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Swarms of ‘primordial' black holes might fill our universe
November 26, 2020 Live Science
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The human genome is amazingly complex
November 26, 2020 Creation Ministries International
Massive new GTEx study counters Darwinism
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“Identical Evolution” of Isolated Groups of Early Vertebrates Confirmed
November 26, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Moths Evade Bats Using Acoustic Camouflage on Their Wings
November 26, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Ancient Fish Were “Prepared” for Life on Land
November 26, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Here's Why the Quantum World Is Just So Strange
November 26, 2020 Mind Matters
It underlies our universe but it follows its own “rules,” which don’t make sense to the rest of us
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To Fix Math Education, See It As a Program That Needs An Update
November 26, 2020 Mind Matters
As a computer programmer, I’ve seen this problem in my work: The basic idea is still sound but “fixes” have made it too complex
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Opinion: I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal
November 26, 2020 undark.org
A dubious education journal invited me to submit a manuscript that would undergo “rigorous” review. It was far too easy.
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Curious Kids: could dinosaurs evolve back into existence?
November 26, 2020 The Conversation
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The universe is expanding too fast, and that could rewrite cosmology
November 25, 2020 New Scientist
Different measurements of the Hubble constant, the rate of space-time expansion, refuse to agree -- meaning we may have to look beyond Einstein’s theories to explain the universe
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How Einstein Reconciled Religion to Science
November 25, 2020 nautil.us
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Did Viruses Create the Nucleus? The Answer May Be Near.
November 25, 2020 Quanta Magazine
An unorthodox symbiotic theory about the origin of eukaryotes’ defining characteristic may soon be put to the test.
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Tiny toucan-like bird with a single tooth flew during the dinosaur era
November 25, 2020 New Scientist
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The changing face of birds from the age of the dinosaurs
November 25, 2020 Nature
The fossil record traces the origin of the modern bird skull as birds evolved from their dinosaurian ancestors. Now the discovery of a bizarre fossil reveals a surprising diversion during this process of facial transformation.
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Plants: Scientists solve the mystery behind an enigmatic organelle, the pyrenoid
November 25, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered how Rubisco holoenzymes assemble to form the fluid-like matrix of the algal pyrenoid, an organelle that mediates the incorporation of carbon dioxide into sugars.
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Galápagos Finches -- Some Contradictions Solved
November 25, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Design Triangulation: My Thanksgiving Gift to All
November 25, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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An Animal Has Been Discovered That Does Not Need Oxygen To Live
November 25, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Earliest Evidence of Animals at 635 Mya Turns Out To Be Common Algae
November 25, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Michael Behe Doesn’t Answer His Critics?
November 25, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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The CORRECT Way To Understand the Mysterious Utah Monolith
November 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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AI helps scientists understand brain activity behind thoughts
November 24, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers have developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that help them better understand the brain computations that underlie thoughts.
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Researchers reveal switch used in plant defense against animal attack
November 24, 2020 Science Daily
Decades of pursuit uncovers receptor, the product of an evolutionary arms race for survival, used by plants to sense herbivores
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Galápagos Finches -- An “Exceptionally Strong Natural-Selection Event”?
November 24, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Behe’s New “Mousetrap” Book -- The Fragility of Darwinism
November 24, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin’s Notebooks Apparently Stolen -- But Wait!
November 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Hints of twisted light offer clues to dark energy’s nature
November 24, 2020 Nature
Cosmologists suggest that an exotic substance called quintessence could be accelerating the Universe’s expansion -- but the evidence is still tentative.
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A Weird Monolith Is Found in the Utah Desert
November 24, 2020 New York Times
A team surveying bighorn sheep for Utah’s wildlife agency found the strange object, 10 to 12 feet tall, embedded in the ground in a remote part of Red Rock Country. It’s probably art, officials said.
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Contemplating the End of Physics
November 24, 2020 Quanta Magazine
Has physics reached the limits of what we can discover -- or are the possibilities only just beginning?
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Busting the Paradigm Without Busting Your Career?
November 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Experimental evolution reveals how bacteria gain drug resistance
November 24, 2020 Science Daily
A research team has succeeded in experimentally evolving the common bacteria under pressure from a large number of individual antibiotics, and identified the mechanisms and constraints underlying evolved drug resistance.
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Has a Plant Evolved a Camouflage Color To Avoid Humans?
November 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Intelligent Life Really Can't Exist Anywhere Else
November 24, 2020 Popular Mechanics
our own evolution on Earth was pure luck
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Listen: Median Artery and Evolution Hype
November 24, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Has Cognitive Science Explained (Away) God?
November 23, 2020 The Gospel Coalition
REVIEW: God on the Brain by Bradley Sickler (July 2020) | See Also Crossway
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Did early life need long, complex molecules to make cell-like compartments?
November 23, 2020 Penn State News
Researchers make functional membraneless ‘protocells' out of short polymers
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The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding
November 23, 2020 Quanta Magazine
Physicists plan to leave no stone unturned, checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms planetary cores or even lodges in rocks.
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Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything?
November 23, 2020 New York Times
It might be possible, physicists say, but not anytime soon. And there’s no guarantee that we humans will understand the result.
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Charles Darwin: Notebooks worth millions lost for 20 years
November 23, 2020 BBC
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Earless moths have acoustic camouflage that protects them from bats
November 23, 2020 New Scientist
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Identical evolution of isolated organisms
November 23, 2020 Science Daily
Parallel evolution of conodonts
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True origin of oldest evidence of animals
November 23, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists have resolved a longstanding controversy surrounding the origins of complex life on Earth. The studies found molecular fossils extracted from 635-million-year-old rocks aren't the earliest evidence of animals, but instead common algae.
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How ancient fish may have prepared for life on land
November 23, 2020 Science Daily
The international study of the prehistoric ‘relic' tetrapods, including salamander and lobe-finned lungfish and coelacanths, adds another perspective to the evolution of other four-legged land animals
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Hmm. The Milky Way’s Oldest Stars Are Out of Place
November 23, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Gizmodo Asks Experts to Name the Biggest Science Frauds of the Past 50 Years
November 23, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Group Disagreement in Science
November, 2020 The Epistemology of Group Disagreement (Taylor & Francis Group: Routledge)
The chapter discusses one type of group disagreement: Scientific dissent. Scientific dissent involves disagreement over a consensus view, that is, a view that a scientific community has accepted
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Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand
November 23, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Rethink About How Cells Organize Themselves?
November 22, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Engineer Stuart Burgess on “Bad Design” in Nature
November 22, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Film Clip on the Probability of a Protein Forming by Chance Passes 500k Views
November 22, 2020 Uncommon Descent