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Planets More Habitable Than Earth May Be Common in Our Galaxy
January 1, 2015 Scientific American, v.312, n.1
planets quite different from our own may be the best homes for life in the universe
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Introducing the Heavyweight Dino of the World
January 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
top 100 stories of 2014, #21 ... Dreadnoughtus schrani's tail alone measures an impressive 30 feet
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Researchers Construct First Designer Chromosome
January 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
top 100 stories of 2014, #17 ... the synthetic yeast chromosome marks the first step toward synthesizing a eukaryotic organism
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The First Dinosaur to Menace Both Land and Water
January 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
top 100 stories of 2014, #9 ... a new specimen of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus helps researchers sort out its strange traits
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The Year in Science Fraud
January 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
top 100 stories of 2014, #8 ... what can we learn from the scandals that plagued scientific research in 2014
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What Made the Bang so Big?
January 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
top 100 stories of 2014, #5 ... if the findings are verified, BICEP2 will have amassed the strongest support yet for cosmic inflation
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Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
January 1, 2015 Yale University Press
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Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World
January 1, 2015 Pegasus
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2014 review: The most awesome stories of the year
December 30, 2014 New Scientist, n.3000, p.32-33
the elixir of youth, a switch to turn consciousness on and off, electric life forms … and more
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p.4 — One More Minute
December 30, 2014 From the Editor
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p.9 — BioOrigins Project Update: Purpose, Progress, and Promise, Part 4
December 30, 2014 Research
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p.10-13 — Ice Cores, Seafloor Sediments, and the Age of the Earth, Part 3
December 30, 2014 Impact
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p.14 — “Dicer” Enzyme Keeps DNA on Track
December 30, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.15 — Not Even Wrong
December 30, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.16 — Devils, Dinosaurs, and Squirrel Fossils
December 30, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.17 — Does Our Immune System Indicate Disease Before the Fall?
December 30, 2014 Creation Q & A
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p.18 — Sound Science About Dinosaurs
December 30, 2014 Apologetics
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Planet hunters plot course for habitable worlds
December 29, 2014 Nature, v.517, p.8-9
researchers aim to set aside differences in search for life on distant spheres
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Y(ou)r q(ua)ntifi(e)d s(el)f, a short story
December 28, 2014 New Scientist, n.3000, p.80-82
whether or not your existence is noticed, whether you detect it or not, you are exquisite
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Universe, Planet, Proteins...It's Fine-Tuning All the Way Down
December 26, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The Christmas Story As Told by a Secular Science Reporter
December 25, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
here’s how the Christmas story fares under the lens of a secular science reporter who doesn’t believe in a miracle-working God who enters into history
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Egg and sperm race: Scientists create precursors to human egg and sperm
December 25, 2014 Science Daily
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Comparing Astronaut Christmas Greetings from 1968 and 2014
December 24, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
On Apollo 8 Christmas Eve 46 years ago, astronauts read from Genesis. You won’t believe what today’s astronauts had to say for holiday greetings.
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Oldest stone tool ever found in Turkey discovered
December 23, 2014 Science Daily
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Fossil fish eye has 300 million-year-old rods and cones
December 23, 2014 Science News
oldest evidence found of color vision cells
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Comets Are Not Life Givers
December 23, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
astrobiologists dream of comets as bearers of life in spite of -- not because of -- the data from Rosetta’s comet
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Is the answer to life, the universe and everything 37?
December 22, 2014 New Scientist, n.3000, p.61-63
So you're an alien seeding primordial Earth with life. Like any creator, you sign your work. Now we may have found that signature -- in the genetic code.
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Overqualified Mammals
December 22, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
here are some mammals with capabilities that exceed the requirements of mere survival
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Tales from a Martian rock
December 22, 2014 Science Daily
new chemical analysis of ancient Martian meteorite provides clues to planet's history of habitability
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Modern genetics confirm ancient relationship between fins and hands
December 22, 2014 Science Daily
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Why are we so eager to embrace conspiracy theories?
December 22, 2014 New Scientist, n.3000, p.36-37
a staggering number of people believe the unbelievable
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Dinosaurs and the Battle of Killers
December 21, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
An impact drove the dinosaurs extinct; or was it volcanoes?
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New species found in the deepest trench on Earth
December 20, 2014 Science Daily
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Storm Surge Carries Huge Boulders
December 20, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a typhoon carried 180-ton rocks 150 feet up a beach -- the largest transport recorded in recent times
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Breakthrough to our origins
December 19, 2014 Science, v.346, n.6216, p.1433
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Birds Go Splat on Evolutionary Theories
December 19, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a flock of surprising traits of birds has dropped a load on simplistic notions of evolution
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Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen
December, 2014 Alma Books
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550-million-year-old fossils provide new clues about fossil formation
December 18, 2014 Science Daily
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No 'bird brains'? Crows exhibit advanced relational thinking, study suggests
December 18, 2014 Science Daily
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New, tighter timeline confirms ancient volcanism aligned with dinosaurs' extinction
December 18, 2014 Science Daily
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Science News Hype Getting Overdue Scrutiny
December 18, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
finally, a journal is owning up to the propensity for scientists and reporters to exaggerate research
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How to think about… Evolution
December 17, 2014 New Scientist, n.2999, p.40-41
forget natural selection, survival of the fittest or any sense of purpose: evolution is just a random way to make freaks normal
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Ancient Earth may have made its own water
December 17, 2014 Science Daily
rock circulating in mantle feeds world's oceans even today
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Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs may have nearly knocked off mammals, too
December 17, 2014 Science Daily
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Ancient, hydrogen-rich waters deep underground around the world
December 17, 2014 Science Daily
waters could support isolated life
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Astrobiology Has No Bio
December 17, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
When you take the “bio” out of astrobiology, what do you get? Is it still a science?
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Spin cycle
December 17, 2014 Nature, v.516, p.287-288
pressures in all stages of the news-making process can lead to hype in science reporting
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How to think about… Relativity
December 16, 2014 New Scientist, n.2999, p.40
it's been called the greatest theory ever devised -- we explain it using two spaceships, two clocks and a black hole
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Biological Information, a Mile and a Half Beneath the Ocean Floor
December 16, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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NASA Goddard instrument makes first detection of organic matter on Mars
December 16, 2014 Science Daily