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Stampeding Dinosaur Tracks Made in Water

January 11, 2013

What were these dinosaurs running from? Science Daily reported that dinosaur trackways in Australia, formerly presumed to have been made by a stampeding herd on land, were actually formed in water. “Queensland paleontologists have discovered that the world’s only recorded dinosaur stampede is largely made up of the tracks of swimming rather than running animals,” […]

Darwin and Evolution

Prune Fingers and Evolutionary Explanations

January 10, 2013

The ways various news organizations cover the same news story – why swimmers' fingers get wrinkled – provides a test case on whether evolutionary theory adds any value.

Bible and Theology

Give Me Liberalism and Give Me Death

January 9, 2013

Nowhere does the divide between left and right show more starkly than in policies about killing the innocent. Leftist liberals, who are the most supportive of Darwinism, seem to have no problem with tinkering with human life to the point of killing it.

Dating Methods

Uranium-Lead Dating Fraught With Discordance

January 8, 2013

Behind the confidence of uranium-lead dates hides worry about numbers that don't match up.

Amazing Facts

Wilt Thou? Not with Guards in the Chem Lab

January 7, 2013

Plants avoid wilting with pairs of guard cells performing chemical wizardry.

Astronomy

A Brain Wouldn't Survive Star Travel

January 6, 2013

Don't take a star trek unless you want to arrive demented.

Darwin and Evolution

Faint Young Sun Paradox Solution Criticized

January 5, 2013

A proposed solution for keeping the Earth warm when the sun was 25% cooler leaves other evolutionists doubtful.

Amazing Facts

Happy New Biomimetics Year

January 4, 2013

The variety of design applications coming from the imitation of natural solutions continues to be astonishing.

Darwin and Evolution

What's Up with Alley Oop?

January 3, 2013

Here are some recent stories about human evolution. Some might deserve to be in the comics.

Education

Is Science a Special Interest Group for One Party?

January 2, 2013

A commentator in the world's leading science journal advised that science needs to work harder at becoming bipartisan.

Amazing Facts

An Unexpected Forest Helper: Mistletoe

December 31, 2012

Long thought a tree-killing bane, parasitic mistletoe appears to do much more good than harm to a forest ecology.

Amazing Facts

Red Blood Cells Are Frisbees, Tanks and Wheels

December 30, 2012

Cells as commonplace as red blood cells still keep researchers wondering how they perform their job so well.

Astronomy

Astronomy Grab Bag

December 29, 2012

For year's end, here's a clean-out of astronomy articles—from planetary science to cosmology—to motivate further inquiry.

Amazing Facts

Nose Has Gain Control

December 28, 2012

Sound engineers know how to use gain control to avoid “redlining” or saturating the signal while amplifying weak but important signals. Your nose knows that trick, too. The sense of smell is complex because of the tremendous variety of odorant molecules that must be interpreted. Molecules that trigger signals in the initial neurons trigger a […]

Darwin and Evolution

Eugenics in Space

December 27, 2012

To "keep evolution on a favorable track," spacefaring humans may want to cull bad genes, a futurist says.

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