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• Why scientists dismiss 'intelligent design'
Irreducible complexity asserts that certain biochemical systems in nature contain parts that are too well matched to be products of evolution. Every part of an irreducibly complex system is necessary: take away even one, and the entire system will no ...
• Travel’s inconvenient convenience
The travel industry is sinking billions of dollars into technology like online booking tools, check-in kiosks and phone systems that recognize your voice, promising it will make you next trip easier than ever. But is improving your travel experience ...
• Photos strengthen case for water on Mars
Researchers have known of gullies on the Mars since 2000, when Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera — built by Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego — first observed the eye-catching landforms. Found mostly on slopes or ridges, the gullies ...
• Fed chairman: U.S. economy will rebound
To global investors, Bernanke offered this advice: “Keep your head about you, so to speak” and make sure risk assessment systems are in good condition. Bernanke also repeated his belief that heavy regulations are not needed to guide the hedge fund ...
• NASA signs deals with three spaceship firms
... Space Corp. and PlanetSpace Inc. of Chicago, and last year inked funded deals with Space Exploration Technologies of El Segundo, Calif., and Oklahoma City-based Rocketplane Kistler. After the companies demonstrate safe and reliable systems, in the 2010 ...