The controversial soft tissue finds of North Carolina State University paleontologist Mary Schweitzer are gaining renown, and for good reason. She found organic material in fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that should not have existed after having supposedly been buried for millions of years.

NASA recently issued a series of press releases and arranged a press conference to promote research claiming that life was possible in outer space.^{1, 2} However, the research drew heavy criticism from scientists around the world, and the interest-generating tactics that the space agency employed have been called into question.

What if there were not a fast or effective way to get rid of sewage waste? The world would be a pretty disgusting place.

The six most common elements in living things are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and phosphorus. Although some have considered the possibility that other elements could serve the same functions as these, no claims of discovering such a substitution had been made—until recently.

Some people challenge the existence of the Christian God by asking questions like “If God always has good intentions and is all-powerful, why would He make things like parasitic worms that harm other organisms by invading their intestines?” New findings present an intriguing answer and show that questions that are worded that way harbor a wrong assumption.