News to Know

• Not One, But Six Giraffe Species

  Jan. 5, 2008

  The giraffe, the world’s tallest animal, may not be a single species but instead may contain several species, according to a report in BMC Biology.

• News to Note, December 29, 2007

  Dec. 29, 2007

  In this final installment of News to Note for the year, we examine what we consider to be the top news stories of interest in the battle for biblical authority in 2007.

• News to Note, December 22, 2007

  Dec. 22, 2007

  Whale tales, Creation Museum coverage, muddy waters, thoughts on getting Expelled, and some good old fashioned irony round out this week’s News to Note.

• River-Slosher—Missing Link?

  Dec. 22, 2007

  A team of paleontologists has “identified” a fossil as the missing link connecting land mammals to supposed evolutionary kin of whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

• News to Note, December 15, 2007

  Dec. 15, 2007

  In the news this week, we have super-fast “evolution,” the evolved pregnancy, the steamy side of Mars, intrigue in Kentucky, and a Dawkin’s Christmas Carol.

• Researchers Note Increase in Rate of Natural Selection

  Dec. 15, 2007

  The rate at which humans evolve is 100 times faster than it was 5,000 years ago, reports ScienceNOW on a human DNA analysis project.

• News to Note, December 8, 2007

  Dec. 8, 2007

  This week we offer up super smart chimps, a dinosaur “mummy,” a biblical wall, and widespread doubts about Darwin.

• Sunday School Sans God

  Dec. 1, 2007

  For a new generation of children, Sunday school isn’t about Bible stories but encouraging “personal expression, intellectual curiosity and collaboration.”

• Unknown Life: Linnaeus's 300th Birthday

  Nov. 17, 2007

  Despite centuries of scientific effort classifying life, the vast majority of living things remain unknown.

• Toads Voluntarily Hybridize

  Nov. 10, 2007

  Research published in the journal Science details how some female toads violate an “evolutionary rule.” Perhaps no one has told them about it!

• Neanderthals: the New Red-Heads

  Nov. 3, 2007

  It’s a common caricature in textbooks, movies, and—more true than ever today—TV shows: a brow-ridged, (often) club-carrying Neanderthal, covered in thick, messy red hair.

• Why We Can't Phone the Aliens

  Oct. 27, 2007

  Science fiction author Ben Bova offers a few explanations for why our search for extraterrestrial life (which is growing more robust with time) has turned up nothing so far.

• More Different Than We Thought

  Oct. 27, 2007

  Scientists publishing in the journal Genetics last week have showed that “[m]any more genes separate humans from chimpanzees than scientists believed.”

• News to Note, October 13, 2007

  Oct. 13, 2007

  What can we learn from boasts of “artificial” life, a geological rush job, a Jurassic dragon, a not-so-useless organ, and the “fear” of evolution?

• Lessons from a Beetle

  Oct. 6, 2007

  A team at the University of Leeds in England has engineered a spray nozzle that replicates the bombardier beetle’s (in)famous defense mechanism.

• A Vegetarian Dinosaur's Big Mouth

  Oct. 6, 2007

  Researchers are confused as to what a giant, duck-billed, many-toothed dinosaur would eat.

• Chimp Filing for Person-hood

  Sept. 29, 2007

  His name notwithstanding, the current legal case for the personhood of Mr. Matthew Hiasl Pan (a chimp) is in jeopardy, reports the Associated Press from Vienna, Austria.

• Review of New Fossils Found in Georgia

  Sept. 22, 2007

  A team reporting this week in the journal Nature announces the discovery of the remains of four individuals found at the site of a medieval castle at Dmanisi in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

• Troublesome Underwater Volcanoes

  Sept. 1, 2007

  Underwater volcanoes spewing oxygen-devouring gases delay the evolutionary timetable, according to a new study.

• Water-less Geysers

  Aug. 25, 2007

  National Geographic News reports on a new model, published online in last week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that removes the need for liquid water in explaining the “unusual” geysers on Enceladus’s south pole.

• Too Big for the Big Bang?

  Aug. 18, 2007

  Astronomers looking at galaxies far, far away have found five that don’t quite fit big-bang ideas.

• Shaking Hands with a Shark

  Aug. 18, 2007

  A University of Florida study focusing on genes that control “how and where body parts develop in animals” has resulted in evidence that the genetic “potential” to grow fingers and toes is found in sharks as well as bony fish.

• Megaflood Makes Britain

  July 21, 2007

  Recent research suggests that Great Britain was formed as the result of a megaflood.

• Possible Water Vapor Tantalizes Astronomers

  July 14, 2007

  The exoplanetary-analysis community is buzzing with news this week of the possible discovery of water on HD189733b, an exoplanet 64 light-years from earth.

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