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Robots that can adapt like animals
May 28, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.503-507
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'New Species' of Possible Human Relative Found in Ethiopia
May 28, 2015 Science Daily
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Press Welcomes “Lucy Neighbor”
May 28, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
another species of Australopithecus has been named, but does the evidence justify the big to-do in the media
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New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity
May 28, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.483-488
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From evolutionary computation to the evolution of things
May 28, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.476-482
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Newest "Human Ancestor" Apparently Composed Entirely of Teeth
May 28, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Theory of everything? How spacetime is built by quantum entanglement
May 27, 2015 Science Daily
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Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness
May 27, 2015 Science Daily
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Why we should all seek out awesome experiences
May 27, 2015 New Scientist, n.3023, p.19
the sense of awe we feel from gazing up at tall trees can make us more considerate, helpful and ethically aware
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First evidence that dinosaurs laid colourful blue-green eggs
May 27, 2015 New Scientist, n.3023, p.16
It should be raptor egg blue instead of robin egg blue. Some modern birds lay colourful eggs, but now we know it's a trick their dinosaur ancestors used too.
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Ancient DNA suggests dogs split from wolves 40,000 years ago
May 27, 2015 New Scientist, n.3023, p.12
an extinct wolf's DNA has pushed back the origin of dogs by more than 10,000 years, but when humans domesticated them is still lost in the mists of time
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Brain implant that decodes intention will let us probe free will
May 27, 2015 New Scientist, n.3023, p.8-9
designed to give paralysed people more independence, the implant also lets us see if brain activity can show a person's decisions -- before they realise they've made any
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Your Prophetic Brain
May 27, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Your eyes and brain come pre-wired to make predictions, and they are usually right. Even babies know that.
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Laser-beam scanning illuminates new details in dinosaur fossils
May 27, 2015 Science Daily
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Lethal wounds on skull may indicate 430,000 year-old murder
May 27, 2015 Science Daily
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Robotics: Ethics of artificial intelligence
May 27, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.415-418
four leading researchers share their concerns and solutions for reducing societal risks from intelligent machines
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New human ancestor species from Ethiopia lived alongside Lucy's species
May 27, 2015 Science Daily
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New species of early human was Lucy's neighbour in Africa
May 27, 2015 New Scientist, n.3023, p.18
fossils of a new species of Australopithecus have been found near the site of Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, suggesting the two species interacted
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Yes, Despite a Lawsuit in West Virginia, It's Constitutional for Public Schools to Teach Evolution
May 27, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Faith Versus Fact: In Search of Jerry Coyne's Thesis
May 27, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Rare Fossils: Dead Animals Decay Rapidly
May 26, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Why do some fossils leave soft tissue remains? It takes guts, some scientists propose.
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Darwin, Design, and Phototropism
May 26, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Animal behaviour: Inside the cunning, caring and greedy minds of fish
May 26, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.412-414
by revealing that fish cooperate, cheat and punish, Redouan Bshary has challenged ideas about brain evolution
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How to Clone a Mammoth: But should we?
May 25, 2015 New Scientist, n.3022, p.44
with the science nearly upon us, a new book highlights the ethical and logistical issues of bringing back proxies of extinct animals such as the woolly mammoth
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Coral Islands Rise with Sea Level
May 25, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
worries about sea-level rise inundating coral atolls and islands are unfounded, thanks to coral’s rapid response to change
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Understanding Cardiovascular Function: Beyond Irreducible Complexity
May 25, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Serological tests reveal evolutionary relationships
May 24, 2015 Darwin's Predictions
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Science Needs God; and Hurry!
May 24, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Science is in a crisis of ethics. What would you expect from a community that rejects the Ten Commandments for morality that evolves?
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Bats Are Home-Run Flyers
May 23, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
You don’t just put wings on a naked mole rat and make it fly. Bats are designed to be aero-bat-ic champions.
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Ancient DNA pinpoints Paleolithic liaison in Europe
May 22, 2015 Science, v.348, n.6237, p.847
a young man who lived in Romania 37,000 to 42,000 years inherited as much as one-tenth of his DNA from a Neandertal ancestor
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Go fish! Ancient birds evolved specialist diving adaptations
May 22, 2015 Science Daily
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From chicken to dinosaur: Scientists experimentally 'reverse evolution' of perching toe
May 22, 2015 Science Daily
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Genetic Evolution Falsified
May 22, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
hundreds of your genes work just fine in yeast and plankton, after supposedly a billion years of evolution separating us
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Addressing a "Misunderstanding" About Academic Freedom with Discovering Intelligent Design
May 22, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking
May 21, 2015 nautil.us
How Julian Jaynes’ famous 1970s theory is faring in the neuroscience age.
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3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya
May 21, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.310-315
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Gut microbes give good fossils
May 21, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.263
gut microbes are the main driver of tissue decay when animals die, and were probably important for preserving soft-tissue anatomy in fossil animals
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T. Rex-Like Fossil Is First Dino Found in Washington State
May 21, 2015 Science Daily
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The Spider, the Fly and the Octopus: Invertebrate Designs
May 21, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
small animals without backbones are cleverly designed, leaving evolutionists scratching their heads
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Top 10 new species for 2015
May 21, 2015 Science Daily
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Fossil of 425-million-year-old parasite with host discovered in England
May 21, 2015 Science Daily
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The big bang blip: Solving the mystery of why matter exists
May 20, 2015 New Scientist, n.3022, p.28-32
Matter and antimatter should have wiped each other out at the universe's birth. The upgraded Large Hadron Collider aims to find why matter alone survived.
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Flies share basic elements of human fear -- but is it emotion?
May 20, 2015 New Scientist, n.3022, p.17
when fruit flies are threatened with overhead shadows, they delay returning to the danger area, even foregoing an easy meal
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Oldest broken bone reveals our ancestors' switch to life on land
May 20, 2015 New Scientist, n.3022, p.14
the first known leg break could only have happened on land, pushing back the transition of our four-legged ancestors from water to land by 2 million years
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Found: giant spirals in space that could explain our existence
May 20, 2015 New Scientist, n.3022, p.12
Why there is any matter at all is one of physics' biggest mysteries. Hints of a spiralled intergalactic magnetic field could solve it.
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News from Eden
May 20, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
some recent findings fit naturally with a Genesis view of natural history
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Quantum physics: What is really real?
May 20, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.278-280
a wave of experiments is probing the root of quantum weirdness
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World's oldest stone tools challenge ideas about first toolmakers
May 20, 2015 Science Daily
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Doctors and Evolution
May 19, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
Ben Carson is a neurosurgeon who has expressed reservations about Darwinian accounts of evolution
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Instant Islands and Ecology
May 19, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a new volcanic island near Japan recalls the rapid colonization of Iceland’s Surtsey island in 1965