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Does Social Ability Distinguish Human Intelligence from That of Apes
April 16, 2019 Mind Matters
Not altogether, of course, but it plays a bigger role than we sometimes assume
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The sorrows of psychiatry
April 15, 2019 Nature
the fraught nexus of mental illness and biology
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Inferential Science -- What Could Go Wrong?
April 15, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life
April 15, 2019 Quanta Magazine
Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which viruses strategically manipulate and cooperate with one another.
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How Heroes Hurt Science
April 15, 2019 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Researchers: Origin of Life More Likely in Ponds, Assisted by Lightning, Than Oceans
April 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Big Data Can Lie: Simpson's Paradox
April 15, 2019 Mind Matters
Simpson’s Paradox illustrates the importance of human interpretation of the results of data mining.
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News Update/Commentary
To protect stem cells, plants have diverse genetic backup plans
April 15, 2019 Science Daily
When it comes to stem cell management, all flowering plants work to maintain the same status quo. Researchers have now identified the various strategies plants use to preserve a single, essential genetic circuit.
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News Update/Commentary
The history of humanity in your face
April 15, 2019 Science Daily
The face you see in the mirror is the result of millions of years of evolution and reflects the most distinctive features that we use to identify and recognize each other, molded by our need to eat, breath, see, and communicate.
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News Update/Commentary
What makes a jellyfish?
April 15, 2019 Science Daily
Genomic study reveals how jellyfish develop into floating beauties, rather than staying stationary like corals or sea anemones.
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News Update/Commentary
Cell biology: The complexity of division by two
April 15, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have identified a novel protein that plays a crucial role in the formation of the mitotic spindle, which is essential for correct segregation of a full set of chromosomes to each daughter cell during cell division.
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A Journalist at Stephen Meyer’s Dallas Speech Recalls His Own Remarkable Response
April 15, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Sabine Hossenfelder: Has the Large Hadron Collider “Broken Physics”?
April 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Preparing for the Next ‘Supervolcano' Eruption
April 14, 2019 U.S. News & World Report
Scientists around the world are collaborating to monitor volcanic activity and better inform governments on preparing for the next major eruption.
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Hugh Ross: How Recent Measurements Support the Big Bang Theory
April 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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From the Poached Egg: How Darwinism Dumbs Us Down
April 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Logic & First Principles, 17: Pondering the Hyperreals *R with Prof Carol Wood (Including Infinitesimals)
April 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Richard Weikart: Is Life a Cosmic Accident?
April 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
The LHC has broken physics, according to this philosopher
April 13, 2019 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Folding Molecules Give Insight to Origin of Life
April 13, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Was Thomas Kuhn Not So “Evil” After All?
April 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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New England Journal of Medicine, Seeking New Editor, Urged to Get Woke
April 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Logic & First Principles, 16: The Problem of Playing God (When We Don’t -- Cannot -- Know How)
April 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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New Free Speech Rules Won’t Change Much at US Universities, Says Campus Politics Expert
April 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Earliest life may have arisen in ponds, not oceans
April 12, 2019 Science Daily
Study finds shallow bodies of water were probably more suitable for Earth's first life forms
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First Ever Black Hole Image Points to Cosmology’s Big Message
April 12, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?
April 12, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mass extinction recovery governed by “morphospace”
April 12, 2019 Cosmos Magazine
Slow return to diversity is due tensions between ecology and possibility.
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News Update/Commentary
Earliest life may have arisen in ponds, not oceans
April 12, 2019 Science Daily
Study finds shallow bodies of water were probably more suitable for Earth's first life forms
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Faint Hopes Easily Revived! “Life May Be Evolving” on Closest Exoplanet
April 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Denisovans Sure Got Around; Turns Out, They Are “Diverse”
April 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Running Made Us Human: How We Evolved to Run Marathons
April 12, 2019 Discover magazine
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Is There a Fixed Time Limit for Recovery After Mass Extinctions?
April 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Earliest life may have arisen in ponds, not oceans
April 12, 2019 phys.org
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Multiple lines of mysterious ancient humans interbred with us
April 11, 2019 National Geographic
Modern DNA suggests that the Denisovans were surprisingly diverse -- and may have been the last humans other than Homo sapiens on Earth.
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Polar Bear Seminar: On Retracting -- and Not Retracting -- Errors
April 11, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers: Yes, Plants have Nervous Systems Too
April 11, 2019 Mind Matters
Not only that but, like mammals, they use glutamate to speed transmission
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10 Deep Lessons from Our First Image of a Black Hole's Event Horizon
April 11, 2019 Forbes
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The Denisovans May Have Been More Than a Single Species
April 11, 2019 Discover magazine
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The Boy Missing an Entire Type of Brain Cell
April 11, 2019 The Atlantic
Microglia make up 10 percent of the brain, and an extremely rare case shows just how important they are.
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Astronaut twins study spots subtle genetic changes caused by space travel
April 11, 2019 Nature
Some initial effects of long-term spaceflight ebbed in the months after astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth.
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Shakeup! New Human Find from Over 50,000 Years Ago Shows Our Ancestors Were Smarter Than Once Thought
April 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Is Secular Humanism a Religion?
April 11, 2019 Quillette
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News Update/Commentary
Interplay of pollinators and pests influences plant evolution
April 11, 2019 Science Daily
Brassica rapa plants pollinated by bumblebees evolve more attractive flowers. But this evolution is compromised if caterpillars attack the plant at the same time.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Multiple Deeply Divergent Denisovan Ancestries in Papuans
April 11, 2019 Cell
Highlights: a new dataset of 161 genomes covering the understudied Indonesia-New Guinea region; introgressing Denisovans comprise at least three genetically divergent groups
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Transhumanists Want to Fix Our Morality for Us As Well
April 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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UD Author’s Suggested Correction to Calculus Goes Viral
April 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Roboticists induce artificial metabolism in synthetic DNA
April 11, 2019 Cosmos Magazine
Chinese team makes step forward in bio-mimicking machines.
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Philosophers Want Back into Science
April 11, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Newspaper Article
Evidence of New Human Species Found in Philippines
April 10, 2019 Wall Street Journal
Fossils unearthed in a limestone cavern part of a previously unknown human species that roamed the island about 50,000 years ago
