Darwin Day Celebrates Science
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A little-known festival turns Charles Darwin's birthday into an international tribute to the glories of scientific thought. By Wired News staff.
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The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science attracts more than 8,000 scientists for discussions and presentations of all types. Wired Science provides full coverage from Friday through Monday.
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It was activities galore as the world celebrated the World HIV/AIDS Day. The celebration explores how gender inequality fuels the AIDS epidemic and is conceived to accelerate the global response
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Intelligent Design voted off school curriculum The battle for the hearts and minds of American school children took another turn this week. The infamous Kansas school board that voted to banish Darwin from the science curriculum has welcomed him back with open arms, spurning instead the language of intelligent design.â¦
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The X PRIZE Foundation announced today a new education competition designed to cultivate interest and excitement in the fields of space, science and technology.
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A European laboratory that was the birthplace of the World Wide Web and home of Nobel prize-winning developments in the quest to understand the makeup of matter wished itself a happy 50th birthday Tuesday.
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A Pennsylvania school district Friday defended its decision to discount Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and teach what critics say is a version of creationism.
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Parents are encouraged to challenge their children's science teachers over the origins of life.
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I love international days of this and that. They are such grand occasions for leaders to remember some long forgotten agenda. The charitable among us hope that occasions
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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Friday is the 150th anniversary of Eureka Day. For some Australians, it's their Boston Tea Party.
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The diaries of the wife of naturalist Charles Darwin are released on the internet.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida education officials voted on Tuesday to add evolution to the required course work in public schools but only after a last-minute change depicting Charles Darwin's seminal work as merely a theory.
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Birds are not stupid and their brains are not primitive so it is about time the scientific world gave them full credit, experts said on Monday.
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PUERTO AYORA, Ecuador -- An unremarkable day on the archipelago. A taxi honks at a meandering pedestrian. Dockworkers empty another cargo boat, while sunburned tourists listen to their guides explain how the unique fauna here inspired Charles Darwin to develop his theory of evolution.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.