Solar System Ski Pluto: Glaciers Are Flowing July 28, 2015 Planetary scientists are dumbfounded by more evidence of youth at Pluto, both on the surface and in the atmosphere. CONTINUE READING
Early Man Secular Anthropology Fails Consistently July 26, 2015 By assuming long ages and by underestimating human creativity and mobility, evolutionary anthropologists keep getting surprised by evidence. CONTINUE READING
Fossils Four-Footed Snake? July 25, 2015 The fossil "transitional form" is not what reporters are making it out to be. CONTINUE READING
Media You Wouldn't Want to Live on "Earth's Cousin" July 24, 2015 Despite the hype about another Earth-like exoplanet, Kepler 452b would not be as habitable as Venus. CONTINUE READING
SETI Lonely Billionaire Throws $100 Million at SETI July 22, 2015 Yuri Milner gathered the SETI believers and gave them a pile of money to find aliens. CONTINUE READING
Biomimetics Creatures Worth Knowing and Imitating July 21, 2015 Studies of animals and cells reveal designs in nature we can appreciate and imitate. CONTINUE READING
Physics Tiny Organisms Control the World July 19, 2015 An unexpected source that regulates global climate is found among the smallest of living things. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Is Pluto Another Geyser World? "Shocking" Images Baffle Scientists July 17, 2015 In addition to featureless plains, Pluto may even sport active geysers—with no recourse to tidal heating to power them. CONTINUE READING
Dating Methods Pluto Is Young July 15, 2015 The New Horizons science team is stunned by surface features on Pluto and its large moon Charon that cannot be billions of years old. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Pluto Inbound Image Stuns Scientists July 14, 2015 It's not a featureless orb: Pluto has a whale and a heart. A "complex and nuanced" surface shows that Pluto and its large moon Charon had a history. CONTINUE READING
SETI Admit It: Mars Is Lifeless July 11, 2015 How much longer does the public have to be told that Mars "might" have life or space aliens "could" be found soon? CONTINUE READING
Human Body Human Eye Has Nanoscale Resolution July 10, 2015 No more complaining about bad design in the human eye. Optical experts prove it can distinguish differences at billionths of a meter. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Will Pluto Surprise Scientists? July 9, 2015 First-time encounters have a long history of shocking planetary scientists with unexpected features. It's about time for Pluto. CONTINUE READING
SETI Desperately Seeking Life Beyond Earth July 7, 2015 Earth life cannot be unique. How about you, Mars? Europa, anything? Enceladus? Comet 67P? Please break the silence! CONTINUE READING
Philosophy of Science Making Up Facts to Fit a Narrative July 6, 2015 To be a good evolutionary scientist, write your narrative first. Then observe things. Finally, make up a model that fits the narrative. CONTINUE READING