A persistent letter writer to the TCPalm looks to be having his way with his creationist fantasies in the newspaper. Have a look (bold highlight mine): Roger Hule recently wrote in answering mine and several other letters objecting to his support of evolution. The letter was long on rhetoric and short on evidence. In neither letter he's [...]...

Christina Comer a former state science curriculum director who lost her job at the Texas Education Agency has sued the TEA and Education Commissioner Robert Scott,alleging she was illegally fired for forwarding an e-mail about a lecture critical of the movement to promote intelligent design in science classes. Comer said she lost her job for contravening an "unconstitutional" [...]...

Life on Earth might have emerged about 750 million years earlier than previously thought, new research suggests. Researchers have found unusually light isotopes of carbon, a common indicator of life, in the Earth's oldest mineral deposit, found in the Jack Hills in Western Australia. The carbon dates to more than 4.25 billion years ago, a time [...]...

                        What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you'd think. New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins that cells in more complex organisms, including humans, use to communicate with each other. These findings help confirm choanoflagellates' role as an evolu...

A touching article about the passing of a passionate Florida scientist. Dave was a gung-ho wildlife biologist, and he was always tracking something. I'd met him more than 20 years earlier, when he was catching panthers in the Everglades and collaring them with radio transmitters. Now Dave was doing the same thing with Florida black bears, mapping [...]...