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News Update/Commentary
Earliest known seed-eating perching bird discovered in Fossil Lake, Wyoming
February 7, 2019 Science Daily
Scientists have just discovered some of the earliest relatives of the passerines, including a 52-million-year-old fossil with a thick, curved beak for eating seeds.
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Blog Post
The Climate Scare: Ever More Shrill, Ever Less Serious
February 7, 2019 Manhattan Contrarian
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5 of the world’s toughest unsolved maths problems
February 7, 2019 New Scientist
The Open Problems in Mathematical Physics is a list of the most monstrous maths riddles in physics. Here are five of the top problems that remain unsolved
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Inhibition of ‘jumping genes’ promotes healthy ageing
February 6, 2019 Nature
DNA sequences called retrotransposons can copy themselves and reintegrate at new sites in the genome, causing damage. It now seems that inhibiting this process can prevent age-related health decline in mice.
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Have We Mismeasured the Universe?
February 6, 2019 Scientific American
New studies of the oldest light and sound in the cosmos suggest novel physics -- rather than systematic errors -- could explain an unsolved scientific mystery
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Cosy up with the Neanderthals, the first humans to make a house a home
February 6, 2019 New Scientist
Meet the Stone Age people who liked nothing better than spending time indoors around the fire, doing a spot of DIY and having friends over for dinner
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How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution
February 6, 2019 New Scientist
The most detailed ever look at Earth's prehistoric climate suggests many habitats changed in the past 800,000 years -- and this may be why we evolved big brains
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Blog Post
Kangaroo Fossil Leaps Over Darwinian Storytellers
February 6, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary stories work best in a vacuum. Fossils have a way of forcing Darwinians to face unexpected realities.
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Appreciate Your (Un-Evolved) Body
February 6, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Research explains how snakes lost their limbs
February 6, 2019 Science Daily
The study is part of an effort to understand how changes in the genome lead to changes in phenotypes
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News Update/Commentary
Fossils of new oviraptorosaur species discovered in Mongolia
February 6, 2019 Science Daily
Incomplete skeleton of Gobiraptor minutus was likely that of a juvenile
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Zhores Medvedev and the battle for truth in Soviet science
February 6, 2019 Aeon
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Magazine Article
Silent Neurons: The Dark Matter of the Brain?
February 6, 2019 Discover magazine
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Male Y chromosomes not ‘genetic wastelands’
February 6, 2019 University of Rochester
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Recent Amber Fossil Finds
February 6, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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When did the kangaroo hop? Scientists have the answer
February 6, 2019 BBC News
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Book
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
February, 2019 Vintage
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When is absence of evidence not evidence of absence?
February 5, 2019 philosophy.stackexchange.com
lengthy discussion exchange
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Volcanic growth 'critical' to the formation of Panama
February 5, 2019 phys.org
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News Update/Commentary
Earth's magnetic north pole is hurtling toward Russia
February 5, 2019 CNN
The north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast that it could be a problem for smartphone maps and navigation systems.
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Blog Post
Gender PC Tugs at Scientific Objectivity
February 5, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Hot news! Men and women are different! Watch PC-influenced psychologists commit logical fallacies denying the obvious.
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Testing Scientific Hypotheses Using Specified Complexity
February 5, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Flat Earth Myth: A Favorite with ID Critics
February 5, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
A taste for fat may have made us human
February 5, 2019 Science Daily
A new article argues that early human ancestors acquired a taste for fat long before they began hunting for meat by scavenging marrow from the skeletal remains of large animals.
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News Update/Commentary
Over 800 new genome regions possibly relevant to human evolution identified
February 5, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have found genetic evidence of adaptations in 2,859 regions of the human genome, including some well-known examples such as those responsible for milk tolerance or high-altitude adaptation.
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News Update/Commentary
Deaf moth evolves sound-production as a warning to outwit its predator
February 5, 2019 Science Daily
A genus of deaf moth has evolved to develop an extraordinary sound-producing structure in its wings to evade its primary predator the bat.
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Call for retraction of 400 scientific papers amid fears organs came from Chinese prisoners
February 5, 2019 The Guardian
Study finds failure of English language medical journals to comply with international ethical standards
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Blog Post
What Drives the Flat-Earthers?
February 5, 2019 Neurologica
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Fragile DNA Enables New Adaptations to Evolve Quickly
February 5, 2019 Quanta Magazine
If highly repetitive gene-regulating sequences in DNA are easily lost, then that may explain why some adaptations evolve quickly and repeatedly.
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How seeing snakes in the grass helped primates to evolve
February 5, 2019 Aeon
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Trail of feathers to the Neanderthal mind
February 4, 2019 Nature
a claim that our nearest cousins were our cognitive equals -- and that birds had a part to play in that
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Blog Post
Design Advocates Are Decades Ahead of Darwinists
February 4, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Materialists are just waking up to realities that ID advocates have been writing about for decades.
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A Theory in Crisis: Darwinian Anomalies Accumulate
February 4, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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“Scientific Dissent from Darwinism” List: The Tip of an Iceberg
February 4, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Skepticism About Darwinian Evolution Grows as 1,000+ Scientists Share Their Doubts
February 4, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
First discovered fossil feather did not belong to iconic bird Archaeopteryx
February 4, 2019 Science Daily
A 150-year-old fossil feather mystery has been solved. Researchers applied a novel imaging technique, laser-stimulated fluorescence, revealing the missing quill of the first fossil feather ever discovered, dethroning an icon in the process.
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The North Magnetic Pole’s Mysterious Journey Across the Arctic
February 4, 2019 New York Times
Scientists accelerated the update of a model of Earth’s fluctuating magnetic field, which is needed to keep navigational systems functioning. Many wondered what’s happening inside the planet’s core.
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This 210-Million-Year-Old ‘Dragon' Ate Bones (and Its Own Teeth) for Breakfast
February 4, 2019 Live Science
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News Update/Commentary
Mystery mud on new volcanic island baffles NASA scientists
February 4, 2019 The Guardian
Island sprang up near Tonga three years ago, giving researchers a glimpse of how flora and fauna colonise it
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Blog Post
A philosopher's take on “naturalness” in particle physics
February 3, 2019 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Magazine Article
How Emergent is the Brain?
February 2, 2019 Discover magazine
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Tales of an Invented God
February 1, 2019 Mind Matters
The most important characteristic of an AI cult is that its gods (Godbots?) will be created by the AI developers and not the other way around
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Rhinoceros beetles have weird mouth gears that help them chew
February 1, 2019 New Scientist
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Blog Post
Darwin, the Idol of Richard Dawkins and His Followers
February 1, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Histone Code: A Challenge to Evolution, an Inference to Design
February 1, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Academic Freedom Resolutions -- For Darwin Day, Another Valuable Option for Citizen Activists
February 1, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Newspaper Article
What Science Can Learn from Religion
February 1, 2019 New York Times
Hostility toward spiritual traditions may be hampering empirical inquiry.
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Exosomes Make Their Debut in Plant Research
February 1, 2019 The Scientist
A growing branch of research on how plants use exosomes to interact with their environment is opening up a new field of plant biology.
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Mutations in One Gene Linked to Two Separate Birth Defects
February 1, 2019 The Scientist
The same network of transcription factors may be responsible for both cleft palate and neural tube defects, according to a new study connecting mouse and human data.
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Morality Is Not Scientific
February 1, 2019 The Gospel Coalition