The Cranberry and Evolution
News Source From its bitter taste to its ability to float, the cranberry isn’t your average fruit. Inside Science News Service offers a look at what makes the cranberry special—and commercially popular. But if the…
Thanksgiving in Times of Uncertainty
In this new uncertain reality, nations around the world have come to the Thanksgiving season. Canadians celebrate their Thanksgiving earliest in October. Americans and Brazilians remember Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November, while a…
Thankful We’re Not Alone in the Universe
In his article, atheist John Horgan explores this question, looking at an idea in physics that “information never vanishes,” so somehow the universe will remember us forever (an idea he rejects). But he begins his…
Evolution Day Struggles For Survival
On November 24, 1859, the first edition of Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species was published. Then 115 years later on November 24, 1974, the Australopithecus afarensis fossil known as Lucy was discovered by…
DNA—An “Energy Code”?
They believe scientists need to expand Darwin’s ideas to include an “energy code”: Darwin’s theory of evolution should be expanded to include consideration of a DNA stability “energy code”—so-called “molecular Darwinism”—to further account for the…