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Hair Makes You Bigger and Warmer
November 15, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
scientists found that hair increases a beast’s surface area by a factor of 100
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New Earth Ocean Theory Is All Wet
November 16, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Time to rewrite the textbooks again. Earth started out wet, scientists now claim, overturning decades of dogma.
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Darwin's Heretic (DVD)
January 1, 2012 Center for Science and Culture (Discovery Institute)
Alfred Russel Wallace shares credit with Charles Darwin for developing the theory of evolution by natural selection ... and he embraced intelligent design; see also News Update/Commentary
Why we live on Earth and not Venus
July 21, 2015 Science Daily
Compared to its celestial neighbors Venus and Mars, Earth is a pretty habitable place. So how did we get so lucky? A new study sheds light on the improbable evolutionary path that enabled Earth to sustain life.
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Where Did Earth's Water and Ammonia Come From?
July 23, 2015 Discover Magazine (September)
meteorites likely brought water here, but it didn't stick around until after our planet cooled off
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Uncovering Our Ancestral Microbiomes
July 23, 2015 Discover Magazine (September)
to discover the evolution of the bacterial residents we host, a new field of research delves deep into unexpected corners of our fossil record
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How Homo sapiens Became the Ultimate Invasive Species
August 1, 2015 Scientific American, v.313, n.2
Many human species have inhabited Earth. But ours is the only one that colonized the entire planet. A new hypothesis explains why.
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Studying the Footprints of Human Ancestors
August 27, 2015 Discover Magazine (October)
researchers rush to record and preserve fragile footprints of ancient human ancestors
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Asteroid Impacts Shaped Earth's Earliest Life
August 27, 2015 Discover Magazine (October)
asteroids pummeled our planet during its first 2 billion years, but the consequences for life were not what you might expect
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Holes in a Bone: Flute or Fluke?
August 27, 2015 Discover Magazine (October)
scientists disagree on who or what put holes in a prehistoric bone
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100 Years of General Relativity (Special Issue)
September 1, 2015 Scientific American, v.313, n.3
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Census of seafloor sediments in the world’s ocean
September 1, 2015 Geology, v.43, n.9, p.795-798
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Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong -- and How to Fix It
September 15, 2015 Scientific American, v.313, n.4
Two years in, a $1-billion-plus effort to simulate the human brain is in disarray. Was it poor management, or is something fundamentally wrong with Big Science?
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How Big Is Science?
September 15, 2015 Scientific American, v.313, n.4
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The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother
October 1, 2015 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
October 1, 2015 Ecco (HarperCollins)
see also Amazon
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Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers
October 1, 2015 Simon & Schuster
see also Amazon
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Lake once filled the crater on Mars where Curiosity rover sits
October 14, 2015 New Scientist, n.3043
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Genome of ancient Ethiopian tells of back-to-Africa migration
October 14, 2015 New Scientist, n.3043
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First humans to leave Africa went to China, not Europe
October 14, 2015 New Scientist, n.3043
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How Einstein Revealed the Universe's Strange "Nonlocality"
October 20, 2015 Scientific American, v.313, n.5
our sense of the universe as an orderly expanse where events happen in absolute locations is an illusion
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How a creationist instinct stops us seeing evolution everywhere
October 21, 2015 New Scientist, n.3044
free-market evangelism spoils an otherwise good book, which attempts to extend the theory of evolution beyond biology to human culture and institutions
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Could cosmic megastructures be intruders from another world?
October 21, 2015 New Scientist, n.3044
On a large scale the cosmos should be plain, but it’s not. Windows into other dimensions could explain mysterious objects billions of light years across.
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Sauropod dinosaur may have whipped its tail like Indiana Jones
October 21, 2015 New Scientist, n.3044
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Life may have begun 300 million years earlier than we thought
October 21, 2015 New Scientist, n.3044
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First Earth-mass planet around nearest star may be an illusion
October 28, 2015 New Scientist, n.3045
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Mystery bright spots could be first glimpse of another universe
October 28, 2015 New Scientist, n.3045
Light given off by hydrogen shortly after the big bang has left some unexplained bright patches in space. Are they evidence of bumping into another universe?
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Super-fast Antarctic drills ready to hunt for oldest ice
October 28, 2015 Nature, v.526, p.618-619
next-generation machines can penetrate kilometres below surface in days rather than years
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The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China
October 29, 2015 Nature, v.526, p.696-699
a collection of 47 unequivocally modern human teeth from a cave in southern China shows that modern humans were in the region at least 80,000 years ago, and possibly as long as 120,000 years ago, which is twice as long
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20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Lava
October 29, 2015 Discover Magazine (December)
Did lava kill the dinosaurs? Maybe.
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A window into ape evolution
October 30, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6260, p.515-516
a fossil of an ape ancestor helps to explain gibbon evolution
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Cradle of life
October 30, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6260, p.496-501
Did a biblical-scale flood -- or the rise of the Andes -- give the Amazon its amazing biodiversity?
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How some of the world's biggest dinosaurs got that way
October 30, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6260, p.492-493
fresh data reveal titanosaur growth stages, from egg to adult
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What Was on the T. Rex Menu? Sometimes Each Other
October 31, 2015 National Geographic
here's what we know about how the ‘tyrant king’ ate its meals
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The Cunning of Uncertainty
November 1, 2015 Polity Press (Wiley)
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The Climate Change Issue
November 1, 2015 National Geographic
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The Evolutionary Timeline Retooled
November 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
a chance discovery reveals the first "makers" predate our genus
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The Tropics Were Hot, Dry and Dinosaur-Free
November 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
why larger dinos stayed out of the tropics for 30 million years
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Rewriting Tel Megiddo's Violent History
November 1, 2015 Discover Magazine
at the ancient site of Megiddo, archaeologists unearth new scientific insights that may turn centuries of gospel on its head
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Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact
November 1, 2015 Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.127, n.11-12, p.1507-1520
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Acts & Facts, v.44, n.11 (pdf)
November 1, 2015 Institute for Creation Research
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The greatest vanishing act in prehistoric America
November 3, 2015 Nature, v.527, p.26-29
Seven centuries ago, tens of thousands of people fled their homes in the American Southwest. Archaeologists are trying to work out why.
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Entangled universe: Could wormholes hold the cosmos together?
November 4, 2015 New Scientist, n.3046
weird connections through space-time might make reality real, giving us a promising new route to a theory of everything
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Settle the question of life on Mars before conquering Red Planet
November 4, 2015 New Scientist, n.3046
fresh evidence for liquid water means space agencies should focus on life-detection missions on Mars before establishing a human presence
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Fossil discovery could be the last common ancestor to all apes
November 4, 2015 New Scientist, n.3046
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Leading theory of consciousness rocked by oddball study
November 4, 2015 New Scientist, n.3046
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Sharp-eared T. rex may have stalked the night like today’s owls
November 4, 2015 New Scientist, n.3046
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Did climate change jump-start human evolution in East Africa?
November 4, 2015 New Scientist, n.3046
the Turkana basin, home to many major fossil discoveries, may have acted as a species factory, generating early humans adapted to a drier climate
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How buried water makes diamonds and oil
November 6, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6261, p.613-614
a new picture of water in the deep Earth predicts surprising chemistry
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CRISPR: A path through the thicket
November 10, 2015 Nature, v.527, p.159-161
as various advisory bodies, scientific organizations and funding agencies deliberate on genome editing in humans, this article lays out some key points for consideration