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Creationism to be taught in Queensland classrooms
May 30, 2010 Herald Sun (Australia)
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Rebel scientists force Royal Society to accept climate change scepticism
May 29, 2010 Times Online
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution Breakthrough Challenged
May 28, 2010 CBS News
new doubt cast on "Ardi" theory in latest edition of Science
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Radio Program About Faith Defies the Skeptics
May 28, 2010 New York Times
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Francisco Ayala Responds to “Signature of Controversy”
May 28, 2010 BioLogos
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DNA replication... without life
May 27, 2010 New Scientist, n.2762, p.14
experiments suggest that DNA could have replicated inside hot rocky pores around undersea vents
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Backwardly wired retina “an optimal structure”
May 27, 2010 Creation Ministries International
new eye discovery further demolishes Dawkins
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Ardi may be more ape than human
May 27, 2010 Nature News
woodland home and hominid ancestry of Ardipithecus ramidus questioned
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"Life after the synthetic cell"
May 27, 2010 Nature, v.465, p.422-424
Nature asked eight synthetic-biology experts about the implications for science and society of the “synthetic cell” made by the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). The institute's team assembled, modified and implanted a synthesiz
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Challenges of our own making
May 27, 2010 Nature, v.465, p.397
the successful transplantation of a synthesized genome highlights unresolved ethical and security issues posed by synthetic biology
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Biogeography: Horned dinosaurs venture abroad
May 27, 2010 Nature, v.465, p.431-432
the discovery in Europe of fossils of a small horned dinosaur, a member of a group previously known only from Asia and North America, will prompt a rethink of biogeography at that time in the past
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A Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur from Europe with Asian affinities
May 27, 2010 Nature, v.465, p.466-468
EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Horned dinosaurs in Europe
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"Palaeontology: A little Kraken wakes"
May 27, 2010 Nature, v.465, p.427-428
Fossils from the famed Burgess Shale continue to deliver fresh perspectives on a dramatic episode in evolutionary time. The latest revelations bear on the early history of cephalopod molluscs.
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News Update/Commentary
Mystery fossil is ancestor of squid
May 27, 2010 BBC News
the ancestors of modern squid may have existed half a billion years ago -- a lot earlier than previously thought
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"Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian"
May 27, 2010 Nature, v.465, p.469-472
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Squid-like Nectocaris
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A sea change in Earth's prehistory
May 26, 2010 New Scientist, n.2762, p.51
the passing of this vast ancient ocean may have caused a mass extinction
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News Update/Commentary
Prehistoric Birds Were Poor Flyers
May 26, 2010 Science Daily
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Synthetic genome resets biotech goals
May 26, 2010 Nature, v.465, p.406
the assembly of a genome that can 'reboot' cells of a closely related species is one step in a much longer path
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Venter: The implications of our synthetic cell
May 26, 2010 New Scientist, n.2762, p.3
Craig Venter, Clyde Hutchison, and Hamilton Smith outline why the creation of a cell with no biological ancestor is so significant
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Special report: Where next for synthetic life?
May 26, 2010 New Scientist, n.2762, p.6-8
Craig Venter's creation of a synthetic cell was a tour de force, but the fruits of synthetic biology are more likely to come by other means
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News Update/Commentary
Horned dinosaurs 'island-hopped' from Asia to Europe
May 26, 2010 BBC News
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Mysterious fossil is first ancestor of the squid
May 26, 2010 New Scientist, n.2762, p.17
a famous half-billion-year-old fossil, one of the "weird wonders" from Canada's Burgess Shale, may be a cephalopod
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From biology to the Bible, from kindness to madness
May 26, 2010 New Scientist, n.2762, p.50
the tragic story of biologist George Price and his obsession with the problem of altruism
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Martin Gardner 1914-2010: Founder of the Modern Skeptical Movement
May 26, 2010 eSkeptic (newsletter of the Skeptics Society)
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News Update/Commentary
'Nature's Batteries' May Have Helped Power Early Lifeforms
May 25, 2010 Science Daily
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All evolution, all the time
May 25, 2010 Nature News
David Sloan Wilson explains why evolution is of consequence to everyone
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Was life really created in a test tube? And does it disprove biblical creation?
May 25, 2010 Creation Ministries International
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Tracing the fuzzy boundaries of science
May 24, 2010 New Scientist, n.2761, p.48-49
the line between science and pseudoscience can be hard to draw
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Blog Post
RIP Martin Gardner
May 24, 2010 Nature
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News Update/Commentary
DNA Sequence Itself Influences Mutation Rate
May 24, 2010 Science Daily
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Teeth tell temperature tales
May 24, 2010 Nature News
dinosaurs' dental samples could reveal details of body temperature
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New case for Intelligence Design can be made from Synthetic cell
May 24, 2010 Christian Today (Australia)
a biochemistry expert at the science-faith think tank Reasons to Believe is among those hailing the recent creation of the first-ever “synthetic cell,” though not for the same reasons as most
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A synthetic creation story
May 24, 2010 Nature News
claims of 'synthetic life' reflect only our changing conception of what life is and how it might be made
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Has Craig Venter Produced Artificial Life?
May 24, 2010 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Is free will real? Better believe it (even if it's not)
May 24, 2010 Psychology Today
why believing in free will is good for you
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Accommodationism V
May 23, 2010 Chronicle of Higher Education
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Diamonds travel at freeway speeds inside Earth
May 22, 2010 New Scientist, n.2761, p.18
experiments suggest that diamonds rise from deep within the planet at speeds of 60 kilometres per hour, far more rapidly than ordinary magma
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Biology´s ‘Skeleton in the Closet’: The Broken Bones of Origins Science
May 22, 2010 Uncommon Descent
review of chapter 13 of Signature in the Cell, by Stephen Meyer
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Humans: Why They Triumphed
May 22, 2010 Wall Street Journal
How did one ape 45,000 years ago happen to turn into a planet dominator? The answer lies in an epochal collision of creativity.
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Big Bang in the Protein Universe?
May 21, 2010 Science Daily
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"Cretaceous Extinctions: Multiple Causes"
May 21, 2010 Science, v.328, n.5981, p.973
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Clue to Antimatter Conundrum: Physicists Find Evidence for Significant Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
May 21, 2010 Science Daily
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Synthetic Genome Brings New Life to Bacterium
May 21, 2010 Science, v.328, n.5981, p.958-959
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Venter watch: ‘a metaphysical earthquake’ or ‘not really a major breakthrough’?
May 21, 2010 Nature (blog)
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News Update/Commentary
'Artifical life' breakthrough announced by scientists
May 20, 2010 BBC News
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Newspaper Article
Researchers Say They Created a ‘Synthetic Cell’
May 20, 2010 New York Times
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First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial Cell
May 20, 2010 J. Craig Venter Institute
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"Like Grandfather, Like Grandson: Erasmus and Charles Darwin on evolution"
May 20, 2010 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, v.53, n.2, p.186-199
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Polar bears and mammalian speciation
May 20, 2010 Access Research Network (blog)
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Researchers start up cell with synthetic genome
May 20, 2010 Nature News
a fully synthesized genome transforms one species of bacterium into another