News to Know

• Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

  Jan. 23, 2010

  If alligator lungs are like bird lungs, and dinosaur lungs were like alligator lungs, does that mean birds evolved from dinosaurs?

• Incorrect Neanderthal Stereotype

  Jan. 16, 2010

  The stereotype of Neanderthals is that they were hulking, hairy troglodytes quite different from “refined” modern humans. Now there’s even more evidence of how incorrect that stereotype is.

• Coral Reefs Seen as General Cradles of Evolution

  Jan. 16, 2010

  Are beautiful coral reefs Charles Darwin’s best friends? Perhaps so, for according to one team of paleontologists, they serve as “general cradles of evolution.”

• Design of Noah’s Ark Incorrect?

  Jan. 9, 2010

  Bible-believers have spent a great deal of time considering the design of Noah’s Ark. Is it possible that they—and Genesis—have it all wrong?

• Kepler Space Telescope Finds First Hot Exoplanets

  Jan. 9, 2010

  Hot, hot, hot, hot, and hot—meet the first exoplanets found by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.

• Infectious Protein Particles Evolving?

  Jan. 9, 2010

  Can non-life evolve? Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have discovered that infectious protein particles called prions can adapt to new environments and compete with one another.

• Chimpanzees and Fire

  Jan. 2, 2010

  When it comes to fires, chimpanzees keep their cool. Does this “reveal a primitive hominid trait”?

• Evolution Without Molecules-to-Man Evolution

  Jan. 2, 2010

  If molecules-to-man evolution is a myth, why does evolution seem to explain some scientific observations?

• Disinfectants Train Microbes

  Jan. 2, 2010

  We’ve responded to the claim that antibiotics cause microbes to “evolve” resistance. Is the idea that disinfectants “train” microbes to become resistant any different?

• Dark Matter Verified?

  Jan. 2, 2010

  Dark matter: it’s mysterious, elusive (if it does exist), controversial—and now verified?

• Four-Legged Animals Causing Evolution Problems

  Jan. 2, 2010

  The supposed earliest evidence of four-legged animals—at 395 million years old—sounds like a boon for evolutionary research.

• News to Note: 2009 in Review

  Dec. 26, 2009

  A look back at 2009’s news—alien life and exoplanets, Darwin and “evolution in action,” missing links and classroom controversies, and more!

• Octopus Intelligence

  Dec. 19, 2009

  It’s an amazing animal known for its intelligence and, now, for its tool-use: the chimpanzee? The dolphin? The crow? Not quite.

• Super-Earths?

  Dec. 19, 2009

  Astronomers may soon find more “Earth-like” planets—and with them, alien life?

• Adios, Alaska

  Dec. 19, 2009

  Should we bid “bye-bye” to Alaska?

• Youth-Earth Evolutionism

  Dec. 19, 2009

  Mammoths didn’t die out that long ago: a creationist conclusion or the latest evolutionary idea?

• Many Giant Leaps for Evolution

  Dec. 19, 2009

  Evolution is thought to progress slowly, step by step, the accumulation of hundreds of millions of years’ worth of small changes. Or is it?

• Creating Evolution

  Dec. 12, 2009

  Are British birders behind the origin of a new blackcap species?

• 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?

• From a Trickle to a Flood

  Dec. 12, 2009

  Did a massive ancient Flood fill in the Mediterranean Sea?

• Survival of the Kindest?

  Dec. 12, 2009

  Move over, Charles Darwin: researchers at Oregon State University and the University of California–Berkeley want to supplant “survival of the fittest” with “survival of the kindest.”

• 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.

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