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Newspaper Article
Evidence of New Human Species Found in Philippines
April 10, 2019 Wall Street Journal
Fossils unearthed in a limestone cavern part of a previously unknown human species that roamed the island about 50,000 years ago
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Newspaper Article
Darkness Visible, Finally: Astronomers Capture First Ever Image of a Black Hole
April 10, 2019 New York Times
Astronomers at last have captured a picture of one of the most secretive entities in the cosmos.
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Walter Bradley Center Fellow Discovers Longstanding Flaw in Elementary Calculus
April 10, 2019 Mind Matters
The flaw doesn't lead directly to wrong answers but it does create confusion.
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Polar Bear Seminar: A Fake Scandal About a Chart
April 10, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is Space Really “The Final Illusion”? Rob Sheldon Comments
April 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Black hole picture captured for first time in space breakthrough
April 10, 2019 The Guardian
Network of eight radio telescopes around the world records revolutionary image
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New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines
April 10, 2019 New Scientist
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First ever real image of a black hole revealed
April 10, 2019 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Genome analysis shows the combined effect of many genes on cognitive traits
April 10, 2019 Science Daily
Individual differences in cognitive abilities in children and adolescents are partly reflected in variations in their DNA sequence, according to a new study.
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Why we can’t get over the death of the dinosaurs
April 10, 2019 Nature, v.568, p.143
Reports of a new-found snapshot of extinction highlights a mystery that scientists are still working to solve.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution from water to land led to better parenting
April 10, 2019 Science Daily
The evolution of aquatic creatures to start living on land made them into more attentive parents, says new research on frogs.
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News Update/Commentary
How scientists took the first picture of a black hole
April 10, 2019 Science News
Scientists crunched data gathered by a global network of eight radio telescope observatories
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A New Study Challenges What We Know About Lightning Formation
April 10, 2019 Forbes
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Unknown human relative discovered in Philippine cave
April 10, 2019 Nature
Bone fragments reveal a short-statured species -- which researchers have named Homo luzonensis -- that lived more than 50,000 years ago.
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Bird's Surprising Sound Source
April 10, 2019 University of Utah
The best place for a bird's voice box is low in the airway, researchers find.
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Monkeys Genetically Edited to Mimic Human Brain Development
April 10, 2019 The Scientist
Rhesus monkeys engineered to express a human gene reportedly show delayed brain development and better short-term memory. Fellow scientists are raising ethical red flags.
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Mars methane hunt comes up empty, flummoxing scientists
April 10, 2019 Nature
Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft did not find the gas in red planet’s atmosphere during its first months of operation.
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Why hasn’t evolution dealt with the inefficiency of ageing?
April 10, 2019 Aeon
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New Hominin Shakes the Family Tree -- Again
April 10, 2019 Sapiens
What does the discovery of Homo luzonensis mean for our understanding of humanity’s history?
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Why an Evolutionist Disses Evolutionary Psychology
April 10, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Species of Human, Homo luzonensis, Identified in the Philippines
April 10, 2019 The Scientist
Thirteen hominin bones found in a cave are so unique that archaeologists have determined they stem from a distinct hominin species, although others question whether the researchers have enough evidence.
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Black hole pictured for first time -- in spectacular detail
April 10, 2019 Nature
The Event Horizon Telescope’s global network of radio dishes has produced the first-ever direct image of a black hole and its event horizon.
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Examining Supposed Creation Passages in Ephesians to Revelation
April 10, 2019 Answers in Genesis
Listed from A Matter of Days by Hugh Ross, Part 7
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Antarctica team to search world's oldest ice for climate change clues
April 9, 2019 New Scientist
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Researchers Rethink the Ancestry of Complex Cells
April 9, 2019 Quanta Magazine
New studies revise ideas about the symbiosis that gave mitochondria to cells and about whether the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes was one cell or many.
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Dances with Cells
April 9, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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A realist takes on quantum mechanics
April 9, 2019 Nature
parsing Lee Smolin’s takedown of the most successful physics theory ever
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Study: Cats Do Recognize Their Names
April 9, 2019 Mind Matters
Responses to the study, which attracted a good deal of attention, demonstrated many of the misconceptions that naturalism fosters.
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Are There Things About Human Beings That You Cannot Write Code For?
April 9, 2019 Mind Matters
WBC director Robert J. Marks asks that question, relating the Center’s goals to human aspirations
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Cambrian Explosion Excuses: Theme and Variations
April 9, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Human Brains Have Grown Smaller Since the Stone Age
April 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Polar Bear Seminar: Unacknowledged Discrepancies, Inconsistent Standards
April 9, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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RNA Is No Longer “Worthless Junk”; Today’s Revelations “Unthinkable 20 Years Ago”
April 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Darwinian PZ Myers Blows Off Attack on Bret Weinstein
April 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Wesley J. Smith: Human Exceptionalism Is As Close to a Self-Evident Truth As One Can Find
April 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Peruvian Walking Whale
April 9, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Origins and evolutionary consequences of ancient endogenous retroviruses
April 8, 2019 Nature Reviews Microbiology, v.17, p.355-370
Retroviruses infect a broad range of vertebrate hosts that includes amphibians, fish, birds and mammals. In addition, a typical vertebrate genome contains thousands of loci composed of ancient retroviral sequences known as endogenous retroviruses.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution imposes ‘speed limit' on recovery after mass extinctions
April 8, 2019 Science Daily
It takes at least 10 million years for life to fully recover after a mass extinction, a speed limit for the recovery of species diversity that is well known among scientists.
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Newspaper Article
At Long Last, a Glimpse of a Black Hole
April 8, 2019 New York Times
This week scientists are expected to release images of the silhouette of this elusive and inscrutable astronomical object.
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Newspaper Article
In Bubbles, She Sees a Mathematical Universe
April 8, 2019 New York Times
For Karen Uhlenbeck, winner of the Abel Prize for math, a whimsical phenomenon offers a window onto higher dimensions.
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The replication crisis is good for science
April 8, 2019 The Conversation
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Blog Post
The BBC unwisely jumps on the epigenetics bandwagon
April 8, 2019 Why Evolution Is True
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The Growing Popularity of Intelligent Design
April 8, 2019 LaGrange Daily News
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The Human Brain Has Been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age
April 8, 2019 Discover magazine
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Transhumanism, the Lazy Way to Human ‘Improvement'
April 8, 2019 Mind Matters
Transhumanists don’t seem much interested in such real improvements in the human condition. They want quick, easy technological fixes
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I Spy AI. And AI Spies on Me ...
April 8, 2019 Mind Matters
The true threat posed by AI is the greatly reduced cost and risk of mass surveillance and manipulation
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Polar Bear Seminar: The APOB Gene and Damaging Mutations
April 8, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is Standard Calculus Notation Wrong?
April 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
Questionable Categories of Human Ancestors: The Denisovans
April 8, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What happens when you derive a whole people group from a fingerbone? Confusion and every evil work.
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DNA As a “Master of Resource Recycling”
April 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent