1. Exorcism undergoes a revival across Europe
(Religion/General)

...s said informal efforts began under Pope John Paul II -- himself an occasional demon chaser -- and have accelerated under Pope Benedict XVI. A Catholic university in Rome began offering courses in exo...

2. What would Darwin have made of the Human Genome Project?
(Science/General)

...kens and chimps, but 18 changes between chimps and us. Another gene to show human-specific evolutionary acceleration is FOXP2. It is disrupted in some people with a language impairment and is involved...

3. Sprinting down the evolutionary highway
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...that, when there were enough people to, in effect, work with, the process of evolution rapidly began to accelerate. Even without modern-day knowledge of genes, Charles Darwin wrote in his revolutiona...

4. Cultural Selection - The evolution of Evolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ation in evolutionary theory: Human evolution didn't slow as we advanced from nature to culture. It accelerated and changed. Culture, born of natural selection, became natural selection's driv...

5. Designer microbes to save us all
(Good news/All)

...ranger to big ideas -- or to controversy.      In 2002, he was ousted as president of Celera Genomics, which he helped start to decode the human genome, after the board decided to ...