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Scientists Treat Biological Sex as Binary

Politically-correct influencers cannot deny the obvious forever. Scientists have to deal with reality every day.

Ice Age Bear Found Intact in Melting Permafrost

They say this bear, with soft tissue, organs, soft nose and all, died almost 40,000 years ago. Is that credible?

Evolutionary Textbooks Promoted Racism

Biology textbooks played a significant role in promoting racism, but this embarrassing history is often ignored. Dr Jerry Bergman explains why.

Extraordinary Claim: Life on Venus?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, scientists like to say. One smelly molecule is not enough to claim life.

Dark Matter Believers Panicking

Where is this stuff they keep telling us makes up most of the universe? The ideas are getting even more bizarre.

New Video Shows the Boggling Amount of Code in Your Body

Illustra's new short film, "18 Trillion Feet of You," shows how DNA is packed into the 3 trillion nucleated cells, and how far all of it would reach.

Op-Ed: Geneticist Asks Americans to Choose Sides

Here is reproduced a call to action by Dr John Sanford, Cornell geneticist and leading creation scientist. Feel free to share.

Friday Funnies: Darwin Groaners

It's been a hard week. Let's unwind a little with laughter at what the Darwinians are saying these days.

Darwin Still Escaping Apologies for Scientific Racism

Apologizing for past racism is now everywhere but rarely mentions Darwin and evolution’s central role in it. History, though, documents Darwin's role in abundance.

Cells Model Sustainable Lifestyles

They renew. They recycle. They clean up their messes. We could learn things from cells. Cell division: cleaning the nucleus without detergents (Austrian Institute of Molecular Biotechnology). Mitosis, or cell division, is a messy process. All of a sudden, when the nuclear membrane disassembles, genes that had been isolated from the cytoplasm mix with it. […]

Big Errors Common in Big Science

It’s in the nature of theories to be overturned by new data. So how much trust should be put in current theories? Even the positivists like the reporters in New Scientist recognize that “There is no such thing as scientific truth, just a set of provisional truths that are subject to revision or rejection when […]

Object of Meditation Matters

People with depression who have been taught mindfulness and meditation do not always get better. Why not?

Downside of Green Energy Unplanned

Windmills and solar farms come with their own environmental baggage, but who is planning for it? Nobody.

Is the Y Chromosome Disappearing? Update

The male of the species is not disappearing, despite fear-mongering claims that the Y chromosome is shriveling up.

Tiny Fly Beats Robots

Fruit flies dart, circle, zig and zag rapidly. Researchers gain some insight into how they do it so efficiently.
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