"There is no specific power to say prayers or to have any period of quiet reflection as part of the business of the council."

Application for Secular Club Rejected at Notre Dame - 2 years in a row

The Scale of the Universe by Cary and Michael Huang. This version has an interactive slider and lets you scroll through the zoom levels yourself.

"This is an unprecedented finding. Previously, the best existing treatment for Alzheimer's disease in mice required several months to reduce plaque in the brain."

Pope Benedict unwittingly performed an exorcism of two men possessed by the Devil in the very heart of the Vatican, according to the Catholic Church's best-known exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth.

Contrary to his claim, during his twelve-year enthronement at Bridgeport, Egan repeatedly failed to investigate priests where there were obvious signs of abuse, according to The Hartford Courant. His diocese had to settle the cases and awarded victims some $12-15 million in damages.

Three US citizens who lost their sight in childhood have reported a dramatic improvement in vision after having gene therapy in both eyes.

Zebra stripes evolved to keep biting flies at bay

America and Eurasia will crash into each other over the North Pole in 50-200 million years time, according to scientists at Yale University.

"It is as if it has just been blasted off Mars. It is effectively a pristine sample of Mars."

Fri. Feb10, 1pm EST (GMT-5) - Rebroadcast of Lawrence Krauss/Richard Dawkins ASU event - Lawrence Krauss will answer questions live after the broacast

Muslim clerics in Canada have issued a fatwa against so-called “honor killings” a week after three members of an Afghan family in Montreal were convicted of the murders of four relatives.

“It’s Part of their Culture” - Reading Nick Cohen in the light of the Jaipur affair

This article was published in New Statesman, 23rd Jan 2012, under a different title. [Also in Polish]

Redundancy Reduction and Pattern Recognition: Richard Dawkins's Answer to the Annual Edge Question

Free schools that teach 'intelligent design'
as science will lose funding

“It’s Part of their Culture” - Reading Nick Cohen in the light of the Jaipur affair

I suspect that there is life elsewhere in the universe, but it is probably extremely rare and isolated on far-flung islands of life, like a celestial Polynesia.