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Earth Is Designed to Clean Itself

Do these processes look like the result of chance mistakes?

Serendipity Confirms Young’s Law

All great discoveries are made by mistake.

Archive: Jellyfish, Stem Cells, Quran, Bats, Homo, Titan, Spiders, More

Here are some of the stories we were reporting in January 2002, restored from archives. Some of the items here were of fundamental importance at the time.

Archive: Membrane Channels, Molecular Machines, Censorship, Cave Art, More

Breakthroughs, controversies, and scientists acting badly: these are other reports recovered from January 2002.

Archives: Oxygen, Early Mature Universe, Cell Proofreading, More

This set of entries from January 2002 contains major announcements that we have cited ever since.

Soft Tissue Wars: Latest Inadequate Excuse

Four European scientists couldn't find original collagen in ichthyosaur bones, but how hard did they look?

Archive: Wise Men, Aquaporins, Horses, Plate Tectonics, Phylogeny, More

Here are some of the stories we were reporting before Christmas in 2001, restored from archives.

Archive: Cells, Africa, Cloning, Microscopy, Stem Cells, Racism, Bladder, Faith

Here are some of the stories we were reporting in mid December 2001, restored from archives.

Archive: Motors, Teens, Geology Mysteries, Mars Flood, Pluto, Stem Cells, More

Here are some of the stories we were reporting in early December 2001, restored from archives.
Dave Scott and Jim Irwin in "Hadley Rille" by Alan Bean

Moon and Mars Puzzle Geologists

"Young" features have no clear explanation, leaving scientists baffled.

Lucy Worshiped Like a Religious Icon

The adulation given to the ‘Lucy’ bones overlooks big problems with the fossil.
Mt. St. Helens, Washington

Gophers Help Restore Volcano Damage

How could scientists accelerate the restoration of the devastated area around Mt. St. Helens? Send in the gophers!

Archive: Clocks, JPL, Smell, Rapid Geology, Mole Rats, Darwin for Kids, ATP Synthase, Golgi, Joy

Here are some of the stories we were reporting in mid November 2001, restored from archives.

Turning Evolution into a Law of Nature

No, minerals and stars do not evolve by natural selection.

Archive: Sagan, Schools, Tools, Design, Noses, Fossils, Water, More

Here are some of the stories we were reporting in early November 2001, restored from archives.
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