News to Know

• News to Note, July 12, 2008

  July 12, 2008

  Fishy missing links, the uniqueness of Earth, electrostatic robots, and more!

• Apes Show Signs of Mentally Planning Ahead

  June 21, 2008

  Chimps and orangutans are capable of sophisticated “mental time travel,” reports LiveScience on research at Lund University in Sweden.

• Controversy Over a Visible Evolutionary Shift In Bacteria

  June 14, 2008

  Has E. coli evolved in front of our very eyes? A recent report in New Scientist claims that it has—and is a poke in the eye for creationists.

• Salt Content of Mars Bad For Life

  June 7, 2008

  Yet another door slams on the idea of Martian life, thanks to a new report in the journal Science.

• Reverse Evolution Found In Small Fish Species

  May 24, 2008

  Evolution supposedly had constructive results over millions of years. But what about a new study documenting “reverse evolution” in the last half century?

• Chimps Outpacing Humans in Short-Term Memory Tests

  May 17, 2008

  Chimps are seen outpacing humans in a computer-based mental challenge in a National Geographic News video.

• Bloodline: A Documentary Follow-up to The Da Vinci Code

  May 10, 2008

  Canada’s National Post looks at the follow-up to The Da Vinci Code: the upcoming “documentary” (if it can be called that) Bloodline.

• Florida Passes Bill to Allow Critical Analysis of Evolution

  May 10, 2008

  Despite a series of losses, the movement to allow more open discussion of evolution in public school classrooms hasn’t been silenced.

• Stephen Hawking on Unintelligent Life

  April 26, 2008

  Speaking at George Washington University this week in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of NASA, Stephen Hawking discussed whether extraterrestrial life exists and, if so, why we haven’t found it, speculating on three answers to that elusive question.

• Is Free Will an Illusion?

  April 19, 2008

  It appears free will is an illusion, report researchers this week in Nature Neuroscience.

• Birds Able to Cooperate and Solve Problems

  April 5, 2008

  A team at the University of Cambridge has found that pairs of birds can solve a problem “as well as” pairs of chimps, reports BBC News.

• News to Note, March 29, 2008

  March 29, 2008

  The quest for the “God particle,” “apemen” men and “apemen” apes, and more!

• The Gecko Tail and Its Feats

  March 22, 2008

  Regardless of the attention given to those clingy gecko feet, gecko tails play an important role in keeping the mobile little creatures agile.

• Florida Now Supports the Teaching of Evolution

  Feb. 23, 2008

  The Florida Board of Education passed standards for science education that, for the first time in the state’s history, support the teaching of “evolution.”

• Bat Fossil Disproves Long-Standing Evolutionary Question

  Feb. 16, 2008

  Evolutionists’ question of which came first, bat echolocation (like sonar) or bat flight, has finally been answered—we just know that’s a question that’s been on your mind for a while!

• So-Called Evidence Found for Accelerated Evolution

  Feb. 9, 2008

  A spate of recent genomic changes is responsible for today’s variance in human skin color, stature, and other traits, reports ScienceNOW.

• Precursors to Life Found In Distant Galaxy

  Feb. 9, 2008

  The indication of the presence of an amino acid “precursor” in a distant galaxy is the latest “evidence” that life can spring up wherever.

• Cultural Evolution of Counting Overturned

  Jan. 19, 2008

  A new look at the counting systems of some Pacific islanders is overturning previously held views on the “cultural evolution” of counting.

• 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.

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