Single-Celled Giant Upends Early Evolution

"Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth. A distant relative of microscopic amoebas, the grape-sized...

Listeria persists for years

My curiousity about how biological outbreaks can be identified and tracked  -- such as the recent Maple Leaf Foods listeria outbreak in Canada -- lead me to this abstract. Genome sequencing, or a...

Charles Darwin's Beard

Charles Darwin wrote iconic works that are still making waves today as creationists attempt to get their ideas in to the science curriculum alongside his famous theory of evolution. But its Charles Darwin's beard...

Humans Could Live to 1,000 Years in This Lifetime

Experts are hard at work on discovering the "fountain of youth," the quest for immortality - or at least prolonged life - and they are confident that scientific breakthroughs will be made soon enough in this lifetime to significantly extend the lives of humans currently...

Tiktaalik, the Fish, Sheds New Clues on the Origin of Life and Land Mammals

For decades, scientists around the world have been on the relentless quest to ultimately research and solve the greatest mystery surrounding the origin of life. They have built, developed, and simulated many...

Is surfing the Internet altering your brain?

According to the article, it makes people sharper, although with some people it interferes with in person social interaction and contributes to ADD; i'm on so many email lists and RSS feeds, i'm losing my mind!!!"CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Internet is not just changing the way...

Penguins cope with climate change

Our lovable flightless friends down under have proven that they have more going for them than clay-mation cartoons and tuxedo parodies.  We always knew that penguins were cool, but we may have...

How the Turtle Got Its Shell

I just thought this story was so cute!!"Famous for carrying its shelled "home" on its back, the humble, plodding turtle has also been toting around one of the biggest mysteries of the animal kingdom....

Fish in Lake Victoria evolving around pollution

Evolution is happening right before our eyes.  Evolution, or at least drastic evidence of change, is something generally considered to happen over hundreds of generations, but the cichlid fish in Africa's...

Human Evolution Has Stopped, Says Scientist

University College London Professor Steve Jones believes that human evolution has come to a head because the forces that drive evolution - natural selection and genetic mutation - no longer play important roles...

Intelligent design: "childish ignorance"

A good old ding-dong is going on between two eminent academics at a level of celebrity bitching that just has to be aired somehow as a TV debate - a debate that would surely be more interesting and engaging than...

'I can see dinosaurs from my back porch'

"'I can see dinosaurs from my back porch' * Track this topic * Print story * Post comment Palin-tology and the threat to science teaching By George Smith, Dick Destiny • Get more from this author Posted in Government, 26th September 2008 12:29 GMT GOP Veep...

Extinct Galapagos tortoise 'can live again'

As scientists hoped Lonesome George would do, an extinct Galapagos tortoise may be 'brought back to life' as relatives of the Geochelone elephantopus has been found. "Cross-breeding these living tortoises might...

Human Digits Evolved from Fish Fins

A new study which examined existing fossil records has found that human fingers and toes did not develop in tetrapods 365 million years ago as they crawled from the sea onto land, but 380 million years ago within...

UPDATE 2: Nobel winners call for sacking of creationist education supporter f...

Nobel prizewinners for science are now demanding the sacking of the Royal Society's director of education after his call to teach creationism alongside evolution in science lessons."Two Nobel prize winners - Sir...

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