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Milky Way Center Bathed in Unexplainably Hot X-Rays
June 25, 2004
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory found more heat at the center of the Milky Way than astronomers can explain. Astronomers observed a tiny angle around the Milky Way’s center for 170 hours. After subtracting out known sources, a diffuse gas cloud remains that is radiating X-rays at 100 million degrees. Star counts capable of heating the […]
Biochemists Mutate Protein, Make a Catalyst
June 25, 2004
“Enzymes are among the most proficient catalysts known,” wrote three Duke University scientists, “and they catalyze a wide variety of reactions in aqueous solutions under ambient conditions with exquisite selectivity and stereospecificity.” The team set out to rationally design their own enzyme. Their work is reported in the June 25 issue of Science.1 Building on […]
Angry Evolutionist Seeks to Revive Peppered Moth Story
June 25, 2004
Michael Majerus has had it with creationists who leaped onto his 1998 book and used it for ammunition against Darwinism. He had confessed that the simplified textbook story of the peppered moth was inaccurate, but he never meant to cast doubt on evolution. Majerus (U. of Cambridge) is highlighted in a profile in the June […]
ID Book Survives Nature Relatively Unscathed
June 24, 2004
Considering the intemperate disdain intelligent design books usually receive from the major journals – when they are even noticed (see, for example, Nature’s review of a book by William Dembski in the 07/11/2002 headline) – a new ID book fared surprisingly well this week. In Nature1 June 24, Douglas A. Vakoch (SETI Institute) reviewed the […]
Spiderman No Match for Real Spider
June 24, 2004
National Geographic News took the occasion of the upcoming Spiderman sequel to investigate the superpowers of real spiders. If you were spidy, you could: Jump 50 times your body length. That would be like a man jumping 300 feet (the world record is 29 feet, 4.5 inches). Walk upside down on smooth surfaces, with 170 […]
Cleaners Advertise in the Fish Market
June 22, 2004
The plot of this science project seems made for Disney animation, a fishy version of Aesop’s parable of Androcles and the lion. There are fish that will clean parasites out of the mouths and gills of their predators without getting eaten (see 01/13/2003 headline). How these “cleaner fish” and their clients developed this risky relationship, […]
Mystery of the Left-Handed Proteins: Solved?
June 21, 2004
Some molecules come in left- and right-handed forms that are mirror images of each other. All biological proteins are composed of only left-handed amino acids. How this could have come about in a primordial soup has long been a puzzle to origin-of-life researchers, since both L (levo, left-handed) and D (dextro, right-handed) forms react indiscriminately. […]
Stickleback Fish Achieve Stardom in Evolutionary Labs
June 18, 2004
According to Elizabeth Pennisi in Science June 18,1 the three-spine stickleback is being studied in 100 labs as a model of evolution. Over the last century, the little fish has been the subject of some 2000 papers, seven textbooks, and a Nobel prize-winning thesis. Evolutionists have been attracted to this fish because it appears to […]
Comet Surface Wild and Crazy
June 18, 2004
“Completely unexpected,” was the reaction of Donald Brownlee, principal investigator of the Stardust mission, to the photos revealed by the spacecraft that flew into the tail of Comet Wild-2 last January (see 01/02/2004 headline), reports a University of Washington press release. The comet mission is the cover story in the June 18 issue of Science, […]
Fungi Supply Plant Communities With Underground Nutrient Pipeline
June 17, 2004
Dig up a cubic yard of soil, and you may have disturbed 12,000 miles of an extensive network of passageways that supply plant roots with carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus.
Can Natural Processes Create a Mind?
June 16, 2004
No problemo, says H. Clark Barrett (UCLA), getting a mind from mindless matter. In a review of a book by developmental psychologist Gary Marcus published in Science June 11,1 Barrett was reassured by Marcus’ book that evolutionary theory working within natural law is up to the task: “The strengths of The Birth of the Mind […]
Mars Rovers Enter New Phase of Exploration
June 16, 2004
Spirit and Opportunity both still have both spirit and opportunity. Mission scientists said yesterday that the rovers have reached new locations that provide new targets for scientific research; it’s like starting the missions all over again, they commented. Spirit has reached the Columbia Hills, where it hopes to climb and explore rock outcrops. […]
NASA-Ames Gives Darwin Credit for Antenna Design Project
June 16, 2004
A press release from NASA-Ames Research Center claims, “NASA ‘Evolutionary’ Software Automatically Designs Antenna.” Using artificial intelligence software, their approach converged on the best design. The article explains: “The AI software examined millions of potential antenna designs before settling on a final one,” said project lead Jason Lohn, a scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, […]
Dinos in the News
June 15, 2004
Three dinosaur finds were reported in the last month: Sauropod: A new kind of sauropod was found in the Morrison Formation (Jurassic) in Montana, reported National Geographic News. This kind of dinosaur was unexpected, and suggests an unknown fauna existed in a state known more for its Cretaceous meat-eaters. The skull of this sauropod had […]
Phoebe Shows Her Dark, Icy Face
June 14, 2004
Planetary scientists are reveling in the sharp new pictures of Phoebe taken last Friday by the Cassini Spacecraft. Phoebe is the outermost moon of Saturn, an oddball since it revolves around Saturn in the “wrong” direction at high inclination. Nine images have been released to the public so far (click here for the gallery). The […]
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David Coppedge, B.S. Education, B.S. Physics, founded Creation-Evolution Headlines in late 2000 as a way to share science news he was encountering at NASA. It has grown into a highly-trusted source of news and commentary critical of the pro-Darwin consensus, providing analysis of breaking news of interest to creationists and evolutionists, without the Darwin spin. He has authored over 7,000 entries at CEH since its inception.
