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Hummingbird Metabolism a "Marvel of Evolutionary Engineering"

December 5, 2013

Unlike humans, hummingbirds are equally good at extracting energy from fructose as from glucose. They are marvels of evolutionary engineering. That makes perfect evolutionary sense.

Early Man

Javelin Upsets Early Man Timeline

November 28, 2013

A well-crafted spear point for a javelin is dated way too early for the current evolutionary timeline.

Human Body

New Attempts to Disparage Maleness

November 27, 2013

Lab mice can produce offspring with just two genes from their Y chromosomes, but what does that mean for men?

Politics and Ethics

On Ethical Gray Zones

November 26, 2013

Examples from World War II and the present illustrate that just because some people compromise ethics doesn't mean ethics itself is a matter of opinion.

Biomimetics

Look Up, Look Down at Natural Design

November 25, 2013

Swimmers, flyers, and things that just sit in the sun are the envy of bioengineers.

Astronomy

Cosmic Lottery: How Many Habitable Planets?

November 23, 2013

News media ran with a suggestion that one in five stars has a habitable planet, but they didn't read the fine print.

Education

Reporter Perpetuates Evolution Stereotypes in Texas Ed Article

November 22, 2013

AP reports are often multiplied uncritically across the world, even when their facts are wrong.

Genetics

Bacteria Take Up Dead DNA, Scrambling Evolution

November 20, 2013

It's not just horizontal gene transfer that can obscure evolutionary history. Scientists have found bacteria recycling fragmented DNA from long-dead organisms. The impact on evolutionary theory could be substantial.

Cosmology

Jewish Radio Host Takes on Atheist Cosmologist

November 19, 2013

A popular radio talk show host held his own against a PhD cosmologist who argues the universe came from nothing.

Biomimetics

Three New and Different Biomimetics Stories

November 15, 2013

There appears to be no end of ways to imitate nature's designs.

Geology

What Do Geologists Know About the Early Earth?

November 14, 2013

There's not much data, and there's a lot of doubt and debate. That's what a geologist admits about theories of early earth history.

Cell Biology

Cool Tools in your Cellular Toolkit

November 13, 2013

Biochemists can't help using familiar tools to describe what they are finding in living cells.

Birds

Archaeopteryx May Have Devolved from a Flying Bird

November 12, 2013

In all the debates about the status of Archaeopteryx between reptiles and birds, no one till now expected this wild idea: it lost its ability to fly.

Terrestrial Zoology

Vicious Crocodile Attacks Helpless Fruit

November 11, 2013

An evolutionist was surprised to find wild crocodiles eating fruit. He has a lesson for scientists.

Origin of Life

Evolutionary Origin-of-Life Speculations Contradict Each Other

November 9, 2013

Good scientific approaches should converge on the truth. In secular origin-of-life studies, theories run off in all directions, often crashing into one another.

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