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Two direct hits in dark matter hunt
December 17, 2009 Nature News
subterranean detector may have nabbed elusive particles
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Erupting ocean volcano caught on film
December 17, 2009 Nature News
footage reveals lava flows and rock formation on the sea floor
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Stone Age sorghum found in African cave
December 17, 2009 Nature News
harvesting of wild grains may have begun more than 100,000 years ago
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Paleontologists Discover Fanged, Venomous Dinosaur
December 21, 2009 Fox News (LiveScience)
using snake-like fangs, saber-toothed dinosaur relatives of velociraptors likely subdued their prey with venom
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2010 preview: Is this the year that we create life
December 21, 2009 New Scientist, n.2739
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News Update/Commentary
Modern Behavior of Early Humans Found Half-Million Years Earlier Than Thought
December 22, 2009 Science Daily
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The Party's Over
December 22, 2009 American Spectator
Darwin Year is drawing to a close
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What Darwin Never Knew
December 29, 2009 NOVA (PBS)
one hundred and fifty years later, scientists decode nature's greatest mysteries
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Inside the Human Genome: A Case for Non-Intelligent Design
January 1, 2010 Oxford University Press
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Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution
May 1, 2009 Prometheus
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The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived
September 1, 2009 Oxford University Press
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The Atheist's Guide to Christmas
October 1, 2009 Friday Books (Harper Collins)
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The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
November 1, 2009 Penguin
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Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life
November 1, 2009 Univesity of California Press
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Creation-Evolution Headlines
November 1, 2009 Master Plan Productions
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Darwin's Great Blunder--and Why It Was Good for the World
November 1, 2009 Discover Magazine
the best thing we can do for the theory of evolution may be to bring its creator back down to earth
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The First, and Greatest, Reality Show: Evolutionary Biology
November 1, 2009 Discover Magazine
sex, death, deception--it's all part of the dances between species
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Digging for Darwin
November 1, 2009 New Humanist, v.124, n.6
the life of Mary Anning, the woman whose work helped to lay the foundations for the theory of evolution
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Mass extinction blamed on fiery fountains of coal
November 5, 2009 New Scientist, n.2733, p.11
one of Earth's worst-ever mass extinctions may have been caused by carbon dioxide released by exploding mixtures of magma and coal
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"On the Origin of Religion"
November 6, 2009 Science, v.326, n.5954, p.784-787
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Plan to pierce heart of urban monster volcano
November 9, 2009 New Scientist, n.2733, p.18-19
next month, geologists will begin to drill into a huge volcano in Italy that has towns on top of it ... is that a good idea
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Origin of Species Revisited: On the geological succession of organic beings
November 11, 2009 New Scientist, n.2734, p.6
in which Darwin considers why our palaeontological collections are full of gaps, and describes how his theory can account for the pattern of succession from fossils to living forms
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Origin of Species Revisited: Difficulties on theory
November 11, 2009 New Scientist, n.2734, p.4-5
in which Darwin considers organs of extreme perfection and other apparent stumbling blocks for his theory
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Darwin's long argument is won
November 16, 2009 New Scientist, n.2734, p.5
creationists who try to smear The Origin of Species as the sacred text of science are making a basic error
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Was there a Stone Age apocalypse or not?
November 25, 2009 New Scientist, n.2736, p.16
a comet blasted North America 13,000 years ago, wiping out its megafauna and early settlers, one group insists ... not a bit of it, the sceptics cry
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Searching for New Earths
December 1, 2009 National Geographic
throughout history, only one Earth has been known to exist in the universe ... soon there may be another, and another, and another
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Tiny tyrannosaurs rewrite evolutionary rules
December 1, 2009 Scientific American
dainty relatives of T. rex force a rethinking of the origins of this dinosaur
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Extreme Monotremes: Why Do Egg-Laying Mammals Still Exist?
December 1, 2009 Scientific American
ancestors of the duck-billed platypus and the echidna may have survived their live-birthing competitors by taking to the water
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What Undersea Vents Reveal about Life's Origins
December 1, 2009 Scientific American
analyses of a recently discovered type of hot vent ecosystem on the seafloor suggest new possibilities for how life evolved
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Dear God, please confirm what I already believe
December 2, 2009 New Scientist, n.2737, p.17
experiments on people who believe in God suggest they endow the deity with their own views on controversial issues such as abortion
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'Simple' bacterium shows surprising complexity
December 2, 2009 New Scientist, n.2737, p.14
first "blueprint" of a minimalist bacterium show it is not so simple after all -- challenging textbook accounts of the way genes work together
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"Stolen E-mails Turn Up Heat on Climate Change Rhetoric"
December 4, 2009 Science, v.326, n.5958, p.1329
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"On the Origin of Tomorrow"
December 4, 2009 Science, v.326, n.5958, p.1334-1336
What is the future of evolution?
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"Palaeontology: Dawn of the anomodonts"
December 17, 2009 Nature, v.462, p.829
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"Extrasolar planets: Water world larger than Earth"
December 17, 2009 Nature, v.462, p.853-854
The hunt for Earth-like worlds has taken a major step forward with the discovery of a planet only 2.7 times larger than Earth. Its mass and size are just as theorists would expect for a water-rich super-Earth.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: "Ardipithecus ramidus"
December 18, 2009 Science, v.326, n.5960, p.1598-1599
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: "Reflections On: Our Planet and Its Life, Origins, and Futures"
December 18, 2009 Science, v.326, n.5960, p.1646-1655
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2010 preview: Waiting for ET to phone
December 23, 2009 New Scientist, n.2739, p.24
fifty years ago, Frank Drake kick-started the modern search for extraterrestrial life at a radio telescope in West Virginia
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Darwin's Boulders and the human face of induction
December 23, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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Pain or prayer? Two ways to grow a religion
December 24, 2009 New Scientist, n.2739, p.62-64
some religious rituals are traumatic one-offs, others are soothing and repetitive -- but it's best to stick to one or the other
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Computer-aided design for life itself
December 24, 2009 New Scientist, n.2739, p.11
a software package for designing synthetic life forms means you can create virtual organisms and see how they would function
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Evolution Engineered (blog) — looking at the evolution-ID debate from an engineer's perspective
December 24, 2009
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The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin
June 1, 2009 Regnery
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"Fraud rocks protein community"
December 22, 2009 Nature, v.462, p.970
university finds that researcher falsified data supporting 11 protein structures
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While Darwin observed evolution, synthetic biologists are learning to control it
December 23, 2009 MinnPost (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
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God and Relativity
December 24, 2009 ScienceBlog
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"Divine diseases"
December 24, 2009 Nature, v.462, p.1088
an act of faith
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"Johannes Kepler on Christmas"
December 24, 2009 Nature, v.462, p.987
Kepler's interpretation of the supernova of 1604, De Stella Nova, interwove the science of astronomy with astrology and theology in an attempt to determine the correct birthdate of Jesus
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100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists
December 24, 2009 Best Colleges Online
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The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason
September 1, 2009 Victor J. Stenger