News to Know

• Water in the (Martian) Desert

  Dec. 12, 2009

  Once again, the news is awash in coverage of a new “water on Mars” claim. Does this one stand up to scrutiny?

• Horse Evolution Mix-up

  Dec. 12, 2009

  Some argue that the horse offers a “textbook example of evolution.” But does new research undo that claim?

• Catastrophe at Work

  Dec. 5, 2009

  It’s not only creationists who point to the role of catastrophic events in shaping earth’s geologic history. A new study sheds light on how Britain was separated from the rest of Europe by a “super-river.”

• No News Like Old News

  Dec. 5, 2009

  Is there life on Mars? Some of this week’s biggest “news” is also this week’s oldest news.

• Simple is as Simple Does

  Dec. 5, 2009

  It could be “the most thorough study ever of a single organism,” and what is the unsurprising conclusion? “[E]ven the simplest creatures are more complex than scientists suspected,” reports Wired’s Brandon Keim.

• Jigsaw Puzzle Challenge

  Dec. 5, 2009

  Reassembling half-billion-year-old fossils from bone fragments: a task so complicated that only computers can handle it?

• Vegetarian Ants

  Dec. 5, 2009

  Most ants are carnivorous, yet some are herbivorous. But how do the herbivorous species get the nutrients they need?

• Small Brains, Big Brains

  Nov. 28, 2009

  Small brains can do big things. Big brains can miss the obvious.

• Us vs. Them?

  Nov. 28, 2009

  It’s the sort of headline that both excites us and worries us: will National Geographic News’s portrayal of “evolution vs. intelligent design” be fair and balanced?

• Dark Side of Darwin

  Nov. 28, 2009

  Are creationists the only ones pointing out the “dark side” (the perturbing implications) of Darwin’s view on life’s origins?

• Ways We Could Evolve

  Nov. 28, 2009

  Slow science news week? Try some science fiction instead.

• The Guardian: “Face to Faith”

  Nov. 28, 2009

  A Guardian columnist turned her crosshairs toward the Creation Museum this past week. Are her criticisms anything new?

• Slowing Down Evolution

  Nov. 21, 2009

  Pathogenic resistance to antibiotics is a textbook example of “direct evidence for evolution”—literally. What does recent work on the topic suggest?

• Dinosaur Apeman

  Nov. 21, 2009

  We typically think of the “missing link” as an ape–human transitional form. In this case, though, the “missing link” is “big, short-footed, barrel-chested, long-necked, small-headed dinosaur.”

• Origin of (a) Species

  Nov. 21, 2009

  Scientists have watched as a new species is “born”—or is that “evolved”?—on one of the Galapagos Islands, home of Darwin’s famous finches.

• A Head Full of Magnets

  Nov. 21, 2009

  Turtles, birds, and butterflies had GPS long before humans invented the device. These creatures migrate thousands of miles each year to find food, to find breeding grounds, and to escape harsher seasons. Now scientists may be one step closer to uncovering how this animal navigation system works.

• A Blue Moon?

  Nov. 21, 2009

  Kapow! That’s one small plume for man, one amazing new discovery for mankind.

• Creation in Turkey

  Nov. 14, 2009

  Turkey is a nation uncertain of its identity, and that holds true in the creation/evolution debate.

• New Ocean in Africa?

  Nov. 14, 2009

  Thousands of years ago, God parted the Red Sea. Is He parting Ethiopia now?

• 18-Million-Year-Old Muscle

  Nov. 14, 2009

  Fossilized soft tissue has been found in a salamander fossil said to be 18 million years old.

• Vatican Looks for Aliens

  Nov. 14, 2009

  For the Vatican, the question of whether “sentient life forms exist on other worlds” has yet to be answered

• Generations' Changing Views on the Bible

  Nov. 7, 2009

  Results compiled from Barna Group surveys reveal an unsurprising result: younger generations are less likely to consider the Bible sacred or accurate.

• Preserved T-rex Ancestor Fossil

  Nov. 7, 2009

  What’s the cause for our sixth mention of T. rex in seven weeks? A new study of the famed dinosaur’s “most ancient fossil relative” that is “exquisitely” preserved.

• Ape or Human?

  Nov. 7, 2009

  This week, American public broadcasting began a three-part series on human evolution titled Becoming Human.

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