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The Birth of a Black Rice Gene and Its Local Spread by Introgression | The Plant Cell Here's a nice example of how a change in a speci...

Florida school apologizes for warning students that evolution deniers were trying to ‘mislead’ them Close on Pope Francis laying claim to ...

Pope: Workers Have 'Human Right' to Refuse Same-Sex Marriage Licenses - NBC News It must be uncomfortable being Pope Francis, as h...

The shrine of Saint Sacerdos, L'église de Saint-Sacerdos, Sarlat-la-Canéda, Périgord Noir , France Invisible gods just don't cut...

One of the sacred dogmas of creationism is that it needs a creator to get order from chaos and complexity from simplicity. Like so much else...

Rocamadour, Lot, France. Rocamadour, just outside the Dordogne in the Lot Department, France, is a mediaeval pilgrimage site consisting o...

Dordogne Meadow In case you're wondering where I've been, don't worry - I haven't given up blogging. We’ve been in the Do...

Homo naledi . Reconstruction by paleoartist John Gurche Image credit: John Gurche / Mark Thiessen / National Geographic. Homo naledi : ne...

Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal variant of oil palm | Nature. Despite its daunting title, this resea...

Stonehenge © LBI ArchPro, Geert Verhoeven The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project reveals traces of standing stones beneath Durrington W...

Puffball" There are a few sure-fire ways to tell whether something has been designed, even if not particularly intelligently: It ha...

PLOS Pathogens: Distinct but Spatially Overlapping Intestinal Niches for Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium and Carbapenem-Resistant ...

Arizona’s virgin ant queens could shed light on the predictability of evolution | Science/AAAS | News It makes you wonder just how many ex...

Black-chinned hummingbird ( Archilochus alexandri ) Hawks Act as Unwitting Muscle for Hummingbirds | Science | Smithsonian "My ene...

Guppies. Ideal subject to study evolution. Change in environment can lead to rapid evolution -- ScienceDaily Many things in science are c...

Cromwell's victim Durham Palace Green remains were Scottish prisoners - BBC News One of the claims Christians like to make is that ...

When Peer Review Lets You Down: A YEC Quote Problem – Naturalis Historia After a few days wrestling with the book publishing process and d...

Publishing a book has a few pitfalls, at least if you self-publish on Amazon. I had assumed you wrote it in Microsoft Word or something sim...

Eocene Penguin from Peru New fossil skulls reveal insights about penguin brain evolution -- ScienceDaily Some 35 million years ago, ste...

Life reconstruction of Gueragama sulamericana in its palaeohabitat.* Reconstruction created by J. Csotonyi. Fossil remains of Old World ...

Stone 'em, I say! It's the only language these women understand! The author of the Gospel of Matthew is a bit like a fireship lau...

The 'pterosaur' of Black Dragon Canyon, Utah Source: Science . Credit: WHIT RICHARDSON/ALAMY ‘Winged monster’ on ancient rock ar...

Here's a little test. See if you can pick out the genuine Deepak Chopra quotes taken at random from his twitter feed, from the randoml...

Model of a retrovirus capsid hexamer, showing the conserved beta-hairpin domains common to most kinds of retroviruses (circled) and a pocket...

Manuel de Dios Agosto , aka Sacerdotus, Sacoshite, Sacodogturds, etc., etc., is quite besides himself with rage and even more desperate for ...

MERS-CoV Photo credit: NIAID Synthetic DNA vaccine against MERS induces immunity in animal study -- ScienceDaily Supposing you were ask...

A female adult varroa mite, Varroa destructor , feeds on the hemolymph of a honey bee pupa. Photograph: Jason Graham, University of Florid...

Detail of the marks on a fossilized rib bone, one of the two controversial bones. Source: PastHorizons . Image credit: Zeresenay Alemseged...

Reconstruction of megafauna of northern Spain. Source: Wikipedia. Credit: Mauricio Antón Humans responsible for demise of gigantic ancien...

The same galaxy seen at some of the wavelengths examined by the GAMA team Fading cosmos quantified in 21 colours - BBC News The lights ...

Liolaemus nigriceps Re-thinking 'adaptive radiation,' one of biology's most important concepts | ScienceDaily When you see ...

It's Jesus. Hallelujah! Yes, it's Jesus! And we found him while looking for Mary and Joseph! (I'm really not making this up!)...

Click image for details In response to numerous requests, I've finally produced an ebook, based on a selection of my Atheism and Sci...

A male Eggfly or Blue Moon Butterfly, Hypolimnas bolina Photo credit: Sylvain Charlat/Science Extraordinary Flux in Sex Ratio | Science. ...

The Prophet at prayer Crowds flock to Mali's 'religious wall sign' - BBC News It's official. The Prophet is a stain. ...

Electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle Source: Wikipedia Photo credit: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ebola vacci...

African golden jackal, Canis anthus Photo credit: Eyal Cohen Source: AAAS Science Magazine Genome-wide Evidence Reveals that African and...

Poliovirus (bar = 5nm) Photo Credit: F.P. Williams, U.S. EPA Source: http://www.epa.gov/nerlcwww/polio.html Nigeria's polio-free yea...

Baka Pygmies of Gabon Growth pattern from birth to adulthood in African pygmies of known age : Nature Communications : Nature Publishing ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Source: New Scientist Image Credit: Juergen Berger/Science Photo Library Fitness cost of antibiotic ...