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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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