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Origination and evolution of orphan genes and de novo genes in the genome of Caenorhabditis elegans
March 21, 2019 Science China Life Sciences, v.62, p.579-593
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Time to say goodbye to “statistically significant” and embrace uncertainty, say statisticians
March 21, 2019 Retraction Watch
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Blog Post
We Are Now Informed That Evolution Can Go Backward
March 21, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
Sabine Hossenfelder: How You Can Help Science Out of a Rut
March 21, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Lights out: the ebb of scientific authority (pdf)
March 21, 2019 Nature
to fight denialism, learn from the shapers of our scientific infrastructure
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News Update/Commentary
Half-a-billion-year-old fossil reveals the origins of comb jellies
March 21, 2019 Science Daily
One of the ocean's little known carnivores has been allocated a new place in the evolutionary tree of life after scientists discovered its unmistakable resemblance with other sea-floor dwelling creatures.
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Half the species in a new Cambrian fossil site are completely new to us
March 21, 2019 ars technica
We're edging closer to understanding entire Cambrian ecologies.
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Michael Behe: A Man and His Critics
March 21, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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‘Mindblowing' haul of fossils over 500m years old unearthed in China
March 21, 2019 The Guardian
Thousands of fossils date back to huge burst in diversity of life on Earth known as Cambrian explosion
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Scientists Discover Pristine Collection of Soft-Tissue Fossils
March 21, 2019 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The fossils include jellyfish, box jellies, branched algae, and sponges, which are underrepresented in or missing from other deposits.
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No Triangulation as Michael Behe Headlines 2019 Westminster Conference
March 20, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Fairy Circles, Spider Silk, Epigenetics, and More: Intelligent Design in the News
March 20, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
Survival at a Price: Bacteria Cut Off Flagella to Stay Alive
March 20, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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What? Oumuamua Was Just a Comet? After All the ET Hype?
March 20, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics)
March 20, 2019 Live Science
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News Update/Commentary
A mating war in diving beetles has stopped the evolution of species
March 20, 2019 Science Daily
In nature, males eager attempts to mate with females can be so extreme that they will harm females.
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Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says
March 20, 2019 Scientific American
In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbelief
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Is religion good or bad for humanity? Epic analysis delivers an answer
March 20, 2019 New Scientist
A scientific review of 10,000 years of history is finally revealing the unexpected truth behind religion's role in human civilisation
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How we solved the mystery of the human sperm tail -- and what it could mean for the future of IVF
March 20, 2019 The Conversation
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Scientists rise up against statistical significance
March 20, 2019 Nature
more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects
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Quantum Machine Appears to Defy Universe’s Push for Disorder
March 20, 2019 Quanta Magazine
One of the first quantum simulators has produced a puzzling phenomenon: a row of atoms that repeatedly pops back into place. Physicists have been racing to explain what might be going on.
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Computer Scientists Create Programmable Self-Assembling DNA
March 20, 2019 University of California, Davis
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UIC researchers find hidden proteins in bacteria
March 20, 2019 University of Illinois
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Is religion good or bad for humanity? Epic analysis delivers an answer
March 20, 2019 New Scientist
A scientific review of 10,000 years of history is finally revealing the unexpected truth behind religion's role in human civilisation
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Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life
March 20, 2019 New Scientist
The controversial Gaia hypothesis sees Earth as a superorganism adapted to be perfect for life. A weird type of evolution may finally show how that actually happens
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After Two Decades, a Fishy Genetic Mystery Has Been Solved
March 20, 2019 The Atlantic
A scientist faced down the ultimate cold case: How did two groups of fish separately evolve genes for making antifreeze?
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e-Origins
March 20, 2019 Biblical Creation Trust
e-Origins is an open-access electronic journal published by Biblical Creation Trust. Our aim is to disseminate the results of constructive creationist model-building, and to do so in an accessible way.
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Past Years of Hype Notwithstanding, Adult Stem Cells Are Now the “Gold Standard”
March 20, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why I believe humans were in Australia 120,000 years ago
March 20, 2019 New Scientist
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Schrödinger’s kittens: new thought experiment breaks quantum theory
March 20, 2019 New Scientist
A twist on the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment could undermine quantum physics -- or provide a path to a deeper understanding of how the world works
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Researchers find Americans set their thermostat to match African environmental temperatures
March 20, 2019 phys.org
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Video
Timelapse of the Future
March 20, 2019 YouTube
a journey to the end of time
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News Update/Commentary
Natural selection favors cheaters
March 19, 2019 Science Daily
Research focused on interaction between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and their hosts
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Templeton Prize Winner: Marcelo Gleiser, Physicist Who Beholds the Universe’s Mysteries
March 19, 2019 Christianity Today
The agnostic is credited with bringing believers and religious questions into the scientific realm.
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Magazine Article
Was Thomas Kuhn Evil?
March 19, 2019 Scientific American
Filmmaker Errol Morris, once Kuhn’s grad student, accuses him of being a bad philosopher and bad person.
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Physicist Marcelo Gleiser: 'Science does not kill God'
March 19, 2019 phys.org
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Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?
March 19, 2019 The Scientist
A study of people’s brainwaves hints at their unconscious ability to perceive the Earth’s magnetic field.
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Error Catastrophe: Manfred Eigen’s Show-Stopper Is Still Stopping the Origin-of-Life Show
March 19, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Mismeasurements of Stephen Jay Gould
March 19, 2019 Quillette
Gould’s thesis is that throughout the history of science, prejudiced scientists studying human beings allowed their social beliefs to color their data collection and analysis.
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News Update/Commentary
Revealing the rules behind virus scaffold construction
March 19, 2019 Science Daily
New insights into epistasis could impact future drug delivery and therapeutic strategies
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Fresh data deepen mystery of dark-matter signal
March 19, 2019 Nature
Physicists at a detector in Italy have long claimed to see the Universe’s missing mass -- but copycat experiments don’t yet see the same.
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News Update/Commentary
What makes evolution go backwards?
March 19, 2019 Science Daily
The study of evolution is revealing new complexities, showing how the traits most beneficial to the fitness of individual plants and animals are not always the ones we see in nature.
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Examining Supposed Creation Passages in Proverbs to Isaiah
March 19, 2019 Answers in Genesis
Listed from A Matter of Days by Hugh Ross, Part 4
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Another Failure to Recreate Life's Origins
March 19, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Things Exist That Are Unknowable
March 19, 2019 Mind Matters
A tutorial on Chaitin's number
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The Video Game Is More Than Just a Distraction!
March 19, 2019 Mind Matters
It can challenge a techno-materialist view of life
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Video
The Mystery of the Origin of Life
March 18, 2019 YouTube
According to a nationwide survey, more than two-thirds of atheists and one-third of agnostics believe that “the findings of science make the existence of God less probable,” while nearly half of self-identified theists believe “the findings of science are
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News Update/Commentary
Alligator study reveals insight into dinosaur hearing
March 18, 2019 Science Daily
A biologist finds alligators build neural maps of sound the way birds do, suggesting the hearing strategy existed in their common ancestor, the dinosaurs.
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I got some 'splainin' to do
March 18, 2019 Core Academy of Science
I'm going to speak at the BioLogos conference next week. I'll be appearing with Darrel Falk and Michael Gulker of the Colossian Forum. We'll be talking about the book The Fool and the Heretic.
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Science history: The man attempting to merge physics and the paranormal
March 18, 2019 Cosmos Magazine
Nobel laureate Brian Josephson is a controversial figure in quantum circles.