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Microbial habitability of the Hadean Earth during the late heavy bombardment
May 21, 2009 Nature, v.459, p.419-422
EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Life on a hostile Earth
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Computation: The edge of reductionism
May 21, 2009 Nature, v.459, p.332-334
research at the frontier between computer science and physics illustrates the shortcomings of the reductionist approach to science, which explains macroscopic behaviour using microscopic principles
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Why Ida fossil is not the missing link
May 21, 2009 New Scientist, n.2710, p.18-19
the beautiful fossil primate skeleton has generated a whirlwind of superlatives in the media, but Ida offers little extra detail to the story of human evolution
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Scientists Unveil Missing Link in Evolution
May 20, 2009 Sky News Online
fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution
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"Origin of life: Nascence man"
May 20, 2009 Nature, v.459, p.316-319
like an alchemist of yore, Mike Russell is taking basic elements and trying to transform them -- not into gold, but into the stirrings of life
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Research team finds important role for junk DNA
May 20, 2009 Princeton University
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Magma pulses may reveal Earth's 'heartbeat'
May 20, 2009 New Scientist, n.2709
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Coming soon: First pictures of a black hole
May 20, 2009 New Scientist, n.2709
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Ida: The Holy Grail of Missing Links?
May 20, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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Some scientists say Ida is the missing link
May 20, 2009 Washington Times
true bridge between mankind and mammals?
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How life may have outlasted early blasts
May 20, 2009 MSNBC (Live Science)
study opens possibility that life emerged up to 4.4 billion years ago
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Ribonucleotides and the revival of the "warm little pond" scenario
May 19, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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Darwin and the Fuegians
May 19, 2009 Creation Ministries International
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News Update/Commentary
Insight into Evolution of First Flowers
May 19, 2009 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Common Ancestor of Humans, Modern Primates?
May 19, 2009 Science Daily
'extraordinary' fossil is 47 million years old
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Scientists hail stunning fossil
May 19, 2009 BBC News
the beautifully preserved remains of a 47-million-year-old, lemur-like creature have been unveiled in the US
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Early Skeleton Sheds Light on Primate Evolution
May 19, 2009 New York Times (Associated Press)
scientists said that Darwinius masillae would help illuminate the early evolution of monkeys, apes and humans
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Media blitz: 'We found missing link'
May 19, 2009 WorldNetDaily
but critics say fossil frenzy is more about pushing ideology than science
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Reunion of fossil halves splits scientists
May 19, 2009 Nature News
well-preserved primate suffers identity crisis
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Fond Dreams of BioLogos
May 18, 2009 beliefnet (blog)
an Evangelical Christian, Francis Collins would like to find a reconciliation between Darwinian evolution including its randomly driven, unplanned, unguided mechanism of natural selection, with Biblical religion, which is premised on Go
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Cambrian explosion changed ocean chemistry
May 18, 2009 Nature News
mud stirred up by sea-floor animals may have stoked global sulphate levels
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Seeking a Missing Link, and a Mass Audience
May 18, 2009 New York Times
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Conventional man, radical idea
May 17, 2009 Billings Gazette (Montana)
Bozeman science writer's interest in Darwin keeping him busy in bicentennial year
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News Update/Commentary
Viroids: Molecular Vestiges of the RNA World
May 17, 2009 Science Daily
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Discussion between Richard Dawkins and Paul Davies
May 17, 2009 richarddawkins.net
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How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans
May 17, 2009 Guardian (UK)
a fossil discovery bears marks of butchering similar to those made when cutting up a deer
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Atheists: No God, no reason, just whining
May 17, 2009 Los Angeles Times
superstar atheists are motivated by anger -- and boohoo victimhood
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Telescopes poised to spot air-breathing aliens
May 16, 2009 New Scientist, n.2708
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REVIEW: 12 May 2009
May 16, 2009 New Scientist, n.2707
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News Update/Commentary
Progress Toward Artificial Tissue?
May 16, 2009 Science Daily
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Are humans cruel to be kind?
May 16, 2009 New Scientist, n.2708
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Oldest Example of Mutualism: Termites and Protozoa Discovered Together in Ancient Amber
May 15, 2009 Science Daily
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‘Vengeance’ Bites Back at Jared Diamond
May 15, 2009 Science, v.324, n.5929, p.872-874
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Fossil Discovery Is Heralded
May 15, 2009 Wall Street Journal
the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes, and humans
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Chernobyl fallout could drive evolution of 'space plants'
May 15, 2009 New Scientist, n.2709
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"Is free will an illusion?"
May 14, 2009 Nature, v.459, p.164-165
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Origins of life: Systems chemistry on early Earth
May 14, 2009 Nature, v.459, p.171-172
Understanding how life emerged on Earth is one of the greatest challenges facing modern chemistry. A new way of looking at the synthesis of RNA sidesteps a thorny problem in the field.
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"Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions"
May 14, 2009 Nature, v.459, p.239-242
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: 14 May 2009 / RNA is for life
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Mystery of how life on Earth began solved by British scientists
May 14, 2009 Telegraph (UK)
scientists have solved the mystery of how life on Earth evolved from molecules when the planet was devoid of life four billion years ago
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REVIEW: 9 September 2009
May 14, 2009 New Scientist, n.2725
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REVIEW: 5 September 2009
May 14, 2009 Guardian (UK)
Richard Dawkins's latest broadside just misses its target
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Debate: "Grand Canyon: Evolution or Creation"
May 13, 2009 Northwestern College, Roseville, MN
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The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body
May 13, 2009 New Scientist, n.2708
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Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
May 13, 2009 New York Times
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RNA world easier to make
May 13, 2009 Nature News
ingenious chemistry shows how nucleotides may have formed in the primordial soup
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Molecule of life emerges from laboratory slime
May 13, 2009 New Scientist, n.2708
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Nine bizarre animals that are new to science
May 13, 2009 New Scientist, n.2708
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Old Genes Can Learn New Tricks, Horned Beetles Show
May 13, 2009 Science Daily
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"Flat universe may be the new flat Earth"
May 13, 2009 New Scientist, n.2708, p.15
today we dismiss flat-Earthers as ignorant, yet we may be making an almost identical mistake about the entire universe
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"Seismology: The sleeping dragon"
May 13, 2009 Nature, v.459, p.153-157
the great Sichuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 caught Earth scientists off guard