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• How Roger Penrose proposes that the universe can be eternal

  August 24, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• The propagandist’s paradise . . .

  August 24, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Rare intermediate fossils give researchers insight into evolution of bird-like dinosaur

  August 23, 2018 / George Washington University / Science Daily — discovery fills in missing link in evolutionary transition of the alvarezsaurs

• How RNA regulates genes in embryo that affect seizure susceptibility

  August 23, 2018 / Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago / Science Daily — defects in process during critical time in embryonic brain development could lead to future seizures

• So, Who Is Doing “Pseudoscience”?

  August 23, 2018 / Granville Sewell / Evolution News & Science Today

• Porcupine Quills and Other Examples of Nature’s Foresight

  August 23, 2018 / Geoffrey Simmons / Evolution News & Science Today

• A Suspicious Pattern of Deletions

  August 23, 2018 / Andrew Jones / Evolution News & Science Today

• Why it’s hard to model robots on human behavior

  August 23, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Academic labels media reports calling Homo erectus lazy as “moronic”

  August 23, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Find deepens mystery of turtle’s origins

  August 23, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Neanderthal woman, Denisovan man

  August 23, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• ID vs the shadow-censoring (“shadow-banning”) digital empires, 2

  August 23, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Fake news on the ID controversy still includes babies with tails

  August 23, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Answering Joshua Swamidass on Theistic Evolution: A Religious Agenda?

  August 22, 2018 / Ann Gauger / Evolution News & Science Today

• Getting to the root of plant evolution

  August 22, 2018 / University of Oxford / Science Daily

• Epigenetic patterns determine if honeybee larvae become queens or workers

  August 22, 2018 / Queen Mary University of London / Science Daily

• Ant-y social: Study of ants reveals the evolutionary benefits of group living

  August 22, 2018 / Rockefeller University / Science Daily

• Epic genetic: the hidden story of wheat

  August 22, 2018 / Earlham Institute / Science Daily — epigenome of bread wheat mapped to piece together its genetic heritage

• Introducing the New “Conspiracism” Canard

  August 22, 2018 / David Klinghoffer / Evolution News & Science Today

• Enzymes Are Essential for Life; Did They Evolve?

  August 22, 2018 / Olen R. Brown / Evolution News & Science Today

• 230-million-year-old turtle fossil deepens mystery of reptile's origins

  22 August 2018 / Jeremy Rehm / Nature — two-metre-long specimen could help researchers pin down how and when turtles developed traits such as their shell

• Fossil turtle didn't have a shell yet, but had the first toothless turtle beak

  August 22, 2018 / Field Museum / Science Daily — 228-million-year-old fossil sheds light on how turtles evolved

• No more excuses for non-reproducible methods

  22 August 2018 / Lenny Teytelman / Nature, v.560, p.411 — online technologies make it easy to share precise experimental protocols -- and doing so is essential to modern science

• The battle for the soul of biodiversity

  22 August 2018 / Ehsan Masood / Nature, v.560, p.423-425 — an ideological clash could undermine a crucial assessment of the world’s disappearing plant and animal life

• Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: First discovery of an ancient-human hybrid

  22 August 2018 / Matthew Warren / Nature, v.560, p.417-418 — genetic analysis uncovers a direct descendant of two different groups of early humans

• Neanderthal mother, Denisovan father! Hybrid fossil

  August 22, 2018 / Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology / Science Daily — newly-sequenced genome sheds light on interactions between ancient hominins

• Long-Sought Hearing Channel Protein Found

  August 22, 2018 / Abby Olena / The Scientist — after a decades-long pursuit, researchers have confirmed the identity of the pore of the mechanotransduction channel in vertebrates’ inner ear hair cells

• The Paradox of Karl Popper

  August 22, 2018 / John Horgan / Scientific American — the great philosopher, renowned for his ferocious attacks on scientific and political dogmatism, could be quite dogmatic

• Evolutionary biology: Animals as restless clocks, unquiet machines

  August 22, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• “Junk DNA” regulates regeneration of tissues and organs

  August 22, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• Researchers: Ancestor of all life existed four billion years ago

  August 22, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• The Peppered Zombie rises at Exeter: Some curious responses

  August 22, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• UD’s Weak Arguments Correctives page passes 50,000 visits

  August 22, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• New genetic regulators of regeneration identified

  August 21, 2018 / Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory / Science Daily — discovery could one day lead to new therapies to trigger regeneration in humans

• Steep decline in student belief that God created humans, 32-year Australian study reveals

  August 21, 2018 / University of New South Wales / Science Daily

• A common ancestral gene causes body segmentation in spiders and insects

  August 21, 2018 / eLife / Science Daily

• Enigmatic African fossils rewrite story of when lemurs got to Madagascar

  August 21, 2018 / Duke University / Science Daily — specimens suggest Madagascar's lemurs were not the first mammals on the island

• From Micro to Macro Scales, Intelligent Design Is in the Details

  August 21, 2018 / Evolution News & Science Today

• Wow! The peppered myth: A Darwin zombie rises again

  August 21, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• At Scientific American: Maybe aliens live too fast or too slow for us to recognize

  August 21, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• How Unpaywall is opening up science

  August 21, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• You think the SJW war on engineering is a joke…

  August 21, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on Earth

  August 20, 2018 / University of Bristol / Science Daily

• Stone tools reveal modern human-like gripping capabilities 500,000 years ago

  August 20, 2018 / University of Kent / Science Daily

• Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design?

  August 20, 2018 / Jonathan Wells / Evolution News & Science Today

• Darwinian Faith and Fetish

  August 20, 2018 / Michael Egnor / Evolution News & Science Today

• YouTube warns us against questioning consensus science

  August 20, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• The war on math and science spreads to engineering

  August 20, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• At the heart of the “sciencey” urban elite world, a reversion to witchcraft

  August 20, 2018 / Uncommon Descent

• How the controversy over Darwinism mirrors the wider culture

  August 20, 2018 / Uncommon Descent