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Science Sunday: Intelligent Design Goes to the Movies

Filmmakers try to insert "intelligent design" back into the scientific debate -- without much success.According to Of Pandas and People, a textbook outlining the...

Science Sunday: The Painless Way to Fight the Holiday Pounds

A simple device that motivates people to more physical activity.You've eaten all that turkey and now you're wondering how to work it off. The...

Scientists Create Stem Cells Without Embryos

Researchers produce "pluripotent" stems cells from human skin cells, potentially removing ethical concerns for life-saving research.The battle over stem cell research is one of...

Science Sunday: Urban Goes Rural; Rockies hit outerspace

Red Rocks or Red Sox, it's all the same to Colorado in finding "home plate."The suburbs are coming! The suburbs are coming! Private development adjacent...

Science Sunday: Security vs. Openness in the Post-9/11 World

The National Academy of Sciences says freedom makes us safer.Since the airliners hit the twin towers on September 11, 2001, a regular refrain in...

Science Sunday: Worms, Work and the Great Plains

A weekly look at weird, wacky and wonderous science news.Longer life for worms Cellular defects in tiny worms used in scientific research may point the...

Science Sunday: Iapetus’ Mountains, Wolves v. Coyotes, Prostate Relief

Distant mountains Himalayas of Iapetus The Cassini mission to Saturn has come within a thousand miles of the surface of the planet's third largest moon, Iapetus,...

Science Says: Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?

Liberals are more intellectually nimble than conservatives -- no one really wants to say that liberals are smarter -- according to study in this...

Science Sunday: Wrong Fish, Looks Still Count, and Acid Oceans

Oops Greenback cutthroat trout. Really. Photo by Colorado Division of Wildlife A decades long effort to prevent the extinction of the threatened greenback cutthroat trout in...

Science Sunday: Autism, Alfv

Location, location, location Wolf near Blacktail Pond, Yellowstone National Park; Jim Peaco, National Park Service A main indicator of hunting success for Yellowstone National Park's wolves is...