With more samples of human genomes now available, researchers are able to find solutions to questions that just a few years ago they could only dream of answering. For example, how many new mutations…copying errors within both of each individual's three billion-base-long human genome sets…occur each generation? And do more of them come from one parent or the other?

In early spring 2011, crop yield in Missouri farmland along the Mississippi River looked promising, with rows of plants just beginning to grow. But record rainfall threatened to overfill the river and flood Cairo, Illinois. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was forced open a levee near Bird's Point in southeastern Missouri, upstream of Cairo, to relieve the swollen river.

For the past two decades, paleontologist Mary Schweitzer has been at the cutting edge of research demonstrating that certain dinosaur remains contain original soft tissue. Of course, since this material should have completely decomposed after only thousands of years, none should be left after the millions of years assigned to these remains.

On June 10, ICR News featured a report on the latest "sky map," an immense 3-D look at distant galaxies that clearly shows that matter is concentrated in massive clumps separated by giant voids.¹ Just days later, a new paper presented similar findings. These cosmological clumps pose an enormous conundrum to naturalistic theories of origins.

An interesting question on evolution cropped up during the web interviews for the contestants of the recent Miss USA pageant. The event aired on network television June 19, 2011, but the interviews appeared on the pageant's YouTube channel several days earlier.