Congratulations to the winners of New Scientist’s Sampling Darwin contest, which asked readers to incorporate the last sentence of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species into a new work of art. That picture above? An ink drawing by Richard Amm. Here’s the list of things to look for:

Embryo development diagram
“There is grandeur” sentence
Gravitation equation
Darwin branching drawing
Brain
Abiogenesis (chemicals to bacteria)
Earth
Words “I think”
Beetles
Dinosaur with wings.
Butterflies
Peas in a pod
Artist’s Name
Lots of different finch beaks
Drake equation
DNA double helix x2
Mushrooms
Ammonites

The winning picture from the Darwin photographic competition, a small tree frog posing on some lichen captured by Simon Roberts.

Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, has been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Collins is an evangelical Christian who favors theistic evolution and embryonic stem cell research. He shares how he found harmony between his scientific and religious worldviews in his best-selling book The Language of God, and before joining the NIH he launched a foundation to address the country’s culture war between science and faith.

The Fetzer Institute has recognized Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama with the first Fetzer Prize for Love & Forgiveness.