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Major error undermines study suggesting change introduced in the CRISPR babies experiment shortens lives
September 27, 2019 statnews.com
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Orangutan with human rights to begin new life in Florida
September 27, 2019 BBC News
An orangutan which spent 20 years in an Argentine zoo is being moved to a US animal sanctuary after being granted the same legal rights as humans.
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News Update/Commentary
Life's building blocks may have formed in interstellar clouds
September 27, 2019 Science Daily
An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life -- nucleobases -- could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the stars.
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“Who Designed the Designer?”: Egnor Addresses a Perennial Challenge
September 27, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Michael Egnor Gets Mail from Jerry Coyne
September 27, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Science Organizations Continue to Reel from Jeffrey Epstein “Bombshells”
September 27, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Nature Has Retracted a Major Oceans Warming Paper, After Ten Months of Mass Freakouts
September 27, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Stromatolites from 3.5 Bya Really ARE Microbial Life, Say Researchers
September 27, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Insight into Competitive Advantage of Modern Humans over Neanderthals
September 27, 2019 Tohoku University
A team of Japanese and Italian researchers, including from Tohoku University, have evidenced mechanically delivered projectile weapons in Europe dating to 45,000-40,000 years -- more than 20,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The earliest evidence for mechanically delivered projectile weapons in Europe
September 26, 2019 Nature Ecology & Evolution, v.3, p.1409-1414
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Scientists Still Don't Really Know What Causes Acne
September 26, 2019 Gizmodo
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Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong
September 26, 2019 Vice
"I think there is a non-zero chance that some of our great castles are built on sand," he said, arguing that we must begin to rely on AI to verify proofs.
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The consciousness illusion
September 26, 2019 Aeon
Phenomenal consciousness is a fiction written by our brains to help us track the impact that the world makes on us
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Consciousness Doesn’t Depend on Language
September 26, 2019 nautil.us
We share the basic experience of life with all mammals.
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Cause of antibiotic resistance identified
September 26, 2019 phys.org
Scientists have confirmed for the first time that bacteria can change form to avoid being detected by antibiotics in the human body.
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Did Consciousness Evolve to Find Love?
September 26, 2019 Mind Matters
It’s an attractive idea but it comes with a hidden price tag
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Harvard Research Supports Innate Adaptive Mechanisms
September 26, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Arsenic-Resistant Nematodes Found in Mono Lake
September 26, 2019 The Scientist
Researchers recovered eight species from the salty, alkaline environment -- increasing the known biodiversity of animals in the California lake five-fold.
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Blog Post
Meaning of Beauty Explained in Beautiful New Illustra Film
September 26, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Why is there beauty in the living world? We all recognize it. The implications take center stage in the design-vs-Darwin debate. | See Also Illustra Media
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News Update/Commentary
How a protein connecting calcium and plant hormone regulates plant growth
September 26, 2019 Science Daily
A new study finds that a unique mechanism involving calcium, the plant hormone auxin and a calcium-binding protein is responsible for regulating plant growth.
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News Update/Commentary
Natural selection alters genes that control roundworms' sense of smell
September 26, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have produced some of the first evidence that shows that artificial selection and natural selection act on the same genes, a hypothesis predicted by Charles Darwin in 1859.
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News Update/Commentary
Earliest signs of life: Scientists find microbial remains in ancient rocks
September 26, 2019 Science Daily
Western Australia's famous 3.5-billion-year-old stromatolites contain microbial remains of some of the earliest life on Earth, scientists have found.
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News Update/Commentary
Viruses as modulators of interactions in marine ecosystems
September 26, 2019 Science Daily
GEOMAR scientists show a new picture of the role of viruses in the ocean
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If Darwinian Biologist Jerry Coyne Hadn’t Existed, We Would Have Had to Invent Him
September 26, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Jerry Coyne on Our “Divinity Sense Organs”
September 26, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Editorial: Physics and Life
September 26, 2019 Physical Review Letters
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Even Bird Droppings Can Confute Science Expectations
September 26, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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An ID Guy Writes to Ask Us Why This New Paper ISN’T ID…
September 26, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Outgrowing Facts: Inaccuracies in Richard Dawkins' new book
September 26, 2019 The Good Book (UK)
Richard Dawkins was asked by journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy in an interview recently, “If you could change the world, how would you change it?” His answer was that he would rid us of “anything that’s not evidence based, ..."
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Why are there so many creationists?
September 25, 2019 BBC
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Does a Religious Upbringing Promote Generosity or Not?
September 25, 2019 Psychology Today
An erroneous paper on religion and generosity is finally retracted.
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Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral
September 25, 2019 New Scientist
Our survival instinct should undercut morality -- but our mammalian brains pulled off an amazing evolutionary trick, says neurophilosopher
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Blog Post
Genomics Shows Evolutionary Theory Is Baseless
September 25, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
New study reveals evolution does not have a weak foundation: It has NO foundation.
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Genetic Deep Dive Helps Explain How Whales Evolved to Become Aquatic
September 25, 2019 Discover magazine
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An Evaluation of Astronomical Young-Age Determination Methods I: The Solar System
September 25, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Did Consciousness “Evolve"?
September 25, 2019 Mind Matters
One neuroscientist doesn’t seem to understand the problems the idea raises
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Apocalypse Now -- More Things Scientists Would Like You to Forget
September 25, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book
Bill Bryson's new book celebrates the miraculous human body
September 25, 2019 New Scientist
Forget disease and frailty. The new book, The Body: A guide for occupants, is a hymn to the way the things inside us just work without us telling them to | See Also Amazon
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Book
More of Dawkins’ same old tired rhetoric
September 24, 2019 Creation Ministries International
Review of Outgrowing God by Richard Dawkins | See Also Amazon
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Jeffrey Epstein and the Silence of the Scientists
September 24, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Bird droppings defy expectations
September 24, 2019 Science Daily
Prevailing wisdom ranks uric acid as the primary ingredient in bird excrement which is comprised mostly of urine. But according to new research, uric acid can't be the answer. That's because there is no uric acid in excreted bird urine.
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News Update/Commentary
Some parents pass on more mutations to their children than others
September 24, 2019 Science Daily
A new study shows the number of mutations a child has compared to her parents varies dramatically with some people being born with twice as many as others, and that characteristic runs in families.
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News Update/Commentary
What color were fossil animals?
September 24, 2019 Science Daily
Palaeontologists evaluate fossil color reconstruction methods to propose new study framework
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David Goldman on Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy
September 24, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Michael Egnor on Jeffrey Epstein: “Consensus Science” Meant Not Denouncing Him
September 24, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Have We Been Wrong About DNA Bonds All These Years?
September 24, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Canadians See Scientists As Elitists, Distrust Is Growing
September 24, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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DNA is held together by hydrophobic forces
September 23, 2019 Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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Can Free Will Really Be a Scientific Idea?
September 23, 2019 Mind Matters
Yes, if we look at it from the perspective of information theory
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Can Computers Simply Evolve Greater Intelligence?
September 23, 2019 Mind Matters
Maybe it sounds attractive but nature doesn't seem to work quite that way