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Subsurface Magma Triggers Earth’s Most Severe Extinction
July 31, 2017 U. S. Geological Survey
subsurface magma intrusions (sills), rather than surface lava flows, may have triggered the Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event approximately 252 million years ago
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Let’s Save the University from Secular Privilege
September 1, 2017 Christianity Today
The academy has lost its pluralism. Here’s how the church can help find it.
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Is Perception a ‘Controlled Hallucination’?
September 6, 2017 Big Questions Online
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What’s in a Name? How Genome Mapping Can Make It Harder to Tell Species Apart
September 6, 2017 All About Birds (Cornell)
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Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines
September 11, 2017 YouTube
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Analysis: Hybrid Birds Are Supercolliders of Speciation
September 18, 2017 All About Birds (Cornell)
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Why we don’t want another “Synthesis”
October 2, 2017 Biology Direct, 12:23
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New NASA study suggests moon once had an atmosphere
October 5, 2017 phys.org
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Retracting Bad Science Doesn’t Make It Disappear
October 10, 2017 Wired
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A Surprise from the Supervolcano Under Yellowstone
October 10, 2017 New York Times
beneath Yellowstone National Park is a powerful supervolcano which drives Grand Prismatic Spring and other geological activity
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After 6,000 Years of Human Habitation, One Family and Lots of Mice
October 10, 2017 New York Times
the Erbil citadel, a Unesco World Heritage Site in Iraq, is one of the oldest continuously occupied human settlements on Earth
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An 1888 Volcanic Collapse Becomes a Benchmark for Tsunami Models
October 10, 2017 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
When volcanic mountains slide into the sea, they trigger tsunamis. How big are these waves, and how far away can they do damage? Ritter Island provides some answers.
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Q&A: Inside a Cell’s Engine Room
October 11, 2017 Physics, v.10, p.112
George Shubeita describes his studies of the tiny motors that transport vital cargoes within biological cells
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The Multiverse Is Inevitable, and We're Living in It
October 12, 2017 Forbes
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GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
October 16, 2017 Physical Review Letters, v.119, p.161101
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Volcanic Unrest at Mauna Loa, Earth’s Largest Active Volcano
October 16, 2017 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Mauna Loa is stirring -- is a major eruption imminent? Comparisons with previous eruptions paint a complicated picture.
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How to Trigger a Massive Earthquake
October 19, 2017 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Humans may be to blame for California’s second-largest 20th century earthquake, and a team of seismologists has now proposed how that could have happened.
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In glyphosate review, WHO cancer agency edited out 'non-carcinogenic' findings
October 19, 2017 Reuters
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Blog Post
What is space? The 300-year-old philosophical battle that is still raging today
October 19, 2017 The Conversation
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New gravitational wave detection with optical counterpart rules out some dark matter alternatives
October 22, 2017 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Now 400 Scientific Papers in 2017 Say ‘Global Warming’ Is a Myth
October 24, 2017 breitbart.com
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Mutator genomes decay, despite sustained fitness gains, in a long-term experiment with bacteria
October 24, 2017 Alejandro Couce, et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v.114, n.43, p.E9026-E9035
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Viewpoint: The Relentless Hunt for Dark Matter
October 30, 2017 Physics, v.10, p.119
the latest results from two dark matter searches have further ruled out many theoretically attractive dark matter particle candidates
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Julie Payette faces backlash over faith remarks
November 8, 2017 Catholic Register (Canadian Catholic News)
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Blog Post
The end of promissory materialism? What advances has materialism (naturalism) made in the last decade?
November 12, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
New mechanisms discovered that bacteria use to protect themselves from antibiotics
November 13, 2017 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Biologists create beetle with functional extra eye
November 13, 2017 Science Daily
'three-eyed' insect could help reveal self-organizing mechanism behind the evolution of new complex traits
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Philosophical critique exposes flaws in medical evidence hierarchies
November 13, 2017 Science News
rankings of research reliability are logically untenable, an in-depth analysis concludes
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The forgotten scientist who paved the way for the discovery of DNA’s structure
November 13, 2017 The Conversation
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CELD returns!
November 13, 2017 Core Academy of Science
the Creation-Evolution Literature Database
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ID’s Top Six -- The Origin of Humans
November 13, 2017 Evolution News & Science Today
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2018 Global atheist Reason to Hope conference canceled
November 13, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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Are Adam and Eve genetically possible? The latest: Richard Buggs (yes) replies to Dennis Venema (no)
November 13, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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Single gene flip, not Darwinism, explains butterfly mimicry but it’s not clear why the butterflies bother
November 13, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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Government and the dark side of science
November 14, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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Physicist Lee Spetner weighs in on Adam and Eve controversy
November 14, 2017 Uncommon Descent
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The Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting
November 15, 2017 Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
featuring Fellows from Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture
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Southern California Meeting, January 26-27, on Natural Evil
November 9, 2017 Christian Scientific Society
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ID’s Top Six -- The Origin of Irreducibly Complex Molecular Machines
November 10, 2017 Evolution News & Science Today
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Archaeologists say human-evolution study used stolen bone
November 13, 2017 Nature, v.551, p.279-280
bizarre tale of theft and suspicious packages casts doubt on claims for early-human occupation in northern Europe
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Taking Atheism Seriously
November 13, 2017 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
When water met iron deep inside the Earth, did it create conditions for life?
November 13, 2017 Science Daily
reservoirs of oxygen-rich iron between the Earth's core and mantle could have played a major role in Earth's history
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Climate Change Alarmism Is Founded on Dishonesty
November 14, 2017 Powerline
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Genome editing: Are we opening a back door to eugenics?
November 14, 2017 Science Nordic
we need to talk about the ethical aspects of CRISPR to control where we go from here
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Who first buried the dead?
November 14, 2017 Aeon
evidence of burial rites by the primitive, small-brained Homo naledi suggests that symbolic behaviour is very ancient indeed
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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species
November 14, 2017 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
The brain auditions different cells when learning a task, some don't make the cut
November 14, 2017 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists create yellow, three-eyed, wingless mosquitoes by using gene editing tool
November 14, 2017 Science Daily
researchers are generating genetically engineered insects to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases
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Boastful Origin-of-Life Claims Conceal Contradictions
November 14, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the latest speculations about life’s origins always overlook the most essential component: the origin of biological information
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Rob Sheldon: “Naturalness” in physics is dead, says Sabine Hossenfelder, and that’s a good thing
November 14, 2017 Uncommon Descent