It's hard not to smile when you watch the viral video, posted below, of a sledding crow. The crow seems to be playing, snowboarding down a sloped roof on a jar lid! The giggling delight of the children and their parents, overheard as they record the video, is contagious. Surely…  [more]

“You talk about Christmas miracles. Here’s the miracle of all miracles,” shouted commentator Curt Gowdy. It was 1972, and Franco Harris had just caught the unlikely, game-winning touchdown pass that would be irreverently dubbed "the Immaculate Reception," propelling the perpetually underachieving Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl victories and the…  [more]

So what exactly did happen a billionth of a second after the Big Bang? That's the question particle physicists from around the world are trying to answer via a little science experiment using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This week, researchers reported that they are one step closer to verifying…  [more]

Last month, biotechnology company Geron announced the suspension of their highly publicized human clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells. The news didn’t make much of a splash, even though this was the first FDA-approved clinical trial testing the potential of embryonic stem cells. Much of the 2004 presidential campaign,…  [more]

Your church probably does not include research laboratories among those organizations it supports. Yet a recent announcement by the Catholic Church describes a partnership with NeoStem, a U.S.-based for-profit research firm. This partnership will provide $1 million of support for research into medical treatments using adult stem cells and has…  [more]