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Archer Fish Amplifies Muscle with Physics

October 25, 2012

The secret of the archer fish’s powerful spits has been discovered, and it isn’t powerful muscles. The fish that shoots bugs out of the air uses physics, a paper in PLoS ONE declared. By letting physics amplify the momentum in the drop shot out of the water, the fish achieves six times the wallop its […]

Darwin and Evolution

Darwin Tree Visualization Tool Obscures More Than It Educates

October 24, 2012

A new website helps visualize evolution. But does it confirm or obfuscate the real world?

Cell Biology

Mutations and Duplications: Pools of Innovation?

October 23, 2012

Creationists looked in what evolutionists called "junk DNA" and found gems. Evolutionists are still looking for their gems in junk mutations.

Cell Biology

Dinosaur Soft Tissue Case Strengthened

October 22, 2012

At a meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Mary Schweitzer gave more evidence she found soft tissue in dinosaur bone.

Amazing Facts

Butterfly Cities and Spider Optics

October 22, 2012

Skycrapers of the future may shine in brilliant butterfly colors. Optical biosensors may be made from spider webs. These are just a few of the engineering marvels coming from biomimetics—the imitation of nature.

Cosmology

Shining Light on Dark Energy

October 21, 2012

Fifteen years after cosmologists proposed the existence of dark energy, they have learned nothing about it. In “Cosmology: Out of the Darkness,” Matthew Chalmers discussed the current thinking of Brian Schmidt, who shared the Nobel prize in 2011 for discovering cosmic acceleration (actually, an inference based on light from supernovae; see 9/30/2012). “Fifteen years after […]

Bible and Theology

Human Mutation Clock Half Off

October 20, 2012

An evolutionary standard for dating key events in human evolution has been shown to be half off, even by their own assumptions.

Amazing Facts

Monarch Deposed by Painted Lady

October 19, 2012

Painted lady butterflies make an even more spectacular migration than the famous Monarchs, observers just found.

Darwin and Evolution

New Jaws Sequel Has Evolutionists Teething

October 19, 2012

The evolution of teeth got pushed back farther in time, thanks to analysis of a placoderm fossil.

Dating Methods

Making Saturn's Moons with a Bang

October 18, 2012

Impacts are a favorite tool for planetary scientists to create beautiful things.

Astronomy

The Missing Zinc: Moon Rocks Still Tell Tales

October 18, 2012

Apollo ended 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong is dead, but lunar geologists are still using the moon rocks they brought home to construct a story of the moon's "evolution".

Darwin and Evolution