21st Jun 2009 : The Templeton Foundation organizes an annual meeting in Cambridge where science journalists are invited (and paid very handsomely, not to speak but to listen! When were you last paid to go and be a part of the audience at a conference?).

20th May 2009 : Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual -- from Christians who speak in tongues to Buddhist monks to people who claim to have had near-death experiences.

19th May 2009 : Dr. PZ Myers, author of the science blog Pharyngula, delivered the commencement address to the graduating Masters and Doctoral candidates on May 13, 2009 at USC's Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, CA.

14th May 2009 : A fundamental but elusive step in the early evolution of life on Earth has been replicated in a laboratory.

13th May 2009 : The evolution blogosphere has lately been abuzz over the question of compatibility between science and religion. Jerry Coyne got the ball rolling with this post, criticizing the accommodationist views of the National Center for Science Education.

11th May 2009 : The other day, I read this fawning review by Andrew O'Hehir of Terry Eagleton's new book, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate, and was a little surprised.

1st Mar 2009 : Canadian researchers have discovered a new way to turn skin cells into stem cells with fewer potential risks to patients.

15th Feb 2009 : Richard Dawkins explains his picks for the seven wonders of the world in this program from 1997.

15th Feb 2009 : Charles Darwin gets so much credit, we can’t distinguish evolution from him.

14th Feb 2009 : In yesterday’s Guardian the famous paleontologist Simon Conway Morris (describer of many of the Burgess Shale fossils and author of Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe) uses Darwin Day not as a reason to celebrate what the old man did, but to point out what he did not do, and to engage in some atheism bashing on the way...

7th Feb 2009 :

7th Feb 2009 : Did Charles Darwin Steal the Idea of Natural Selection?

27th Jan 2009 : To be honest, the restoration of science was the least of it, but when Barack Obama proclaimed during his Inaugural Address that he would “restore science to its rightful place,” you could feel a dark cloud lifting like a sigh from the shoulders of the scientific community in this country.

23rd Jan 2009 : Tonight physical anthropologist Eugenie Scott will help us answer the question of whether or not we might one day be able to welcome some long lost relatives to the family tree.

22nd Jan 2009 : Richard Dawkins 3-part program 'The Genius of Charles Darwin' has just won the award for 'Best Documentary Series' at the British Broadcast Awards 2009! Contratulations to Richard and everyone who worked on the film!

15th Jan 2009 : The organisms – called methanogens – are suspected to have been living in water beneath underground ice, where they are disgorging tonnes and tonnes of methane.

1st Jan 2009 : What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?

24th Dec 2008 : Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out to me that Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, was born on Christmas Day, and that therefore Newton’s Birthday could be an alternative, if somewhat nerdy, excuse for a winter holiday.

16th Dec 2008 : The Obama administration should set a concrete schedule for human Mars missions, and make sure new hardware developed for NASA's return to the Moon can be adapted for missions to other destinations, a new report says.

14th Dec 2008 : Throughout history, human beings have used the whistle for everything from hailing a cab to carrying a tune.

12th Dec 2008 : A Vatican bioethics document released today condemns artificial fertilisation and other techniques used by many couples and also says that human cloning, "designer babies" and embryonic stem-cell research are immoral.

12th Dec 2008 : One-on-one with the Turkish creationist who uses bad science and bizarre art to spread his vision of a troubled world.

12th Dec 2008 : Caltech and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" star Keanu Reeves team up to explore how science can save the world

8th Dec 2008 : He knew his name. That much he could remember.

8th Dec 2008 : Attitudes to nanotechnology may be determined by religious and cultural beliefs, suggest researchers writing in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

7th Dec 2008 : Eyewitness accounts of crimes could be more untrustworthy than we thought.

3rd Dec 2008 : I've been accused of refusing to review Ben Stein's documentary "Expelled," a defense of Creationism, because of my belief in the theory of evolution. Here is my response.

23rd Nov 2008 : The Canadian Prairie is still buzzing about a giant fireball that roared across the sky last night and slammed into the earth with a bright flash.

20th Nov 2008 : Ice glaciers hundreds of metres deep are lurking just underneath the Martian surface around the planet's mid-latitudes, new radar measurements suggest.

1st Nov 2008 : If you think ordinary Americans believe the last eight years have been a nightmare, you should see how scientists feel.

31st Oct 2008 : Sarah Palin's criticism of the critters is just bad buzz. Research on them offers insights into learning, genes, diseases.

28th Oct 2008 : Professor Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, has been appointed to the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science

27th Oct 2008 : Richard Dawkins says he will spend his retirement writing a book for children.

25th Oct 2008 : Palin: "Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? [snip] You've heard about some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not."

22nd Oct 2008 : Targeted memory erasure is no longer limited to the realm of science fiction. A new study describes a method through which a selected set of memories can be rapidly and specifically erased from the mouse brain in a controlled and inducible manner. New and old memories have been selectively and safely removed from mice by scientists.

20th Oct 2008 : Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark is the third in an annual series of conversations: an ongoing project to foster and promote the use of reason in formulating social policy.

17th Oct 2008 : Who holds the world record for travelling furthest into the future? Where did scientists create materials that were once thought to defy the laws of optics? Why is King Kong's existence impossible? If you are surprised by the questions, Kaku's answers will surprise even more.

15th Sept 2008 : We would urge that Professor Reiss step down, or be asked to step down, as soon as possible.

14th Sept 2008 : The Church of England is to apologise to Charles Darwin for its initial rejection of his theories, nearly 150 years after he published his most famous work.

20th Aug 2008 : Scientists have used embryonic stem cells to generate blood -- a feat that could eventually lead to endless supplies of type O-negative blood, a rare blood type prized by doctors for its versatility.

5th Aug 2008 : Steven Pinker gives the 2008 Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture, sponsored by RDFRS.

1st Aug 2008 :

1st Aug 2008 : Richard Dawkins examines the legacy of Charles Darwin. The three part programme will be broadcast on Channel Four at 8 pm on Monday 4th, Monday 11th and Monday 18th August.

7th Jun 2008 : In 1928, as America heads towards the Wall Street Crash, Joseph Stalin reveals his master plan - nature is to be conquered by science, Russia to be made brutally, glitteringly modern and the world transformed by communist endeavour.

Into the heart of this vision stepped Trofim Lysenko, a self-taught geneticist who promised to turn Russian wasteland into a grain-laden Garden of Eden.

31th May 2008 : 'The Voyage of the Beagle' shows us a young man intoxicated with the tropics and careless of the risks

25th May 2008 : The first-ever landing of a probe near Mars' north pole happened smoothly on Sunday, NASA confirmed.

14th May 2008 : In a major article in the newly released anthology, Secularism & Science in the 21st Century (published by the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, at Trinity College), I look critically at their writings. I find little evidence for their claim, and put forward my own hypothesis, which I dub The Dawkins Effect.

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5th May 2008 : ScienceDaily (May 5, 2008) � Parents of children with autism were roughly twice as likely to have been hospitalized for a mental disorder, such as schizophrenia, than parents of other children, according to an analysis of Swedish birth and hospital records by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher and colleagues in the U.S. and Europe.

4th May 2008 : We are preparing to run another fMRI study of belief and disbelief, and we need volunteers to help us refine our experimental stimuli. This promises to be the first study of religious faith at the level of the brain. By responding to the four surveys I have posted online, you can make an enormous contribution to this work.

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15th Dec 2007 : Texas' debate over teaching evolution is going to college.

5th Nov 2007 : Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept.

5th Nov 2007 : If the people of Congo save the mountain gorilla, might the gorilla return the favor?

31th Oct 2007 : The theoretical chemist is also widely known for his so-called Second Rule, which states that 'Evolution is cleverer than you are.'

25th Oct 2007 : In January 1955, Homer Jacobson, a chemistry professor at Brooklyn College, published a paper called "Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life" in American Scientist, the journal of Sigma Xi, the scientific honor society.

21st Oct 2007 : As a vicious cancer ravages Tasmanian devil populations, zoos have launched a worldwide project to save the species. Kathy Marks reports.

21st Oct 2007 : To petition the Prime Minister to make Richard Dawkins a Knight, visit the Web site mentioned in this article ("You must be a British citizen or resident to sign the petition").

7th Oct 2007 : When you think of England, Rupert Redesdale is who you think of. He has a slanting forehead, a nose shaped like an adze and the pink face of an aristocrat from the Georgian era.

27th Sept 2007 : A few months ago, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins received an e-mail message from a producer at Rampant Films inviting him to be interviewed for a documentary called "Crossroads."

20th Sept 2007 : On Friday, November 2nd The Dawkins Prize will be awarded to Dr Roger Payne.

23rd Aug 2007 : Using virtual reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences � the sensation of drifting outside of one's own body � in healthy people, according to experiments being published in the journal Science.

22nd Aug 2007 : After turning millions of Internet users into virtual explorers of the world with Google Earth, the Internet search giant is now hoping to turn many of them into virtual stargazers.

14th Aug 2007 : A series of botanical landscapes that go back in evolutionary time are to be built in the desert of Saudi Arabia as part of an ambitious project to design the world's biggest indoor gardens.

2nd Aug 2007 : Wold Book Club interview on The Selfish Gene.

26th Jul 2007 : Texas had the nation's highest birth rate among teenagers ages 15 to 19 in 2004, according to a newly released study of children's health.

20th Jul 2007 : A live Madagascar hissing cockroach; a giant blue nose that sneezes spray at visitors; an I-beam on which visitors precariously perch; chronicles of epidemics; creatures that sting and bite; Imax footage of Hurricane Katrina hitting the bayou: These are the signs of an aggressive and sometimes distressing world that emerge at the ambitious $109 million transformation of the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City.

6th Jul 2007 : Dr. Jon D. Miller of Northwestern says scientific illiteracy undermines citizens' ability to take part in the democratic process.

30th May 2007 : The Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, is home to seven bonobos -- a close relative of the chimpanzee -- and three orangutans. But if you think Iowa might be a strange place for them to live, don't say it out loud � these apes understand English.

9th May 2007 : Gov. Deval Patrick on Tuesday unveiled a $1.25 billion proposal intended to help the state maintain its status as a pre-eminent place for stem cell research and other life sciences.

22nd Apr 2007 : Billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi and two crew from the international space station (ISS) have safely returned to Earth.

9th Apr 2007 : Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. billionaire who helped develop Microsoft Word floated into the international space station early Tuesday -- to the earthbound applause of Martha Stewart and others at Mission Control.

5th Apr 2007 : The latest United Nations assessment of the role of humans in global warming has found with "high confidence" that greenhouse gas emissions are at least partly responsible for a host of changes already under way, including longer growing seasons and shrinking glaciers.

2nd Apr 2007 : Growing Up in the Universe 2-Disc DVD Set: Order your copy now!

9th Mar 2007 : WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Polar bears, sea ice and global warming are taboo subjects, at least in public, for some U.S. scientists attending meetings abroad, environmental groups and a top federal wildlife official said on Thursday.

2nd Mar 2007 : LYNCHBURG, Va. The Reverend Jerry Falwell says global warming is "Satan's attempt to redirect the church's primary focus" from evangelism to environmentalism.

12th Feb 2007 : KINGSTON, R.I. � There is nothing much unusual about the 197-page dissertation Marcus R. Ross submitted in December to complete his doctoral degree in geosciences here at the University of Rhode Island.

5th Jan 2007 : UK scientists planning to mix human and animal cells in order to research cures for degenerative diseases fear their work will be halted.

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13th Dec 2006 : The United States government bears great responsibility for keeping our environment clean and Americans healthy and safe.

25th Nov 2006 : Reposted from http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/science/21myth.html?ref=science

"This is where we blow stuff up."

Jamie Hyneman — who, to be honest, did not actually use the word "stuff" — stood in front of a two-story, blast-resistant ruin of a building at the back of the former Alameda Point Naval Air Station.

24th Nov 2006 : The scientific journal Nature has issued a clarification of a recent report that human embryonic stem cells can be derived without harm to the embryo, but has affirmed the report's validity.

24th Nov 2006 : Doerr's words reminded me that I once put together a brief extract from Unweaving the Rainbow, with the thought that it might be suitable for reading at funerals - including my own when the time comes.

16th Nov 2006 : For a very long time, Muslim states have scored badly on measures of science and technology. Will things be any better or worse under the new Islamist governments?

1st Oct 2006 : In warfare, public opinion is now prepared to tolerate far less collateral damage than used to be the case, and this is a revealing symptom of a more general and heartening trend.

1st Aug 2006 : George Bush has just vetoed a bill, approved by both Houses of Congress, which would have allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Apparently the President's ethical philosophy places a higher value on American embryos than on Iraqi or Lebanese men, women and children.

16th May 2006 : Science feeds on mystery. As my colleague Matt Ridley has put it, "Most scientists are bored by what they have already discovered.