Intelligent design: The new 'big tent' for evolution's critics
...c creationists" compress the entire history of the cosmos into 6,000 years and insist that the heavens and Earth and all life arose in one six-day creation event. Somewhere in the middle, are "theistic evolutionists" who argue for a creator, but see no reason why God could not have made the world by means o...NSF news tips - September 22, 2003
...Sky Survey to find the most distant quasars in the cosmos (AST-0307384). Michael Manga of the University of California, Berkeley, is a geophysicist who devises laboratory experiments to understand planetary evolution. His NSF CAREER award supported his studies of geological fluid mechanics (EAR-9701768),...Stanford symposium on future of air and space travel
...ikely to change the way we traverse the clouds and cosmos during the next 100 years. The symposium, titled ''The Future of Air and Space Travel,'' will take place from 4 to 7:30 p.m. in the Teaching Center of the Science and Engineering Quad. Registration is required: http://soe.stanford.edu/alumni/corpsit...Going with the grain: A tale of rice's smallest chromosome
...wever, is immensely clearer. "Like looking at the cosmos through a regular telescope, and then looking at it through the Hubble telescope," Buell said. Focusing on rice matters because, according to the report, rice (Oryza sativa) has been cultivated for more than 9,000 years and remains a major food stapl...Human stem cell research leads Science's top ten list of the best scientific advances in 1999
...1999 as researchers confirmed their hunch that the cosmos was born in a burst that stretched space flat. A flat universe requires just the right density of matter, and up until this year scientists had searched in vain for enough matter to fit the bill. But last year's discovery (which was Science's Top A......rating universe, the discovery thatgalaxies of the cosmos are flying apart at ever faster speeds. Each year Scienceselects those advances from the past twelve months that have profoundly changedthe practice or interpretation of science or its implications for society. In the top research advance of 1998, th...