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Big Bangers Are Making Things Up

...imaginary things that cannot be detected: cosmic strings. String theory has had a bad run in the literature, because the imaginary strings that supposedly make up everything are undetectable and...

NASA Resurrects SETI

...search, the chance of success is zero.” Try that reasoning on the search for angels. NASA Awards Grants for Research into Life in Universe (Astrobiology Magazine). Astrobiologists are jumping for...

Search for the Truth

...or an inveterate multi-talented multi-tasker. An ambassador with Logos Research Associates, he has run Search for the Truth Ministries for 25 years. His website is loaded with resources: a blog,...

For the Love of Trees

...That’s because trees have a search strategy: actually, several strategies. If there’s a nutrient hotspot around, PhysOrg says, they will find it. How can they do this without eyes and...

Misuse of Term 'Natural Selection' Continues

...for materials. Instead of starting with a known compound and trying to optimize its properties, they will use fundamental physical properties required for a specific application to guide and select...

Intelligent Design Is Leading Biology's Golden Age

...invented a robot that imitates a snake’s slithering crawl, and think it will help in search-and-rescue operations. Snake bellies help scientists get a grip (PhysOrg): Curious about how snakes seem...

Major Scientific Revolutions Are Still Possible

...article says. Also, “The question of what resets the zircon clock has always been very complicated.” Ground-breaking research could challenge underlying principles of physics (Science Daily): Ever heard of kaons?...

Life Shows Exquisite Engineering and Optimization

...with automatic steering.” Ant search strategy: In “From chaos to order: How ants optimize food search,” Science Daily talks about how researchers at the Potsdam Institute are watching ants to...

Imagining Worlds – No Evidence Required

...on science for empirical verification are stringent. Yet often, in the secular science press and even in the journals, speculation is allowed to wander unleashed. Three recent examples illustrate the...

Dark Matter Search Tinkers with Mythology

...blank check or credit card to use for a century when its promised returns don’t materialize? One searcher quipped, “As in all research, there is never a guarantee of success.”...

Targeted SETI Search Hears Nothing

For this search, a team targeted 104 stars with planets discovered by the Kepler Telescope. Still nothing. Space.com told how veteran SETI queen Jill Tarter was among the team using...

Inflation Again: This Time with Feeling

...true. It was difficult to see where it fitted in to the sort of unifying theoretical constructs, such as string theory, which are needed to explain events in the early,...

Search for Intraterrestrial Life Scores Big

...could contain more water than all the rivers on earth.  The search for ET begins at home, they think: “Scientists say research on ‘intraterrestrial life’ complements astronomers’ hunt for ‘extraterrestrial...

Kepler On the Way to Search for Earth-Size Planets

The long-awaited launch of the planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft was successful Friday night, announced the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Named for the 17th-century German astronomer-mathematician Johannes Kepler, the spacecraft will stare at...

Short-Term Flings at Saturn’s Rings

The Saturn system is assumed to be 4.5 billion years old like the rest of the solar system.  What mean the delicate dances of ring particles that have been observed...
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