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News Update/Commentary
Howler monkey study examines mechanisms of new species formation
December 22, 2018 Science Daily
A new study of interbreeding between two species of howler monkeys in Mexico is yielding insights into the forces that drive the evolution of new species.
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News Update/Commentary
Divining roots: Revealing how plants branch out to access water
December 22, 2018 Science Daily
New research has discovered how plant roots sense the availability of moisture in soil and then adapt their shape to optimise acquisition of water.
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Salutary Lessons from the Evils of Nazi Ideology
December 21, 2018 The Gospel Coalition
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Hominin v monkey deathmatch ended in a draw when they fell down a hole
December 21, 2018 New Scientist
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Scuba-diving lizard can stay underwater for at least 16 minutes
December 21, 2018 New Scientist
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Blog Post
Bad Lip Reading with Fossils
December 21, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Nobody hears fossils, but that doesn’t excuse bad lip reading about what they were trying to say when they died.
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News Update/Commentary
Female penises evolved twice in bark lice
December 21, 2018 Science Daily
In their nutrient-scarce environment, 'seminal gifts' are an incentive for females to force mating, leading to the co-evolution of female penises and male vaginas.
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Autism involves a large-scale reduction in RNA editing
December 21, 2018 ars technica
New work ties things in to the gene behind Fragile X Syndrome, a genetic disease.
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Why String Theory Is Wrong
December 21, 2018 Real Clear Science
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Huge Global Tsunami Followed Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact
December 20, 2018 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The cataclysmic Chicxulub impact roughly 66 million years ago spawned a tsunami that produced wave heights of several meters in distant waters, new simulations suggest.
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There Is No Such Thing as Conscious Thought
December 20, 2018 Scientific American
Philosopher Peter Carruthers insists that conscious thought, judgment and volition are illusions. They arise from processes of which we are forever unaware
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Middle East fossils push back origin of key plant groups millions of years
December 20, 2018 Science
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What if consciousness is just a product of our non-conscious brain?
December 20, 2018 The Conversation
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Blog Post
The Really Worst Pseudoscience of 2018
December 20, 2018 Neurologica
how the general phenomenon of pseudoscience has continued to evolve in 2018
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Beyond Einstein
December 20, 2018 Louisiana State University
Physicists develop new theory to answer fundamental questions about black holes
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Soft Tissue Fossils Preserved by Toasting?
December 20, 2018 Institute for Creation Research
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What Discovery Institute Means to Me: A Reflection
December 20, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Huge Global Tsunami Followed Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact
December 20, 2018 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The cataclysmic Chicxulub impact roughly 66 million years ago spawned a tsunami that produced wave heights of several meters in distant waters, new simulations suggest.
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News Update/Commentary
450 fossilized millipedes found in 100-million-year-old amber
December 19, 2018 Science Daily
Over 450 millipedes, fossilized in 100-million-year-old Burmese amber, were recently discovered by a research team. Using micro-CT technology, the scientists identified 13 out of the 16 main groups of modern millipedes amongst them.
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Blog Post
The Evolution of Neanderthal Man from Evolution Ancestor to Modern Man
December 19, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It took over 100 years, but Darwinians have finally promoted Neanderthal Man to Homo sapiens. How did it happen?
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How Humans Invented Writing -- Four Different Times
December 19, 2018 Discover magazine
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It Came From the Heavens
December 19, 2018 Smithsonian Magazine (Air & Space)
New research supports the idea that life can spread from one world to another.
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Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions
December 19, 2018 New York Times
The real journey to the center of the Earth has begun, and scientists are discovering subsurface microbial beings that shake up what we think we know about life.
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Syntactical Features of Hebrew Genitive Clauses and Their Implications for Translating Genesis 1:1
December 19, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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Blog Post
The Evolution of Neanderthal Man from Evolution Ancestor to Modern Man
December 19, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It took over 100 years, but Darwinians have finally promoted Neanderthal Man to Homo sapiens. How did it happen?
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Getting the Dirt on Creation -- inside OSIRIS-REx's First Close Look at Bennu
December 19, 2018 Scientific American
NASA’s first sample-return mission to an asteroid is a voyage into the genesis of our solar system -- and, perhaps, the precursors to life’s origins on Earth
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Breathing Study Shows Huge Armored Dinosaurs Battled Overheating with Nasal Air-conditioning
December 19, 2018 Ohio University
Researchers use 3D computer modeling to simulate heat exchange in dinosaurs
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Here's Why String Theory Might Actually Point Us Towards a ‘Theory of Everything'
December 19, 2018 Science Alert
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Blog Post
Darwinists Imagine Feathered Crocodiles
December 18, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Fuzz has been found on a pterosaur. That’s not news. But split ends on some fibers are electrifying the evolutionary imagination.
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Science Article Castigates “Human Supremacy”
December 18, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years earlier than thought
December 18, 2018 Science Daily
The discovery in China of fossil specimens of a flower called Nanjinganthus from the Early Jurassic shakes up widely accepted theories of plant evolution.
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News Update/Commentary
Peering into Little Foot's 3.67-million-year-old brain
December 18, 2018 Science Daily
MicroCT scans of the Australopithecus fossil known as Little Foot shows that the brain of this ancient human relative was small and shows features that are similar to our own brain and others that are closer to our ancestor shared with living chimpanzees.
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News Update/Commentary
Gene identified with a key role in plant adaptation to fluctuating soil salinity levels
December 18, 2018 Science Daily
Researchers have identified modifications in a sodium transporter gene with key consequences for plants needing to adapt to fluctuating soil salinity.
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News Update/Commentary
Explaining differences in rates of evolution
December 18, 2018 Science Daily
Scientists look to fossils and evolutionary trees to help determine the rate of evolution -- albeit with conflicting results. A new model has helped to resolve these contradictions.
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Looking for Luca, the Last Universal Common Ancestor
December 17, 2018 Astrobiology magazine
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Stop Using Science to Validate Your Beliefs
December 17, 2018 Forbes
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Newspaper Article
Scant Evidence Behind the Advice About Salt
December 17, 2018 New York Times
Low-sodium diets are widely recommended for people who have a variety of ailments, but there’s little proof they help those with heart failure.
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When a fish becomes fluid
December 17, 2018 IST Austria
Fluidity transition in zebrafish embryo necessary for development -- Study published in Nature Cell Biology
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Blog Post
How to Scientifically Justify Horror
December 17, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A leading American science journal whimpers over loss of access to body parts of murdered humans.
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Pterosaurs: Fur flies over feathery fossils
December 17, 2018 BBC News
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Stunning fossils show pterosaurs had primitive feathers like dinosaurs
December 17, 2018 New Scientist
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Clemson Philosopher in NYT: Maybe We Should All Kill Ourselves, or at Least Abort All Future Children to Save the Planet
December 17, 2018 Daily Wire
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Pterosaurs Sported Feathers, Claim Scientists
December 17, 2018 The Scientist
A controversy over pterosaurs’ plumage has taken off, with a new discovery pushing feather origins back 80 million years into the early Triassic.
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Tenured Biology Professor Sacked for Research Misconduct
December 17, 2018 The Scientist
Fei Wang, fired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, falsified data on grant applications.
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New discovery pushes origin of feathers back by 70 million years
December 17, 2018 University of Bristol
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The Biggest Junk Science of 2018
December 17, 2018 Real Clear Science
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On the Origins of “The March of Progress”
December 17, 2018 Washington University, St. Louis
The image is iconic: A lineup of six figures. At the rear is an ape-like figure, crouched-over and walking on all fours. Ahead of it is a similar-looking figure, but one who’s walking on two feet. This trend continues
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Advances in Biology Discredit Argument that Cooption Can Explain Irreducible Complexity
December 17, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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New species of incredible ‘living tank' dinosaur unveiled
December 17, 2018 National Geographic
Even fierce tyrannosaurs would have been afraid of Zuul, a club-tailed Cretaceous beast known as the “destroyer of shins."
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Stunning fossils show pterosaurs had primitive feathers like dinosaurs
December 17, 2018 New Scientist
Two spectacular fossils found in China show that the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs had primitive feathers to help keep them warm, just like many dinosaurs.