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Link A challenge to God-guided mutations
The renowned philosopher of science Elliott Sober has, in recent weeks, given a talk and written a paper that both make the same points: Evolution is totally silent on the…

May 17 2012, 3:35am | Comments
Link Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain?
A copying error appears to be responsible for critical features of the human brain that distinguish us from our closest primate kin, new research finds. When tested out in mice,…

May 9 2012, 8:14am | Comments
Twitter Links Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?
The pine trees framing the entrance to the forest appear to be normal. Unremarkable. But the crackling dosimeter says otherwise. On this freezing February…

April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments
Twitter Links Should we clone Neanderthals?
If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture…

April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments
Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor
Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to…

March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments
Link What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?
The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this,…

March 7 2012, 3:56pm | Comments
Link Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule
Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which…

April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments
Link The Loneliest Whale in the World
...this particular baleen whale has apparently been tracked by NOAA since 1992, using a "classified array of hydrophones employed by the Navy to monitor enemy submarines." It sings at 52…

February 25 2011, 11:04am | Comments
Link Planet Zoo
Look, I wouldn’t trade the 21st century for any other. We have toilet paper and vitamin-fortified milk and a measles vaccine. We can buy avocados in Fairbanks in January. But…

September 27 2010, 5:15am | Comments
Link The gut's 'friendly' viruses revealed
In the latest exploration into the universe of organisms inhabiting our bodies, microbiologists have discovered new viral genes in faeces. They find that the composition of virus populations inhabiting the…

July 16 2010, 3:49am | Comments

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