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| NEW ARTICLES - November 2019 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| John Horgan on how multiverse theories are bad for science |
Uncommon Descent |
| What Shape Is the Universe? A New Study Suggests We've Got It All Wrong |
Quanta Magazine |
| Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink |
New Scientist |
| Dark matter may not exist after all |
Phys.org |
| Dark energy might not exist after all |
Back Reaction |
| New Scientist: Dark matter’s no-show casts doubt on Big Bang; Rob Sheldon replies |
Uncommon Descent |
| Dark matter link to regular matter's dominance fails to show up |
ARS Technica |
| Link between dark matter and antimatter’s absence not supported in recent test |
Uncommon Descent |
| 19 more galaxies mysteriously missing dark matter have been found |
Science News |
| Why Dark Matter Might Be Axions |
Quanta Magazine |
| What is Dark Energy? |
Back Reaction |
| Black Hole Singularities Are as Inescapable as Expected |
Quanta Magazine |
| Nobel-Winning Scientist: I have no idea if the Big Bang Happened |
Futurism |
| Could the mysteries of antimatter and dark matter be linked? |
Science Daily |
| Rob Sheldon on whether Quanta mag’s universe is closed or flat |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cosmological crisis: We don't know if the universe is round or flat |
New Scientist |
| UCF researchers discover mechanisms for the cause of the Big Bang |
EurekAlert |
| Looking for a mechanism behind the Big Bang… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Einstein killed the aether. Now the idea is back to save relativity |
New Scientist |
| Quantum physics: our study suggests objective reality doesn't exist |
The Conversation |
| This Is Why Dark Energy Is The Biggest Unsolved Problem In The Universe |
Forbes |
| In case you wondered why dark energy is “the biggest unsolved problem in the universe” |
Uncommon Descent |
| What can artificial intelligence do for physics? And what will it do to physics? |
Back Reaction |
| Physicists Can Finally Peek at Schrödinger's Cat Without Killing It Forever |
Live Science |
| Scientists may have discovered whole new class of black holes |
Science Daily |
| Do we need to think beyond current physics to understand nature? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Have we really measured gravitational waves? |
BackReaction |
| Slapping Sabine Hossenfelder isn’t going to solve physics’s problems |
Uncommon Descent |
| Well, if the Washington Post agrees that the universe is out of whack… |
Uncommon Descent |
| How can we test a Theory of Everything? |
BackReaction |
| Sabine Hossenfelder asks, How can we trust a theory of everything? |
Uncommon Descent |
| A natural biomolecule has been measured acting like a quantum wave for the first time |
Technology Review |
| Natural biomolecule measured while acting like a quantum wave |
Uncommon Descent |
| Growing evidence of giant structures connecting the universe? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Solution to Black Hole Information Paradox |
Quanta Magazine |
| An argument for the necessity of design in the universe |
Uncommon Descent |
| Are Neural Networks About to Reinvent Physics? |
Nautilus |
| People and the Cosmos: Constructor Theory |
Areao Magazine |
| Will AI end astrophysics as we know it? |
Mind Matters |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Exceptional fossils may need a breath of air to form |
Science Daily |
| New research: Earliest mammals were not mousey little things |
Uncommon Descent |
| Thoughts on Danuvius, that new Miocene ape fossil |
Todd C. Wood |
| Shoving Fossils Onto Darwin's Timeline |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99 million years ago |
Indiana University |
| Evidence for insect pollination pushed back to 99 mya |
Uncommon Descent |
| First evidence of feathered polar dinosaurs found in Australia |
Science Daily |
| Darwinians Excuse Out-of-Order Fossils |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| New Bird Fossil Doesn't Fit Evolutionary Story |
ICR |
| Dinosaur skull turns paleontology assumptions on their head |
Unversity of Alberta |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Structure of the native supercoiled flagellar hook as a universal joint |
Nature |
| That “Junk” DNA… Is Full of Information! |
Advanced Science News |
| BioEssays Editor: "'Junk' DNA. Full of Information!" Including Genome-Sized "Genomic Code" |
Evolution News |
| Meet DNA's chaperone |
University of Colorado |
| In a world where horizontal gene transfer is an important force, what becomes of Dawkins’s Selfish Gene? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Junk Darwinism Clutters Science |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Natural Selection Is Vacuous, Says Evolutionist, Part I: Causation |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Natural Selection Is Vacuous, Says Evolutionist; Part II: Hidden Agency |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Douglas Axe on the central weaknesses of Darwinism today |
Uncommon Descent |
| Convergent Evolution: A Better Explanation |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Q&A with Behe: Your Thoughts on Common Descent? |
Evolution News |
| Body Wonders to Be Thankful For |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Small Wonders: Design in Tiny Creatures |
Evolution News |
| What would count as 'new information' in genetics? |
Creation |
| Design in the First Animals |
Evolution News |
| Researchers study chickens, ostriches, penguins to learn how flight feathers evolved |
Science Daily |
| 160th anniversary of Darwin's Origin |
Evolution News |
| Cellular Self-Sacrifice - And an Allegory |
Evolution News |
| Evolutionary Stalling in the Optimization of the Translation Machinery |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| More Ways of Information Sharing Found in Living Things |
Evolution News |
| Squid camouflage may lead to next gen of bio-inspired synthetic materials |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: The colorful squid does it via a “marvelous molecular machine” |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Mystery of Energy Metabolism |
Evolution News |
| Are there universal laws of ecology? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers discover how cells know their future and forget their past |
Science Daily |
| Thermodynamic Efficiency Of Cellular Computation |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolutionists Surprised but Never Falsified |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Experts unlock key to photosynthesis, a find that could help us meet food security demands |
Science Daily |
| Stephen L Talbott on evolution: “Let’s Not Begin with Natural Selection” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Predicting evolution: Not just 'survival of the fittest' |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Evolution is not “survival of the fittest” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Genes borrowed from bacteria allowed plants to move to land |
Science Daily |
| Genes from Bacteria Likely Aided Plants' Move to Land |
The Scientist |
| Even Different Species of Butterflies Can Easily Share Genes |
LabRoots |
| Butterflies take different paths to arrive at same color pattern |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: How butterflies develop the same wing color via different paths “forever changes the way evolution is understood” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Gene Regulation Gives Butterflies Their Stunning Looks |
The Scientist |
| Genetic effects of the Flood bottleneck |
Creation |
| Lichens are way younger than scientists thought |
Science Daily |
| Lichens evolved millions of years AFTER plants? |
Uncommon Descent |
| RNA regulation is crucial for embryonic stem cell differentiation |
Science Daily |
| Technical Bias Widespread in RNA-Seq Datasets |
The Scientist |
| A new spin on life's origin? |
Science Daily |
| Lifelike chemistry created in lab search for ways to study origin of life |
Science Daily |
| It's Still Not Aliens - 'Mars Bug' Claim Could Damage the Search for Life |
Space |
| DNA is only one among millions of possible genetic molecules |
Science Daily |
| Cell-tracking pipeline reveals how motor circuits are built |
Nature |
| Subcellular computations within brain during decision-making |
Science Daily |
| Deep sea vents had ideal conditions for origin of life |
Science Daily |
| How the Cell Handles Oxygen: A Nobel Prize Discovery |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Evolutionary Enigmas, Tiny Tardigrades Strut Their Superpowers |
Evolution News |
| Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees |
Nautilus |
| Our brains may be less complicated than we thought |
ABC |
| How and Why Did Flower Color First Evolve? |
Real Clear Science |
| The Two Genomes in Every Eukaryotic Cell |
The Scientist |
| An article at MSN news suggests that Darwin might have been wrong |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolution for the Birds: Must Adaptation Be Evolutionary? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Two identical-looking bird species with very different genes |
Science Daily |
| Identical birds, different genes |
Uncommon Descent |
| Nature's backup plan for converting nitrogen into plant nutrients |
Science Daily |
| Extinct giant ape directly linked to the living orangutan |
Science Daily |
| Malaria parasites fine-tune mutations to resist drugs |
Nature |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Interview with Swamidass RE Geneological Adam |
More Than Cake |
| The Evolution of Neanderthal Spin |
Evolution News |
| Those Neanderthals were always too dumb to know how dumb we needed them to be |
Uncommon Descent |
| Neanderthals were different because their genes were regulated differently |
ARS Technica |
| Neanderthals' cave art skills questioned in dispute over age of images |
New Scientist |
| The Neanderthal Ear - Prone to Irritating Infections |
Sapiens |
| Neanderthals' cave art skills questioned in dispute over age of images |
Uncommon Descent |
| Physics color commentator Rob Sheldon disputes UD News’s view of Neanderthals |
Uncommon Descent |
| Inbreeding and population/demographic shifts could have led to Neanderthal extinction |
Science Daily |
| New Study Claims We Probably Didn't Wipe Out The Neanderthals After All |
Science Alert |
| Homo sapiens Might Not Be Responsible for Neanderthal Demise |
The Scientist |
| Scientists Say New Research Tracing the Origin of Modern Humans to Botswana Is Deeply Flawed |
Gizmodo |
| Human evolution researchers stick Botswana origin claims with “colonialism” label |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bipedal Ape Fossil Falls on its Face |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Ornament with eagle talons from Neanderthal Period |
Science Daily |
| More Neanderthal eagle jewelry found in the Iberian peninsula |
Uncommon Descent |
| The “rise of the greedy-brained ape”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Standing tall: Scientists find oldest example of upright ape |
AP News |
| Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa? |
New Scientist |
| Ape Fossils Shed New Light on Evolution of Bipedalism |
The Scientist |
| What is Homo luzonensis? |
Creation |
| Fossil suggests apes, old world monkeys moved in opposite directions from shared ancestor |
Science Daily |
| Ancient city Ur was much bigger than thought |
Cambridge University |
| Were other humans the first victims of the sixth mass extinction? |
The Conversation |
| Claim: Many types of human were kayoed in the Sixth Great Extinction |
Uncommon Descent |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| Discussion of chance and randomness |
The Henry Center TIU |
| How Protestantism influenced the making of modern science |
Aeon |
| New Atheism: An Autopsy |
ARC Digital |
| Don't Assume Science and Reality Are Equivalent |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Why almost everyone believes in an afterlife - even atheists |
New Scientist |
| Phillip E. Johnson, Who Put Darwin on Trial, Dies at 79 |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Remembering the impact of Phillip Johnson’s Darwin on Trial (1991) |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bill Dembski remembers Phil Johnson (1940–2019) |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinian philosopher Michael Ruse says farewell to the late Phillip Johnson |
Uncommon Descent |
| On Phillip Johnson |
The Hump of the Camel |
| Jon Harvey (“Hump of the Camel”) weighs in on the late Phillip Johnson |
Uncommon Descent |
| Nancy Pearcey: What Phillip Johnson’s Wedge of Truth made clear |
Uncommon Descent |
| Nature: "Stop the science training that demands 'don't ask'" |
Nature |
| It's not science vs religion but each one via the other |
Aeon |
| At Nature: Doubt and diversity are okay in science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Douglas Axe: On the 160th Anniversary of Darwin's Origin, "Fear of Man," the Cringe Factor, and More |
Evolution News |
| Christian theology and the rise of Newtonian science-imposed law and the divine will |
Creation |
| Human Nature - New Book from David Berlinski Skewers Illusion of Evolutionary Progress in History |
Evolution News |
| Bill Dembski on technology and religion in the face of miracles |
Uncommon Descent |
| Free first and last chapters of Joshua Swamidass’s new book on Adam and Eve |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Faces of Miracles — A Serialized eBook by Bill Dembski and Alex Thomas |
Bill Dembski |
| David Tyler on the significance of David Gelernter dumping Darwin |
Uncommon Descent |
| A short sermon on Einstein’s God |
Uncommon Descent |
| We're Incentivizing Bad Science |
Scientific American Blogs |
| Big Data Is Big Trouble For Science |
Forbes |
| John Walton's view of Genesis is an example of the upper/lower story divide |
Is Genesis History |
| Do the Deaths of Top Scientists Make Way for New Growth? |
Undark |
| Researchers actually test whether science advances one funeral at a time |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science Says It, So It Must Be So, Right?….Right?…Right? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists: Dishonest or Afraid? |
Daily Wire |
| Academics should not need to live in fear for the pursuit of their science |
Nature |
| Einstein in Athens - Modern science is unwittingly echoing Aristotle - and still has much to learn from him. |
The New Atlantis |
| Science, miracles, and Benny Hinn |
Uncommon Descent |
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| AND MORE |
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| World Magazine: Darwin Devolves Is Science Book of the Year |
Evolution News |
| Why medical scientists take near-death experiences seriously now |
Mind Matters |
| NDEs do not defy science. They sometimes challenge human senses, which are based on our biology |
Mind Matters |
| Ohio Bill Protects Student’s Right To Religious Expression – Will Teaching Creationism Be Next? |
Uncommon Descent |
| David Berlinski chats with Ben Shapiro |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Art of Translating Darwinese |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Roger Scruton, a non-Darwinian intellectual, was honored recently in Czech Republic |
Uncommon Descent |
| Who’s throwing stones at “Nature’s Prophet”? (Wallace) |
Uncommon Descent |
| Welcome to Culture War 2.0: The Great Realignment by Peter Boghossian |
The American Mind |
| Peter Boghossian: Culture War II unites Christians and atheists |
Uncommon Descent |
| Philip Kitcher’s candid assessment of the textbook “scientific method” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rob Sheldon defends sociologist Steve Fuller against Nathaniel Comfort |
Uncommon Descent |
| Three New Books on Human Consciousness to Blow Your Mind |
Undark |
| Consciousness studies are getting markedly crazier, if we go by the traditional standards of science |
Mind Matters |
| American Thinker Mag Recognizes Marcos Eberlin |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists, Reporters Still Nuts Over Darwin |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Dennis Prager offers a straight-talking primer on assaults on free speech |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinism vs. abstract thoughts and language |
Uncommon Descent |
| Steven Pinker Is Wrong. We Do Live in a Post-Truth Society |
ACSH |
| David Berlinski’s new book takes a very different view of human nature from Steven Pinker |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science journalist tells Steven Pinker, yes, we ARE living in a post-truth society |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science as we know it can't explain consciousness - but a revolution is coming |
The Conversation |
| Oxford mathematician John Lennox looks at Ray Kurzweil’s techno-immortality from a Christian perspective |
Mind Matters |
| Barbarians in the academy by James Piereson |
New Criterion |
| How far have we come with giving robots feelings? |
Mind Matters |
| The Evolutionary Power of Cities and Light |
MIT Press Reader |
| SETI Craziness Continues |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Science decadence: A “Woke” medical journal’s war on having kids |
Uncommon Descent |
| Your Body as Part Machine |
Sapiens |
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