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Physicist Loses Bet with Science Writer: No Nobel for String Theory by 2020
October 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Are Some Galaxies More Hospitable to Life Than Others?
October 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Is the Search for Dark Matter an Act of Faith?
October 10, 2019 nautil.us
In an underground laboratory, the talk turns to religion.
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Genetic Literacy Project: Most Epigenetic Changes Not Passed on to Offspring
October 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Michael Egnor: The Nobels This Year Were Another Win for Design in Nature
October 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Newspaper Article
What Was Kept in This Stone Age Meat Locker? Bone Marrow
October 9, 2019 New York Times
In an Israeli cave, paleontologists unearthed what may be the earliest example of humans storing food for later consumption.
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An Eye for Every Occasion
October 9, 2019 Answers in Genesis
Don’t look now, but you’re being watched by an amazing variety of magnificent eyes.
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News Update/Commentary
Chemical evolution -- One-pot wonder
October 9, 2019 Science Daily
Before life, there was RNA: Scientists show how the four different letters of this genetic alphabet could be created from simple precursor molecules on early Earth -- under the same environmental conditions.
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News Update/Commentary
New cancer-driving mutation in ‘dark matter' of the cancer genome
October 9, 2019 Science Daily
Change in just one letter of DNA code in a gene conserved through generations of evolution can cause multiple types of cancer
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News Update/Commentary
Humans have salamander-like ability to regrow cartilage in joints
October 9, 2019 Science Daily
The process could be harnessed as a treatment for osteoarthritis
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Physics Nobel Prize Invites Snark from the Anti-ID Peanut Gallery
October 9, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Prehistoric humans ate bone marrow like canned soup 400,000 years ago
October 9, 2019 Science Daily
Bone and skin preserved the nutritious marrow for later consumption
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A Darwin Snark for a New Nobelist
October 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Big Data Shows Math Laws That Underlie Life’s Unity
October 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Early Humans Lived in a Different Ecosystem, Researchers Say
October 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Idiotic Environmental Predictions
October 9, 2019 Daily Signal
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Humans Have Salamander-Like Ability to Regrow Cartilage in Joints
October 8, 2019 Duke Health
The process could be harnessed as a treatment for osteoarthritis
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4 things to know about epigenetics, including that most changes are not passed on to offspring
October 8, 2019 Genetic Literacy Project
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Pigs observed using tools for the first time
October 8, 2019 phys.org
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Fast evolution explains the tiny stature of extinct ‘Hobbit’ from Flores Island
October 8, 2019 The Conversation
It’s not every day that scientists discover a new human species.
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String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Bet
October 8, 2019 Scientific American
Science writer John Horgan wins a 2002 bet with physicist Michio Kaku that by 2020 no unified theory of physics will win a Nobel Prize
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How science has shifted our sense of identity
October 8, 2019 Nature
Biological advances have repeatedly changed who we think we are, writes Nathaniel Comfort, in the third essay of a series marking Nature’s anniversary on how the past 150 years have shaped science today.
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Brilliant and Beautiful, but Wrong
October 8, 2019 Detecting Design
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News Update/Commentary
Genes play a role in dog breed differences in behavior
October 8, 2019 Science Daily
Border collies are highly trainable, greyhounds love to chase, and German shepherds make good guard dogs. While the environment plays a role, traits like these are highly heritable, according to a study of 101 dog breeds.
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Berlinski Banters Entertainingly with ID-Friendly Muslims
October 8, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Stick Insects’ “Remarkable Camouflage” Postdates Mammals and Birds
October 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Horizontal Gene Transfer: Cholera Bacterium Steals 150 Genes at Once
October 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Sabine Hossenfelder on the Future of Particle Physics
October 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Giant Molecules Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment
October 8, 2019 Scientific American
The new study demonstrates a bizarre quantum effect at never-before-seen scales
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Blog Post
Turkana Boy Hurts Evolutionary Narratives
October 8, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists cannot conclude even basic information from the most complete human skeleton ever found
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These are the deepest and largest man-made holes in the world
October 7, 2019 Business Insider
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News Update/Commentary
Big data reveals extraordinary unity underlying life's diversity
October 7, 2019 Science Daily
Limits to growth lie at the heart of how all living things function. The diversity of life is staggering. From microscopic algae to elephants, life has devised countless ways to thrive in every environment on the planet.
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News Update/Commentary
Early humans evolved in ecosystems unlike any found today
October 7, 2019 Science Daily
Because putting together the puzzle of millions-of-years-old ecosystems is a difficult task, many studies draw analogies with present-day African ecosystems, such as the Serengeti. A new study calls into question such approaches
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Which Galaxies are Best Suited for the Evolution of Alien Life?
October 7, 2019 Discover magazine
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What does the future hold for particle physics?
October 7, 2019 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Blog Post
Looking at Miracles Again: A Great New Book on David Hume
October 7, 2019 michaeljkruger.com
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But is it science?
October 7, 2019 Aeon
Theoretical physicists who say the multiverse exists set a dangerous precedent: science based on zero empirical evidence
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Glycans May Bind to RNA, Initial Findings Suggest
October 7, 2019 The Scientist
This is the first time sugars have been found connected to RNA molecules, suggesting a new role for RNA.
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Can We Engineer Consciousness in a Robot?
October 7, 2019 Mind Matters
One neuroscientist thinks we need only “simple guidelines.” His underlying assumptions are just wrong
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Worming Evolution into the Cambrian Explosion
October 7, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Was early stick insect evolution triggered by birds and mammals?
October 7, 2019 Science Daily
Stick and leaf insects are a strikingly bizarre group of insects with a worldwide distribution.
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News Update/Commentary
Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing
October 7, 2019 Science Daily
Criticality is a hallmark of normally functioning neural networks in the intact brain
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How the colon prioritizes gas detox over energy use
October 7, 2019 Science Daily
Smelly flatulence is one way our bodies manage our well-being. It turns out expelling noxious gas takes priority in our guts.
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The cholera bacterium can steal up to 150 genes in one go
October 7, 2019 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered that predatory bacteria like the cholera pathogen can steal up to 150 genes in one go from their neighbors. The study sheds light on one of the most fundamental mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer.
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News Update/Commentary
Genome-edited bull passes on hornless trait to calves
October 7, 2019 Science Daily
Study sheds light on future of genome editing in livestock
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Multiverse Is Science Based on Zero Evidence, Science Writer Complains
October 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Once Upon a Time, Venus (Might Have) Had Life, Say Researchers
October 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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SETI Aims to Become More “Respectable”
October 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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The War on Math Continues
October 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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An Oxford Neuroscientist Explains Mind vs. Brain
October 6, 2019 Mind Matters
Sharon Dirckx explains the fallacies of materialism and the logical and scientific strengths of dualism