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Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils : Nature Communications : Nature Research Readers may remember a...

A 410-million-year-old soil shows extensive rhizome traces of Drepanophycus Photo credit: Jinzhuang Xue, Peking University ...

Cranial endocast and comparison of brain anatomy in pterosaurs. (A, B), Volume-rendered CT-based reconstruction of the braincase of the hol...

Lucy's fall reconstructed Lucy's fall Perimortem fractures in Lucy suggest mortality from fall out of tall ...

Why some Americans left religion behind | Pew Research Center New figures released by the Pew Research Center have revealed something inte...

Kamikaze (divine wind), Issho Yada How a typhoon sank Kublai Khan | Science | The Guardian : Why do so many Americans believe in the Ju...

Pastor Tony Perkins. Christian hatemonger. US pastor, who believes floods are God's punishment, flees flooded home - BBC Newsbeat Now,...

Mt Susitna. Looking west across Cook Inlet from Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Photo: Bob Jones If humans are good at anything we are good at r...

Psychologists find correlation between low IQ and anti-Atheist prejudice. Answering Unresolved Questions About the Relationship Between C...

Woman Dies after Prophet Puts Heavy Speaker on Her Body to Demonstrate a Miracle In a neat demonstration of a fundamental Christian princi...

Virus Infection of Plants Alters Pollinator Preference: A Payback for Susceptible Hosts? | PLOS Pathogens If you're a virus using and ...

The real miracle of miracles is that anyone ever believes them. By definition a miracle is something which allegedly happened but for which...

Dead or dying English elm sapling. Go into the English countryside right now and you could see a major ecological change occurring. I s...

Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India. Artist unknown Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, Indi...

Piltdown Man: British archaeology's greatest hoax | Robin McKie | Science | The Guardian The Piltdown Hoax, contrary to creationist cl...

Evolutionary Ecology of Organs: A Missing Link in Cancer Development? | Trends in Cancer. Creationists frauds continually feed their dupes...

Tool bending in New Caledonian crows | Open Science More evidence today that humans are not the only species with the intelligence and cog...

Archbishop Anthony Sablan Apuron of Guam "On Leave" Priest Says He Was Told to Say Prayers for Abusing Boys Life can be so h...

The news from CERN that I wrote about yesterday reminded me for some reason about a blog post from a few years ago that neatly illustrates ...

Blip flop as tantalising bump in Large Hadron Collider data disappears | Science | The Guardian These little news items about science gett...

Evidence of the exceptional outburst flood in the upper valley of the Yellow River. (A) Distributions of OFS, DLS, and landslide dam. Light...

Study spots evolution in action in Florida bird | Science | AAAS It's become something of an online ritual; almost a religious rite. ...

Genetic connectivity across marginal habitats: the elephants of the Namib Desert - Ecology and Evolution. The importance of intelligent, m...

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin - "unhappy about an atmosphere that was growing" Irish archbishop moves priests after gay culture cl...

Fossil cyclostomes from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte (For caption see original paper ) Pigmented anatomy in Carboniferous cyclostomes and...

Seeing you in black and white. Recruitment of Rod Photoreceptors from Short-Wavelength-Sensitive Cones during the Evolution of Nocturnal ...

Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska - PNAS We probably now know what caused the final extincti...

Archbishop Niestedt Minnesota Priest’s Memo Says Vatican Ambassador Tried to Stifle Sex Abuse Inquiry - The New York Times The simmerin...

MRSA Photograph: By R Parulan Jr./Getty Images/Flickr RF Human commensals producing a novel antibiotic impair pathogen colonization : Natur...

Rev John Hagee For people who enjoy these regular ends of the world when Jesus returns, saves a few self-righteous Americans and kills every...

Field system in South Downs, England South Downs National Park Authority South Downs pre-Roman 'farming collective' discovered - ...

Artist's impression of hominin gut microbiota. Image credit: The University of Texas at Austin. Illustration by Jenna Lu...

Kendall House Abuse Centre Kendall House: Girls drugged and abused at church-run home - BBC News The report of the review of Kendall H...

Brexit Lie Brexit and the Impact of Immigration on the UK Maybe I'm talking to the converted and maybe I'm saying "I told ...

For description see original paper Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber : Nature Communications : Nature Publis...

Seminary Student Sentenced To 15 Years For Arranging Sex With Infants It would not be fair to assume that all expelled Catholic seminarian...

People of no religion outnumber Christians in England and Wales – study | World news | The Guardian Having been away from active blogging ...

In the concluding chapter, Freedom to Choose , in my book, Ten Reasons To Lose Faith: And Why You Are Better Off Without It, I point out the...

Oh! This was just a mistake! It's now clear that Cameron's decision to try to shut up the minority of Europhobes in his own part...

The defining feature of the Brexit campaign has been its dishonesty and use of lies and distorted statistics right from the beginning. This...