Around the year 1800, the population of the entire world finally reached 1 billion for the first time in history. The two centuries that followed proved to be a time of breakneck population growth, fueled by both the Industrial Revolution and major breakthroughs in public health that reduced the death rate from a number of […]
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have sparked a great deal of controversy in the public eye, and genetically modified salmon are a case in point. Biotech company AquaBounty Technologies has been working on getting approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its genetically modified AquAdvantage salmon since 1993, but the FDA’s preliminary finding is […]
Inside the Planet is a site dedicated to the concept of truth. The fact of the matter is that truth is not a democracy. Fundamentally, something is either true or it is not. Science is devoted to the pursuit of the truth. We are concerned with the study of reality. This means that accuracy and […]