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  • The Gene that Folds the Brain
    May 21, 2011

    The gene LAMC-3 is essential to the formation of convolutions in the human brain, but how it “evolved to gain [these] novel functions” remains a mystery.

  • Neanderthal Neighbors
    May 21, 2011

    So, were Neanderthals and “modern humans” neighbors in Russia or not?

  • Snails Go On the Offensive
    May 21, 2011

    The venom gland in a poisonous mollusk sheds light on the origin of defense/attack structures.

  • Super-Plants
    May 21, 2011

    Plants capture a little of the sun’s abundant energy and make it available for us. What if we could help them to do it better?

  • Toxin Lovers
    May 14, 2011

    Carboxydotrophs—microbes that derive their energy from carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide—are said to be a clue to the earth’s early atmosphere.

  • Nutcracker Man
    May 14, 2011

    “Nutcracker Man” was neither man nor nutcracker.

  • Cosmic Curveballs
    May 14, 2011

    Searching for dark matter, the antiuniverse, and our cosmic roots

  • Unisexual Lizards
    May 14, 2011

    Unisexual lizard species: evolutionary dead-end or created reproductive strategy?

  • Dripping Canyon Crust
    May 7, 2011

    The Grand Canyon slices through the high Colorado Plateau, but how did the plateau come to be so high? New seismic data paints a picture of the plateau’s underbelly.

  • NewScientist: “Cooperative Robots Obey Evolutionary Law”
    May 7, 2011

    Robots who “learned” how to share are “the first real confirmation of Hamilton’s rule, one of the most fundamental theories in modern biology.”

  • Persistent Protein
    May 7, 2011

    Preservation of collagen fibers in a marine reptile fossil is said to prove “biomolecular preservation over deep time.”

  • The Bunny King
    May 7, 2011

    Once upon a time a rabbit king was buried on Minorca . . .

  • Skeletons in the Closet
    April 30, 2011

    The dark history of human genetics illustrates the dangers of science misunderstood and misused.

  • Rapid Evolution of Genome Size
    April 30, 2011

    Different genome size in two “related” species of cress (genus Arabidopsis) is called the result of a rapid evolutionary process.

  • Pluto’s Expanding Atmosphere
    April 30, 2011

    Pluto’s atmosphere is expanding dramatically.

  • The Eyes Have It
    April 30, 2011

    So with peacocks—the classic Darwinian example of sexual selection—do the eyes have it or not?

  • Not-So-Ancient Algae
    April 23, 2011

    Tiny fossils of algae found at the edge of Loch Torridon in Scotland have been hailed as evidence that life evolved in freshwater and on land a billion years ago.

  • The Mother Tongue?
    April 23, 2011

    Two separate linguistics studies provide findings consistent with a biblical worldview.

  • Humanist Bible
    April 16, 2011

    A. C. Grayling’s humanistic book presents the ideas most closely held by evolutionists in a flowery poetical way.

  • Tennessee Schools
    April 16, 2011

    Teachers in Tennessee’s public schools may join those in Louisiana in being allowed to teach critical thinking skills when examining topics such as evolution.

  • Ancient Enzymes
    April 16, 2011

    Laboratory reconstruction of ancient enzymes has suggested that these enzymes are remarkably similar to enzymes in modern creatures and purportedly indicate what conditions were on the early earth.

  • Fast Flower Evolution
    April 16, 2011

    Analysis of data from the Ancestral Angiosperm Genome Project presumably has solved the mystery of how such a variety of flowering plants could evolve in such a short evolutionary time-span.

  • News to Note, April 9, 2011
    April 9, 2011

    Instantaneous change, the skeleton’s orientation, our ancestor formaldehyde, and more!

  • On the Skeleton's Orientation
    April 9, 2011

    In portraying cavemen as dimwits, popular stereotypes often show them as unkempt—and recklessly heterosexual—brutes: claiming brides by clubbing cavewomen over the head and dragging them away. But less frequently portrayed are “homosexual cavemen,” like the one supposedly unearthed in a Prague suburb.

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