News to Know

• A Monarch is Never Late

  Oct. 3, 2009

  The astonishing navigational abilities of the monarch butterfly seem all the more astonishing in the light of new research.

• Ailing T-rex

  Oct. 3, 2009

  For all its size and strength, one mighty T. rex may have ultimately succumbed to a minuscule parasite.

• Final “Proof” for Fuzzy Dinos

  Oct. 3, 2009

  It’s the “final proof” that dinosaurs evolved into birds, say scientists.

• The Rusting Planet

  Sept. 26, 2009

  What does the coloration of Mars say about its age?

• Darwin Movie Controversial

  Sept. 26, 2009

  Is the new film Creation (the opposite of what it sounds like) too edgy for American audiences?

• Toy T. rex

  Sept. 26, 2009

  Would a miniature T. rex be any less frightening than the real thing?

• Exact Great Pyramid Construction Date

  Sept. 26, 2009

  How could construction on Egypt’s Great Pyramid have begun in 2470 BC if the Flood reshaped the earth over a century later?

• The Snake Can Walk?

  Sept. 19, 2009

  A snake with a leg—is it evidence of evolution, creation, both, or neither?

• Tree-Climbing Velociraptors

  Sept. 19, 2009

  Velociraptor: the fearsome carnivore and . . . tree climber?

• Resisting a Myth

  Sept. 19, 2009

  Microbial resistance to antibiotics is one of the most commonly claimed evidences for evolution. So will the new “clue” to its workings be evidence for evolution as well?

• Tomb of Jesus’ Brother?

  Sept. 19, 2009

  Seven years after its discovery, the James ossuary is still stirring up controversy and debate.

• Richard Dawkins and the Straw-god

  Sept. 19, 2009

  Ask the wrong question; get the wrong answers.

• Another Bad Idea

  Sept. 12, 2009

  It’s a zinc world after all?

• What Came From Fat?

  Sept. 12, 2009

  As far back as 2001, creationists pointed to liposuctioned fat as a source of stem cells that didn’t require the destruction of embryonic human life. Good to see secular scientists catching on.

• Skull Rewrites the Book

  Sept. 12, 2009

  The history of human evolution is clear: we all came from Europe.

• What They Didn't Find

  Sept. 12, 2009

  The scene is reminiscent of a movie: intrepid explorers pierce the wilderness and stumble upon a trove of amazing species rarely—if ever—seen before.

• Evolution Leads to Tooth Decay

  Sept. 12, 2009

  Tooth loss and molecular decay purportedly prove Charles Darwin right. Does that mean brushing twice a day keeps evolution away?

• Dog Fur Evolution

  Sept. 5, 2009

  The many differences in dog fur are reducible to just a few genetic factors, a team reports in Science.

• Are You a Mutant?

  Sept. 5, 2009

  A team of researchers has added to our knowledge of the genetic mutation rate in humans, as they report in Current Biology.

• The Creation Zoo

  Sept. 5, 2009

  A zoo near Bristol, England, has been attacked for its promotion of “creationist ideas,” even though a zoo spokesperson called life “the product of both God and evolution.”

• Is Intelligent Design Dead?

  Sept. 5, 2009

  We can all agree that evidence of intelligent design has been “shot down.” But is it good science or biased presuppositions that is doing the “shooting”?

• BBC News: “Mouse Set to be ‘Evolution Icon’”

  Sept. 5, 2009

  Peppered moths, move over! There’s a new alleged “icon of ‘evolution in action’” in town.

• Appendix Isn’t Useless

  Aug. 29, 2009

  “Creationists will have a field day with this one,” writes one blogger on the news. Bingo.

• The Demise of Planet WASP-18b

  Aug. 29, 2009

  A recently discovered exoplanet may have been found just in the nick of time—in time for us to witness its demise, that is.

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