually active men will be infected with human papillomavirus in their lifetime. The virus may reduce fertility.
A college education currently provides roughly a 10% rate of return, beating the long-term performance of equities.
Hands sifting through a collection of black and white photographs against an abstract artistic backdrop, each image reminiscent of treatments for Alzheimer's.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer's breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
Two identical twin men in boxing gear standing next to each other.
Is it genes or their special bond that drives identical twins to offend at similar rates?
An image of blue glow in the dark, signifying life.
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
A woman in an orange shirt standing in front of a crowd.
About three out of every four people arrested in the U.S. are men. That rate is similar across the world.
A woman feeling the music in a green hat.
After listening to the same playlist, people from the United Kingdom, the United States, and China reported feeling nearly identical bodily sensations.
A cluster of vibrant houses perched on a mountainside, offering a sense of life satisfaction.
Some of the world's most satisfied societies are poor, small, and remote.