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Book
Right about Genesis!
December, 2018 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: Right from the Start! BY: David M. Fouts
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When flowers reached Australia
December 11, 2019 University of Melbourne
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News Update/Commentary
How humans learned to dance: From the chimpanzee conga line
December 12, 2019 Science Daily
Two chimpanzees housed in a zoo in the US have sparked the question about how human dance evolved after being observed performing a duo dance-like behavior, similar to a human conga line.
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How do machines think?
December 11, 2019 New Statesman America
We have built AI systems that can do everything from diagnose our illnesses to drive our cars. But how can we trust them if we don’t understand them?
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Was Earth’s oxygenation a gradual process?
December 13, 2019 Cosmos Magazine
Modelling suggests a string of major events wasn’t necessary.
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First direct observation of a black hole and its ‘shadow’ is Physics World 2019 Breakthrough of the Year
December 12, 2019 Physics World
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Is the Law of Conservation of Energy Cancelled?
December 12, 2019 nautil.us
Maybe energy can be created and destroyed, or maybe the notion doesn’t quite make sense.
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DNA recovered from Arctic lakes holds clues for our future world
December 10, 2019 Science
CF8, a 40-hectare lake on Baffin Island in Canada, holds a DNA record of the surrounding ecosystem that may go back 125,000 years.
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How Worms Avoid Eating Bad Bacteria and Warn Their Offspring Too
December 12, 2019 The Scientist
A small RNA in Pseudomonas triggers an avoidance response in C. elegans that can be passed on to the next generation, according to research presented at this week’s meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.
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We're beginning to question the idea of species -- including our own
December 11, 2019 New Scientist
Are you a human, or a human-Neanderthal hybrid? The concept of the species, one of the most basic in biology, may not be as well-defined as we think
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Time travel without paradoxes is possible with many parallel timelines
December 13, 2019 New Scientist
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Big bang retold: The weird twists in the story of the universe's birth
December 11, 2019 New Scientist
It certainly wasn’t big, and probably didn’t bang -- and the surprises in the conventional story of the universe's origins don’t end there
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News Update/Commentary
Azteca ant colonies move the same way leopards' spots form
December 11, 2019 Science Daily
What could Azteca ants in coffee farms in Mexico have in common with leopards' spots and zebras' stripes?
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Come to Think of It, There Is No Necessary Relationship Between Atheism and Darwinism
December 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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The Man with Two Fingerprints Also Has His Donor’s Semen
December 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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At Nature: Is 44 Kya Indonesian Rock Painting the Oldest Mythological Art?
December 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Book
Book Review: Can Science Explain Everything? by John Lennox
December 12, 2019 Apologetics 315
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State of shock: 200-year-old law about gas mixtures called into question
December 9, 2019 University of New Mexico
According to a new study, centuries-old laws about the behavior of gas mixtures do not apply in the presence of shock waves.
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Human Ancestors May Have Evolved the Physical Ability to Speak More Than 25 Million Years Ago
December 11, 2019 Smithsonian Magazine
Though when primates developed the cognitive abilities for language remains a mystery
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The Startling Secret of an Invincible Virus
December 11, 2019 The Atlantic
A phage that resists all forms of the antiviral defense known as CRISPR has an unusual means of survival.
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10 Years Ago, DNA Tests Were the Future of Medicine. Now They’re a Social Network
December 11, 2019 BuzzFeed News
We were offered personalized medicine. Instead, we got Facebook for our DNA.
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Designed Adaptations Challenge Evolution
December 12, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Does the Bible Talk About Near-Death Experiences?
December 8, 2019 Mind Matters
Walter Bradley points to an incident in the life of the apostle Paul in the New Testament that sounds like a near-death experience
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The Top 10 Websites for Science in 2019
December 12, 2019 Real Clear Science
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Who do you think you are? Why your sense of self is an illusion
December 11, 2019 New Scientist
Most of us are convinced that we're coherent individuals who are continuous in time. There's just one problem with this sense of self -- it can’t exist
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Is this cave painting humanity’s oldest story?
December 11, 2019 Nature
Indonesian rock art dated to 44,000 years old seems to show mythological figures in a hunting scene.
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News Update/Commentary
Paleontology: Experiments in evolution
December 11, 2019 Science Daily
A new find from Patagonia sheds light on the evolution of large predatory dinosaurs. Features of the 8-m long specimen from the Middle Jurassic suggest that it records a phase of rapid diversification and evolutionary experimentation.
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Opinion: The Uncomfortable Limits of Human Knowledge
December 1, 2019 The Scientist
Does science describe experience or truth?
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News Update/Commentary
A new early whale, Aegicetus gehennae, and the evolution of modern whale locomotion
December 11, 2019 Science Daily
New whale represents an intermediate stage between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming
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A Glimpse at One Facet of Post-Science Physics
December 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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New Atheism: A Shipwreck of Fools
December 12, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Did New Atheism Become the Godlessness That Failed?
December 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Why Were Tourists Allowed to Visit an Active New Zealand Volcano?
December 10, 2019 New York Times
Visitors were allowed to tour the mouth of the White Island volcano despite recent warnings about bursts of gas and steam.
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Oxygen shaped the evolution of the eye
December 10, 2019 EurekAlert!
Convergent origins of new mechanisms to supply oxygen to the retina were directly linked to concurrent enhancements in the functional anatomy of the eye.
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The human hand in fish evolution
December 9, 2019 knowable magazine
Fishery practices that go for the big ones may be counterproductive when mostly the small survive
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‘Missing link' penguin fossil shows how they evolved after dinosaurs went extinct
December 10, 2019 CNN
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Happy 6ft: ancient penguins were as tall as people
December 10, 2019 The Conversation
We’ve discovered the species that started the downsizing trend
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When penguins ruled after dinosaurs died
December 9, 2019 phys.org
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Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable
December 9, 2019 Quanta Magazine
By considering simple symmetries, physicists working on the “bootstrap” have rederived the four known forces. “There’s just no freedom in the laws of physics,” said one.
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Brainwashing Kids with Space Aliens
December 10, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists are prepping children for a global deception.
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Neanderthal Extinction Dilemma
December 10, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Blog Post
Why the laws of nature are not inevitable, never have been, and never will be.
December 10, 2019 backreaction.blogspot.com
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KU Leuven Investigates Whether Stem Cell Scientist Falsified Data
December 10, 2019 The Scientist
Papers from Catherine Verfaillie’s lab have been drawing fire for years.
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Predatory journals: no definition, no defence
December 11, 2019 Nature
Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach.
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When it comes to good practice in science, we need to think global but act local
December 11, 2019 Nature
International codes of conduct are important, but grass-roots efforts are the key to embedding research integrity.
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In the quantum world, uncertainty reigns -- or is it all in the mind?
December 11, 2019 New Scientist
Schrödinger's dead-and-alive cat embodies the uncertainty of the quantum world. But whether parallel realities truly exist is a question less of science than belief
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Think you understand how evolution works? You're probably wrong
December 11, 2019 New Scientist
A common misconception is that evolution naturally selects for biological complexity, eventually creating advanced organisms like us. That couldn't be further from the truth
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic brain disorder fixed in mice using precision epigenome editing
December 10, 2019 Science Daily
Using a targeted gene epigenome editing approach in the developing mouse brain, researchers reversed one gene mutation that leads to the genetic disorder WAGR syndrome, which causes intellectual disability and obesity in people.
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Why is Earth so rich in oxygen? The answer is simpler than we thought
December 10, 2019 New Scientist
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Jonathan Wells Was Right: Non-coding DNA Continues to Show Function
December 10, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today