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At New Scientist: Our Puny Human Brains Can’t Imagine Alien Life
December 21, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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One of the Biggest Science Stories of the Last Decade: The Descent of Man Gets Crowdsourced
December 21, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Head of ancient-DNA lab sacked for ‘serious misconduct’
December 20, 2019 Nature
Alan Cooper was dismissed as the leader of a prestigious genomics centre, following an investigation.
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What does it mean to be human?
December 20, 2019 Cosmos Magazine
Biomedical law experts say changing technology may require a less stringent definition.
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The Science News that Shaped 2019
December 20, 2019 The Scientist
A T cell discovery, “hachimoji” DNA, a new species of human, and mounting fears of espionage rounded off the list this year.
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Ignoring the Opposition: How Big Science Descends into Groupthink
December 20, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Big Science assumes you will be assimilated. Don’t even think about disagreeing. You have no voice. You don’t exist.
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Yes, Consciousness Is Real But That's Not the Half of It
December 20, 2019 Mind Matters
Philosopher Massimo Pigliucci ends up skating deftly around the main problems
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World's oldest fossil forest, 385 million years old, uncovered in New York, study says
December 20, 2019 USA Today
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The world's oldest known fossil forest has been discovered in a quarry in upper New York state
December 20, 2019 CNN
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Scientists may have discovered world's oldest forest
December 20, 2019 news24
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This Is the World’s Oldest Forest That Might Have Some Links to Climate Change
December 20, 2019 Mashable
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This Ancient “Giant Spider” Fossil Surprised Paleontologists -- Detective Work Revealed a Hoax
December 20, 2019 SciTech Daily
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Conference on Engineering in Living Systems: Application Process is Open Now
December 20, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Claim: The Tree of Life May Have Only Two Major Branches
December 20, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Breaches in the Wall: Reviewing a Year in the Life of Intelligent Design
December 20, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Chipping Away at the Millions of Habitable Exoplanets…
December 20, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Legal Activism As One of the Threats to Science
December 20, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Molybdenum Is Stored in Cells by a Powered Piercing Machine
December 20, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers: Homo Erectus Survived Longer Than Thought
December 19, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Exchanging One Myth for Another
December 19, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists gleefully chuckle at one ethnic myth only to replace it with a more incredible one.
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Why We Don't Think Like Computers
December 19, 2019 Mind Matters
If we thought like computers, we would repeat package directions over and over again unless someone told us to stop
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Mid-Devonian Archaeopteris Roots Signal Revolutionary Change in Earliest Fossil Forests
December 19, 2019 Current Biology
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Modern trees emerged earlier than previously believed, new research reveals
December 19, 2019 EurekAlert!
Scientists discover 385-million-year-old forest
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Scientists Unearth World’s Oldest Forest in a New York Quarry
December 19, 2019 IFL Science
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Mars Bugs and Intelligent Design -- On a Collision Course?
December 19, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers determine age for last known settlement by a direct ancestor to modern humans
December 18, 2019 University of Iowa
Homo erectus, one of modern humans’ direct ancestors, was a wandering bunch.
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Reanalyzed Fossils Could Be Last Known Homo erectus Specimens
December 18, 2019 The Scientist
A mass death event claimed the hominins’ lives and likely resulted from changing environmental conditions.
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Homo erectus lived recently enough that it may have met Denisovans
December 18, 2019 New Scientist
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Homo erectus: Ancient humans survived longer than we thought
December 18, 2019 BBC News
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News Update/Commentary
Grain traits traced to ‘dark matter' of rice genome
December 18, 2019 Science Daily
Research finds that a sizeable amount of domestication-related changes in rice reflects selection on traits that are determined by a portion of the genome that does not transcribe proteins.
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The Salem Hypothesis Is True, and That’s Great for ID
December 18, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Last appearance of Homo erectus at Ngandong, Java, 117,000–108,000 years ago
December 18, 2019 Nature
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Advance the Tipping Point: End-of-Year Video Message from Stephen Meyer
December 18, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book
The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies wins Physics World Book of the Year 2019
December 18, 2019 Physics World
The winner of the 2019 Physics World Book of the Year tackles the complex and ever-evolving subject of the emergence of life, the universe and everything | See Also Amazon
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Activist-Legal Complex Will Destroy American Science and Industry
December 17, 2019 American Council on Science and Health
American science and industry are under threat by this complex, known to be an unholy alliance of activists and trial lawyers who deploy various pseudoscientific tricks to score multibillion-dollar lawsuits against large companies.
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News Update/Commentary
How immune cells switch to attack mode
December 17, 2019 Science Daily
Macrophages have 2 faces: In healthy tissue, they perform important tasks and support their environment. However during an infection, they stop this work and hunt down the pathogens instead.
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The tree of life may have only two major branches once again
December 17, 2019 ars technica
New analyses strongly suggest that all complex cells are a subset of archaea.
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No Dark Energy? No Chance, Cosmologists Contend
December 17, 2019 Quanta Magazine
A study challenged the evidence for the mysterious antigravitational force known as dark energy. Then cosmologists shot back.
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Y-Chromosome Study Confirms Genesis Flood Timeline
December 17, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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For Christmas, Make New Discoveries with Books from Discovery Institute Scientists and Scholars
December 17, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Taking Stock at Year’s End
December 17, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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At New Scientist: Human Intelligence Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
December 17, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Supercomputer model simulations reveal cause of Neanderthal extinction
December 17, 2019 Institute for Basic Science (Korea)
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Koalas and apes have evolved similar ways of walking in trees
December 17, 2019 New Scientist
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Brainwashed -- For Your Own Good
December 17, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor Explains Why New Atheism Was Doomed To Die Young
December 17, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists Are Searching for a Mysterious Force to Explain the Universe’s Anomalies
December 16, 2019 Motherboard: Tech by Vice
Teams have looked for a “fifth force" in the universe within the Earth's mantle, ultra-vacuum chambers, and in hypothetical particles such as “X17." Finding it could help explain mysteries around dark matter and dark energy.
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil shells reveal both global mercury contamination and warming when dinosaurs perished
December 16, 2019 Science Daily
The impact of an asteroid or comet is acknowledged as the principal cause of the mass extinction that killed off most dinosaurs and about three-quarters of the planet's plant and animal species 66 million years ago.
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The Ultimate Recycler
December 16, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
The path we didn’t take
December 16, 2019 backreaction.blogspot.com