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At National Review: There Is No “Party of Science”
February 16, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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How to Make the Study of Consciousness Scientifically Tractable
February 16, 2020 Scientific American
We need to reexamine the idea of “objectivity” in research
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News Update/Commentary
New technologies, strategies expanding search for extraterrestrial life
February 15, 2020 Science Daily
New efforts provide additional avenues for discovery
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Tiny 2-billion-year-old fossil blobs may be the oldest complex cells
February 15, 2020 New Scientist
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No, Those Fast Radio Bursts Are Not Aliens
February 15, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Reformers of Evolutionary Biology Publish Book of Essays, Exploring Views, Disagreements
February 15, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Was Sagan Wrong About “Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence”? UPDATED!
February 15, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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How did dinosaur parents know when their kids had a fever?
February 14, 2020 phys.org
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A defense of the binary in human sex
February 14, 2020 Why Evolution Is True
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The Repeating Signals From Deep Space Are Extremely Unlikely to Be Aliens. Here's Why
February 14, 2020 Science Alert
There are many things in the Universe we are yet to understand. It's a big old machine just churning out mysteries
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There Is No ‘Party of Science’
February 14, 2020 National Review
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75-million-year old eggshells suggest most dinosaurs were warm-blooded
February 14, 2020 New Scientist
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Great ape brains have a feature that we thought was unique to humans
February 14, 2020 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Unique reproductive trait for seagrass
February 14, 2020 Science Daily
Wing interacts with currents to hold seed in place for rooting
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News Update/Commentary
Computer simulations visualize how DNA converts cells into stem cells
February 14, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers have revealed how an essential protein helps to activate genomic DNA during the conversion of regular adult human cells into stem cells.
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News Update/Commentary
Deconstructing Schrödinger's cat
February 14, 2020 Science Daily
Many physicists have attempted to explain the problem of quantum superposition, as exemplified by Schrödinger's cat. Now a French theoretical physicist proposes a novel possible solution, which combines two different approaches
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Were All Dinosaurs Warmblooded?
February 14, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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In the “Mathematical Glory” of the Universe, Physicist Discovered the “Truly Divine”
February 14, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Bee from 100 Million Years Ago
February 14, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Fossil Eggshells Suggest All Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded
February 14, 2020 Discover magazine
New analysis reveals body temps in same range as modern birds.
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Berkeley Lab Helps Reveal How Dinosaur Blood Vessels Can Preserve Through the Ages
February 14, 2020 News Wise
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What? A Skeptical View of RNA World? The Five-Star Hotel of Origin of Life Theories?
February 14, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Artificial intelligence finds disease-related genes
February 13, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists hope that the new method can eventually be applied within precision medicine and individualized treatment.
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Car-sized turtle fossils unearthed
February 13, 2020 BBC
Fossils of a turtle the size of a car have been unearthed in what is now northern South America.
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Love: is it just a fleeting high fuelled by brain chemicals?
February 13, 2020 The Conversation
I am head over heels in love but my cynical friends keep telling me that love is nothing but a cocktail of pheromones, dopamine and oxytocin, and that these wear off after a couple of years. The thought scares me, it makes the whole thing seem meaningless
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News Update/Commentary
Boom and bust for ancient sea dragons
February 13, 2020 Science Daily
Large fish-like marine reptiles, the ichthyosaurs, had an early heyday but could not keep up the pace
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Evolution Canyon: A Galapagos in Israel
February 13, 2020 Real Clear Science
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Teilhard de Chardin and the Incomplete Nature of Evolutionary Theory
February 13, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mysterious Object Beyond Pluto Could Help Explain How Our Solar System Formed
February 13, 2020 Gizmodo
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Embryonic ‘Clocks' Mimic Human Construction Schedules
February 13, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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If Only Darwinism Were Usually This Kind of Charming Nonsense
February 13, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Fossils: Where’s the Evolution?
February 13, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Animals larger than today’s, appearing earlier than thought -- how does that help Darwin’s narrative?
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Anyone Remember Psychologist Hans Eysenck? There’s Now a Retraction Frenzy on His Papers
February 13, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Here’s a Question That New Ambigram Viruses Raise
February 13, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Ghost DNA Hints at Africa’s Missing Ancient Humans
February 12, 2020 New York Times
Genes in some living West Africans shed light on human genetic diversity, which has been difficult to find in the continent’s fossil record.
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The Cancer Industry: Hype vs. Reality
February 12, 2020 Scientific American
Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients
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World’s largest cave fish discovered in India
February 12, 2020 National Geographic
Likely a new species still in the process of evolving and losing its eyes, the Indian animal is 10 times heavier than any known cave fish.
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‘Ghost' DNA in West Africans Complicates Story of Human Origins
February 12, 2020 National Public Radio
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Flaws in the RNA world
February 12, 2020 Chemistry World
Self-replicating RNA may lack the fidelity needed to originate life
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Carnivorous Plants
February 12, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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New Clues About ‘Ambigram’ Viruses with Strange Reversible Genes
February 12, 2020 Quanta Magazine
For decades, scientists have been intrigued by tiny viruses whose genetic material can be read both forward and backward. New research begins to explain this puzzling property.
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Early humans in Africa may have interbred with a mysterious, extinct species -- new research
February 12, 2020 The Conversation
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DNA analysis of people in West Africa reveals ‘ghost' human ancestor
February 12, 2020 New Scientist
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Darwin Day Is Fizzling
February 12, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Certain advocacy sites are busy, but Darwin Day seems to be falling off the radar of major news outlets and journals.
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Huge bacteria-eating viruses close gap between life and non-life
February 12, 2020 Science Daily
Large bacteriophages carry bacterial genes, including CRISPR and ribosomal proteins
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Researchers stimulate areas vital to consciousness in monkeys' brains -- and it wakes them up
February 12, 2020 Science Daily
One of the central questions in neuroscience is clarifying where in the brain consciousness, which is the ability to experience internal and external sensations, arises.
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Color-changing amphibians: Lane change in the cytoskeleton
February 12, 2020 Science Daily
Transport proteins can switch between microtubule network and actin network
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News Update/Commentary
Mental illness: Special form of RNA in brain
February 12, 2020 Science Daily
Circular RNA may play a role in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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Say Happy Birthday to Charles Darwin
February 12, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin Day Is Here! Discover the Cell’s Secrets with Michael Behe
February 12, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today