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| ARTICLES - JANUARY 2020 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| Fine-tuning versus naturalness |
Symmetry Magazine |
| Sometimes physicists really have to work at ignoring fine-tuning |
Uncommon Descent |
| Quantum mechanics shows that our universe has purpose |
Mind Matters |
| Harvard astronomer tells us why ultra-complex physics theories come to exist |
Uncommon Descent |
| No One Can Agree How Fast Universe Is Expanding. New Measure Makes Things Worse. |
Space |
| Are dark matter and dark energy related in anything apart from name? |
New Scientist |
| Strange Dark Matter Findings Could Rewrite the Universe's History |
Vice |
| The other dark matter candidate |
Symmetry Magazine |
| Dark energy critics are outnumbered, we are told, and its defenders are digging in |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rob Sheldon on whether information can be the missing dark matter |
Uncommon Descent |
| What's the Difference Between Belief in Dark Matter and Belief in God? |
Real Clear Science |
| Has physicist's gravity theory solved 'impossible' dark energy riddle? |
The Guardian |
| Gravitational wave mystery could be a sign of a new kind of black hole |
New Scientist |
| How the solar system got its 'Great Divide, ' and why it matters for life on Earth |
Science Daily |
| Ring-like structure in early solar system proposed to explain the inner rocky planets |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why physicists are determined to prove Galileo and Einstein wrong |
Live Science |
| Effort to prove Galileo and Einstein wrong fails |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did the Big Bang really happen? Scientist disputes universe's origin story |
Inverse |
| Another sally against the Big Bang |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mathematical languages shape our understanding of time in physics |
Science Daily |
| NASA planet hunter finds Earth-size habitable-zone world |
Uncommon Descent |
| Physicists probe validity of Einstein's gravity on cosmic scales |
Knowable Magazine |
| Fate of the Universe - value of the Hubble Constant |
Aeon |
| Hubble Finds Teeny Tiny Clumps of Dark Matter |
Universe Today |
| A New Study Claims to Disprove Dark Energy-but Cosmologists Aren't Convinced |
Gizmodo |
| Why string theory persists - despite the knotty physics |
Space |
| In the quantum realm, cause doesn't necessarily come before effect |
New Scientist |
| Sabine Hossenfelder makes it to Slashdot |
Uncommon Descent |
| TOI 700d: The Latest Earth-Like Exoplanet? |
Answers in Genesis |
| LHCb sees new hints of odd lepton behaviour |
CERN |
| How 'spooky' is quantum physics? The answer could be incalculable |
Nature |
| Astronomers reveal interstellar thread of one of life's building blocks: ALMA and Rosetta map the journey of phosphorus |
Science Daily |
| The mystery of the moon |
Creation |
| Quantum Mechanics and Creation: A Brief Overview |
Answers in Genesis |
| Do mysterious particles flying out of Antarctica threaten the Standard Model of physics? |
Uncommon Descent |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Science News’s Top fossils in 2019 show a diminishing Darwin |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists find oldest-known fossilized digestive tract -- 550 million years |
Science Daily |
| World’s oldest scorpions show no change from 437 million years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Oldest Scorpion and the Decadence of Evolutionary Science |
Evolution News |
| Two mysterious blobs of hot rock at the edge of Earth’s core are “massive anomalies” |
Uncommon Descent |
| New feathered dinosaur shows dinosaurs grew up differently from birds |
Science Daily |
| Is it true that Earth is insignificant? What is the pattern of the evidence? Wallace investigates. |
Uncommon Descent |
| What the earliest life on Earth looked like |
BBC |
| Ediacaran life contrasted with Cambrian life to shape Darwinian tale |
Uncommon Descent |
| New signs of a shielding magnetic field found in Earth's oldest rock crystals |
Science magazine |
| Earth had a magnetic shield much earlier than thought |
Uncommon Descent |
| Oldest known asteroid strike may have ended Snowball Earth |
CNN |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| DNA Repair, Fish Shape, Epigenetics: Science Advances, Darwin-Free |
Evolution News |
| Surprises in Cell Codes Reveal Information Goes Far Beyond DNA |
Evolution News |
| Physicist Brian Miller: Two Conundrums for Strictly Materialist Views of Biology |
Evolution News |
| Before Natural Selection There Was, and Remains, a Mystery |
Evolution News |
| In Just Eight Minutes, New Video Punctures Evolution's Circular "Homology" Argument |
Evolution News |
Does the extended evolutionary synthesis entail extended explanatory power?
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Darwinista Blog |
| Podcast: Walter Bradley on the new, expanded edition of The Mystery of Life’s origin |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Origin of Land Plants Is Rooted in Two Bursts of Genomic Novelty |
Cell Press |
| 'Living fossil' may upend basic tenet of evolutionary theory: Natural selection's reach extends beyond genome into epigenome |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Basic tenet of evolutionary theory “upended” by new find |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers: Homogenous RNA could emerge from a primordial mess |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can New Genes Emerge from Scratch? |
Evolution News |
| Surprise discovery shakes up our understanding of gene expression |
Science Daily |
| Informed Choice Seen in Cellular Nanomachines |
Evolution News |
| Carnival of the Animals Delights Scientists |
Evolution News |
| Molecular Machines Work for Us |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Discovery sheds new light on how cells move |
Science Daily |
| Giant squid genome map offers some surprises re its giant brain |
Uncommon Descent |
| Squid brains approach those of dogs |
University of Queensland |
| The mysterious, legendary giant squid's genome is revealed |
Science Daily |
| Scientists uncover how an explosion of new genes explain the origin of land plants |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Our conscious visual perception lies outside our visual cortex |
Mind Matters |
| Nature Reviews Genetics - Pseudogene Function Is "Prematurely Dismissed" |
Evolution News |
| At The Scientist: “Junk RNA” is top science news in 2019 |
Uncommon Descent |
| Top Stories in Biology: Year in Review 2019 |
Answers in Genesis |
| DNA of Things: Embedding Machines with Replication Data |
Evolution News |
| Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts |
Evolution News |
| Meyer on "Nested Coding": Another Successful Design Prediction |
Evolution News |
| Definition of Epigenetics |
Uncommon Descent |
| Solving the First-Life Phosphate Problem |
ICR |
| Cellular clock regulating human spine development |
Science Daily |
| Why Our Sense of Touch Is a Marvel of the Animal Kingdom |
Popular Mechanics |
| Morphology of powerful suction organs from blepharicerid larvae living in raging torrents |
BMC Zoology |
| If Only Biologists Were This Smart! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolving Everything Except Sense |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The quest to decipher how the body's cells sense touch |
Nature |
| Neuroscientists Discover New Kind of Signal in the Human Brain |
Gizmodo |
| Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour |
New Scientist |
| How bacteria control their cell cycle |
Science Daily |
| Water lily genome expands picture of the early evolution of flowering plants |
Science |
| Snakes losing legs over time is not evolution! |
Creation |
| Wise Oysters, Galloping Sea Stars, and More: Biological Marvels Keep Coming |
Evolution News |
| This Strange Microbe May Mark One of Life's Great Leaps |
NY Times |
| Jumping genes threaten egg cell quality |
Science Daily |
| 'Jumping genes' help stabilize DNA folding patterns |
Science Daily |
| Silly Darwinism Needs a Good Shaming |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Study traces evolution of acoustic communication |
Science Daily |
| Transposons Identified as Likely Cause of Undiagnosed Diseases |
The Scientist |
| Bringing Past Articles Current to 2020: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, More |
Evolution News |
| Antibiotic resistance genes can be passed around by bacteria in dust |
New Scientist |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Reflections on Our Ancient Past |
Evolution News |
| At Aeon: Airing doubts about the Darwinian view of human nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| Dates of Human Fossils and Foods Challenge Credibility |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Roasted root veggies found at 170,000 years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| The advanced toolmakers of Olduvai Gorge |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Java Man not so old after all |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Neanderthals went underwater for their tools |
Science Daily |
| Were Neanderthals More Than Cousins to H. sapiens? |
Sapiens |
| How did the last Neanderthals live? |
BBC |
| Neanderthal ancestry also in African populations |
Science Daily |
| Neanderthals never lived in Africa, but their genes got there anyway |
New Scientist |
| Africans Have More Neanderthal DNA than Previously Thought |
The Scientist |
| Why Evolutionary Psychology (Probably) Isn't Possible |
Evolution Institute |
| At Evolution Institute, of all places, evolutionary psychology is savaged |
Uncommon Descent |
| Human uniqueness explored from the uniquely human perspective: Epistemological and methodological challenges |
Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior |
| Human ancestors started biodiversity decline millions of years ago |
Science Daily |
| At Salvo: The language barrier with animals is not a “cultural construct” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Claims about the origin of language admitted to be “highly speculative” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Psychology Still Skews Western and Affluent. Can It Be Fixed? |
Undark |
| Jordan Peterson and cultural Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Stone tools reveal epic trek of nomadic Neanderthals |
The Conversation |
| 5 theories on why Neanderthals went extinct |
Inverse |
| Only FIVE Neanderthal extinction theories? But wait, one actually makes sense |
Uncommon Descent |
| Population Growth Matches Bible and DNA Clock |
ICR |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| Karsten Pultz: Why random processes cannot produce information: A new approach to the argument |
Uncommon Descent |
| Karsten Pultz: The Information Problem, Part Two |
Uncommon Descent |
| Atheistic Humanism vs. the "Message from Jerusalem" |
Mosaic Magazine |
| Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic |
Luther College Publications |
| A classic reminder from MIT that most important science problems “await solution” |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Science Lost Its Mind |
Evolution News |
| Seven Ways Atheists Are Religious |
Answers in Genesis |
| To Evolutionists, Faith in Natural Selection Counts as Evidence |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Michael Egnor: Why you can't actually deny free will |
Mind Matters |
| Origin of Species with worldview guide |
Uncommon Descent |
| Recognizing Design Is To The Engineer, As Seafaring Is To The Seaman |
Uncommon Descent |
| Man versus machine: Can AI do science? |
Science Daily |
| Theoretical biologist quit over growing panpsychism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Leveraging change: the power of peer pressure |
Nature |
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| Faith is the most fundamental of the mathematical tools |
Mind Matters |
| The Intellectual and Moral Decline in Academic Research |
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal |
| Abortion advocate admits in a medical journal that unborn children feel pain |
Mind Matters |
| David Klinghoffer: Evolutionary thinking in a “state of decadence” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Review: 'The Lost World of Adam and Eve' |
Creation |
| Michael Egnor: How Experiments Show that the Mind Is More than the Brain |
Evolution News |
| Can machines be given consciousness? |
Mind Matters |
| College professors donate to Democrats over Republicans 95 to 1 |
Wintery Knight |
| Summoning the Demon: Worshiping Artificial Intelligence |
Creation |
| Why would philosophers deny that consciousness is real? |
Mind Matters |
| Some policymakers see robots as a direct threat to jobs and hope taxes will slow them down |
Mind Matters |
| Scientific American explores panpsychism… respectfully |
Mind Matters |
| BioLogos and the Search for Truth |
Evolution News |
| The case of Biologos and the Disappearing Documents |
Uncommon Descent |
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