23rd Jun 2009 : With a sea of information coming at us from all directions, how do we sift out the misinformation and bogus claims, and get to the truth? Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine lays out a "Baloney Detection Kit," ten questions we should ask when encountering a claim.

21st Jun 2009 : The Templeton Foundation organizes an annual meeting in Cambridge where science journalists are invited (and paid very handsomely, not to speak but to listen! When were you last paid to go and be a part of the audience at a conference?).

3rd Jun 2009 : Richard Dawkins interviews Daniel Dennett for "The Genius of Charles Darwin", the Channel 4 UK TV program which won British Broadcasting Awards' "Best Documentary Series" of 2008.

20th May 2009 : Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual -- from Christians who speak in tongues to Buddhist monks to people who claim to have had near-death experiences.

20th May 2009 : Health chiefs in Wales are dealing with a "massive" measles outbreak, with numbers already four times the highest figure recorded over the past 13 years.

19th May 2009 : Dr. PZ Myers, author of the science blog Pharyngula, delivered the commencement address to the graduating Masters and Doctoral candidates on May 13, 2009 at USC's Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, CA.

19th May 2009 : The beautifully preserved remains of a 47-million-year-old, lemur-like creature have been unveiled in the US.

17th May 2009 : The full video of Richard Dawkins's appearance at the Origins Symposium on 6 April, a conversation with Paul Davies, is now up at The Science Network.

17th May 2009 : Simon Singh, the highly respected science writer (Fermat's Last Theorem, etc), is being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association.

16th May 2009 : A nice, specific request: name a gene that shows no signs of an evolutionary origin.

15th May 2009 : Richard Dawkins is a towering figure in evolution who skewers creationists for sport. He doesn't suffer fools gladly, but was kind enough to talk to Robin McKie.

15th May 2009 : In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

14th May 2009 : A fundamental but elusive step in the early evolution of life on Earth has been replicated in a laboratory.

13th May 2009 : The evolution blogosphere has lately been abuzz over the question of compatibility between science and religion. Jerry Coyne got the ball rolling with this post, criticizing the accommodationist views of the National Center for Science Education.

11th May 2009 : The other day, I read this fawning review by Andrew O'Hehir of Terry Eagleton's new book, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate, and was a little surprised.

11th May 2009 : Once upon a time, four blind men were walking in the forest, and they bumped into an elephant.

30th Apr 2009 : Six years after their discovery, the extinct little people nicknamed hobbits who once occupied the Indonesian island of Flores remain mystifying anomalies in human evolution, out of place in time and geography, their ancestry unknown.

19th Mar 2009 : American Scientist Online managing editor Greg Ross interviewed Coyne by telephone in January 2009.

7th Mar 2009 : Someone who writes about hot-button issues such as vaccination, prescription drugs, complementary medicines and "health" foods such as raw milk - as has been known to happen in this column - gets a lot of interesting mail.

1st Mar 2009 : Canadian researchers have discovered a new way to turn skin cells into stem cells with fewer potential risks to patients.

28th Feb 2009 : The unusually intact fossilized skull of a giant, toothed sea bird that died millions of years ago has been found on Peru's arid southern coast, researchers said Friday.

26th Feb 2009 : Footprints uncovered in Kenya show that as early as 1.5 million years ago an ancestral species, almost certainly Homo erectus, had already evolved the feet and walking gait of modern humans.

25th Feb 2009 : University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios discusses how he was tapped to add a physics perspective to the upcoming Warner Brothers movie, Watchmen

15th Feb 2009 : Richard Dawkins explains his picks for the seven wonders of the world in this program from 1997.

15th Feb 2009 : There could be one hundred billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, a US conference has heard.

15th Feb 2009 : Charles Darwin gets so much credit, we can’t distinguish evolution from him.

14th Feb 2009 : In yesterday’s Guardian the famous paleontologist Simon Conway Morris (describer of many of the Burgess Shale fossils and author of Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe) uses Darwin Day not as a reason to celebrate what the old man did, but to point out what he did not do, and to engage in some atheism bashing on the way...

13th Feb 2009 : The first draft of the genome of a 38,000 year-old Neanderthal is complete, scientists announced today.

13th Feb 2009 : Michael Egnor is a neurosurgeon at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. For the sake of his patients, one must hope that he understands the brain's anatomy better than its provenance. In an article on this site, "A Neurosurgeon, Not A Darwinist," he claims that the theory of evolution is bogus.

12th Feb 2009 : Richard Dawkins is interviewed about Darwin, on Darwin's 200th birthday.

9th Feb 2009 : Dawkins reads engagingly, and the whole effect is like David Attenborough without the pictures.

8th Feb 2009 : RichardDawkins.net now has a youtube channel now that allows long videos, so I've uploaded Growing Up in the Universe in high-quality, full-length episodes!

7th Feb 2009 : Professor Richard Dawkins explains the importance of Charles Darwin, what evolution means and why the National Geographic Channel should celebrate the bi-centenary of his birth.

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7th Feb 2009 : Did Charles Darwin Steal the Idea of Natural Selection?

2nd Feb 2009 : Malaysian archaeologists have announced the discovery of stone tools they believe are more than 1.8 million years old and the earliest evidence of human ancestors in Southeast Asia.

1st Feb 2009 : The last place scientists expected to find the fossil of a freshwater, tropical turtle was in the Arctic. But they did.

31st Jan 2009 : British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough presents his views on Charles Darwin, natural selection, and how the Bible has put the natural world in peril in an exclusive interview for Nature Video.

30th Jan 2009 : Any time someone discusses evolution without speaking nonsense, it is a triumph of the human spirit

30th Jan 2009 : This is the uncut interview with Randolph Nesse from the 'The Genius of Charles Darwin.'

29th Jan 2009 : A look at the pitfalls of arguing against science from incomprehension or emotion.

29th Jan 2009 : This book spectacularly humanises him, showing how he was driven by the great moral cause of his day: opposition to slavery.

29th Jan 2009 : In alternative proposal to dark energy in which the Earth sits near the center of a large void is undergoing scrutiny, and the results show that void models fit poorly with observed data.

28th Jan 2009 : Which facts about evolution had to be true, and which just happen to be true?

27th Jan 2009 : To be honest, the restoration of science was the least of it, but when Barack Obama proclaimed during his Inaugural Address that he would “restore science to its rightful place,” you could feel a dark cloud lifting like a sigh from the shoulders of the scientific community in this country.

24th Jan 2009 : Penn State Assistant Professor of Biology Tracy Langkilde has shown that native fence lizards in the southeastern United States are adapting to potentially fatal invasive fire-ant attacks by developing behaviors that enable them to escape from the ants, as well as by developing longer hind legs, which can increase the effectiveness of this behavior.

23rd Jan 2009 : Tonight physical anthropologist Eugenie Scott will help us answer the question of whether or not we might one day be able to welcome some long lost relatives to the family tree.

22nd Jan 2009 : Richard Dawkins 3-part program 'The Genius of Charles Darwin' has just won the award for 'Best Documentary Series' at the British Broadcast Awards 2009! Contratulations to Richard and everyone who worked on the film!

22nd Jan 2009 : The latest round in a long-running battle over how evolution should be taught in Texas schools began in earnest Wednesday as the State Board of Education heard impassioned testimony from scientists and social conservatives on revising the science curriculum.

22nd Jan 2009 : IN JULY 1837, Charles Darwin had a flash of inspiration. In his study at his house in London, he turned to a new page in his red leather notebook and wrote, "I think". Then he drew a spindly sketch of a tree.

21st Jan 2009 : Researchers are developing a new detector that can trace the origin of martian methane from its weight.

21st Jan 2009 : Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809--the same day as Abraham Lincoln--and published his magnum opus, On the Origin of Species, fifty years later.

20th Jan 2009 : Richard Dawkins' Extended Phenotype (EP) concept is as relevant now as when it was first proposed 26 years ago and is not at odds with other evolutionary explanations.

19th Jan 2009 : As the world celebrates two Charles Darwin anniversaries – 200 years since his birth and 150 years since the publication of The Origin of Species – it is sad to reflect how far we still are from the scientific enlightenment he promised.

18th Jan 2009 : On Tuesday, the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education adopted a policy that sharpens those fears, giving teachers license to use materials outside of the regular curriculum to teach "controversial" scientific theories including evolution, origins of life, and global warming.

15th Jan 2009 : In an article in today's Nature, Uppsala researcher Martin Brazeau describes the skull and jaws of a fish that lived about 410 million years ago. The study may give important clues to the origin of jawed vertebrates, and thus ultimately our own evolution.

15th Jan 2009 : The organisms – called methanogens – are suspected to have been living in water beneath underground ice, where they are disgorging tonnes and tonnes of methane.

15th Jan 2009 : You're in a room with 10 other people who seem to agree on something, but you hold the opposite view. Do you say something? Or do you just go along with the others?

15th Jan 2009 : Charles Darwin effectively rewrote the history of not only Man, but every living thing on the planet. This special section looks at the legacy of the man whose ideas changed everything

14th Jan 2009 : An ET appeared one day to lay to rest once and for all whether or not ETs have visited earth.

14th Jan 2009 : IBM Research scientists have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI.

13th Jan 2009 : Science will not be taught accurately in state classrooms, critics say, if the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education passes a policy that it will consider Tuesday.

13th Jan 2009 : Practice of hunting and harvesting the biggest animals or plants is changing species much faster than nature, researchers find

12th Jan 2009 : Matt Ridley says that Darwinian selection explains the appearance of seemingly ‘designed’ complexity throughout the world — not just in biology but in the economy, technology and the arts

11th Jan 2009 : Last fall I submitted to the latest high-tech way to bare your soul. I had my genome sequenced and am allowing it to be posted on the Internet, along with my medical history.

8th Jan 2009 : A Pacific fish uses mirrors as well as lenses to help it see in the murky ocean depths, scientists have revealed.

8th Jan 2009 : A new molecule that performs the essential function of life – self-replication – could shed light on the origin of all living things.

7th Jan 2009 : Astronomers may have solved a cosmic chicken-and-the-egg problem: Which came first — galaxies or the supermassive black holes in their cores?

7th Jan 2009 : We should not dismiss the concept of intelligent-design lessons in school, says Thomas Crowley

6th Jan 2009 : Our galaxy is much bigger than once thought, according to research presented at a major astronomy meeting this week.

6th Jan 2009 : Pink iguanas unknown to Charles Darwin during his visits to the Galapagos islands may provide evidence of species divergence far earlier than the English naturalist's famous finches, researchers said Monday.

6th Jan 2009 : Scientists in China say they believe a group of dinosaur fossils discovered in the east of the country could be the largest collection ever found.

5th Jan 2009 : 10 lectures of around two hours each on Darwin's Legacy from Stanford University.

5th Jan 2009 : Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.

4th Jan 2009 : Now, researchers have revealed that men and women weren't equal partners in that exodus. By tracing variations in the X chromosome and in the non-sex chromosomes, the researchers found evidence that men probably outnumbered women in that migration.

3rd Jan 2009 : This week, Nature magazine published a short list of recent important developments in evolutionary biology that support the theory of evolution, as a tool to help explain that evolution is definitely a dynamic and useful theory in our field and to demonstrate that the evidence is still growing.

2nd Jan 2009 : This is the full uncut interview originally filmed for Channel 4's "The Enemies of Reason."

1st Jan 2009 : What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?

31st Dec 2008 : In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change.

29th Dec 2008 : "We desperately need more qualified ... science and math teachers, because of retirement,... overcrowded classrooms ... and people teaching out of [their] field"

29th Dec 2008 : For the past quarter century, dark matter has been a mystery we've just had to live with. But the time may be getting close when science can finally unveil what this befuddling stuff is that makes up most of the matter in the universe.

26th Dec 2008 : Critics worry amateurs could unleash an environmental or medical disaster

26th Dec 2008 : For a species that went extinct more than 25,000 years ago, 2008 has been a hell of a year for Neanderthals.

24th Dec 2008 : Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out to me that Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, was born on Christmas Day, and that therefore Newton’s Birthday could be an alternative, if somewhat nerdy, excuse for a winter holiday.

23rd Dec 2008 : With the aid of a straightforward experiment, researchers have provided some clues to one of biology's most complex questions: how ancient organic molecules came together to form the basis of life.

23rd Dec 2008 : More than a quarter of science teachers in state schools believe that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in science lessons, according to a national poll of primary and secondary teachers.

22nd Dec 2008 : This is the full, uncut interview with Professor Michael Baum which was filmed for Channel 4's "The Enemies of Reason."

22nd Dec 2008 : Here is some terrific video of a bioluminescent deep-sea siphonophore — an eerily fantastic creature that appears to be a single, large organism, but which is actually a colony of numerous individual jellyfish-like animals that behave and function together as a single entity.

22nd Dec 2008 : A research team led by Professor Michael Chazan, director of the University of Toronto's Archaeology Centre, has discovered the earliest evidence of our cave-dwelling human ancestors at the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.

22nd Dec 2008 : Quantum Computing, Quantum Information and Other Modern Physics Presentations Now Viewable Online

19th Dec 2008 : Quantum physics is both mysterious and difficult to grasp. Barry Sanders, director of the U of C’s Institute for Quantum Information Science, is hoping to change that.

19th Dec 2008 : Earth's location in the Universe is utterly unremarkable, despite recent theories that propose toppling a foundation of modern cosmology, according to a team of University of British Columbia researchers.

18th Dec 2008 : A team at Rice University has determined that a strip of graphite only 10 atoms thick can serve as the basic element in a new type of memory, making massive amounts of storage available for computers, handheld media players, cell phones and cameras.

18th Dec 2008 : Now, astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) think that their new theoretical interpretation of an imprint from the earliest stages of the universe may also shed light on what came before.

18th Dec 2008 : Paleontologists claim they have unearthed a new type of pterosaur and a previously unknown sauropod dinosaur in the Sahara Desert.

18th Dec 2008 : A team of Canadian and French scientists has shed new light on what's being called the Earth's "last universal common ancestor," the 3.8-billion-year-old microscopic organism from which all living things - bacteria and humans and sunflowers alike - evolved.

16th Dec 2008 : A rat believed to be extinct for 11 million years, a spider with a foot-long legspan, and a hot pink cyanide-producing "dragon millipede" are among the thousand newly discovered species in the largely unexplored Mekong Delta region.

16th Dec 2008 : The Obama administration should set a concrete schedule for human Mars missions, and make sure new hardware developed for NASA's return to the Moon can be adapted for missions to other destinations, a new report says.

16th Dec 2008 : Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises

15th Dec 2008 : Observations from the international Cassini spacecraft suggest Saturn's largest moon may have active or recently active ice volcanoes.