Evolution

sizes, yet we all sprang from the same single-celled organisms that first populated the planet. So how on ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2009 - 1:45pm

good scientists: "“Scientists try—not all of them, but the good ones—to be their own worst enemy. ...

Article - Lee Silver - Jun 5 2008 - 3:11pm

and most diverse, of all creatures on Earth — in terms of the sheer number of species, no other group ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:02pm

thought to be a Turbellarian, a grouping covering all the mostly non-parasitic flatworms, distinct from ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jul 2 2018 - 1:45pm

evolution of our species, all of our instincts betray us. It is extremely difficult to imagine the ...

Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Mar 9 2012 - 1:44pm

evolution:...all living things must have reduced existence so much, that an unoccupied field would be formed for ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2010 - 1:37pm

synergy, (1) to the point where it exists all around us to such a degree that we almost fail to see it, (2) ...

Blog Post - Steve Davis - Feb 23 2013 - 7:34pm

queens to produce a worker class where all individuals are sterile, and accept genetic contributions from ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2015 - 10:01am

survive." Even though all of the Homo species had overlapping body, brain and tooth sizes, they also had ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2014 - 8:00pm

turn Messel into a garbage dump. Now it is instead off-limits to all but Senckenberg Museum ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2009 - 10:07pm

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John
We can know that this isn't purely a Trumpian thing because of the reviews from two years ago which basically said: 1) Astronomers have treated the people of Hawai'i like crap and owe...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 7 hours ago
Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 23 hours ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
Zack Y.
Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

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bizdean
Thank you for this, IrishNeanderthal. Actually I believe what’s going on in America is under-hyped. The mainstream press is far too easy on Mr. Trump, who is convicted of multiple felonies and...

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