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Rutgers Scientists Identify Protein That May Have Existed When Life Began
September 10, 2018 Rutgers University
The primordial peptide may have appeared 4 billion years ago
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Call for atheism to be included in religious education
September 9, 2018 The Guardian
Report recommends sweeping changes with the emphasis on respect and empathy for different faiths and worldviews
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Blog Post
Why Theistic Evolution Is Not a Good Option
September 9, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A book review from Creation Ministries International explains why evangelicals should not needlessly cave on evolution.
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Newspaper Article
Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals
September 8, 2018 New York Times
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Blog Post
The Design Packed Into a Fruit Fly
September 8, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The most amazing animals of all may be the tiniest. Consider how much bio-technology has to fit into the head of a fruit fly.
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Did Dinosaurs Evolve into Birds?
September 7, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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Why Thomas Aquinas Would Have Loved Intelligent Design
September 7, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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How to Spot a Bad Scientific Theory
September 7, 2018 Forbes
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Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
September 7, 2018 Quillette
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News Update/Commentary
A study of ants provides information on the evolution of social insects
September 7, 2018 Science Daily
One gene in particular determines whether an ant becomes queen or worker
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of psychiatric disorders and human personality traits
September 7, 2018 Science Daily
How and why human-unique characteristics such as highly social behavior, languages and complex culture have evolved is a long-standing question. A research team has revealed the evolution of a gene related to such human-unique psychiatric traits.
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A Beautiful, Wonderful Solution to the Cambrian Puzzle?
September 7, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Adaptable lizards illustrate key evolutionary process proposed a century ago
September 6, 2018 Science Daily
The 'Baldwin effect' has now been demonstrated at the genetic level in a population of dark-colored lizards adapted to live on a lava flow in the desert.
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Rigorous Inquiry and Ruffled Feathers
September 6, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
The End of Time
September 6, 2018 nautil.us
In the fundamental physics of the world, there is neither space nor time.
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Better Dead than Disabled?
September 6, 2018 Commonweal magazine
The Normalization of Infanticide
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Even scientists jump to conclusions -- and that’s a problem
September 6, 2018 Cosmos Magazine
The latest in a raft of experiments suggests a predicted “train wreck” in social sciences is under way.
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News Update/Commentary
Novel epigenetic control found for critical brain proteins in memory strengthening
September 6, 2018 Science Daily
This novel mechanism links epigenetic changes to translational control
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Stray proteins cause genetic disorders
September 6, 2018 Science Daily
Misaddressed proteins are mislocalized, with possibly fatal consequences for the cell
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Blog Post
Sharks Can Digest Vegetables: Scientists Flabbergasted
September 6, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
An apex carnivore of the sea not only eats seagrass, but can digest it just fine.
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We’re not unique -- lots of species can recognise themselves
September 5, 2018 New Scientist
We should be open to the idea that human intelligence isn't as special as we like to think it is
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Magazine Article
The clues to finding alien life could lie in Earth's deep past
September 5, 2018 New Scientist
Our hunt for life on other planets is based on what it looks like today, but early Earth used to be so different. What if we are missing some vital clues?
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Comparison of 18,000 De Novo Assembled Chimpanzee Contigs to the Human Genome Yields Average BLASTN Alignment Identities of 84%
September 5, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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News Update/Commentary
Suppressing Science at Brown University
September 5, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Magazine Article
The 'me' illusion: How your brain conjures up your sense of self
September 5, 2018 New Scientist
Self-awareness isn't the pinnacle of consciousness - it's just an accidental byproduct of evolution, and a figment of our minds
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Blog Post
Who Owns Science, Anyway?
September 5, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Journal editors are freaking out over the rise of Open Science initiatives, worried their reign over the perception of science is doomed.
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Blog Post
Two Geological Process Ages Collapse
September 4, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Two processes theoretically assumed to take long ages have been shown they can occur quickly.
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When Science and Religion Were Connected
September 4, 2018 Daily JSTOR
During the Second Great Awakening of 1830, science and religion were seen as “two aspects of the same universal truth.”
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These First-Known Omnivore Sharks Eat Seagrass
September 4, 2018 Discover magazine
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News Update/Commentary
Chromatin structure: Slip-sliding away...
September 4, 2018 Science Daily
The DNA in the cell nucleus is highly condensed, and genes must be rendered accessible before they can be activated. A team has now described the action of a protein complex that serves as a yardstick to measure lengths of exposed DNA.
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News Update/Commentary
Clown fish: Whence the white stripes?
September 4, 2018 Science Daily
Scientists have been training their attention on the developmental and evolutionary determinants of white stripes in clown fish. They now detail why, when, and how these bands arose and help elucidate their role in clown fish social organization.
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Free Speech or “Better Speech”?
September 4, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Why we stick to false beliefs: Feedback trumps hard evidence
September 4, 2018 Science Daily
New study finds that feedback rather than hard evidence makes us more confident that we're right
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Fossil teeth show how Jurassic reptiles adapted to changing seas
September 4, 2018 Science Daily
Marine predators that lived in deep waters during the Jurassic Period thrived as sea levels rose, while species that dwelled in the shallows died out, research suggests.
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Scientific Evidence Against a Naturalistic Origin of Life
September 3, 2018 Facebook
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What Does Quantum Theory Actually Tell Us about Reality?
September 3, 2018 Scientific American
Nearly a century after its founding, physicists and philosophers still don’t know -- but they’re working on it
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Dark energy is the biggest mystery in cosmology, but it may not exist at all -- leading physicist
September 3, 2018 Horizon magazine
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Science has a problem, and we must talk about it
September 3, 2018 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Scientists hunt mysterious 'dark force' to explain hidden realm of the cosmos
September 3, 2018 The Guardian
Physicists say a fifth force of nature would ‘completely change the paradigm’
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Evolutionary origins of animal biodiversity
September 3, 2018 Science Daily
A new study has revealed the origins and evolution of animal body plans.
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Blog Post
Our Anonymity May Be an Illusion
September 3, 2018 Mind Matters
Because we talk about ourselves so much online, few leaked pieces may even be required to identify us.
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Blog Post
Astrobiology Survives on Passionate Hope
September 3, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Without the words ‘might’ and ‘could,’ astrobiologists would have nothing to say.
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Among the Disbelievers
September 1, 2018 Commentary magazine
It’s tedious to encounter a “new atheist” intoning arguments against faith that were shopworn in Voltaire’s day. Sooner or later, he will bring up the Spanish Inquisition.
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To Improve Credibility, Science Must Get Out of Politics
September 1, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Big Science journals need to either balance their coverage of political issues or drop them altogether to avoid losing half their audience.
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Blog Post
To Improve Credibility, Science Must Get Out of Politics
September 1, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Big Science journals need to either balance their coverage of political issues or drop them altogether to avoid losing half their audience.
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How to Edit a Human
September 1, 2018 The Economist
For decades scientists aspired to modify the code of life. Meet Jennifer Doudna, who succeeded.
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Muscle Clocks Play a Role in Regulating Metabolism
September 1, 2018 The Scientist
Just 20 years ago, scientists didn’t even realize muscles had their own circadian clocks. Now they are beginning to appreciate their importance in health.
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Karl Marx's Eerie AI Prediction
September 1, 2018 Mind Matters
He felt that capitalism would fall when machines replaced human labor
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Is Big Pharma really more evil than academia?
August 31, 2018 The Guardian
The pharmaceutical industry gets a bad press. Some of the criticism is surely deserved, but the widespread notion that academia is morally superior is ridiculous.
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Blog Post
Humans: Better Designed and Capable than Darwinism Can Explain
August 31, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Look at the equipment humans come with. Look at the things they can do. Is this the work of blind chance?