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First of Our Kind: Could Australopithecus sediba Be Our Long Lost Ancestor?
March 20, 2012 Scientific American
sensational fossils from South Africa spark debate over how we came to be human
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Book
Darwin's Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology
April 1, 2012 Basic Books
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A New Radio Telescope Will Scan for E.T's Calls
April 1, 2012 Scientific American
a giant telescope will soon begin its search for the first stars and galaxies
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Quantum Gravity in Flatland
April 5, 2012 Scientific American
Imagine space were 2-D rather than 3-D. How would the force of gravity work? The surprising answers are guiding physicists to a unified theory of nature
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A Russian City Always on the Watch Against Being Sucked into the Earth
April 10, 2012 New York Times
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From Wonders of Nature to Wonders of Technology
April 22, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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A bloody boon for conservation
April 23, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.424-425
leeches provide traces of DNA from other species
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Paradigm Shift: Impact Didn’t Kill Dinosaurs
April 24, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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King David Ruled Cities, Not Shepherds
April 24, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Ancient asteroids kept on coming
April 25, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.429
two-billion-year barrage hit Earth when life was beginning
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Neutrinos: messengers from the underworld
April 25, 2012 New Scientist, n.2862, p.32-35
the elusive particles could reveal Earth's origins and inner workings -- if only we can catch enough of them
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Neutrino no-show deepens cosmic ray mystery
April 25, 2012 New Scientist, n.2862, p.15
the failure of ghostly subatomic messengers called neutrinos to show up at an Antarctic telescope disproves a major astrophysical theory
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Move over DNA: Six new molecules can carry genes
April 25, 2012 New Scientist, n.2862, p.10
artificial nucleic acids have proved capable of storing genetic information and passing it on, and some can evolve in the lab
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Nearby dark-matter-free zone poses cosmic conundrum
April 25, 2012 New Scientist, n.2862, p.6-7
a new star survey suggests a large zone around our solar system contains no dark matter -- contradicting otherwise successful predictions about the history of our universe
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Hunt is on for pieces of van-sized California meteor
April 25, 2012 New Scientist, n.2862, p.4
the remains of an exploding meteor that created a sonic boom and blast over California and Nevada could provide clues to the early solar system's chemistry
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Planet Theories vs. the Evidence
April 26, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief
April 27, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6080, p.493-496
a dual-process theory posits a competition between analytical thought and religious belief
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In Situ Evolutionary Rate Measurements Show Ecological Success of Recently Emerged Bacterial Hybrids
April 27, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6080, p.462-466
the likely substitution rate per nucleotide per generation was estimated for a free-living microbial population
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Epigenetic changes linked with ageing
April 27, 2012 New Scientist, n.2862, p.15
some of the genetic changes associated with ageing may be the result of epigenetics -- which suggests they could be reversed
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Microbial Evolution in the Wild
April 27, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6080, p.422-424
a genetic study of microbes in an acid mine drainage site provide evolutionary rate estimates for wild microbe populations
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Experiments Probe Language's Origins and Development
April 27, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6080, p.408-411
in a new twist for an old field, language researchers are heading to the laboratory to test hypotheses
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Certainty Principle: People Who Hold False Convictions Are Better at Retaining Corrected Information
April 27, 2012 Scientific American
researchers have used imaging technology to spy on the brain as it corrects strongly held beliefs, shedding light on how we might learn from our mistakes
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A Q&A with Ian Hacking on Thomas Kuhn's Legacy as "The Paradigm Shift" Turns 50
April 27, 2012 Scientific American
the seminal work on science's periodic upheavals may be more relevant to an earlier era
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Questioning the Dino-Bird Hypothesis
April 27, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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How the Tiger Got Its Stripes: Dunno
April 28, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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News to Note
April 28, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Background on David Coppedge and the Lawsuit Against NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
March 19, 2012 Discovery Institute
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
April 1, 2012 Viking (Penguin)
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Tennessee Enacts Academic Freedom Law Protecting Teachers Who Present Both Sides of Evolution Debate
April 10, 2012 Discovery Institute
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Why You Are Waterproof
April 29, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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An Underground Fossil Forest Offers Clues on Climate Change
April 30, 2012 New York Times
the dark mass is a coal seam; the lighter shale above is interrupted by a fossil tree stump
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Fighting evolution one monkey law at a time
April 30, 2012 Miami Herald
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Planetary Radiometric Dates 1/3 Younger
May 1, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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A trigger for the Cambrian Explosion
May 2, 2012 Access Research Network (blog)
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Ancient migration: Coming to America
May 2, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.30-32
For decades, scientists thought that the Clovis hunters were the first to cross the Arctic to America. They were wrong -- and now they need a better theory.
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Human migrations: Eastern odyssey
May 2, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.24-26
Humans had spread across Asia by 50,000 years ago. Everything else about our original exodus from Africa is up for debate.
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Why does time seem to pass faster as we get older?
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.43
In Time Warped: Unlocking the mysteries of time perception, Claudia Hammond explains why time passes faster as you get older and flies when you're having fun.
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Underground coal fires burn for 100 years
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.22-23
each year millions of tonnes of coal burn in uncontrolled underground fires around the world, posing a health risk
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Pigeon brain's global positioning system located
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.15
we may not know how birds detect the magnetic fields that help them navigate, but we have now identified where in the brain the signals are processed
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Oldest human blood cells are found on iceman's wounds
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.14
intact, 5300-year-old red blood cells have been extracted from Ötzi, the ancient ice mummy discovered in the Alps in 1991
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Analytical thinking erodes belief in God
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.14
our intuitive thought processes, which underpin supernatural beliefs, can be overcome by thinking analytically
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California meteorite is rare rock laden with organics
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.4
fragments of the meteorite have revealed that it is much more exciting than scientists thought
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Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests an evolutionary risk management strategy
May 3, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.95-98
the local mutation rate in Escherichia coli has evolved to reduce the risk of deleterious mutations, leading to a non-random occurrence of mutations and suggesting that DNA protection and repair mechanisms prefer
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Impact spherules as a record of an ancient heavy bombardment of Earth
May 3, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.75-77
the fossilized remnants of vaporized asteroids, called spherules, can be used to infer that the flux of asteroid impacts on Earth 3.5 billion years ago was much greater than it is now
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Archaeology: Date with history
May 3, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.27-29
by revamping radiocarbon dating, Tom Higham is painting a new picture of humans' arrival in Europe
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News Update/Commentary
Lightning Signature Could Help Reveal the Solar System's Origins
May 3, 2012 Science Daily
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Earth Myths with a Sprinkling of Data
May 3, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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For Early Hominins in Africa, Many Ways to Take a Walk
May 4, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6081, p.538
several new studies of incredibly rare fossils of feet and partial skeletons reveal the complexity of early bipedalism
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Archaeology: New Light on Revolutions That Weren't
May 4, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6081, p.530-531
at a meeting last month, researchers heard new evidence that human evolution took a gradual, rather than revolutionary, course during two key junctures in prehistory
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We Became Human by Mistake
May 5, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines