News to Know

• News to Note, August 9, 2008

  Aug. 9, 2008

  Martian life spoils quickly, the snaky logic of evolution, crazy pseudoscience, and more!

• They Think the Earth is Flat?

  Aug. 9, 2008

  They’re a tiny minority of untrained, pseudoscientific hacks who buy into a disproven, centuries-old myth rather than accepting well-established modern science.

• Soil on Mars Might Not Be Suitable for Life

  Aug. 9, 2008

  In the emotional soap opera that is the search for life on Mars, one of the main players—the habitability of Martian soil—may have just lapsed into a coma.

• A Fly’s Nervous System Aids in Flight

  Aug. 2, 2008

  No wonder houseflies can be so difficult to target: their guidance-control systems are sophisticated enough that they may inspire improvements to control systems in autonomous air vehicles.

• News to Note, July 26, 2008

  July 26, 2008

  Dinos in the desert, our special solar system, famous fish orators in history, and more!

• News to Note, July 19, 2008

  July 19, 2008

  Multicolored twins, multicolored fossil feathers, multicolored bugs, and more colorful news!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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