Origin of Life Confusing Building Blocks with Life September 4, 2015 Astrobiologists and their uncritical reporters continue to commit a logical fallacy regarding necessary and sufficient conditions. CONTINUE READING
Mammals Elephants, Mammoths, and Terror: The Ivory Trade Crisis August 28, 2015 Terror organizations are slaughtering elephants at alarming rates to sell the ivory in Asia and buy weapons. What to do? CONTINUE READING
Geology Balanced Rocks Challenge Dating Methods August 26, 2015 A person could almost push over some balanced rocks. Have they really been standing for 10,000 years through earthquakes and all? CONTINUE READING
Astronomy Astrobiology: The Joy of Being Wrong August 18, 2015 An astrobiologist looks forward to the day when everything he says is totally wrong. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Planets Defy Bottom-Up Assembly August 15, 2015 As much as they want to imagine planets forming from dust, secular astronomers run into insurmountable difficulties. CONTINUE READING
Dating Methods Radiocarbon Dating Becoming Unreliable August 6, 2015 Your T-shirt could soon contain the same carbon-14 as William the Conqueror's robe from 1066 AD, scientists warn. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Seriously, Ceres and Comets Look Surprising August 5, 2015 Here are surprises found at asteroid Ceres and Comet 67P by spacecraft arriving there this year. CONTINUE READING
Physics Magnetic News August 3, 2015 Magnetism is an important force in astronomy, planetary science and life. Here are news items involving magnets and magnetic fields. CONTINUE READING
Origin of Life Origin of Life for Dummies August 1, 2015 Readers can decide if these news stories on the origin of life represent smart science or not. CONTINUE READING
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
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
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
Geology Where Are the Earth's Impact Craters? July 13, 2015 The number of impact craters on Earth is almost negligible compared to Mars and the moon. Can erosion explain this? CONTINUE READING