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| Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time |
University of Cambridge |
| Life may have been possible in Earth's earliest, most hellish eon |
Science News |
| Early Complexity: An Evolutionary Case Study |
Evolution News |
| Stasis: Horses still have all five original digits, say researchers |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cambrian Explosion Blues |
Evolution News |
| Review of A. N. Wilson's biography of Charles Darwin in The Washington Times |
Washington Times |
| Theoretical physicist: Reasons to be skeptical of the multiverse |
Uncommon Descent |
| Astrophysicist: The multiverse absolutely must exist but won’t “fix physics” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is Science Infinite? Can it keep giving us profound insights into the world forever? |
Scientific American Blogs |
| Quantum chemistry solves mystery why there are these 20 amino acids in the genetic code |
Science Daily |
| The problem of using “methodological” naturalism to define science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Christian Biologist: Human Dignity Is Under Assault in China Monkey Cloning |
PJ Media |
| Macaque Monkeys and Human Dignity |
Evolution News |
| Hardy single-celled ancestor |
Genome Web |
| Junk DNA watch: Alus can have their memory re-programmed on several levels |
Uncommon Descent |
| Does general relativity violate determinism inside charged black holes? |
Physics World |
| A mutational timer is built into the chemistry of DNA: Shape-shifting drives mutation rate behind evolution, disease |
Science Daily |
| A mutational timer is built into the chemistry of DNA |
Phys.org |
| From Suzan Mazur, a plea for evolution free from mysticism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Where Do Atheists Get Meaning in Life? |
Real Clear Science |
| Michael Medved and Richard Weikart Lay Bare the Evolutionary Roots of Nazism |
Evolution News |
| Big Bounce Models Reignite Big Bang Debate |
Quanta Magazine |
| Monkeying around with cloning |
Creation.com |
| Novel computational biology model accurately describes dynamics of gene expression |
Science Daily |
| Are these stats for ET just “barking mad”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rebranding SETI: They are now looking for inferior space alien technology. But why? |
Uncommon Descent |
| How a Feynman experiment may lead to Theory of Everything |
Big Think |
| Some 'Junk DNA' May Act as Computer Memory |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Catholic astronomer on Canada’s government’s universe of randomness (“Stuff happens.”) |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cosmologist Sean Carroll: A multiverse is “beyond falsifiability” - and that's okay with him |
Uncommon Descent |
| Our Solar System Appears Odd to Astronomers |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Scientific American: "Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science" |
Scientific American Blogs |
| Designer Substitutes, Large and Small |
Uncommon Descent |
| What Does It Mean to Die? |
New Yorker |
| Language is learned in brain circuits that predate humans |
Science Daily |
| Study proves 'muscle memory' exists at a DNA level |
Science Daily |
| At Quartz: Materialists are converting to panpsychism |
Uncommon Descent |
| At Scientific American: Science may never solve the riddle of human consciousness |
Uncommon Descent |
| Actually, the multiverse is cheerfully beyond falsifiability |
Uncommon Descent |
| Theoretical physicist: Multiverse not based on sound science reasoning |
Uncommon Descent |
| Picture the multiverse controversy if real evidence were demanded for a multiverse… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did water-based life originate without water? |
Phys.org |
| Researchers: Water-based life could get started randomly on Earth if we leave out the water |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers produce all RNA nucleobases in simulated primordial Earth conditions |
Phys.org |
| Human evolution: Not only upended icons but suspicious relics |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Harvard Research Says U.S. Christianity Is Growing Stronger |
The Federalist |
| Atheism doubles among Gen Z population |
Barna |
| How Should Atheism Be Taught? |
The Atlantic |
| Scientific Theory And The Multiverse Madness |
NPR |
| Religion isn’t the enemy of science: it’s been inspiring scientists for centuries |
The Conversation |
| Modern human brain organization emerged only recently |
Science Daily |
| Challenging existing models of black holes |
Science Daily |
| Study of distant galaxies challenges our understanding of how stars form |
The Conversation |
| About That RNA World Hypothesis |
Uncommon Descent |
| About That RNA World Hypothesis |
Evolution News |
| Indian education minister doubts Darwin; stands by fact that theory is under fire |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researcher: “... it’s quite possible that life emerged within a few million years of when conditions became habitable.” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Embryonic Development Reveals Staggering Complexity |
Uncommon Descent |
| Does Basener and Sanford’s model of mutation versus selection show that deleterious mutations are unstoppable? |
The Skeptical Zone |
| Proportionally Perfect for Life: O2, CO2, N2 |
Answers in Genesis |
| Stasis: Fossil brittlestar at 435 mya is pretty much what a brittlestar would be today |
Uncommon Descent |
| New 508-million-year-old bristle worm species from British Columbia's Burgess Shale wiggles into evolutionary history |
Science Daily |
| Cambrian worm find from the Cambrian (541-485 mya) “helps rewrite” our understanding of annelid head evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| How brittlestars 'see' without eyes |
Nature |
| Rare 450-million-year-old 'cone-shaped' fossil discovery |
Phys.org |
| Fierce arthropod with “sophisticated head” from 508 mya |
Uncommon Descent |
| Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth's Start |
Quanta Magazine |
| Jonathan Wells: “Evolutionists don’t know a good eye when they see one” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Adam and the Genome and Human-Ape Genetic Similarity |
Evolution News |
| Adam and the Genome and Synteny |
Evolution News |
| Adam and the Genome and "Nonfunctional" Pseudogenes |
Evolution News |
| Adam and the Genome and Human Genetic Diversity |
Evolution News |
| Theistic evolution, Adam and Eve: Adam and Eve are still just barely visible behind that bush, like always |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers: Horizontal gene transfer may have helped early microbes move out of hot springs |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can SETI Avoid Intelligent Design Implications by Rebranding? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Mechanism may exist in all animals for filtering out mitochondrial DNA mutations |
Uncommon Descent |
| ET life: Massive dust storms deprive Mars of water |
Uncommon Descent |
| Robert Marks on the Lovelace Test |
Evolution News |
| Cocktail of Brain Chemicals May Be a Key to What Makes Us Human |
Scientific American |
| Somewhere in the brain is a storage device for memories |
Science News |
| Gene Control in Mice Points Toward Design |
ICR |
| It is time for ID to provide real leadership in rethinking origins across the board |
Uncommon Descent |
| Robert Marks on the Turing Test vs the Lovelace Test for computer intelligence |
Uncommon Descent |
| Recent evidence of dissimilar, non homologous structures being generated by the same developmental pathway |
NCBI |
| Paleontology: The eleventh Archaeopteryx |
Science Daily |
| Oldest fossil so far found suggest humans migrated out of Africa much earlier than thought |
Uncommon Descent |
| How microbes emerged from hot springs to conquer early Earth: DNA exchange |
Science Daily |
| Big Science Condemns Blasphemy Against Darwin |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Late Heavy Bombardment Myth Is Dying |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Scientists discover oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa |
Science Daily |
| The origin of snakes: New evolutionary scenario |
Science Daily |
| Bacterial immune systems take the stage |
Science Daily |
| Researchers pose revolutionary theory on horse evolution |
Science Daily |
| How Embryonic Development Bears on Evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| Digging deep into distinctly different DNA |
Science Daily |
| Study reveals the deleterious effects of seemingly neutral mutations |
Computational Biology |
| A Maxwell Demon engine in action beyond the Carnot/ “standard” Second law limit |
Uncommon Descent |
| Elephant history rewritten by ancient genomes |
Nature |
| Racism is creeping back into mainstream science - we have to stop it |
The Guardian |
| Rutgers Scientists Discover 'Legos of Life' |
Rutgers University |
| Scientists discover 'Legos of life' |
Science Daily |
| Controversial femur could belong to ancient human relative |
Nature |
| The Tricks Propogandists Use to Beat Science |
Technology Review |
| Elephant family tree needs a rethink? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Some exoplanets may just be mirages |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolutionary psychology puts people with disabilities in their place. Not a nice place. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Spontaneous emergence of self-replication in chemical reaction systems |
Cornell University Library |
| Does your brain make your decisions before you do? |
Creation.com |
| Activating a single gene is sufficient to change skin cells into stem cells |
Science Daily |
| Jerry Fodor on understanding evolution as a historical narrative, and why Darwinism is wrong |
Uncommon Descent |
| Earth resides in oddball solar system, alien worlds show |
Space |
| Some exoplanets orbiting red giant stars may just be a mirage |
New Scientist |
| Convergence: Fish develop a variety of strategies in order to eat other fishes’ scales |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolutionary remnants as widely accessible evidence for evolution |
Darwin's God Blogspot |
| Evolution unleashed: Is evolutionary science due for a major overhaul – or is talk of ‘revolution’ misguided? |
Aeon |
| At Aeon: Damage control attempted re the current evolution upheavals |
Uncommon Descent |
| Allmon and Ross Demolish Evolution |
Uncommon Descent |
| Much of Dennis Venema's Adam and the Genome Isn't About Adam and the Genome |
Evolution News |
| Adam and the Genome and Whale Fossils |
Evolution News |
| Higher Education Is Drowning in BS |
Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Descartes Got it Wrong and that Leads to A-Mat Absurdity |
Uncommon Descent |
| The futility of relativism, subjectivism and emotivism as ethical stances |
Uncommon Descent |
| Seeing the Glory of God in Scallop Eyes |
Answers in Genesis |
| 'Dark matter' DNA influences brain development |
Nature |
| How flowering plants conquered the world |
BBC |
| New hypothesis as to why flowering plants predominate |
Uncommon Descent |
| Berra's Blunder in Molecular Motors |
Evolution News |
| Darwinism vs. mathematics in a post-modern world |
Uncommon Descent |
| 12 Ideas You Must Embrace to Affirm Theistic Evolution |
Crossway |
| 'RNA World' Paper Retracted |
ICR |
| Structures of ß-klotho reveal a 'zip code'-like mechanism for endocrine FGF signaling |
Nature |
| Higher ed is drowning and we weren’t the only people to notice |
Uncommon Descent |
| Key player in cell metabolism identified |
Science Daily |
| Father of neo-Darwinism Ronald Fisher (Fisher’s theorem) critiqued at his own memorial? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Montmaurin-La Niche mandible reveals the complexity of the Neanderthals' origin |
Science Daily |
| “Confounding”: Moths and butterflies predate flowering plants by millions of years |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists zoom in to watch DNA code being read |
Science Daily |
| Trio of dead stars upholds Einstein’s gravity |
Uncommon Descent |
| Chemical evolution: Progenitors of the living world |
Science Daily |
| Redefining life to make the search for the origin of life easier? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Novel hypothesis on why animals diversified on Earth |
Lund University |
| A centuries-old math equation used to solve a modern-day genetics challenge |
Science Daily |
| Confusion over moon origins |
Creation.com |
| Lack of a Grand Unified Theory (GUT) leaves physicists frustrated |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Y chromosome is disappearing - so what will happen to men? |
The Conversation |
| NASA's been ordered to search for life in space. They should start with viruses. |
Slate |
| Tabby’s Star — on the “extraordinary evidence” claim |
Uncommon Descent |
| Windows Into the Brain's Operating System |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Evidence of Fountains of the Great Deep? |
ICR |
| Neanderthals have changed a lot in the last few decades. Maybe they didn’t even necessarily look the way we think. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinian Explanations Are Religious |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Cross-species gene regulation observed for the first time |
Uncommon Descent |
| World's oldest known oxygen oasis discovered |
Science Daily |
| Meteorites Brought Water To Earth During the First Two Million Years |
Astrobiology Magazine |
| Structural basis of RNA polymerase III transcription initiation |
Nature |
| Experimental physicist Rob Sheldon on the recent merely “plausible” origin of life find |
Uncommon Descent |
| 'Serious gap' in cosmic expansion rate hints at new physics |
BBC |
| Cell Repair Majors on Majors |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| How bacteria turbocharged their motors |
Phys.org |
| 'Of Pandas and People': A Brief History of the Original Intelligent Design Textbook |
RealClear Science |
| Basic Logic: are we behind where we were 2,000 years ago? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Father of Neo-Darwinism Condemned with Faint Praise |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| How did we evolve to live longer? |
Science Daily |
| Solving Darwin's 'abominable mystery': How flowering plants conquered the world |
Science Daily |
| With ‘Downsized’ DNA, Flowering Plants Took Over the World |
Quanta Magazine |
| Evolution acceptance in children linked to aptitude, not belief |
Science Daily |
| Would Moral Subjectivists Agree to Math and Logic Subjectivism? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is Technology a new religion? (And if so, what is happening at Temple Google?) |
Uncommon Descent |
| Airspacemag: Cool it with the space alien speculations. But what about using a design inference? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Should NASA look for viruses in space? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolutionary informatics has come a long way since a Baylor dean tried to shut down the lab |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why do atheists deny objective morality? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Genome size and brain cell density in birds |
NRC Research Press |
| Surprise: A virus-like protein is important for cognition and memory |
MedicalXpress |
| Is This Gorilla Mother Consciously Protecting Her Baby From Infanticide? |
NPR |
| Animal minds: Australian birds that use fire as a tool |
Uncommon Descent |
| Genetic 'switches' behind human brain evolution |
Science Daily |
| This Worm Evolved Self-Fertilization and Lost a Quarter of Its DNA |
NY Times |
| Devolution: Worm gives up sexual reproduction, loses 7000 genes |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why an Old Theory of Everything Is Gaining New Life |
Quanta Magazine |
| Dusting off a 1970s Theory of Everything could be bad news for supersymmetry |
Uncommon Descent |
| Another RNA World 'Missing Link' Experiment Misses the Point |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| On Protein Design, Don't Be Fooled by Biochemist David Baker's Claim |
Evolution News |
| What species is most fit for life? All have an equal chance, scientists say |
Science Daily |
| Another 'Twist' on the Origin of Species |
Answers in Genesis |
| On subjectivity vs objectivity of moral principles and the importance of self-evidently true moral principles |
Uncommon Descent |
| Armadillo, hedgehog and rabbit genes reveal how pregnancy evolved |
Nature |
| At RealClearScience: Failed psychological theories go through six stages |
Uncommon Descent |
| Steve Benner: Origin of life field beset by shortage of ideas, science by overflow of consensus |
Uncommon Descent |
| Origin of Lepidoptera pushed earlier in time |
ScienceAdvances |
| Meet the butterflies from 200 million years ago |
BBC |
| Moths and butterflies existed during Jurassic era, millions of years before flowering plants |
Science Daily |
| Ingredients for Life Revealed in Meteorites That Fell to Earth |
Berkeley Lab |
| Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth |
Science Daily |
| Google Doodle honors biochemist who "deciphered DNA" |
Vox |
| Extra-terrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo |
Science Daily |
| Can an Evolutionist Be a Creationist? |
Answers in Genesis |
| Dispelling the myth that most people didn't live much past 40 prior to modern medicine |
Science Daily |
| Chemists discover plausible recipe for early life on Earth |
Scripps |
| New recipe for early life on Earth is marketed as merely “plausible”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Pond Scum Explains Evolution Of First Animals |
Astrobiology Magazine |
| Science buffs, take heed: “Rigor is in many ways the enemy of design.” |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Nancy Pearcey book: Does naturalism drive the scandals in tech culture? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Riot and the Dance coming to theaters in March |
Fathom Events |
| Philosopher James Stroud on what is wrong with naturalism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Multiple origins of interdependent endosymbiotic complexes in a genus of cicadas |
Science Daily |
| Animals Don't Respect Darwin |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| New Nancy Pearcey book: Does naturalism drive the scandals in tech culture? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The origin of 'us': what we know so far about where we humans come from |
The Conversation |
| Fisher’s proof of Darwinism flipped: William Basener replies to Erasmus Wiffball |
Uncommon Descent |
| Theoretical physicist has a hard time convincing peers to accept reality |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Six Stages of a Failed Psychological Theory |
Real Clear Science |
| CSICOP’s ridiculously out-of-date questions and answers on evolution show how far naturalism has fallen |
Uncommon Descent |
| The core of Christian ethics (for those inclined to put God in the dock) |
Uncommon Descent |
| Will Lawyers Destroy Science? |
American Council on Science and Health |
| On Basener and Sanford’s paper falsifying Fisher’s Darwinism theorem: It will be no small thing to make reality matter again |
Uncommon Descent |
| Newton Understood that Nature Manifests Design of the Highest Order |
Evolution News |
| Celebrating Over 60,000 Generations of Creation Science by an Evolutionist |
Answers in Genesis |
| Peer-Reviewed Science: A "Mathematical Proof of Darwinian Evolution" Is Falsified |
Evolution News |
| Sometimes I believe in string theory. Then I wake up. |
Backreaction |
| An 'astonishing' overabundance of massive stars in a neighbouring galaxy |
Science Daily |
| Worm species lost 7, 000 genes after evolving to fertilize itself |
Science Daily |
| Parallel Saltational Evolution of Ultrafast Movements in Snapping Shrimp Claws |
Science Daily |
| H.G. Wells vs George Orwell: Can science save us? |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Book Critiques Fossil Human Ancestors |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Visualize Darwin Before Looking at Data |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| How do we know that the rock structures in Arabia are evidence of design? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Black-hole-regulated star formation in massive galaxies |
Nature |
| RNA networks at the origins of life |
Biochemist |
| Life without water |
Biochemist |
| Is Reproducibility Really Central to Science? |
Discover Magazine |
| Can quantum physics teach us about divine providence? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Some Proteins Act Almost Like Humans |
Evolution News |
| Researchers: Religion alters nonbelievers’ psychology |
Uncommon Descent |
| A detailed look at Mormon beliefs on evolution and human origins |
Huffington Post |
| Claim: Atheists have mutant genes, don’t live as long |
Uncommon Descent |
| Are Islam and Evolution Compatible? |
Beliefnet |
| Rewriting human origins one of RealClearScience’s (Ultimate) Top Ten stories for 2017 |
Uncommon Descent |
| Fisher’s Proof of Darwinism Flipped: William Basener replies to Bob O’Hara |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ten Questions (and Answers) about Teaching Evolution |
Skeptical Inquirer CSI |
| Genetic changes help mosquitoes survive pesticide attacks |
Science Daily |
| It's Official: Saturn's Rings Are Young |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Convergent evolution? - On Pandas and Lemurs |
Uncommon Descent |
| High-performance breathing in bones: Origin of unique respiratory system of birds and dinosaurs |
Science Daily |
| Convergent evolution: Researcher “amazed” by similarities between long-extinct marine reptiles and modern life forms that are NOT their descendants |
Uncommon Descent |
| Gene fusion shifts cell activity into high gear, causing some cancer |
Science Daily |
| DNA mutations found to be biased toward favoring 'G-C' content |
Science Daily |
| Why are DNA mutations biased toward 'G-C' content? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Photosynthesis pushed back even further. Time to revisit the “Boring Billion” claim. Past time, really. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Stone age hunter-gatherers' 'paradise' discovered next to major Israeli road |
The Guardian |
| Selfies and science: The "self-esteem" edition. When government buys science, it’s no use complaining when results are politicized |
Uncommon Descent |
| Agricultural parasite takes control of host plant's genes |
Science Daily |
| Darwinian Lysenkoism in America |
Evolution News |
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