Solar System Pluto and Ceres: Young Dwarf Planets December 28, 2016 With all its data downloaded, New Horizons continues to surprise astronomers with evidence of active geology and youth at Pluto. CONTINUE READING
Geology Cave Climate Conclusions Compromised December 22, 2016 Widely used to infer past climates, isotope measurements from stalactites and stalagmites in caves can mislead researchers. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Cassini Gets Higher Look at Saturn's Youth December 10, 2016 Now entering its final dramatic high orbits, the Cassini spacecraft is finding unexpected things for an assumed old planet. CONTINUE READING
Fossils Proof of Dinosaur Feathers? December 9, 2016 Opinions are swirling about an amazing piece of amber with enclosed feathers. Let's look at what is known so far. CONTINUE READING
Geology Rapid Earth Changes in Historic Times December 6, 2016 What happened to the Sahara desert? What's going on in Java, man? Geologists are surprised sometimes by recent major changes. CONTINUE READING
Philosophy of Science Trusting Science Experts Can Be Disastrous December 5, 2016 Nobody pushes the values of science more than scientists. But trusting them doesn't always work out right. CONTINUE READING
Fossils More Original Protein Found in Older Bird Fossil November 22, 2016 The new discovery from China dates back 130 million years on the evolutionary timeline. CONTINUE READING
Geology Chicxulub Crater Reports Begin November 19, 2016 Scientists who drilled into the large crater in southern Mexico have started interpreting the cores. CONTINUE READING
Geology Our Super Moon Is Not an Accident November 13, 2016 A finely-tuned collision to form Earth's vital moon is tantamount to a miracle. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Activity on Planets Suggests Youth November 11, 2016 Can these processes really have gone on for billions of years? CONTINUE READING
Dinosaurs More Original Dinosaur Protein Found November 10, 2016 This time Mary Schweitzer's team found keratin protein on a claw of an ostrich-sized dinosaur from Mongolia. CONTINUE READING
Geology Lyell Loses in a Landslide November 8, 2016 Politics is on the minds of Americans today. Landslides are turning geological votes away from Lyell's uniformitarianism toward catastrophism. CONTINUE READING
Marine Biology Seamounts: No Speciation Here, Mate November 7, 2016 These isolated habitats should be ideal labs for studying Darwin's origin of species, but the evidence just isn't there. CONTINUE READING
Darwin and Evolution A Man, A Plan, A Cabal: Panama November 4, 2016 Evolutionists duke it out on the age of the Isthmus of Panama. Every solution breeds new problems. CONTINUE READING
Fossils Improbable Fossils Defy Evolution November 2, 2016 New fossil finds demonstrate how Darwinians adjust their story around surprises they didn't predict. CONTINUE READING