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Physics and the Immortality of the Soul
May 23, 2011 Scientific American (blog)
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Monash student finds Universe’s missing mass
May 23, 2011 Monash University (Australia)
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Did HMS Beagle voyage lead to Charles Darwin’s poor health?
May 23, 2011 EarthSky
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Forbidden Archeology
May 22, 2011 Daily Bell
our billion-year-old human history and the spiritual satisfaction of the Vedas
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News Update/Commentary
Young Graphite in Old Rocks Challenges the Earliest Signs of Life
May 21, 2011 Science Daily
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Errors in Protein Structure Sparked Evolution of Biological Complexity
May 21, 2011 Science Daily
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Peculiar Feeding Mechanism of the First Vertebrates
May 20, 2011 Science Daily
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From Gene to Protein: Control Is Mainly in the Cytoplasm, Not Cell Nucleus
May 20, 2011 Science Daily
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Industrial Melanism in British Peppered Moths Has a Singular and Recent Mutational Origin
May 20, 2011 Science, v.332, n.6032, p.958-960
the locus responsible for the dark form of the peppered moth is identified
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Structures of the Bacterial Ribosome in Classical and Hybrid States of tRNA Binding
May 20, 2011 Science, v.332, n.6032, p.981-984
two crystal structures indicate how conformational changes in the ribosome assist protein synthesis
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Evolving Large and Complex Brains
May 20, 2011 Science, v.332, n.6032, p.926-927
X-ray studies of two Early Jurassic fossils offer insight into the evolution of mammalian brains
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Sniff Sniff: Smelling Led to Smarter Mammals, Researchers Say
May 20, 2011 Science Daily
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Mammals' large brains evolved for smell
May 20, 2011 BBC
a highly developed sense of smell kick-started the development of mammals' big brains
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Fossil Evidence on Origin of the Mammalian Brain
May 20, 2011 Science, v.332, n.6032, p.955-957
evidence from two early fossils suggests that brain enlargement and specialization proceeded in three pulses
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Seismic Crystal Ball Proving Mostly Cloudy Around the World
May 20, 2011 Science, v.332, n.6032, p.912-913
failing at quake prediction, seismologists tried making fuzzier forecasts, but Japan's megaquake is only the latest reminder of the method's shortcomings
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New Work Reinforces Megaquake's Harsh Lessons in Geoscience
May 20, 2011 Science, v.332, n.6032, p.911
high-tech analyses of Japan's March earthquake overturn long-held views of fault behavior and warn that another disaster may be looming
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Newspaper Article
Consciousness: The Great Illusion?
May 20, 2011 New York Times
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Creationist groups banished from free schools
May 20, 2011 The TES (UK)
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Packaging Process for Genes Discovered
May 19, 2011 Science Daily
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Standing Up to Fight: Does It Explain Why We Walk Upright and Why Women Like Tall Men?
May 19, 2011 Science Daily
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China Fossil Shows Bird, Crocodile Family Trees Split Earlier Than Thought
May 19, 2011 Science Daily
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New method 'confirms dark energy'
May 19, 2011 BBC News
first results from a major astronomical survey using a cutting-edge technique appear to have confirmed the existence of mysterious dark energy
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Dark Energy Is Driving Universe Apart: NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Finds Dark Energy Repulsive
May 19, 2011 Science Daily
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Evolutionary Leftovers in DNA? Not So, Says New Study
May 19, 2011 Institute for Creation Research
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The snail that's bust a gut to become toxic
May 19, 2011 New Scientist
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Lizard Fossil Provides Missing Link to Show Body Shapes of Snakes and Limbless Lizards Evolved Independently
May 19, 2011 Science Daily
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Eocene lizard from Germany reveals amphisbaenian origins
May 19, 2011 Nature, v.473, p.364-367
Amphisbaenia is a speciose clade of fossorial lizards characterized by a snake-like body and a strongly reinforced skull adapted for head-first burrowing
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The next step for the synthetic genome
May 19, 2011 Nature, v.473, p.403-408
Biologists have copied an existing genetic code, but haven't yet commercialized it or written their own. What will it take for a tour de force to reach industrial force?
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Cells may stray from 'central dogma'
May 19, 2011 Nature News
the ability to edit RNA to produce 'new' protein-coding sequences could be widespread in human cells
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Magazine Article
DNA-RNA mismatch
May 19, 2011 The Scientist
there may be widespread, nonrandom differences between DNA sequences and their corresponding RNA transcripts in human cells
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New level of genetic diversity in human RNA sequences uncovered
May 19, 2011 physorg.com
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Widespread RNA and DNA Sequence Differences in the Human Transcriptome
May 19, 2011 Science Magazine
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Magazine Article
Early mammals were brainy and nosy
May 19, 2011 New Scientist
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Protein flaws responsible for complex life
May 19, 2011 BBC News
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Blog Post
National Geographic: Site shows religion, not agriculture, prehistoric organizing force
May 19, 2011 Uncommon Descent
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Alien-hunters focus in on habitable planets
May 18, 2011 New Scientist, n.2813, p.5
a major SETI observatory has shut down, but the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is more focused than ever
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Science owes much to both Christianity and the Middle Ages
May 18, 2011 Nature
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Vestigial hiccups, folding fish-eyes, and other fables: Our fishy forebears . . . again!
May 18, 2011 Answers in Genesis
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No such thing as reptiles
May 18, 2011 p.30
the traditional group Reptilia things like lizards, crocodiles, snakes, tortoises plus many extinct groups -- is not a true clade.
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Confusion over nuclear fission
May 18, 2011 p.30-31
We've built the bomb. We've built reactors. But the whole enterprise of nuclear fission is based on a misunderstanding.
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Noah's shrinking ark
May 18, 2011 p.32-33
Ask a taxonomist to estimate Earth's total inventory of species, and they'll probably say 30 million. That is almost certainly a huge overestimate.
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Einstein's cosmological fudge
May 18, 2011 p.33
Albert Einstein's towering reputation is only enhanced by his self-styled biggest blunder. It might not have been a mistake after all.
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Rewriting the textbooks: When science gets it wrong
May 18, 2011 New Scientist, n.2813, p.29
it turns out that reptiles don't exist and we don't know how the atom splits ... nine venerable truths you can't rely on
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Calculations may have overestimated extinction rates
May 18, 2011 New Scientist, n.2813, p.8
species are being driven to extinction -- but perhaps not as rapidly as we thought, because of a mathematical error that has gone unnoticed for decades
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New Evidence Shows Mobile Animals Could Have Evolved Much Earlier Than Previously Thought
May 18, 2011 Science Daily
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Sodium Channels Evolved Before Animals' Nervous Systems
May 18, 2011 Science Daily
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Imaging Technology Reveals Intricate Details of 49-Million-Year-Old Spider
May 18, 2011 Science Daily
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Genetic 'Wiring' of Seeds Revealed
May 18, 2011 Science Daily
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The Achilles' heel of biological complexity
May 18, 2011 Nature News
the complex web of protein interactions in our cells may be masking an ever-worsening problem
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Living in a Quantum World
May 18, 2011 Scientific American
Quantum mechanics is not just about teeny particles. It applies to things of all sizes: birds, plants, maybe even people.