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Who Really Inherited Darwin’s Legacy? You Might Be Surprised to Learn
February 12, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Jonathan Wells Is Celebrating Darwin Day
February 12, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Fossilized insect from 100 million years ago is oldest record of primitive bee with pollen
February 12, 2020 Science Daily
Beetle parasites clinging to a primitive bee 100 million years ago may have caused the flight error that, while deadly for the insect, is a boon for science today.
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Teen born without left half of her brain is leading a normal life
February 12, 2020 New Scientist
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Your decision-making ability is a superpower physics can't explain
February 12, 2020 New Scientist
In a universe that unthinkingly follows the rules, human agency is an anomaly. Can physics ever make sense of our power to change the physical world at will?
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Everyone Is Bugging Us To Do Something for Darwin Day (Today)
February 12, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Can Science Trust Itself?
February 11, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Disturbing news comes from scientists who like to portray themselves as infallible seekers of the truth.
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Canada’s Newest Tyrannosaur Is Named for a ‘Reaper of Death’
February 11, 2020 New York Times
The specimen is older than T. Rex and other famous members of its family, which could fill in this apex predator’s family tree.
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“Is Popperian Falsification Useful in Biology?”
February 11, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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A huge iceberg just broke off West Antarctica’s most endangered glacier
February 11, 2020 National Geographic
Huge blocks of ice regularly shear away from Antarctica’s ice shelves, but the losses are speeding up.
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Could DAMA's ‘Dark Matter Signal' Simply Be Poorly Analyzed Noise?
February 11, 2020 Forbes
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What Was it Really Like on Early Earth?
February 11, 2020 Air & Space (Smithsonian)
New studies point to the conditions under which life originated on our planet.
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News Update/Commentary
How the malaria parasite grows and multiplies
February 11, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists have made a major breakthrough in understanding how the parasite that causes malaria is able to multiply at such an alarming rate, which could be a vital clue in discovering how it has evolved, and how it can be stopped.
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News Update/Commentary
How some butterflies developed the ability to change their eyespot size
February 11, 2020 Science Daily
A broad, comparative study reveals the evolution of a mechanism that allows a butterfly species to change its wing eyespot size in response to seasonal variations in its natural habitat
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Do Physicalists Believe in Black Holes?
February 11, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Gaining Respectability Again?
February 11, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Twist in the story of volcanism and mass extinctions
February 10, 2020 Science Daily
An emerging scientific consensus is that gases -- in particular carbon gases -- released by volcanic eruptions millions of years ago contributed to some of Earth's greatest mass extinctions. But new research suggests that that's not the entire story.
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A Summer Seminar Grad Tells How Her Life Was Changed
February 10, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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‘Reaper of Death’ tyrannosaur discovered in Canada
February 10, 2020 National Geographic
The scar-faced dinosaur illuminates how T. rex and its relatives became top predators.
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What Scientists Can Learn from Alien Hunters
February 10, 2020 Wired
The history of the search for extraterrestrial life sheds light on the consequences of dismissing fringe perspectives, in science and in other disciplines.
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Top Spider Biologist’s Research Under Fire
February 10, 2020 The Scientist
After the initial announcements of two retractions, scientists have mobilized to interrogate the data in nearly 150 of Jonathan Pruitt’s papers.
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Newly Discovered Tyrannosaur Was Key to the Rise of Giant Meat-Eaters
February 10, 2020 Smithsonian Magazine
A partial skull found in Alberta helps put a timer on when the ‘tyrant lizards’ got big
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Revolutionary cryo-EM is taking over structural biology
February 10, 2020 Nature
The number of protein structures being determined by cryo-electron microscopy is growing at an explosive rate.
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Jupiter is wetter than we thought, which helps explain how it formed
February 10, 2020 New Scientist
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Why Does Mathematics Interpret Reality?
February 10, 2020 Mind Matters
In the latest issue of Communications of the Blyth Institute, Gordon Mullings presents his account of why mathematics and physics are connected
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Unexplainability and Incomprehensibility of AI
February 10, 2020 Mind Matters
In the domain of AI safety, the more accurate the explanation is, the less comprehensible it is
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News Update/Commentary
‘Rule breaking' plants may be climate change survivors
February 10, 2020 Science Daily
Plants that break some of the ‘rules' of ecology by adapting in unconventional ways may have a higher chance of surviving climate change, according to researchers.
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What? A Virus with No Recognizable Genes?
February 10, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Bad News for Plant Origins
February 10, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The Riddle of the Reds (Seaweeds, that is)
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Cancel Culture Comes to Poland
February 10, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Theodore Dalrymple on What Has Happened to The New England Journal of Medicine
February 10, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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From Big Bang to cosmic bounce: an astronomical journey through space and time
February 10, 2020 Nature
A physicist and humanist takes us on a grand tour of all time
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The Big Bang is Probably Not What You Think It Is
February 9, 2020 YouTube
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A Climate Blacklist That Works: “It Should Make Her Unhirable in Academia”
February 9, 2020 Forbes
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Punching Darwin’s Lights Out
February 9, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Story about human sexual dimorphism backfires on Darwin, ricochets onto transgenders.
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At The Conversation: Have Humans Evolved Beyond Nature?
February 9, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Jon Garvey’s New Book Argues That Adam Was One Among Many Early Humans
February 9, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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BioLogos Is Marketing Theistic Evolution and “Consensus Science” to Christian Schools
February 9, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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The Woman Shaking Up the Diamond Industry Finds yet Another Huge Gem
February 8, 2020 The New Yorker
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Are Divergent Series Really an “Invention of the Devil"?
February 8, 2020 Mind Matters
The real villain in the piece is horrendously non-specific concepts of infinity. But that can be fixed
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First Contact? Something in Space is Sending Earth Signals Like Clockwork
February 8, 2020 Sputnik News
Astronomers from around the world have long been fascinated by the mysterious radio signals bombarding our planet from deep in outer space, with some onlookers linking them to a possible extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Philosophers should talk more about climate change. Yes, philosophers.
February 8, 2020 backreaction.blogspot.com
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“Avalanche” of Retractions of Research Papers on Spider Personalities
February 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Cells Have Two Separate Guidance Systems for the Arrangement of Their Cellulose Fibres
February 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers Discover Sophisticated Hospital System for DNA in Cells
February 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Something in Deep Space Is Sending Signals to Earth in Steady 16-Day Cycles
February 7, 2020 Motherboard (Vice)
Scientists have discovered the first fast radio burst that beats at a steady rhythm, and the mysterious repeating signal is coming from the outskirts of another galaxy.
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Earth to Billionaires: Finding Life Is Space’s Final Frontier
February 7, 2020 Wall Street Journal
Evidence is growing for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, and exploration is cheap.
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Rethinking Dark Energy: A Fly in the Cosmic Ointment
February 7, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Scientists discover virus with no recognizable genes
February 7, 2020 Science
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Did pangolins spread the China coronavirus to people?
February 7, 2020 Nature
Genetic sequences of viruses isolated from the scaly animals are 99% similar to that of the circulating virus -- but the work is yet to be formally published.