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The Hot Spring Hypothesis for the Origin of Life and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
May 8, 2019 Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
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True AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines
May 8, 2019 New Scientist
Stories abound of machines that are writing, painting and making music. Are we about to enter the creative singularity?
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My Parents Raised Me to Be a Science Denier, So I Educated Myself
May 8, 2019 leapsmag.com
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New Analysis Debunks Controversial Claim About the Origin of Humanity
May 8, 2019 Gizmodo
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Fast radio bursts: We're finally decoding messages from deep space
May 8, 2019 New Scientist
Strange signals from space called fast radio bursts have confused astronomers for years. A new wave of observations looks set to solve the mystery
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On Book Tour, Marcos Eberlin Sparks Thought About the ID Movement
May 8, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Deadly Japanese earthquake study retracted over false data
May 8, 2019 Nature
The paper is the third study about the 2016 Kuamamoto earthquake to be retracted.
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News Update/Commentary
Creating a global map of the protein shape universe
May 8, 2019 Science Daily
Novel mapping technique opens the door to new insights about functions in the body
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News Update/Commentary
Paper wasps capable of behavior that resembles logical reasoning
May 8, 2019 Science Daily
A new study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the lowly paper wasp.
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News Update/Commentary
Statistical study finds it unlikely South African fossil species is ancestral to humans
May 8, 2019 Science Daily
Paleontologists finds that it is unlikely that a two-million-year-old, apelike fossil from South Africa is a direct ancestor of Homo, the genus to which modern-day humans belong.
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Astronomer Martin Rees Reacts to Suzan Mazur’s Darwin Overthrown
May 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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“Jumping Genes” Threaten the World’s Antibiotics
May 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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At Forbes: Cosmology’s Crisis Is Merely “Manufactured Misunderstandings”
May 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Is Science Broken? Major New Report Outlines Problems in Research
May 7, 2019 Gizmodo
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Cosmology's Only Big Problems Are Manufactured Misunderstandings
May 7, 2019 Forbes
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Can AI Make Us Better Human Beings?
May 7, 2019 Mind Matters
Helping us believe that is a promising new business area for some
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Farewell to John Lukacs: A Great Historian, and an Unequivocal Darwin Doubter
May 7, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Progress in Defining “Being Alive”
May 7, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
New ‘jumping' superbug gene discovered, resistant to last-resort antibiotic
May 7, 2019 Science Daily
While sifting through the bacterial genome of salmonella, food scientists discovered mcr-9, a new stealthy, jumping gene so diabolical and robust that it resists one of the world's few last-resort antibiotics.
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That Day Marcos Eberlin Was Chased Out of Portugal
May 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Did the Sino-Tibetan Language Family Originate Over 7000 Years Ago?
May 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Scallops’ 200 Eyes “Even More Complex” Than Realized
May 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Book
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
May, 2019 Simon & Schuster
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Nature crisis: Humans ‘threaten 1m species with extinction'
May 6, 2019 BBC News
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Global Biodiversity Assessment Reports “Unprecedented” Declines
May 6, 2019 The Scientist
The intergovernmental organization reports “accelerating” species extinctions, with 25 percent of animal and plant species evaluated under threat of extinction.
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Humans are driving one million species to extinction
May 6, 2019 Nature
Landmark United Nations-backed report finds that agriculture is one of the biggest threats to Earth’s ecosystems.
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Marcos Eberlin: Chicken-and-Egg Questions Suffuse Life, Pointing to Intelligent Design
May 6, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
New 3-foot-tall relative of Tyrannosaurus rex
May 6, 2019 Science Daily
'Suskityrannus gives us a glimpse into the evolution of tyrannosaurs just before they take over the planet,' said Sterling Nesbit.
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic adaptation to climate change
May 6, 2019 Uncommon Descent
Failure to account for genetic variation can result in overestimating extinction risk
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Multiple measurements close in on dark energy
May 6, 2019 Cosmos Magazine
A huge collaboration of scientists reports important new findings about the shape of the universe and the mysterious force that shapes it.
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Scientists' Definition of Life Excludes AI, But Includes Embryos
May 6, 2019 Mind Matters
A sophisticated AI machine would certainly be worth a lot of money but it has no more moral worth than a broken toaster
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Can Physics Prove There Is No Free Will?
May 6, 2019 Mind Matters
No, but it can make physicists incoherent when they write about free will
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Newspaper Article
Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace
May 6, 2019 New York Times
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News Update/Commentary
Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family revealed by new research
May 6, 2019 Science Daily
The Sino-Tibetan language family consists of more than 400 languages spoken by around 1.4 billion speakers worldwide, including major world languages like Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese.
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Free Speech on Campus: Considering State and Federal Action
May 6, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers: Rare Ocean Life Forms Breathe Arsenic in Low Oxygen Environments
May 6, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Polar Bear Seminar: New Evidence That Michael Behe Is Right
May 6, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Narwhal Thriving Despite Low Genetic Diversity
May 6, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: What’s INSIDE a Planet Determines Habitability
May 6, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Denisovan Jawbone from 160 Kya Starts to Talk…
May 6, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Bad Evidence
May 5, 2019 The Intercept
Ten Years After a Landmark Study Blew the Whistle on Junk Science, the Fight Over Forensics Rages On
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Did the Neanderthals Have a Cult Going 130,000 Years Ago?
May 5, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon: The Real Reason There Is a Crisis in Cosmology
May 5, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon: That “Sterile Exoplanet Ocean” Paper Is Bunk!
May 5, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Religious Nones: The Bigger Picture Shows Increasing Polarization
May 5, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Why Evolution Is Different
May 4, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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New OOL Book: Life Rests on Physics But Can’t Be Derived from It
May 4, 2019 Uncommon Descent
origin of life (OOL)
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New Theory of the Moon’s Formation Addresses Huge Discrepancy
May 4, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
Amino Acids Found in Cretaceous Amber
May 3, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If this doesn’t take the cake for soft tissue preservation: intact amino acids in amber said to be 100 million years old!
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What Does It Look Like to “Turn On” a Gene?
May 3, 2019 The Scientist
Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology, thanks to new technology that allows them to observe the process in living cells. It’s teaching them a lot.