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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 […]
How Molecular Trucks Build Your Sensors
June 14, 2004
In the film Unlocking the Mystery of Life, biochemist Michael Behe, describing the intricacies of cells as we know them today, claimed that there are “little molecular trucks that carry supplies from one end of the cell to the other.” If that seems an overstatement, you should look at the illustration in Cell June 11 […]
Science Remembers Reagan
June 11, 2004
In commemoration of Ronald Reagan on the day of national memorial service, Science Now reproduced four quotes from the former President’s policy statements on science. The leftist editors of the Darwin Party mouthpiece Science couldn’t resist dredging up the oft-ridiculed quote about trees causing air pollution, which they cited from the leftist-environmentalist Sierra Club’s magazine. […]
MRI Overtaking X-Rays
June 11, 2004
The British Medical Journal 12 June cover story1 says that recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging may soon make MRI supersede X-ray as the preferred technology for whole body imaging. MRI avoids the damage caused by X-rays and provides more contrast and detail, especially in the detection of cancer. MRI is also replacing traditional autopsy […]
Talk to Your Dog: Hes Listening
June 10, 2004
Science Now and Nature Science Update both describe a border collie named Rico that can identify 200 objects by name. The dog exhibits the same “fast-mapping” skill of a three-year-old child learning to associate sounds with objects. The owner calls out “dinosaur” and the dog picks up the blue dinosaur toy. He calls “doll” and […]
Darwinists Fight Over Niche Construction Theory
June 9, 2004
According to the Sacramento Bee last week, Roseville teachers who rejected the “Quality Science Education Policy” (see 06/04/2004 headline) did so because “there are no scientifically valid arguments against the theory of evolution.” They must not be reading Nature. In the current June 10 issue,1 three scientists say there has long been “vigorous […]
Worm Genes Show Non-Evolutionary Pattern
June 9, 2004
Biologists at New York University compared genes of roundworms to look for evidence of evolutionary ancestry. What they found was not what they expected. They found more genetic variation between outwardly-similar worms than between mice and men. Their results were published online in PNAS June 7.1 The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans is a model […]
How Many Neurons Does It Take to See a Picture?
June 8, 2004
Israeli scientists publishing in Current Biology1 attempted to determine how many neurons participate in the representation of a single image. At least a million was their conservative answer: probably more like 30 or 300 million or more. They made careful measurements of neural activity when subjects were shown a face or a house. In the […]
Weeds to Your Health
June 8, 2004
Why traverse the rain forests for miracle drugs, EurekAlert asks, when the weeds we yank out of our gardens may hold promise for curing a host of common health woes. John Richard Stepp (University of Florida) claims that fast-growing, herbaceous field plants are more likely to hold useful substances than those deep in jungles. Indigenous […]
DNA Folds With Molecular Velcro
June 7, 2004
Many have heard how the inventor of Velcro got the idea from plant seeds that stick to clothing, but now Carlos Bustamente and team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute have found a velcro-like principle operating at a scale millions of times smaller. Small proteins called condensins are involved in the elaborate folding that DNA undergoes […]
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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.
