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NEW ARTICLES - March 2019 |
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PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind |
Scientific American Blogs |
Some "Problems" with the Big Bang |
Dr. Michael G. Strauss |
Life, the universe and everything: an interview with Paul Davies |
Physics World |
Paul Davies: Incorporating information into science as a physical quantity |
Uncommon Descent |
Found: A Quadrillion Ways for String Theory to Make Our Universe |
Scientific American |
Quadrillion possible ways found to rescue string theory! |
Uncommon Descent |
Peter Woit on the quadrillion possible rescues for string theory: “pure, unadulterated hype” |
Uncommon Descent |
No, Physicists Still Don't Know Why Matter (And Not Antimatter) Dominates Our Universe |
Forbes |
Review: 'The Big Picture' by Sean Carroll |
Creation.com |
Best-Yet Measurements Deepen Cosmological Crisis |
Scientific American |
Are the best measurements to date deepening the “cosmological crisis”? |
Uncommon Descent |
A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality |
Technology Review |
Schrödinger's kittens: new thought experiment breaks quantum theory |
New Scientist |
Formation of the Sun and Solar System |
Dr. Michael G. Strauss |
Unusual approach to unifying the laws of physics could solve Hawking's black-hole information paradox |
FQXi Community |
Where Are All the 'Sparticles' That Could Explain What's Wrong with the Universe? |
Live Science |
We’ll find those “sparticles” if we have to dig up the universe! |
Uncommon Descent |
Theorizing information out of a black hole |
Uncommon Descent |
The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson |
Quanta Magazine |
Still No Explanation for Matter/Antimatter Imbalance |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
Astronomer; We’re too dumb to think space object Oumuamua was extraterrestrial lightsail |
Uncommon Descent |
Why could quantum monism save the soul of physics? |
Scientific American Blogs |
Physicist: How the multiverse can save the soul of physics |
Uncommon Descent |
Galileo Myth Goes Marching On |
Evolution News |
Inflation: Status Update |
Back Reaction |
At the New York Times: Are dark forces messing with our cosmos? |
Uncommon Descent |
Dark Matter May Not Exist |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
Fresh data deepen mystery of dark-matter signal |
Nature |
Another Theory of Everything - Oh My! |
NeuroLogica Blog |
Massive Photons Could Explain Dark Matter, But Don't |
Universe Today |
Physicists reverse time using quantum computer |
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
Hugh Ross: The fine-tuning that enabled our life-friendly moon creates discomfort |
Uncommon Descent |
Particle physicists excited over discovery of nothing in particular |
Back Reaction |
Hossenfelder: Now they are marketing non-discoveries as discoveries |
Uncommon Descent |
More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics) |
Live Science |
Quantum Scarring Appears to Defy Universe's Push for Disorder |
Quanta Magazine |
Do some particles defy the universe’s push for disorder? |
Uncommon Descent |
Dark matter experiment finds no evidence of axions |
Science Daily |
Researchers: Experiment turns up no evidence of theoretical particle, the axion |
Uncommon Descent |
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EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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'Mindblowing' haul of fossils over 500m years old unearthed in China |
The Guardian |
A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils |
Science Magazine |
Half-a-billion-year-old fossil reveals the origins of comb jellies |
Science Daily |
Soft Tissue in Biggest Ever Cambrian Fossil Bonanza |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
Mystery shrouding oldest animal fossils solved |
Science Daily |
Researchers: Dickinsonia (571–541 mya) could have had mouth and guts |
Uncommon Descent |
Researchers: Newly discovered frog separated from others by 50 million years |
Uncommon Descent |
Were early planetesimals Earth’s source of water and biogenic elements? |
Uncommon Descent |
Ancient records prompt rethink of animal evolution timeline |
Science Daily |
Strong planetary magnetic fields like Earth's may protect oceans from stellar storms |
Phys.org |
New Paper Confirms the Trilobite Explosion |
Evolution News |
Challenging the Cambrian Explosion as a One-Time Event |
Nature |
Mammals' unique arms started evolving before the dinosaurs existed |
Science Daily |
Mammals' unique arms predated dinosaurs |
Uncommon Descent |
"Ice Cube" Study of Ediacaran Fossils Is Junk Science |
Evolution News |
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BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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Crying "Chance, Chance" When There Is No Chance |
Evolution News |
Insuperable problems of the genetic code initially emerging in an RNA world |
Science Direct |
Researchers: Genetic code emerging in an RNA world faces “insuperable problems” |
Uncommon Descent |
Another Failure to Recreate Life's Origins |
ICR |
Can biologically active sequences come from random DNA? |
Creation.com |
Computer Scientists Create Programmable Self-Assembling DNA |
UC Davis |
Another functional pseudogene |
BBC |
More “junk DNA” that actually does something |
Uncommon Descent |
Seeds inherit memories from their mother |
Science Daily |
Michael Behe’s response to Lehigh colleagues’ criticism |
Uncommon Descent |
Thanks, Professor Lenski, the LTEE Is Doing Great! |
Evolution News |
Model learns how individual amino acids determine protein function |
Science Daily |
For Dreams of Darwinian Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution Is an Insuperable Problem |
Evolution News |
Thinking twice about the evolution of photosynthesis |
Royal Society Publishing |
Scientist constructs artificial photosynthetic cells |
Science Daily |
What makes evolution go backwards? |
Science Daily |
We are now informed that evolution can go backward |
Uncommon Descent |
Devolution or evolution? |
Uncommon Descent |
Motor nerves turn out to need “expert guidance” |
Uncommon Descent |
Newly discovered Medusavirus give new insights on how organisms and viruses co-evolved |
Science Daily |
Algae Multicellular Evolution Study Debunked |
ICR |
Antibiotic resistance not evolution in action |
Creation.com |
Researchers: Microbes can make evolution work faster for their hosts |
Uncommon Descent |
Speed limit on DNA-making sets pace for life's first steps |
Princeton University |
Error Catastrophe: Manfred Eigen's Show-Stopper Is Still Stopping the Origin-of-Life Show |
Evolution News |
The quantified cell |
UC Berkeley Molecular and Cell Biology |
Proteome Is Analogous to Language |
Evolution News |
Codes Cannot Create Themselves |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
Biological Codes Are Everywhere |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
The Math That Tells Cells What They Are |
Quanta Magazine |
Revealing the rules behind virus scaffold construction |
Science Daily |
Small Wonders: Scientists Reveal the Secrets of Amazing Little Insects and Crustaceans |
Evolution News |
Please Pass The Blueprints |
Uncommon Descent |
Drought adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana by extensive genetic loss-of-function |
eLIFE |
How secret conversations inside cells are transforming biology |
Nature |
In Nature: Cells have “secret conversations” |
Uncommon Descent |
Complex Life Might Require a Very Narrow Habitable Zone |
Universe Today |
Researchers: Habitable zone is probably narrower than hoped |
Uncommon Descent |
Researchers: First animal cell was not simple; it could “transdifferentiate” |
Uncommon Descent |
Neutral Theory of Evolution Debunked |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
Where Design Explains, Darwinism Explains Away |
Evolution News |
The influence of a single neuron on its network |
Nature |
Amoebae diversified at least 750 million years ago, far earlier than expected |
Science Daily |
Behe, McDiarmid Continue a Discussion of the Lents Review |
Evolution News |
Behe’s Trainwreck Response to Science |
Peaceful Science |
A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 1 - Michael Behe |
Evolution News |
A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 2 - Michael Behe |
Evolution News |
A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 3 - Michael Behe |
Evolution News |
Michael Behe: A Man and His Critics |
Evolution News |
Jerry Coyne, Ken Miller Revive a "Fishy Story" |
Evolution News |
Photosynthesis Continues to Amaze |
ICR |
Designer organelles bring new functionalities into cells |
EMBL |
Designer organelles bring new functionalities into cells |
Science Daily |
Why Aren't All Animal Species Big? |
Real Clear Science |
Viruses Devolve |
Uncommon Descent |
A New Discovery Upends What We Know About Viruses |
Uncommon Descent |
A mating war in diving beetles has stopped the evolution of species |
Science Daily |
Birds with Modern Traits Flew Over Dinosaurs |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
Reset! Different segs of virus genome can exist in different cells but work together |
Uncommon Descent |
The Revolutionary Discovery of a Distributed Virus |
The Atlantic |
Guardians of the synapse: Scientists identify a new role for nerve-supporting cells |
Science Daily |
Hachimoji DNA argues against evolution |
Creation.com |
Surprise superhighway: Cambrian worms lived in “unsustainable” ocean 500 mya |
Uncommon Descent |
Engineered Adaptability: Creatures' Anticipatory Systems Forecast and Track Changes |
ICR |
Why Animals Don't Speak |
Evolution News |
Cells use sugars to communicate at the molecular level |
Science Daily |
Cells and proteins use sugars to talk to one another |
Uncommon Descent |
Exploiting Functional Context in Biology: Reconsidering Classification of Bacterial Life |
IEEE Computer Society |
Does the Toast Model Explain Fossil Protein Persistence? |
ICR |
Genes that evolve from scratch expand protein diversity: Genomic analysis of rice plants provides decisive evidence of de novo gene origination |
Science Daily |
Genes that evolve from scratch expand protein diversity |
University of Chicago Medicine |
Rapid evolution of protein diversity by de novo origination in Oryza |
Nature Ecology & Evolution |
How new species arise in the sea |
Science Daily |
Brain Surface Area Reveals Overlap in Genes, Intelligence, Evolution |
The Scientist |
Running upright: The minuscule movements that keep us from falling |
Science Daily |
Octopus And Squid Evolution Is Officially Weirder Than We Could Have Ever Imagined |
Science Alert |
Octopuses and squid edit their RNA in response to environment |
Uncommon Descent |
Elegant interplay of coloration strategies is discovered in squid's smart skin |
Science Daily |
Fetal development seen as work the work of an intelligent artisan |
Uncommon Descent |
Biologists experimentally trigger adaptive radiation |
Science Daily |
Bioluminescence-the light of living things |
Creation.com |
New tool uses RNA sequencing to chart rich maps of cellular and tissue function |
Science Daily |
Sleep Is Critical for the Zebrafish Brain to Repair DNA Damage |
The Scientist |
New mechanism used by bacteria to evade antibiotics |
Science Daily |
Scientists Watched a New Bird Species Evolve on Galapagos in Just 2 Generations |
Science Alert |
Scientists Reawaken Cells From a 28,000-Year-Old Mammoth |
Motherboard |
Scientists delineate pathway that helps us make antibodies |
Science Daily |
Like rats, your brain may contain 'time cells' that help form long-term memories |
University of Toronto |
When Did Humans Start to Get Old? |
Discover Magazine |
Algal library lends insights into genes for photosynthesis |
Science Daily |
Researchers build "public library" to help understand photosynthesis |
Uncommon Descent |
Biologists Discover Unknown Powers in Mighty Mitochondria |
Quanta Magazine |
Survival at a price: Bacteria cut off flagella to stay alive |
Uncommon Descent |
Water beetles mate themselves to an evolutionary standstill |
Cosmos Magazine |
A mating war in diving beetles has stopped the evolution of species |
Uncommon Descent |
Building blocks of sickle cell disease are much less efficient at organizing than previously thought |
Science Daily |
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ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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New findings shed light on origin of upright walking in human ancestors |
Science Daily |
Modern Human Activities Muddle Analyses of Prehistoric Migrations |
The Scientist |
Review of 'Sapiens' by Yuval Harari |
Creation.com |
The Real Reason Why Only Human Beings Speak |
Mind Matters |
Denisovan Skull Piece Confirmed |
Sapiens |
First known fossil of a Denisovan skull discovered in cave |
Science News |
Rabbit bones suggest Neanderthals were better hunters than we thought |
New Scientist |
More Penitence Needed Toward Our Neanderthal Brethren |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
The Neanderthal renaissance |
Aeon |
Warm weather pushed Neanderthals into cannibalism |
Cosmos Magazine |
Lessons from the Ongoing "Rewrite" of Human Origins |
Evolution News |
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PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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Logic spaghetti: Who created God? |
Uncommon Descent |
Is Human Life a Cosmic Accident?: Atheists' Contradictory Position - Richard Weikart |
FOCL |
Does Darwinism Devalue Human Life? - Richard Weikart |
FOCL |
Atheist public intellectual John Gray separates the atheist wheat from the chaff |
Uncommon Descent |
My Genes Made Me Do It: Biological Determinism - Richard Weikart |
FOCL |
Templeton winner Marcelo Gleiser endorses the Rare Earth principle |
Uncommon Descent |
Is there a natural way to live? |
Uncommon Descent |
Faith and Science: Part I - Experimental science and implications for faith in science and God |
Quest - Kirk Durston |
William Lane Craig contra The Genesis Account |
Creation.com |
Atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method |
Phys.org |
Darwinism Inspired China’s Communist Holocaust |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
On “Materialistic Scientism Is Fundamentally Irrational” |
Uncommon Descent |
10 Things You Should Know about Genesis 1-3 |
Crossway |
Examining Supposed Creation Passages in the Psalms |
Answers in Genesis |
The rise and fall of scientific authority - and how to bring it back |
Nature |
Sabine Hossenfelder: How you can help science out of a rut |
Uncommon Descent |
Pushback against abandoning “statistical significance” in science |
Uncommon Descent |
Why John Walton's Lost World books are a lost cause |
Creation.com |
The Extrapolation Fallacy in Evolutionary Storytelling |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
N.T. Wright lectures on the seven mutations caused by resurrection of Jesus |
Wintery Knight |
Resurrection and Reality - Zachary Ardern |
Peaceful Science |
Can We Be Wrong About Science? - An Interview with John Lennox |
Logically Faithful |
Are the Gospels “Historically Reliable”? A Focused Comparison of Suetonius’s Life of Augustus and the Gospel of Mark - Mike Licona |
Religions |
Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence? |
Creation.com |
Claim: Evolution Proves Molinism, and Molinism Proves Evolution |
Evolution News |
Was Stalin an atheist? Is atheism or communism responsible for mass murders? |
Wintery Knight |
Darrell L. Bock and Richard E. Averbeck discuss issues related to creation in Genesis |
DTS Voice |
What Is Intelligent Design? A Thomistic Perspective |
Evolution News |
Lying with science: a guide to myth debunking |
Spectator |
Michael Behe: How to tell if scientists are bluffing |
Uncommon Descent |
Scientism is not a cure for stupidity |
Mind Matters |
Transhumanism and the Death of Human Exceptionalism |
Areo Magazine |
The Anthropic Principle Is What Scientists Use When They've Given Up On Science |
Forbes |
Misuses of the Anthropic Principle? |
Uncommon Descent |
Is Science in Crisis? |
CNRS News |
A new wrinkle in misleading research? |
Uncommon Descent |
Is religion good or bad for humanity? Epic analysis delivers an answer |
New Scientist |
Was Thomas Kuhn Evil? |
Scientific American |
Was philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn “evil” |
Uncommon Descent |
Darwinism’s influence on Thomas Kuhn |
Uncommon Descent |
Gaia needs a reboot and New Scientist is here to explain |
Uncommon Descent |
Did complex societies predate moral gods? |
Uncommon Descent |
Logic And First Principles, 15: On The Architecture Of Being. Or, Are Certain Abstract Entities (“Abstracta”) Such As Numbers, Natures, Truth Etc Real? If So, How — And Where? |
Uncommon Descent |
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Ben Shapiro May Have Done the Best Interview with Stephen Meyer That I've Seen |
Evolution News |
Michael Egnor: Are electrons conscious? |
Mind Matters |
Logic And First Principles, 12: The Crooked Yardstick Vs Plumb-Line Self-Evident Truths |
Uncommon Descent |
Logic And First Principles, 13: The Challenge Of Creeping Scientism (And Of Linked Nominalism) |
Uncommon Descent |
Logic & First Principles, 14: Are Beauty, Truth, Knowledge, Goodness And Justice Merely Matters Of Subjective Opinions? (Preliminary Thoughts.) |
Uncommon Descent |
Sleep Helps To Repair Damaged DNA In Neurons, Scientists Find |
The Guardian |
Brain Wars: Return of the Sex Deniers |
American Council on Science and Health |
2018 Creationist paper: Retraction notice isn’t enough for Jerry Coyne |
Uncommon Descent |
Bullet Points for Jerry Coyne |
Evolution News |
Coyne: "The Tuxedo Is Fraying"! |
Evolution News |
How did Stephen Hawking get to be “world’s smartest scientist”? |
Uncommon Descent |
Robert J. Marks: The mathematics underlying our world is fascinating and full of surprises |
Mind Matters |
Rare Earth Elements and Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
National Geographic announces: We Are Not Alone |
Uncommon Descent |
Still another take on They’re Out There |
Uncommon Descent |
When it comes to hearing words, it's a division of labor between our brain's two hemispheres |
Science Daily |
Here's How We'll Know an AI Is Conscious |
Nautilus |
New monument to Alfred Russel Wallace |
Uncommon Descent |
Is there life on Mars? Let's assess the evidence |
Cosmos Magazine |
Did Mars and Earth swap microbes? |
Cosmos Magazine |
OOL researcher Paul Davies: They used to make fun of me for saying Earth, Mars swapped microbes… |
Uncommon Descent |
What drives the trend toward astrology today? |
Uncommon Descent |
The man attempting to merge physics and the paranormal |
Cosmos Magazine |
Book Review - This View of Life |
National Review |
A philosopher muses on why machines are not creative |
Mind Matters |
A philosopher explains why machines are not creative |
Uncommon Descent |
The Mismeasurements of Stephen Jay Gould |
Quillette |
AI creates kitsch, not art |
Mind Matters |
The Flawed Logic behind “Thinking” Computers, Part I |
Mind Matters |
MIT prof was smarter than God |
Uncommon Descent |
'Zoo hypothesis' may explain why we haven't seen any space aliens |
NBC News |
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