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Plate tectonics: Continental-drift opus turns 100
October 1, 2015 Nature, v.526, p.43
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Fish launches jaw to feed on land
October 1, 2015 Nature, v.526, p.8
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Blood Pressure: Standing Up to Gravity
October 1, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Signs of ancient mega-tsunami could portend modern hazard
October 2, 2015 Science Daily
evidence of an 800-foot wave in the Cape Verde Islands
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Community stability and selective extinction during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
October 2, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6256, p.90-93
the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago was fundamentally different from the current, human-caused, extinctions
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State shift in Deccan volcanism at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, possibly induced by impact
October 2, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6256, p.76-78
high-precision dating of Deccan Traps volcanic units suggests an increase in volcanism associated with the Chicxulub impact
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How stable are food webs during a mass extinction?
October 2, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6256, p.38-39
fossil data provide a detailed view of how food webs changed across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
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Talking science and God with the pope's new astronomer
October 2, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6256, p.17-18
Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory, wants to show that religion can support astronomy
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Why We Don't Look Like Chimps
October 2, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Thinking Critically about Opposition to Teaching the Controversy
October 5, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Scientific Progress Is Spelled “Bio-Inspiration”
October 5, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Need fundamental insights into physics and technology? Look no further than the living world.
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News Update/Commentary
Tiny ancient fossil from Spain shows birds flew over the heads of dinosaurs
October 6, 2015 Science Daily
exceptional 125-million-year-old bird discovered
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Do Evolutionists Have Extinctions Figured Out?
October 6, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
stories of periodic mass extinctions millions of years ago sound like factual accounts, till you look at the details and ask some simple questions
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Putting Scientism in Its Place
October 7, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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How scientists fool themselves -- and how they can stop
October 7, 2015 Nature, v.526, p.182-185
humans are remarkably good at self-deception, but growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to fight their own worst instincts
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News Update/Commentary
48-million-year-old horse-like fetus discovered in Germany
October 7, 2015 Science Daily
well-preserved uteroplacenta found surrounding fetus similar to modern day mares
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Information Enigma
October 7, 2015 YouTube
Information drives the development of life. But what is the source of that information? Could it have been produced by an unguided Darwinian process? Or did it require intelligent design?
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Animals thrive at Chernobyl
October 8, 2015 Nature, v.526, p.166
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Adult Stem Cells Outpace Embryonics
October 8, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
some still play with embryos, but there seems little reason for it when adult stem cells perform so well
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of kangaroo-like jerboas sheds light on limb development
October 8, 2015 Science Daily
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New Thoughts on Habitable Planets
October 9, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Astrobiologists are trying to standardize the requirements for habitable planets. Do they get them all?
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Deposition, exhumation, and paleoclimate of an ancient lake deposit, Gale crater, Mars
October 9, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6257
Mount Sharp now stands where there was once a large intercrater lake system
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New Clues to King Solomon's Mines Found
September 5, 2013 Live Science
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Mineralogical Confirmation for Liquid Water on Present-day Mars
September 28, 2015 Georgia Tech
detection of hydrated perchlorates suggests flowing water
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Megatsunami 170 metres high once smashed into Cape Verde
October 2, 2015 New Scientist
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Ancient rocks record first evidence for photosynthesis that made oxygen
October 5, 2015 University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Explore 100 years of general relativity
October 7, 2015 New Scientist, n.3042
In a century, Einstein’s theory has revolutionised our picture of the universe. We take a look at the pivotal moments in general relativity since Einstein presented his theory in 1915.
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Volcanoes plus asteroid might have finished off dinosaurs
October 7, 2015 New Scientist, n.3042
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Confirmation that Assisted Suicide Increases Other Suicides
October 7, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Epigenetic algorithm accurately predicts male sexual orientation
October 8, 2015 Science Daily
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Evolutionary Anthropologists Startled by Racial Mixing in Africa
October 13, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If they didn’t expect recent genetic mixing from Europe into Africa, how certain are they about older human migrations?
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Introducing The Information Enigma -- Intelligent Design in a Nutshell
October 8, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Is Water Miraculous?
October 10, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
it depends on your definition of miracle, but one professor thinks the word might aptly be applied to H2O
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Religion vs. Evolution: Which Explains Which?
October 11, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
evolutionists have a running theme that evolving humans invented religion for various evolutionary reasons
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Why the Earth’s past has scientists so worried about the Atlantic Ocean’s circulation
October 12, 2015 Washington Post
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The Evolution Controversy Comes to Indian Schools
October 12, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Stasis: Life Goes On but Evolution Does Not Happen
October 12, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Three Mavericks Who Won
October 12, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The loner, not the consensus, is sometimes the one whose views get traction in science. Here are three historical examples.
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News Update/Commentary
Sun-warmed dinosaurs may have been surprisingly good sprinters
October 13, 2015 Science Daily
some had the ability to warm themselves by drawing heat from the sun
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Ben Carson on Creationism, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
October 13, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Homochirality: Computers Are Not the Real World
October 14, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
if you solve a vexing problem in a computer model, you have not solved it in the real world
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Developing Saurolophus dino found at 'Dragon's Tomb'
October 14, 2015 Science Daily
found with associated shell fragments, Saurolophus dino likely from nest, in earliest stages of development
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Shift in weaning age supports hunting-induced extinction of Siberian woolly mammoths
October 15, 2015 Science Daily
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Describing the indescribable: Underlying features of reported mystical experiences
October 15, 2015 Science Daily
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A Cretaceous eutriconodont and integument evolution in early mammals
October 15, 2015 Nature, v.526, p.380-384
description of a well-preserved 125-million-year-old fossil of a triconodont mammal from Spain, which extends the record of mammalian soft-tissue preservation back into the Mesozoic era
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First ancient African genome
October 15, 2015 Nature, v.526, p.296
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News Update/Commentary
Mound near lunar south pole formed by unique volcanic process
October 15, 2015 Science Daily
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Late harvest from Pluto reveals a complex world
October 16, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6258, p.260-261
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First modern humans in China
October 16, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6258, p.264
contemporary-looking teeth found in cave suggest that Homo sapiens left Africa much earlier than expected
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Stem Cells: NIH debates human-animal chimeras
October 16, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6258, p.261-262
grant to add human cells to animal embryos is delayed