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• How Worms Avoid Eating Bad Bacteria and Warn Their Offspring Too

  December 12, 2019 Jef Akst The Scientist

  A small RNA in Pseudomonas triggers an avoidance response in C. elegans that can be passed on to the next generation, according to research presented at this week’s meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.

• Come to Think of It, There Is No Necessary Relationship Between Atheism and Darwinism

  December 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• At Nature: Is 44 Kya Indonesian Rock Painting the Oldest Mythological Art?

  December 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Human Ancestors May Have Evolved the Physical Ability to Speak More Than 25 Million Years Ago

  December 11, 2019 Brian Handwerk Smithsonian Magazine

  Though when primates developed the cognitive abilities for language remains a mystery

• The Startling Secret of an Invincible Virus

  December 11, 2019 Ed Yong The Atlantic

  A phage that resists all forms of the antiviral defense known as CRISPR has an unusual means of survival.

• 10 Years Ago, DNA Tests Were the Future of Medicine. Now They’re a Social Network

  December 11, 2019 Peter Aldhous BuzzFeed News

  We were offered personalized medicine. Instead, we got Facebook for our DNA.

• Who do you think you are? Why your sense of self is an illusion

  December 11, 2019 Catherine de Lange New Scientist

  Most of us are convinced that we're coherent individuals who are continuous in time. There's just one problem with this sense of self -- it can’t exist

• Is this cave painting humanity’s oldest story?

  December 11, 2019 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Indonesian rock art dated to 44,000 years old seems to show mythological figures in a hunting scene.

• News Update/Commentary

  Paleontology: Experiments in evolution

  December 11, 2019 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Science Daily

  A new find from Patagonia sheds light on the evolution of large predatory dinosaurs. Features of the 8-m long specimen from the Middle Jurassic suggest that it records a phase of rapid diversification and evolutionary experimentation.

• News Update/Commentary

  A new early whale, Aegicetus gehennae, and the evolution of modern whale locomotion

  December 11, 2019 Public Library of Science Science Daily

  New whale represents an intermediate stage between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming

• A Glimpse at One Facet of Post-Science Physics

  December 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• D’oh! Why human beings aren’t as intelligent as we think

  December 11, 2019 Alison George New Scientist

  Human attempts to define intelligence are largely motivated by a desire to prove we have more of it -- but a look at the world around us suggests a different story

• News Update/Commentary

  Single-cell analysis of the earliest cell fate decisions in development

  December 11, 2019 Babraham Institute Science Daily

  Multi-omics analysis of the process establishing the mammalian body plan

• A Fishy Study Posits That Pesticides Can Travel Back in Time

  December 11, 2019 Henry I. Miller Issues & Insights

• Alien life could be weirder than our Earthling brains can ever imagine

  December 11, 2019 Leah Crane New Scientist

  Our conceptions of alien life are based on a sample of one: Earth’s life. That means even our wildest imaginings are likely to be completely off beam

• Why it’s time to call time on the ‘nature vs nurture’ debate

  December 11, 2019 Tiffany O'Callaghan New Scientist

  How much of our make-up is predetermined by our genes, and how much by our environment? The truth is that we're asking entirely the wrong question

• News Update/Commentary

  Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction

  December 11, 2019 Northwestern University Science Daily

  Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impact

• Predatory journals: no definition, no defence

  December 11, 2019 Agnes Grudniewicz, et al. Nature

  Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach.

• When it comes to good practice in science, we need to think global but act local

  December 11, 2019 Nature

  International codes of conduct are important, but grass-roots efforts are the key to embedding research integrity.

• In the quantum world, uncertainty reigns -- or is it all in the mind?

  December 11, 2019 Daniel Cossins New Scientist

  Schrödinger's dead-and-alive cat embodies the uncertainty of the quantum world. But whether parallel realities truly exist is a question less of science than belief

• Think you understand how evolution works? You're probably wrong

  December 11, 2019 Graham Lawton New Scientist

  A common misconception is that evolution naturally selects for biological complexity, eventually creating advanced organisms like us. That couldn't be further from the truth

• Are the Laws of the Universe “Inevitable”?

  December 11, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today

• At The Scientist: The Epigenetic Couch Potato Mouse Debuts

  December 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• When flowers reached Australia

  December 11, 2019 contact: Lito Vilisoni Wilson University of Melbourne

• How do machines think?

  December 11, 2019 Philip Ball New Statesman America

  We have built AI systems that can do everything from diagnose our illnesses to drive our cars. But how can we trust them if we don’t understand them?

• We're beginning to question the idea of species -- including our own

  December 11, 2019 Kate Douglas New Scientist

  Are you a human, or a human-Neanderthal hybrid? The concept of the species, one of the most basic in biology, may not be as well-defined as we think

• Big bang retold: The weird twists in the story of the universe's birth

  December 11, 2019 Daniel Cossins New Scientist

  It certainly wasn’t big, and probably didn’t bang -- and the surprises in the conventional story of the universe's origins don’t end there

• News Update/Commentary

  Azteca ant colonies move the same way leopards' spots form

  December 11, 2019 University of Michigan Science Daily

  What could Azteca ants in coffee farms in Mexico have in common with leopards' spots and zebras' stripes?

• Why Were Tourists Allowed to Visit an Active New Zealand Volcano?

  December 10, 2019 Jamie Tarabay and Damien Cave New York Times

  Visitors were allowed to tour the mouth of the White Island volcano despite recent warnings about bursts of gas and steam.

• Oxygen shaped the evolution of the eye

  December 10, 2019 Aarhus University EurekAlert!

  Convergent origins of new mechanisms to supply oxygen to the retina were directly linked to concurrent enhancements in the functional anatomy of the eye.

• ‘Missing link' penguin fossil shows how they evolved after dinosaurs went extinct

  December 10, 2019 Ashley Strickland CNN

• Happy 6ft: ancient penguins were as tall as people

  December 10, 2019 Jacob Blokland The Conversation

  We’ve discovered the species that started the downsizing trend

• Brainwashing Kids with Space Aliens

  December 10, 2019 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Evolutionists are prepping children for a global deception.

• Neanderthal Extinction Dilemma

  December 10, 2019 Brian Thomas Institute for Creation Research

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  Why the laws of nature are not inevitable, never have been, and never will be.

  December 10, 2019 Sabine Hossenfelder backreaction.blogspot.com

• KU Leuven Investigates Whether Stem Cell Scientist Falsified Data

  December 10, 2019 Catherine Offord The Scientist

  Papers from Catherine Verfaillie’s lab have been drawing fire for years.

• News Update/Commentary

  Genetic brain disorder fixed in mice using precision epigenome editing

  December 10, 2019 Johns Hopkins Medicine Science Daily

  Using a targeted gene epigenome editing approach in the developing mouse brain, researchers reversed one gene mutation that leads to the genetic disorder WAGR syndrome, which causes intellectual disability and obesity in people.

• Why is Earth so rich in oxygen? The answer is simpler than we thought

  December 10, 2019 Michael Marshall New Scientist

• Jonathan Wells Was Right: Non-coding DNA Continues to Show Function

  December 10, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today

• Suzan Mazur: Richard Dawkins Heads for Mekong River in Viet Nam

  December 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• DNA recovered from Arctic lakes holds clues for our future world

  December 10, 2019 Paul Voosen Science

  CF8, a 40-hectare lake on Baffin Island in Canada, holds a DNA record of the surrounding ecosystem that may go back 125,000 years.

• State of shock: 200-year-old law about gas mixtures called into question

  December 9, 2019 Kim Delker University of New Mexico

  According to a new study, centuries-old laws about the behavior of gas mixtures do not apply in the presence of shock waves.

• We finally know how whole planets grow from tiny clumps of dust

  December 9, 2019 Leah Crane New Scientist

• News Update/Commentary

  How planets may form after dust sticks together

  December 9, 2019 Rutgers University Science Daily

  Scientists may have figured out the origins of planets

• News Update/Commentary

  Wing genes responsible for tiny treehopper's extraordinary helmet

  December 9, 2019 University of Connecticut Science Daily

  Why the treehopper developed the enlarged, three-dimensional hood ornament that distinguishes it from the rest of the insect world remains a mystery to scientists

• Whales, Bees, and Viruses: Intelligent Design from Biggest to Smallest

  December 9, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today

• The human hand in fish evolution

  December 9, 2019 Tim Vernimmen knowable magazine

  Fishery practices that go for the big ones may be counterproductive when mostly the small survive

• When penguins ruled after dinosaurs died

  December 9, 2019 Flinders University phys.org

• Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable

  December 9, 2019 Natalie Wolchover Quanta Magazine

  By considering simple symmetries, physicists working on the “bootstrap” have rederived the four known forces. “There’s just no freedom in the laws of physics,” said one.

• At Scientific American: Another Whoop for the Multiverse

  December 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent