1. Novel bacterial species found trapped in Greenland's ice
(Science/General)

...crobiology General Meeting in Boston. (Extreme Environments-I, poster N-156). This new species is among the ubiquitous, yet mysterious, ultra-small bacteria, which are so tiny that the cells are abl...

2. Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...penetrating the minds of their citizens. There have also been isolated protests and attacks on embassies, and ubiquitous demands for Wilders' murder. In Afghanistan, women in burqas could be seen ...

3. The simple falsehood at the heart of Expelled
(Religion/Atheism)

...ions, and that examination of the natural world reveals that it has been doing exactly that. He realized that ubiquitous forces that are so simple we take them for granted have been quietly and slowly...

4. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...Morals The five spheres are good candidates for a periodic table of the moral sense not only because they are ubiquitous but also because they appear to have deep evolutionary roots. The impulse to av...

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

... years ago, Endy says.      Just as integrated circuits spread beyond computing to become ubiquitous -- they're used to program dishwashers and are implanted in dogs as identit...