Marine Biology Toy Octopus Is Far from the Living Reality August 27, 2016 The news media are celebrating an autonomous soft robot shaped like an octopus. It has a lot to learn from its living counterpart. CONTINUE READING
SETI Hope, Not Evidence, Drives Astrobiology August 25, 2016 Earth-size exoplanets are not evidence for alien life. They are evidence for orbiting bodies. CONTINUE READING
Geology Spirit Lake Threatens Megaflood August 22, 2016 36 years after Spirit Lake was destroyed by a volcano, it has come back with its own threats of destruction. CONTINUE READING
Biomimetics Weekend Biomimetics Parade August 20, 2016 Here's a quick list of exciting news about how imitation of nature's designs is leading to wonderful inventions. CONTINUE READING
Dating Methods Radiation, Mistakes, and Assumptions August 19, 2016 Three news items about atomic radiation should cause us to beware of academic overstatement. CONTINUE READING
SETI Secularists Use Intelligent Design Reasoning August 18, 2016 Data from a star are hard to reconcile with natural causes. Are super-intelligent aliens at work? CONTINUE READING
Origin of Life Secularists Battle Over Which Life Theory Is More Wrong August 16, 2016 Origin-of-life camps don't recognize that RNA-World theories and hydrothermal-vent theories suffer from the same basic problem. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Mars Life Hopes Reduced August 12, 2016 Key assumptions about habitability on Mars have fallen, but astrobiologists try to keep hope alive. CONTINUE READING
Botany Sunflower Motion Is Complex August 9, 2016 They follow the sun, but how? Scientists are just finding out the mechanisms behind light tracking in sunflowers. CONTINUE READING
Geology Chinese Flood Legend Was Historic August 8, 2016 A dam breach flood in China known only from legend appears to be supported by geological evidence. CONTINUE READING
Fossils Fossil DNA Stuns Geologists August 4, 2016 None of them would have believed DNA could survive over a million years. They have no explanation for its preservation. CONTINUE READING
Origin of Life Hydrothermal OOL Chemistry Is Unlikely July 30, 2016 A favorite way for theorists to get around the lack of enzymes at the origin of life is shown to be implausible. CONTINUE READING
Botany For the Love of Trees July 23, 2016 You don't have to be a proverbial tree-hugger to love trees and wonder at all the things they can do, and do for us. CONTINUE READING
Cosmology Is Dark Matter Going the Way of Phlogiston? July 21, 2016 There is no exotic dark matter, according to the most sensitive search to date. The ramifications for cosmology are enormous. CONTINUE READING
Geology Radar Reveals Former Warm Landscape Under Greenland July 18, 2016 Under the world's fastest moving glacier, radar has revealed a network of V-shaped canyons carved by temperate rivers. CONTINUE READING