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| ARTICLES - FEBRUARY 2020 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| In the "Mathematical Glory" of the Universe, Physicist Discovered the "Truly Divine" |
Evolution News |
| A quantum technique highlights math's mysterious link to physics |
Science News |
| Rob Sheldon unpacks the new “backwards causation”quantum mechanics research |
Uncommon Descent |
| Review - From Big Bang to cosmic bounce: an astronomical journey through space and time |
Nature |
| Straw in the wind? Get a load of the review of a string theorist’s Big Book at Nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why String Theory Is Both A Dream And A Nightmare |
Forbes |
| Why Does Mathematics Interpret Reality? |
Mind Matters |
| Does nature have a minimal length? |
BackReaction |
| Sabine Hossenfelder asks: Does nature have a minimal length? Could it point to a final theory? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Identity-Switching Neutrinos Could Reveal Why We Exist At All. But Can We Find Them? |
Space |
| Did Neutrinos Stop The Early Universe From Annihilating Itself? |
Universe Today |
| New Wrinkle Added to Cosmology's Hubble Crisis |
Quanta Magazine |
| Don't Believe These 5 Myths About The Big Bang |
Forbes |
| Ethan Siegel warns us against five myths about the Big Bang |
Uncommon Descent |
| These 4 Pieces Of Evidence Have Already Taken Us Beyond The Big Bang |
Forbes |
| Forbes’ physics columnist Ethan Siegel can’t wait to get beyond the Big Bang. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers have simulated the formation of galaxies in a universe without dark matter |
Science Daily |
| Could the Universe be Eternal? |
Jesus Is Not Fake News |
| Do Physicalists Believe in Black Holes? |
Evolution News |
| Could DAMA's 'Dark Matter Signal' Simply Be Poorly Analyzed Noise? |
Forbes |
| Your decision-making ability is a superpower physics can't explain |
New Scientist |
| Deconstructing Schrödinger's cat |
Science Daily |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Earth formed much faster than previously thought |
Science Daily |
| Astronomers: Earth formed within 5 million years |
Uncommon Descent |
| Green plants discovered in China dated at a billion years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists find oldest-known fossilized digestive tract -- 550 million years |
Science Daily |
| 550 million-year-old digestive tract more like worm than coral |
Uncommon Descent |
| A bee from 100 million years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| Newly Discovered Tyrannosaur Was Key to the Rise of Giant Meat-Eaters |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| What Was it Really Like on Early Earth? |
Air & Space Magazine |
| Fossils: Where's the Evolution? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Fossil Eggshells Suggest All Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded |
Discover Magazine |
| Were all dinosaurs warmblooded? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Tiny 2-billion-year-old fossil blobs may be the oldest complex cells |
New Scientist |
| Scientists find new 110-million-year-old treasure |
Science Daily |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Flaws in the RNA World |
Chemistry World |
| What? A skeptical view of RNA world? The five-star hotel of origin of life theories? |
Uncommon Descent |
| RNA: Scientists have discovered a new layer in the genetic code of life |
Science Norway |
| RNA World Is Sterile - And the Mystery of Life's Origin Remains |
Evolution News |
| Genes from scratch: Far more common and important than we thought |
Science Daily |
| Yes, genes that come from nowhere ARE an “evolutionary problem.” |
Uncommon Descent |
| 5 Areas of Science that Pose Problems for Evolution |
Gospel Coalition |
| Phylogenetic conflicts abound in plant phylogeny |
Nature |
| Huge discordance between gene trees in a new phylogenetic study |
Uncommon Descent |
| When Does Human Life Begin? |
Evolution News |
| The co-evolution of plants and humans |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Whole-proteome tree of life suggests a deep burst of organism diversity |
PNAS |
| Genome stability: Intricate process of DNA repair discovered |
Science Daily |
| Design of Collective Motions from Synthetic Molecular Switches, Rotors, and Motors |
ACS Publications |
| Evolution "Dreaming" - Tough Language from Biologist Michael Lynch |
Evolution News |
| Dinosaur DNA Found! |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The Evolution of the Eye, Demystified |
Evolution News |
| Scientists discover first known animal that doesn't breathe |
Uncommon Descent |
| Newly identified cellular trash removal program helps create new neurons |
Science Daily |
| Rules of life: From a pond to the beyond |
Science Daily |
| Intelligent Design in Birds, Insects Inspires Aeronautics and More |
Evolution News |
| New mathematical model reveals how major groups arise in evolution |
Science Daily |
| Jerry Coyne - A defense of the binary in human sex |
Why Evolution Is True |
| Jerry Coyne takes a stand: Sex is binary |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is Sex Binary? |
Evolution News |
| If Human Eugenics Wouldn't Work, Human Evolution Has a Big Problem |
Evolution News |
| Why eugenics would not work |
Thread Reader |
| But Why Not Go For It with Human Eugenics? |
Evolution News |
| Scientists discover virus with no recognizable genes |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did consciousness evolve?: A Darwinist responds |
Mind Matters |
| The Dangerous Denial of Sex |
Wall Street Journal |
| Help a Darwinist Tell Boys from Girls |
Evolution News |
| Gene loss more important in animal kingdom evolution than previously thought |
University of Bristol |
| Scientists unravel mystery of photosynthesis |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: We switched the direction of electrons in photosynthesis |
Uncommon Descent |
| Embryonic 'Clocks' Mimic Human Construction Schedules |
ICR |
| Researchers discover sophisticated hospital system for DNA in cells |
Uncommon Descent |
| A Forest, Not a Tree? Nelson Asks Why Universal Common Descent Needn't "Pay" for Failures |
Evolution News |
| Cockroaches-The Right Creatures for the Job |
Answers in Genesis |
| Bad News for Plant Origins |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| How plant cells sense the outside world |
Nature |
| 'Rule breaking' plants may be climate change survivors |
Science Daily |
| Molecular motors direct the fate of stem cells |
Science Daily |
| Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence |
New Scientist |
| Tomfoolery in Origin of Life |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Coming on Darwin Day, a New Video Series - Secrets of the Cell with Michael Behe |
Evolution News |
| Understanding how cells defend their genome against invaders |
Science Daily |
| Important Medical Effects but Modest Mutations |
Evolution News |
| Junk DNA ideas have hindered progress in medical science |
Creation |
| How the development of skulls and beaks made Darwin's finches one of the most diverse species |
Science Daily |
| Step aside CRISPR, RNA editing is taking off |
Nature |
| Computer simulations visualize how DNA converts cells into stem cells |
Science Daily |
| Water, water everywhere, and it's weirder than you think |
Science Daily |
| How to silence an X chromosome |
Nature |
| Same-sex attraction isn't an evolutionary paradox - here's why |
New Scientist |
| How plants are built to be strong and responsive |
Science Daily |
| Cells have two separate guidance systems for the arrangement of their cellulose fibres |
Uncommon Descent |
| Punching Darwin's Lights Out |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Reformers of evolutionary biology publish book of essays, exploring views, disagreements |
Uncommon Descent |
| Great ape brains have a feature that we thought was unique to humans |
New Scientist |
| Bees are even smarter than we thought |
Cosmos Magazine |
| An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience |
Nautilus |
| Specialized Brain Cells Act Like a Compass |
ICR |
| Brain cells protect muscles from wasting away |
Science Daily |
| At Oscillations: “Natural selection” issue stirs again at College Boards |
Uncommon Descent |
| Molecular evidence supports Darwin's adaptationist view, informing the debate over what drives evolution |
PNAS |
| Study Reveals The Mechanics of The Body's 'Steering Wheel' For The First Time |
Science Alert |
| What? New discoveries in human anatomy? |
Uncommon Descent |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Neo-Darwinism and the Big Bang of Man’s Origin |
Evolution News |
| Psychology's Fake Superiority Over Religion |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Archaeologists receive letter from biblical era |
EurekAlert |
| Discovery at 'flower burial' site could unravel mystery of Neanderthal death rites |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Neanderthals really did bury their dead |
Uncommon Descent |
| Neanderthals' relatives climbed an erupting volcano 350,000 years ago |
arstechnica |
| 50,000-year-old remains suggest Neanderthals buried their dead |
New Scientist |
| The flawed experiment that destroyed the world's faith in psychiatry |
New Scientist |
| Have humans evolved beyond nature - and do we even need it? |
The Conversation |
| At The Conversation: Have humans evolved beyond nature? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Review: 'The Genealogical Adam and Eve' |
Creation |
| Early humans in Africa may have interbred with a mysterious, extinct species - new research |
The Conversation |
| 65, 000-year-old plant remains show the earliest Australians spent plenty of time cooking |
The Conversation |
| Paleoanthropology in Australia - Homo erectus and modern human origins |
Creation |
Thousands of Denisovan tools found, also bracelets and tiaras?
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Uncommon Descent |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / THEOLOGY |
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| What is the difference between “soul” and “spirit”? |
Mind Matters |
| Four ways that the progress of experimental science conflicts with atheism |
Wintery Knight |
| Behe and Swamidass Debate Evolution and Intelligent Design at Texas A&M |
Evolution News |
| Darwinism and Intelligent Design in Poland |
Evolution News |
| Getting to the Roots of Design |
Evolution News |
| How Did Belief Evolve? |
Sapiens |
| Why Is Courtroom Science So Unscientific? |
Gizmodo |
| Book Review: How Reason Can Lead to God by Joshua Rasmussen |
Apologetics 315 |
| Does anyone come to Christian faith by a rational process? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Galileo & Creation in Early Modern Science |
Answers in Genesis |
| Philosophical-ish Objections to Intelligent Design: A Response to Paul Draper |
Evolution News |
| Was Sagan wrong about “Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolution & Racism |
Commonweal Magazine |
| On Evolution, Can't We All Just Get Along? |
Evolution News |
| Gaia and Selectionism's Nature Worship |
ICR |
| Getting "Intelligent Design" Backward |
Evolution News |
| ID Literature and the Great Evolutionary Firewall |
Evolution News |
| In Praise Of 'Normal Science' |
Forbes |
| Let us now praise normal science: Chad Orzel responds to Sabine Hossenfelder |
Uncommon Descent |
| Peer Review Is Science's Wheel of Misfortune |
Bloomberg |
| How Academic Science Gave Its Soul to the Publishing Industry |
Issues |
| Science media have strange standards for assessing corruption… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Totalitarians on the Loose in Science |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Jon Garvey’s new book argues that Adam was one among many early humans |
Uncommon Descent |
| Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved |
IAI |
| Bernardo Kastrup: Consciousness cannot have evolved |
Mind Matters |
| Anti-Intellectualism and Rejecting Science |
NeuroLogica Blog |
| Book Review: Transhumanism and the Image of God by Jacob Shatzer |
Apologetics 315 |
| Is transhumanism uncomfortably tempting? |
Mind Matters |
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| AND MORE |
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| Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| Why your brain is not a computer |
The Guardian |
| Neo-Darwinism and the Big Bang of Man's Origin |
Evolution News |
| Evolutionist Admits Darwin's Connection to Racism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Michael Denton and Intelligent Design's Big Tent |
Evolution News |
Intelligent Design as a big tent
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Uncommon Descent |
| Footnote: Evolution Adds Nothing |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Why eliminative materialism cannot be a good theory of the mind |
Mind Matters |
| Why the mind cannot just emerge from the brain |
Mind Matters |
| The mind’s reality is consistent with neuroscience |
Mind Matters |
| A philosopher explains why thinking matter is impossible |
Mind Matters |
| In Brain Waves, Scientists See Neurons Juggle Possible Futures |
Quanta Magazine |
| How to Make the Study of Consciousness Scientifically Tractable |
Scientific American Blogs |
| How can we study consciousness scientifically? |
Mind Matters |
| Jerry Coyne jumps into the Dawkins eugenics row |
Uncommon Descent |
| Jerry Coyne Asks a Good Question |
Evolution News |
| Who Really Inherited Darwin's Legacy? You Might Be Surprised to Learn |
Evolution News |
| Teilhard de Chardin and the Incomplete Nature of Evolutionary Theory |
Evolution News |
| Kastrup: No, consciousness CANNOT be just a byproduct |
Mind Matters |
| Richard Dawkins says eugenics works because we are just like animals |
Uncommon Descent |
| Everyone is bugging us to do something for Darwin Day |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwin Day Is Fizzling |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| There Is No 'Party of Science' |
National Review |
| String Theory as a philosophy of life - Time’s reviewer laps it up |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) gaining respectability again? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Specific Plans To Advance Diversity |
Reason |
Life science jobs at Berkeley give precedence to candidates’ diversity and inclusion statements
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Why Evolution Is True |
| Anti-Christian Bias in Academia Is Real.A Peer-Reviewed Study Proved What We Have Always Known: Creationists are Subject to Major Discrimination in Academia |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
Plagiarism hunters, please lay down your weapons
A feudal approach to intellectual property has turned the academy into a modern police state, says Steve Fuller
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Times Higher Education |
| Truth decay: when uncertainty is weaponized |
Nature |
| At Nature: Worries aired about “truth decay”, Rob Sheldon responds |
Uncommon Descent |
| BioLogos is marketing theistic evolution and “consensus science” to Christian schools |
Uncommon Descent |
| Review - Until the End of Time tries to use physics to find the meaning of life |
New Scientist |
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