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News Update/Commentary
Oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes found in Tanzania
March 20, 2014 Science Daily
the newly discovered fossils demonstrate that elapid snakes -- such as cobras, kraits and sea snakes -- were present in Africa as early as 25 million years ago
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The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans
March 20, 2014 Nature, v.507, p.354-357
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Melanosome evolution indicates a key physiological shift within feathered dinosaurs
March 20, 2014 Nature, v.507, p.350-353
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Editorial board: Suppressing science education standards is irresponsible
March 20, 2014 Star-Tribune (Casper, Wyoming)
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Not So Simple: Fruit Fly ENCODE Arrives
March 20, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists unveil dinosaur dubbed the 'chicken from hell'
March 20, 2014 CNN
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Medieval multiverse heralded modern cosmic conundrums
March 19, 2014 New Scientist, n.2961, p.13
a 13th-century Latin text has yielded a mathematical model of the universe that anticipates problems with our best understanding of the big bang
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Alzheimer's molecules may have powered early life
March 19, 2014 New Scientist, n.2961, p.12
amyloid plaques, a hallmark of diseases like Alzheimer's, may have catalysed life's metabolic reactions billions of years ago, long before enzymes appeared
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News Update/Commentary
Goldilocks principle: Earth's continued habitability due to geologic cycles that act as climate control
March 19, 2014 Science Daily
researchers have documented evidence suggesting that part of the reason that Earth has become neither sweltering like Venus nor frigid like Mars lies with a built-in atmospheric carbon dioxide regulator -- the geologic cycles that churn up
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News Update/Commentary
Nearly complete 'chicken from hell,' from mysterious dinosaur group
March 19, 2014 Science Daily
scientists have discovered a bizarre, bird-like dinosaur, named Anzu wyliei, that provides paleontologists with their first good look at a dinosaur group that has been shrouded in mystery for almost a century
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Imaginary Feathers Found on American Dinosaur
March 19, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
once again, imaginary feathers have been discovered on a “bird-like” dinosaur, this time from the Dakotas
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Will new physics sail on gravitational waves?
March 19, 2014 New Scientist, n.2961, p.5
The discovery of primordial ripples in space-time is exciting. But does it really herald a new era for cosmology?
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Weird 'chicken from hell' dinosaur lived alongside T. rex
March 19, 2014 Yahoo! News (Reuters)
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Bang for the Buck: What the BICEP2 Consortium's Discovery Means
March 19, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Good for Them: National Center for Science Education Decries "Anti-Religious Bias," "Slipshod History of Science" in Cosmos
March 19, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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No coincidence? Statistics and the outrageously unlikely
March 18, 2014 New Scientist, n.2960, p.51
Hand makes sense of bizarre patterns in Bible codes, lightning strikes and even drug trials
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Multiverse gets real with glimpse of big bang ripples
March 18, 2014 New Scientist, n.2961, p.8-10
the first direct signs of a cosmic growth spurt that set space-time rippling means that we may live in just one of an infinite number of universes
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Maybe creationists are on to something
March 18, 2014 Columbia Daily Tribune (Missouri)
banning evolution might make kids more interested
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On ignorance, bias, data, and the tentative nature of (scientific) interpretations
March 18, 2014 American Geophysical Union (blog)
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The Secret Spiritual History of Calculus
March 18, 2014 Scientific American
integral calculus originated in a 17th-century debate that was as religious as it was scientific
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Book Review: The Oldest Living Things in the World
March 18, 2014 Scientific American
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1,500-year-old Antarctic moss brought back to life
March 17, 2014 Fox News (Live Science)
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News Update/Commentary
Moss brought back to life after 1,500 years frozen in ice
March 17, 2014 Science Daily
For the first time, this vital part of the ecosystem in both polar regions has been shown to have the ability to survive century to millennial scale ice ages. This provides exciting new insight into the survival of life on Earth.
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News Update/Commentary
Why did humans replace Neanderthals? Paleo diet didn't change, the climate did
March 17, 2014 Science Daily
Studies did not look at possible isotopic variation of nitrogen isotopes in the food resource themselves. In fact, environmental factors such as aridity can increase the heavy nitrogen isotope amount in plants, leading to higher nitrogen i
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Has Cosmic Inflation Been Discovered?
March 17, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Claims of a major breakthrough about the big bang are swirling in the news: is it inflation, or inflating the evidence?
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Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun
March 17, 2014 New York Times
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists find cosmic ripples from birth of universe
March 17, 2014 Fox News
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News Update/Commentary
Tremors of the Big Bang: First direct evidence of cosmic inflation
March 17, 2014 Science Daily
Researchers announce the first direct evidence for cosmic inflation. Their data also represent the first images of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time. These waves have been described as the "first tremors of the Big Bang." Final
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Cosmos 2.0 Repeats the Flaws of Cosmos 1.0
March 17, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Neil de Grasse Tyson is showing himself to be a good disciple of Carl Sagan, never questioning his master
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Telescope captures view of gravitational waves
March 17, 2014 Nature, v.507, p.281-283
images of the infant Universe reveal evidence for rapid inflation after the Big Bang
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Book
Cosmos Episode 2: "Mindless Evolution" Has All the Answers -- If You Don't Think About It Too Deeply
March 17, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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False Spin: Ball State University Misrepresents Anti-Religious Chapters in What Is Your Dangerous Idea? as Religion-Friendly
March 17, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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A Scientific Breakthrough Lets Us See to the Beginning of Time
March 17, 2014 New Yorker
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Rescuing Dinosaur Soft Tissue from the Ravages of Time
March 15, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the reaction of scientists to irrefutable evidence for soft tissue in dinosaur bone sounds all too human: ignore, rant, rationalize; repeat
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Origin of Life: From Soup to Nuts
March 14, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
evolutionists have been stewing over primordial soup for over a century, but origin-of-life research is still in the kitchen with empty kettle
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News Update/Commentary
Little Foot is oldest complete Australopithecus, new stratigraphic research shows
March 14, 2014 Science Daily
After 13 years of meticulous excavation of the nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus fossil named Little Foot, South African and French scientists have now convincingly shown that it is probably around 3 million years old.
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Eccentric Earths: Weird planets where life might lurk
March 14, 2014 New Scientist, n.2960, p.38-42
we thought that the search for life on other planets meant finding Earth's twin, but now it looks like some bizarre worlds could still be fit for life
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Louisiana School Agrees to Court Order Ending Discriminatory Religious Practices
March 14, 2014 American Civil Liberties Union
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News Update/Commentary
Itsy bitsy dinosaur was T. rex cousin
March 14, 2014 CNN
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Video
John Lennox: “Seven Days That Divide the World"
March 13, 2014 YouTube
Dr. Lennox explores a method for reading and interpreting the first chapters of Genesis without discountiiptng either science or Scrure. Afterward Metaxas is heard asking, “Why didn't I ever have any math teachers like this?"
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Fossil Whale Already Had Echolocation
March 13, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
once again, a complex trait appears fully formed and functional in the fossil record
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News Update/Commentary
New fossil species reveals parental care of young from 450 million years ago
March 13, 2014 Science Daily
The 'nursery in the sea' has revealed a species new to science -- with specimens preserved incubating their eggs together with probable hatched individuals. As a result, the team has named the new species Luprisca incuba after Lucina, godd
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Geology: Earth's deep water reservoir
March 13, 2014 Nature, v.507, p.174-175
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How the fish got its fins
March 13, 2014 Nature, v.507, p.142
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How Useful Is Evolutionary Theory?
March 12, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
in science, it’s not enough to have a paradigm that merely keeps scientists busy, if they are rarely right
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New fossil species: Origin of toothed whale echolocation
March 12, 2014 Science Daily
a new fossil species, Cotylocara macei, shows evidence of echolocation and the complex anatomy underlying this unique behavior that has evolved in toothed whales, dolphins and porpoises
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Dinosaur skull may reveal T. rex's smaller cousin from the north
March 12, 2014 Science Daily
scientists analyzed the partial skull roof, maxilla, and jaw, recovered from Prince Creek Formation in Northern Alaska, of a dinosaur originally believed to belong to a different species, and then compared the fossils to known tyrannosauri
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Did dark matter kill the dinosaurs? Maybe…
March 12, 2014 New Scientist, n.2960, p.17
the link between the most mysterious stuff in the universe and fatal comet strikes on Earth is tenuous -- but it would elegantly connect two open questions
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History: A medieval multiverse
March 12, 2014 Nature, v.507, p.161-163
ideas in a thirteenth-century treatise on the nature of matter still resonate today
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Solving the Mystery of 'Slow Quakes'
March 12, 2014 Discover Magazine
geologists investigate why some earthquakes drag on for months, instead of mere seconds