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Early Earth was not very hospitable when it came to jump starting life. In fact, new research shows that life on Earth may have come from out of t...
Humanity has a second chance to stop dangerous climate change. Temperature data from the last decade offers an unexpected opportunity to stay below th...
Two fossil discoveries from the East African Rift reveal new information about the evolution of primates, according to a study published online in Na...
Researchers taking a new look at the snow and ice covering Mount Everest and the national park that surrounds it are finding abundant evidence tha...
A new analysis of pebble-containing slabs investigated by NASA's Curiosity rover confirms a stream once ran through Gale Crater on Mars. During...
For the first time, a monument dedicated to the separation of church and state will sit alongside the Ten Commandments on a public space. While...
For the first time, a monument dedicated to the separation of church and state will sit alongside the Ten Commandments on a public space. While battles over religious displays on government land are nothing new, a compromise playing out in Starke doesn’t seem to make anyone completely happy: not the atheists, who still want to [...]
The Internet is a dangerous place. It’s full of resources, both good and bad; full of citations linking one to another, sometimes helpfully, sometimes not. Today we’re going to point the skeptical eye at ten of the worst web sites in terms of quality of science information that they promote. To make this list, they [...]
Christian minister Ray Comfort claimed today that the existence of pineapple disproves the Big Bang theory. In a video uploaded to his official YouTube channel, the New Zealand-born leader of The Way of the Master ministry said that the spiny fruit could only exist in a universe created by God. “The pineapple is the physicist’s nightmare,” he explained. “This [...]
Humans have shaped the domestic pigeon into hundreds of breeds of various shapes, colours and attributes — a diversity that captivated Charles Darwin, who even conducted breeding experiments on his own pigeons. Now, a number of domestic and feral pigeon genomes have been sequenced for the first time, giving scientists a resource for studying the [...]
In preparation for Charles Darwin’s upcoming 200th birthday, the editors of Nature compiled a selection of especially elegant and enlightening examples of evolution. They describe it as a resource “for those wishing to spread awareness of evidence for evolution by natural selection.” Given the continuing battles over evolution in America’s public schools — and, for that matter, [...]
Early Earth was not very hospitable when it came to jump starting life. In fact, new research shows that life on Earth may have come from out of this world. Lawrence Livermore scientist Nir Goldman and University of Ontario Institute of Technology colleague Isaac Tamblyn (a former LLNL postdoc) found that icy comets that crashed [...]
An international team of paleontologists that includes Northern Illinois University anthropologist Dan Gebo is announcing the discovery of a nearly complete, articulated skeleton of a new tiny, tree-dwelling primate dating back 55 million years. The Eocene Epoch fossil was recovered from Hubei Province in central China. “This is the oldest primate skeleton of this quality [...]
Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites. In an article published in the new edition of the Proceedings of [...]
Turkey has a long history as a secular state, for mostly Islamic people. Perhaps, then, it should come as no surprise that a TV program is promoting Creationism. But what may be surprising is the women, or at least how they’re dressed, spreading that message. Turkey’s Islamic creationist guru Adnan Oktar is a regular fixture [...]
A newly discovered gaseous planet has been directly photographed orbiting a star about 300 light-years from Earth. Imaging alien planets is difficult, and this world may be the least massive planet directly observed outside of the solar system, scientists say. A sharp new photo released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Monday, June 3, depicts the suspected gas [...]
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