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Blog Post
Dark Matter: The Situation Has Changed
May 1, 2021 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Why are theorists excited about exotic nuclei?
May 1, 2021 Physics Today
The limits of nuclear stability provide deep insights into the fundamental force responsible for the presence of matter.
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Hybrid Animals Are Not Nature’s Misfits
May 1, 2021 The Scientist
In the 20th century, animals such as mules and ligers that had parents of different species were considered biological flukes, but genetic sequencing is beginning to unravel the critical role of hybridization in evolution.
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Can Single Cells Learn?
May 1, 2021 The Scientist
A controversial idea from the mid-20th century is attracting renewed attention from researchers developing theories for how cognition arises with or without a brain.
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Blog Post
Why politically guided science is bad
May 1, 2021
Research should not be an effort to reach one's desired conclusions.
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Vertebrate Origins on the Ropes…Again
April 30, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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The Fossils Still Say No: Enigma of the Carboniferous Explosion
April 30, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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Archaeopteryx by the Numbers
April 30, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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Some Problems Can Be Proved Unsolvable
April 30, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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What? Some Viruses Use an “Alternative” Genetic Alphabet?
April 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Granville Sewell on Origin of Life As a Provably Unsolvable Problem
April 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Why Has Nature Started Endorsing Violent Woke Politics?
April 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Cloud-to-Ground Lightning May Have Struck a Key Ingredient for Life
April 30, 2021 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
On early Earth, rock created by lightning strikes to the ground likely held a form of phosphorus necessary for prebiotic chemistry.
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These mysterious stone structures in Saudi Arabia are older than the pyramids
April 30, 2021 NBC News
Researchers think the region’s "mustatils" form the oldest ritual landscape in the world. But exactly what they were for isn’t clear.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Structural and Protein Preservation in Fossil Whale Bones from the Pisco Formation, Peru
April 30, 2021 Palaios, v.36, n.4, p.155-164
Middle-Upper Miocene
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How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously
April 30, 2021 New Yorker
For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.
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Video
Science has become corrupted
April 30, 2021 YouTube
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Abduction: A Thinking Skill You Can Do But Computers Can't
April 29, 2021 Mind Matters
A Norwegian police detective fills us in on how to use abduction for better thinking
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Reductionism vs. emergence: Are you “nothing but” your atoms?
April 29, 2021 Big Think
Reductionism offers a narrow view of the universe that fails to explain reality.
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One incredible ocean crossing may have made human evolution possible
April 29, 2021 The Conversation
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Weird viral DNA spills secrets to biologists
April 29, 2021 Nature
Bacteria-infecting viruses have specialized enzymes to make genes with alternative nucleobase.
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Darwin’s statue, racism, and the Natural History Museum, London
April 29, 2021 Creation Ministries International
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Scientists Find Billion-Year-Old Fossil Life
April 29, 2021 Gizmodo
‘Something Which Has Never Been Described Before'
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Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way
April 29, 2021 New Scientist
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Billion-year-old microbe had taken first step towards internal organs
April 29, 2021 New Scientist
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Some Viruses Use an Alternative Genetic Alphabet
April 29, 2021 The Scientist
In a trio of studies, researchers follow up on a 40-year-old finding that certain bacteriophages replace adenine with so-called diaminopurine, perhaps to avoid host degradation.
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Spleen-to-Liver Signals Control Systemic Inflammation
April 29, 2021 The Scientist
In rats, the spleen directs a cytokine surge that drives system-wide inflammation, but it is not, as once believed, the main producer of the chemical messenger.
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News Update/Commentary
Molecular biologists travel back in time 3 billion years
April 29, 2021 Science Daily
A research group has succeeded in studying ‘translation factors' -- important components of a cell's protein synthesis machinery -- that are several billion years old.
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Evolution’s “Can’t Get There from Here” Problem
April 29, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Project To Map 70,000 Vertebrate Genomes Already Turning Up More Bad News for “Junk DNA”
April 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Do Antimatter Stars Anti-Twinkle?
April 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Best Depiction Yet of the Bacterial Flagellum
April 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Information from Nothing? Darwinists Must Believe It
April 29, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mammals evolved big brains after big disasters
April 28, 2021 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Largest study of its kind reveals the way relative brain size of mammals changed over the last 150 million years
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Just 15 percent of psychology studies are strongly rooted in theory
April 28, 2021 Massive Science
A study of over 2000 papers highlights the need for more theory in psychology research
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What Makes Human Brains Special?
April 28, 2021 Slate
Scientists are just starting to grasp why human beings have self-awareness.
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Mars has the Right Conditions for Life Just Under the Surface
April 28, 2021 Universe Today
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A Backdoor Lets the Immune System Monitor the Brain
April 28, 2021 Quanta Magazine
A newfound hub of immune system activity at the back of the brain solves a century-old puzzle and offers a possible target for treatments.
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Frontiers Pulls Special COVID-19 Issue After Content Dispute
April 28, 2021 The Scientist
The issue’s guest editors resign after falling out with the publisher over the management of papers, including a rejected manuscript on ivermectin, that were submitted for a special issue on drug repurposing for COVID-19.
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News Update/Commentary
Project to read genomes of all 70,000 vertebrate species reports first discoveries
April 28, 2021 Science Daily
A bold project to read the complete genetic sequences of every known vertebrate species reaches its first milestone by publishing new methods and the first 25 high-quality genomes.
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Genetic Literacy Project Tackles Critical Race Theory
April 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Why Are Statements About “Evolution” So Often Just Filler?
April 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Unlocking the secrets of Earth's early atmosphere
April 28, 2021 phys.org
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Suzanne Simard interview: How I uncovered the hidden language of trees
April 28, 2021 New Scientist
First she discovered the wood wide web. Now Suzanne Simard has found that underground connections in a forest are like a brain that allows trees to form societies -- and look out for their kin
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Video
Wrong Again: Neil deGrasse Tyson Misrepresents Legacy of Sir Isaac Newton
April 27, 2021 YouTube
Sir Isaac Newton is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists who has ever lived. But did his work ultimately support a materialistic worldview and undermine belief in God? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson seems to think so,
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If IQ Is Inherited, Is the Intellect Simply Material?
April 27, 2021 Mind Matters
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The Challenges of Animal Translation
April 27, 2021 The New Yorker
Artificial intelligence may help us decode animalese. But how much will we really be able to understand?
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These cellular clocks help explain why elephants are bigger than mice
April 27, 2021 Nature
Biologists are uncovering how tiny timekeepers in our cells might govern body size, lifespan and ageing.
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Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? Artificial Intelligence Is Solving That Mystery
April 27, 2021 The Debrief
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Future drones likely to resemble 300-million-year-old flying machine
April 27, 2021
Researchers have drawn inspiration from a 300-million-year-old superior flying machine -- the dragonfly -- to show why future flapping wing drones will probably resemble the insect in shape, wings and gearing.