GREAT interest has been awakened, of late, by the promulgation of a new “ Theory of Creation ” ; and nonscientific readers have met with numerous controversial articles in the journals, magazines, and ...

When it comes to our physical world, scientific research indicates that size really does matter. While “big” objects, anything from a grain of sand to a galaxy, abide by one set of rules — classical ...

Did that lobster on your dinner plate inherit its big crusher claw…or did it evolve through need, without the help of genes? Genetics aren't the only triggers for the traits a species develops, ...

WE had hoped ere now to have received the second instalment of this work, and to have dealt with the two volumes in a single critical notice. Unforeseen causes, one of them deeply to be regretted, ...

It wasn't long after the famed scientist Charles Darwin died that the rumors started. Within a week of his death on April 19, 1882, a preacher in Wales "confirmed" for his parishioners that the father ...

When we eat spicy food — a pork enchilada, say, or perhaps a Thai papaya salad — we typically experience one of two reactions (beyond thinking it’s delicious): The first is to drink a lot of water; ...

PROF. LLOYD MORGAN tells us, in a prefatory note, that the greater part of this work was in type before the lamented death of the author. The material for chapters v. and vi. existed in the form of ...