Your Inner Fish
Learn to love your body for what it really is: a jury-rigged fish. 02.21.2008
Did Life Evolve in Ice?
Funky properties of frozen water may have made life possible. 02.01.2008
97. Hot-Tailed Squirrels vs. Rattlesnakes
01.15.2008
88. Did Mice Domesticate The House Cat
01.15.2008
84. Chimps Show Altruistic Streak
01.15.2008
99. Who Shrunk the Dogs Down
01.15.2008
73. Parasite Invades Its Host’s DNA
01.14.2008
Bacteria Invade Genomes, Not Just Bodies
A bacterial genome sets up shop right in a fruit fly's DNA. 12.07.2007
Why Aren’t All People Beautiful?
Maybe the genes that make hot males make distinctly un-hot females. 11.27.2007
The Real Dirty Secret about Sex
Life doesn’t need it, so why do we do it? 11.12.2007
One Universe, Under God
Creationism battles for the hearts and minds of America’s teachers. 10.01.2007
The Simplistic Manifesto
Intelligent design misses the point. Again. 07.02.2007
Aliens Among Us
Do we share Earth with alternative life forms? 06.27.2007
Against All Odds, Sex Has Returned
A mite reevolves sex after hundreds of millions of years without it. 06.19.2007
Darwin’s Lost World
Evolution is alive and swimming in Borneo. 04.26.2007
Not So Fast, Einstein
Human brain evolution seems to be slowing. 04.11.2007
Blinded by Science: Stuck in Creationism
The designers of the Creation Museum insist that science is fundamental. 02.12.2007
Jaron's World: Frozen in Time
Birth reveals the transitional nature of the design. 12.12.2006
The Exact Cost of Diversity
Temperatures can affect how new fast species arise. 09.01.2006
Unintelligent Design
A monstrous discovery suggests that viruses, long regarded as lowly evolutionary latecomers, may have been the precursors of all life on Earth 03.15.2006
The Ur-Plant
DNA analysis reveals the identity of the first plants. 11.01.1998
The Importance of Noses
They do more than smell: they contain tiny bones that keep us from getting dehydrated. 08.01.1994