Author Archives: Jonathan Smith

Florida Citizens for Science will be holding a informal”get together” in Lakeland this coming Thursday, July 10th. The meeting will be held at I.00 pm at Starbucks, located in the Lakeside Village Mall. Directions are: Coming in on 570 Polk Parkway … Continue reading →

Christina Comer a former state science curriculum director who lost her job at the Texas Education Agency has sued the TEA and Education Commissioner Robert Scott,alleging she was illegally fired for forwarding an e-mail about a lecture critical of the movement to … Continue reading →

Life on Earth might have emerged about 750 million years earlier than previously thought, new research suggests. Researchers have found unusually light isotopes of carbon, a common indicator of life, in the Earth’s oldest mineral deposit, found in the Jack … Continue reading →

                        What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you’d think. New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins that cells in more complex organisms, including humans, use to communicate with … Continue reading →

The researchers at  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine reported on an initial examination of the function of the shape of canine teeth in primates.This is the first published comparative analysis of canine strength for primates.”Understanding more about the function of canine … Continue reading →

Jindal ignored those calling for a veto and this week signed the law that will allow Louisiana local school boards to approve supplemental materials for public school science classes as they discuss evolution. Similar bills were prepared for the last … Continue reading →

A third of a loaf is better than nothing. That’s the feeling among the U.S. research community after the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday to boost the current budgets of four key science agencies by $337 million.  Arden Bement, director … Continue reading →