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Being eaten
October 8, 2020 Aeon
The fear of becoming a meal is a powerful evolutionary force that shapes brains, behaviour and entire ecosystems
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News Update/Commentary
Taking sides: Factors that influence patterns in protein distribution
October 8, 2020 Science Daily
A new article has found that even cells in isolation can become polarized to create the head to tail pattern, and that this polarity can orient how the cell grows.
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Logan Paul Gage: “Our Galileo Complex”
October 8, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Genomic study reveals evolutionary secrets of banyan tree
October 8, 2020 Science Daily
The banyan fig tree Ficus microcarpa is famous for its aerial roots, which sprout from branches and eventually reach the soil. The tree also has a unique relationship with a wasp that has coevolved with it and is the only insect that can pollinate it.
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Zoologists uncover new example of rapid evolution -- meet the Sulawesi Babblers
October 8, 2020 Science Daily
Zoologists have discovered that male and female Sulawesi Babblers (Pellorneum celebense, a species of bird) have evolved to attain different sizes on small islands, and in quick-fire time.
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Origin of Life Dustup: Once Again, We Discover Why We Love Inference Review
October 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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At Gizmodo: 24 Planets Might Be Better Places To Live Than Earth
October 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon Responds to Nature’s Decision To Go Political
October 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent
Are they really scientists or just political hacks?
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The Fitness of Nature for Mankind featuring Biologist Michael Denton
October 7, 2020 YouTube
Renowned author and biologist gives a new expression to what he calls the “medieval synthesis” of knowledge about life, now enjoying a “Reconquista” thanks to modern science.
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The Fitness of Nature for Mankind featuring Biologist Michael Denton
October 7, 2020 YouTube
Renowned author and biologist Michael Denton gives a new expression to what he calls the “medieval synthesis” of knowledge about life, now enjoying a “Reconquista” thanks to modern science.
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Elsevier journal disavows, but does not retract, paper on intelligent design
October 7, 2020 Retraction Watch
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This Year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors a Revolution
October 7, 2020 New York Times
With Crispr, two scientists turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing
October 7, 2020 New York Times
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna developed the Crispr tool, which can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with high precision.
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Bechly: The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis
October 7, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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What Earth Owes to Black Holes
October 7, 2020 The Atlantic
The cosmic objects have a reputation as monstrous maws, but without them the universe would make less sense.
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Neandertal babies had stocky chests like their parents
October 7, 2020 Science News
Our evolutionary relatives may have inherited short, deep rib cages from their ancestors
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Doctor leading charge to reopen says scientific community suppressing alternative COVID views
October 7, 2020 Just the News
The doctor is one of the authors of a new declaration calling for the "damaging" and "devastating" COVID-19 policies to be halted.
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Traveling brain waves help detect hard-to-see objects
October 7, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists discover patterns of neural waves in the awake brain that help detect objects
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Mammals share gene pathways that allow zebrafish to grow new eyes
October 7, 2020 Science Daily
Study may advance genetic therapies for blindness and other injuries to the central nervous system
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Ethan Siegel at Forbes on “Finally” Making the United States a “Scientific Nation”
October 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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(Reformed) New Scientist Takes Horizontal Gene Transfer Seriously
October 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Researcher: We Need a New Theory of Everything, One With No “Things”
October 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Why Do Many Scientists See Cells As Intelligent?
October 7, 2020 Mind Matters
Bacteria appear to show intelligent behavior. But what about individual cells in our bodies?
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Earth grows fine gems in minutes
October 6, 2020 Science Daily
Crystals could grow up to a yard per day in some cooling magmas
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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for black hole discoveries
October 6, 2020 CNN
that revealed the ‘darkest secrets of the universe'
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Exploring the ‘Evidence for Evolution’ … in 1970
October 6, 2020 Creation Ministries International
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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Black Holes
October 6, 2020 New York Times
The prize was awarded half to Roger Penrose for showing how black holes could form and half to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering a supermassive object at the Milky Way’s center.
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Evolution: Shifts in mating preference
October 6, 2020 Science Daily
In their efforts to identify the genetic basis for differences in mate choice that keep two co-existing species of butterfly separate, evolutionary biologists have identified candidate genes associated with divergence in visual mating preferences.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2020: Discoveries about black holes
October 6, 2020 Science Daily
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded ‘for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity' and ‘for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.'
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The search for the origin of life: From panspermia to primordial soup
October 6, 2020 New Scientist
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We need a new Theory of Everything
October 6, 2020 medium.com
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Is America Finally Ready To Become a Scientific Nation?
October 6, 2020 Forbes
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The Molecular Biologist Who Exposed the Soviet Union
October 6, 2020 The Atlantic
Jacques Monod saw chance as one of the “secrets of life,” an idea he used to tear down all sorts of dogmas.
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‘Prince of panspermia’ has a paper retracted, and sues Springer Nature
October 6, 2020 Retraction Watch
A neuroscientist has lost a 2019 paper claiming that Venus may hold life seeded from Earth.
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T. Rex Skeleton Brings $31.8 Million at Christie’s Auction
October 6, 2020 New York Times
A 40-foot-long dinosaur fossil named Stan was the headliner at an auction of Impressionist and Modern art worth more than $300 million.
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New study rebuts 75-year-old belief in reptile evolution
October 6, 2020 Science Daily
a better understand of the evolution of these cold-blooded vertebrates contradicts a widely held theory that major transitions in evolution always happened in big, quick (geologically speaking) bursts, triggered by major environmental shifts
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Toothless dino's lost digits point to spread of parrot-like species
October 6, 2020 Science Daily
A newly discovered species of toothless, two-fingered dinosaur has shed light on how a group of parrot-like animals thrived more than 68 million years ago.
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Evolution of the Y chromosome in great apes deciphered
October 6, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers reconstruct the ancestral great ape Y and show its rapid evolution in bonobo and chimpanzee
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Cambrian Explosion May Have Involved New Genes
October 6, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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End of Tenure Forecast. What About Academic Freedom?
October 6, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Why Nature needs to cover politics now more than ever
October 6, 2020 Nature
Science and politics are inseparable -- and Nature will be publishing more politics news, comment and primary research in the coming weeks and months.
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Free Speech for Richard Dawkins? Absolutely!
October 6, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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6,500-year-old copper workshop uncovered in the Negev Desert's Beer Sheva
October 5, 2020 Science Daily
Copper-producing tech was likely a closely guarded secret
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Pigeons Can Solve the Monty Hall Problem. But Can You?
October 5, 2020 Mind Matters
The dilemma pits human folk intuition against actual probability theory, with surprising results
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How Trump damaged science -- and why it could take decades to recover
October 5, 2020 Nature
The US president’s actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and undermined science and scientific institutions.
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Early Humans Were Using Fire 300,000 Years Ago to Forge Superior Stone Tools
October 5, 2020 Gizmodo
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Neuroscientists discover a molecular mechanism that allows memories to form
October 5, 2020 MIT News
Modifications to chromosomes in “engram” neurons control the encoding and retrieval of memories.
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A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection
October 5, 2020 Vice
Professors are starting to orient Charles Darwin within a rich history of people from all cultures who have grappled with the mechanisms of life.
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Shattering expectations: Novel seed dispersal gene found in green millet
October 5, 2020 Science Daily
Road trips result in the first shattering gene found in a wild population
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How malaria parasites withstand a fever's heat
October 5, 2020 Science Daily
Findings could lead to ways to maximize our existing antimalarial arsenal