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The Dirtiest Fight in Physics Is About the Universe Itself
August 28, 2018 Gizmodo
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Constraining the Time Interval for the Origin of Life on Earth
August 28, 2018 Astrobiology, v.18, p.343-364
Estimates of the time at which life arose on Earth make use of two types of evidence. First, astrophysical and geophysical studies ... Second, biosignatures in geological samples ...
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How many human species?
August 27, 2018 Core Academy of Science
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Did a Burst of Halogens Kick Off the End-Permian Extinction?
August 27, 2018 Deep Carbon Observatory
Directly following a massive and prolonged series of volcanic eruptions about 250 million years ago, the end-Permian Extinction began; the most severe die-off in Earth’s history.
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In Psychology and Other Social Sciences, Many Studies Fail the Reproducibility Test
August 27, 2018 National Public Radio
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The End of Theoretical Physics As We Know It
August 27, 2018 Quanta Magazine
Computer simulations and custom-built quantum analogues are changing what it means to search for the laws of nature.
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Scientists 'fix' bacterial tree of life
August 27, 2018 phys.org
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Blog Post
Can a Game Prove That Computers Could Really Think?
August 27, 2018 Mind Matters
Philosopher Daniel Dennett thinks so. Let's apply Occam's Razor and see
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It’s not science I don’t trust -- it’s the scientists
August 25, 2018 The Spectator
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There are 8,475 languages that we know of
August 25, 2018 Science Nordic
What do we know about the new languages that are appearing and how does a new language form? Researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark, are investigating just this.
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Blog Post
AI Tools for Mass Manipulation?
August 25, 2018 Mind Matters
Machine learning can unleash a perfect storm of malice, experts warn
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Blog Post
Ethics for an Information Society
August 25, 2018 Mind Matters
Because machines can’t learn to solve their own ethical problems
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It's time to address artificial intelligence's ethical problems
August 24, 2018 Wired
AI is already helping us diagnose cancer and understand climate change, but regulation and oversight are needed to stop the new technology being abused
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Siberian Permafrost Reveals Perfectly Preserved Ice-Age Baby Horse
August 24, 2018 Live Science
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Blue-Eyed Immigrants Transformed Ancient Israel 6,500 Years Ago
August 24, 2018 Live Science
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Ancient DNA reveals tryst between extinct human species
August 24, 2018 Science
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Blog Post
Are These Really Transitional Fossils?
August 24, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
To get to the truth, you often have to tune out the Darwin cheerleaders and just examine the data.
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Blog Post
Are These Really Transitional Fossils?
August 24, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
To get to the truth, you often have to tune out the Darwin cheerleaders and just examine the data.
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One Universe Is Not Enough
August 24, 2018 Forbes
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Stunning dinosaur discovery: 170-million-year-old footprint found in Scotland
August 24, 2018 Fox News
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Scientists Have Discovered a Brand New 'Micro-Organ' in The Human Immune System
August 24, 2018 Science Alert
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John Ioannidis Aims His Bazooka at Nutrition Science
August 24, 2018 American Council on Science and Health
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Blog Post
Do Big Brains Matter to Human Intelligence?
August 24, 2018 Mind Matters
We don’t know. Brain research readily dissolves into confusion at that point
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Exaptation Shows That Evolution Is Not Intelligent
August 23, 2018 Real Clear Science
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The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains
August 23, 2018 ars technica
There’s a lot to know about primate brains -- in fact, we’ve barely scratched the surface.
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Earth's Magnetic Field Can Reverse Poles Ridiculously Quickly, Study Suggests
August 23, 2018 Live Science
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Neanderthals and Denisovans mated, new hybrid bone reveals
August 23, 2018 Fox News (Live Science)
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Scientists Have Uncovered the 90,000-Year-Old Hybrid of Two Extinct Human Species
August 23, 2018 All That's Interesting
The bone came from an ancient girl who was believed to be around 13-years-old when she died -- approximately 90,000 years ago.
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Ancient Girl's Parents Were Two Different Human Species
August 23, 2018 National Geographic
Born 90,000 years ago, the child is the first direct evidence of interbreeding among Neanderthals and their cousins the Denisovans.
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Meet Denisova 11: First Known Hybrid Hominin
August 23, 2018 Smithsonian Magazine
The 13-year-old girl’s mother was a Neanderthal while her father was a Denisovan
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Geneticists Studying Ancient DNA Discovered a Girl Whose Parents Were Two Different Species
August, 2018 Boredom Therapy
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Why the Earth Has Fewer Species Than We Think
August 23, 2018 nautil.us
A primer on the epigenome.
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A challenge to Darwin’s branching view of evolution
August 23, 2018 Washington Post
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The unexpected upside of E. coli
August 22, 2018 University of Colorado, Boulder
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Laughing Gas May Have Helped Warm Early Earth and Given Breath to Life
August 22, 2018 Georgia Institute of Technology
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Is Solid Land Necessary for Biology?
August 22, 2018 Air & Space (Smithsonian)
And if life could arise on an ocean world, how far could it evolve?
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DNA shows girl had one Neanderthal, one Denisovan parent
August 22, 2018 ars technica
She's the first-generation offspring of a mating between two types of archaic humans.
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Richard Dawkins, 77, hopes his new atheism book for children will stop the 'religious indoctrination of youngsters' by schools and family members
August 22, 2018 Daily Mail
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A Preliminary Cephalopod Baraminology Study Based on the Analysis of Mitochondrial Genomes and Morphological Characteristics
August 22, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father
August 22, 2018 Nature, v.561
Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct groups of hominins that separated from each other more than 390,000 years ago. Here we present the genome of ‘Denisova 11’, a bone fragment from Denisova Cave (Russia)
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The Girl from Denisova Cave
August 22, 2018 Core Academy of Science
Neandertal Mother & Denisovan Father
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Don’t believe the mice
August 22, 2018 Cosmos magazine
Experiments using mice are often heavily publicised -- but very, very few of them translate into humans. Report on why animal models are of questionable value.
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Newspaper Article
A Blended Family: Her Mother Was Neanderthal, Her Father Something Else Entirely
August 22, 2018 New York Times
Genetic analysis of bones discovered in a Siberian cave hints that the prehistoric world may have been filled with “hybrid” humans.
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Newspaper Article
We Are Not Born Human
August 22, 2018 New York Times
Our humanity is a process that begins with negation.
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Blog Post
Hell Is a "Parasocial" Place
August 22, 2018 Mind Matters
Where your "friends" may not even exist
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Roger Penrose still looks for evidence of universal rebirth
August 21, 2018 backreaction.blogspot
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Creationism and Conspiracy Theories Arise From an Error in Thinking
August 21, 2018 Real Clear Science
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Why it’s only science that can answer all the big questions
August 21, 2018 Aeon
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Complex Organisms are Degenerating -- Rapidly
August 21, 2018 Detecting Design
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Complex Organisms are Degenerating -- Rapidly
August 21, 2018 Detecting Design