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Media Misrepresentations Mount
January 17, 2011 Answers in Genesis
an update on the media coverage of the ark encounter
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"Race against time for raiders of the lost lake"
January 17, 2011 Nature, v.469, p.275
arguably the most exciting, and certainly the most controversial, scientific endeavour in Antarctica's history is close to a breakthrough
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Humpty Dumpty chromosomes fast-track cancer
January 16, 2011 New Scientist, n.2795, p.14
one catastrophic event could cause hundreds of mutations, challenging the dogma that cancers form from an accumulation of mutations over time
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News Update/Commentary
Deep Genomics
January 14, 2011 Science Daily
in the case of DNA, the package can be as important as its contents, new work with fruit flies reveals
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A Basal Dinosaur from the Dawn of the Dinosaur Era in Southwestern Pangaea
January 14, 2011 Science, v.331, n.6014, p.206-210
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ID Smear 'Presents No New Arguments'
January 13, 2011 Institute for Creation Research
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Is first life-friendly exoplanet an 'eyeball'?
January 13, 2011 New Scientist, n.2795, p.14
one way that Gliese 581 g could host life is if it is a frozen world with a single, pupil-like ocean of liquid water
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Mammoth 'could be reborn in four years'
January 13, 2011 Telegraph (UK)
the woolly mammoth, extinct for thousands of years, could be brought back to life thanks to a breakthrough in cloning technology
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Move over Eoraptor
January 13, 2011 Nature News
fossil discovery could push pint-sized, pointy-toothed dinosaur over to the plant-eaters
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What is life? New answers to an age-old question in astrobiology
January 13, 2011 physorg.com
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News Update/Commentary
Antifreeze Proteins: How One Gene Becomes Two (with Different Functions)
January 13, 2011 Science Daily
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Fall of Rome Recorded in Trees
January 13, 2011 Science NOW
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Evolution as seen by an alien
January 12, 2011 New Scientist, n.2795, p.48
an ingenious comic book that puts Darwin's theory in a new perspective -- that of fictional extraterrestrials
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Why we have to teleport disbelief
January 12, 2011 New Scientist, n.2795, p.5
whether it's mad or miraculous, the only way to find out if a mysterious quantum effect is at work in biology is to try to replicate it
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Scientists discover 'oldest' winery in Armenian cave
January 12, 2011 CNN
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Tree-like giant is largest molecule ever made
January 12, 2011 New Scientist, n.2795, p.17
with the mass of 200 million hydrogen atoms, this brand new macromolecule paves the way for highly sophisticated synthetic structures
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Ammonites' strict diet doomed them to extinction
January 12, 2011 New Scientist, n.2795, p.16
for the first time we know what ammonites ate, thanks to 3D images of their jaws
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For Whom the Nobel Tolls: An Evening Out with James Watson
January 12, 2011 Scientific American
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An inordinate fondness for bits
January 11, 2011 physicsworld.com
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News Update/Commentary
Hard-to-Find Fish Reveals Shared Developmental Toolbox of Evolution
January 11, 2011 Science Daily
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Rocky exoplanet milestone in hunt for Earth-like worlds
January 10, 2011 BBC News
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"Space scope finds scorched super-Earth"
January 10, 2011 Nature, v.469, p.143-144
Kepler's latest discovery is step closer to a true Earth analogue
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Measuring hell
January 9, 2011 Boston Globe
was modern physics born in the Inferno
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Fossil Focus: Coal swamps
January 9, 2011 Paleontology online
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Fossil Focus: Coal swamps
January 9, 2011 Paleontology online
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On humanity's quest for immortality
January 8, 2011 Guardian (UK)
How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there have have been numerous attempts to deny man
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Hipster bird species evolving to tune out urban sounds
January 7, 2011 New Scientist
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Skeletons in the pre-Cambrian closet
January 7, 2011 physorg.com
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists Construct Synthetic Proteins That Sustain Life
January 7, 2011 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Origin of Life on Earth
January 7, 2011 Science Daily
'natural' asymmetry of biological molecules may have come from space
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Bad Science Used to Support Torture and Human Experimentation
January 7, 2011 Science, v.331, n.6013, p.34-35
despite prior U.S. recognition of “enhanced interrogation” techniques as torture, science was misrepresented to support their use
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"Was North Africa the Launch Pad for Modern Human Migrations?"
January 7, 2011 Science, v.331, n.6013, p.20-23
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Exquisite design drives biomimetic adhesion research
January 7, 2011 Access Research Network (blog)
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News Update/Commentary
Pope Benedict: God Responsible for Big Bang and Universe Creation
January 6, 2011 Fox News
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God was behind Big Bang, universe no accident: Pope
January 6, 2011 Yahoo! News (Reuters)
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Cluster model shows how first cells could have divided
January 6, 2011 New Scientist, n.2794, p.11
biochemists have come up with model of a protocell which displays a rudimentary form of cell division, one of the key transitions in the history of life
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New Subatomic Particle Could Help Explain the Mystery of Dark Matter
January 6, 2011 Scientific American
a flurry of evidence reveals that "sterile neutrinos" are not only real but common, and could be the stuff of dark matter
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Journal’s Paper on ESP Expected to Prompt Outrage
January 5, 2011 New York Times
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Uncertainty principle: How evolution hedges its bets
January 5, 2011 New Scientist, n.2794, p.28-31
variety is the key to survival in a changeable world -- and evolution may have come up with an extraordinary way of generating more variety
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Mysteries of Lake Vostok on brink of discovery
January 5, 2011 New Scientist, n.2794, p.6-7
for 14 million years, Antarctica's Lake Vostok has been sealed off, but now a Russian drill is nearing the surface
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Oxygen crash led to Cambrian mass extinction
January 5, 2011 New Scientist
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Book examines Alberta’s dark eugenics history
January 4, 2011 Red Deer Advocate (Alberta, Canada)
Albertans have mainly had two reactions to the book: either expressing astonishment that Alberta’s shameful eugenics history isn’t being taught in schools or discomfort at her airing of this province’s dirty laundry
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Blog Post
Shower of dead birds: apocalypse or accident?
January 4, 2011 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Study suggests Viking lander found organics on Mars
January 4, 2011 MSNBC
re-enactment with soil from Chile repeats results reported 34 years ago
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Cognitive Science of Religion and Christianity
January 4, 2011 Calvin College (Michigan)
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Notre Dame’s Unique Interdepartmental Doctoral Program
January 4, 2011 Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values (University of Notre Dame)
doctoral program in History and Philosophy of Science
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Ancient Jamaican bird used wings to go clubbing
January 4, 2011 BBC News
an extinct flightless bird from Jamaica fought rivals and predators using wings evolved into clubs
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Near-death neurologist: Dreams on the border of life
January 4, 2011 New Scientist
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The Biologos Foundation and “Darwin’s Pious Idea”
January 4, 2011 BioLogos (blog)
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"Geomagnetic field intensity: How high can it get? How fast can it change? Constraints from Iron Age copper slag"
January 3, 2011 Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.301, n.1-2, p.297-306