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Is evil a disease? ISIS and the neuroscience of brutality
November 11, 2015 New Scientist, n.3047
it’s hard to understand how the Nazis, ISIS and other radical groups can turn ordinary people into brutal killers, but perhaps evil is a disease -- one we can treat
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Most of Earth’s mass extinctions caused by… mineral deficiencies
November 11, 2015 New Scientist, n.3047
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Quantum dilemma: We have too many options for explaining reality
November 11, 2015 New Scientist, n.3047
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‘Death clock’ in cells could tell you when you’ll get cancer
November 11, 2015 New Scientist, n.3047
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Mystery microbes in our gut could be a whole new form of life
November 11, 2015 New Scientist, n.3047
genetic analysis of microbial DNA from our guts suggests there is a whole new domain of life lurking inside our own bodies -- the dark matter of life
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Deep-time evolution of regeneration and preaxial polarity in tetrapod limb development
November 12, 2015 Nature, v.527, p.231-234
data from fossils reveal the existence of preaxial polarity in various amphibians from the Carboniferous and Permian periods, suggesting that salamander-like regeneration is an ancient feature of tetrapods that was subs
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A rocky planet transiting a nearby low-mass star
November 12, 2015 Nature, v.527, p.204-207
a low-mass star that is just 12 parsecs away from Earth is shown to be transited by an Earth-sized planet, GJ 1132b, which probably has a rock/iron composition and might support a substantial atmosphere
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Does Intelligent Design Stand Athwart the History of Science Yelling Stop?
November 12, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Body-size reduction in vertebrates following the end-Devonian mass extinction
November 13, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6262, p.812-815
similar to ongoing extinctions, the end-Devonian extinction resulted in the loss of most large-bodied vertebrates
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Evolution and dispersal of mammoths across the Northern Hemisphere
November 13, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6262, p.805-809
detailed morphological examination of mammoth fossils globally reveals repeated colonization events
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Evidence for primordial water in Earth’s deep mantle
November 13, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6262, p.795-797
Baffin Island basalt hydrogen isotopes suggest a protosolar origin for Earth’s water
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Fossils, cells point to early appearance of the brain
November 13, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6262, p.729-730
nervous systems were well developed by the Cambrian explosion, having evolved in earlier organisms
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The quantum source of space-time
November 16, 2015 Nature, v.527, p.290-293
many physicists believe that entanglement is the essence of quantum weirdness -- and some now suspect that it may also be the essence of space-time geometry
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Discovery of long-sought biological compass claimed
November 16, 2015 Nature, v.527, p.283-284
protein complex offers explanation for how animals sense Earth's magnetic pull
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It's Really Not Rocket Science
November 16, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Fear of Intelligent Design Prevents Some Biologists from Accepting ENCODE's Results
November 16, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Denying the Signature: A Response to Bishop and O'Connor
November 17, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Finding Value in Waste
November 17, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
there’s something beautiful about transforming disgusting castoffs into products that are useful, valuable, and healthful
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Early Massive Galaxies Will Require Theory Overhaul (Again)
November 18, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Big bang theory didn’t expect massive galaxies so early, but they’ve known about this problem for over a decade.
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The exoplanet files
November 18, 2015 Nature, v.527, p.288-289
what we know about alien worlds -- and what’s coming next
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Origin of Earth’s water traced back to the birth of our planet
November 18, 2015 New Scientist, n.3048
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Researchers capture first photo of planet in making
November 18, 2015 Science Daily
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Ancient fossil forest unearthed in Arctic Norway
November 19, 2015 Science Daily
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Animal Engineers Teach Physics Profs a Thing or Three
November 19, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
three animals never went to the university, but they leave human PhDs struggling to catch up to their know-how
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Mathematics: Logic and Lewis Carroll
November 19, 2015 Nature, v.527, p.302–304
as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reaches 150, Abeles surveys its creator's wide-ranging legacy
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There’s No Place Like Earth
November 20, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a survey of known exoplanets finds no real estate as valuable as Earth
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3D imaging sheds new light on 250 million year old fossil
November 20, 2015 Science Daily
a new study has used high-resolution imaging techniques to reinterpret fossilized bones first encountered in northeast Italy in 1989
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Ground-breaking research could challenge underlying principles of physics
November 20, 2015 Science Daily
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Candace Cameron Bure and Joy Behar in Heated Debate over Creation and Evolution on ‘The View’
November 20, 2015 World Religion News
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100 years of continental drift
November 20, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6263, p.915-916
one hundred years ago, Alfred Wegener laid the foundations for the theory of plate tectonics
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Humans may have reached Chile by 18,500 years ago
November 20, 2015 Science, v.350, n.6263, p.898
Monte Verde stone tools may be the oldest in the Americas
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Invisible Subs and Other Tricks Inspired by Life
November 21, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
working scientists seem less focused on evolution and more on design these days, figuring out how animals and plants do amazing things
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Reason Honestly with Purpose
November 22, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Science and society cannot exist without moral values. Use them; you were born with the capacity to apprehend them.
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What Killed the Dinosaurs
December 1, 2015 Scientific American, v.313, n.6
The asteroid strike was bad. The timing was worse.
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Privileged Species
March 24, 2015 YouTube
a 33-minute documentary that explores growing evidence from physics, chemistry, biology, and related fields that our universe was designed for large multi-cellular beings like ourselves
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Can Science Define Morality? Sam Harris Thinks So
October 19, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Is Intelligent Design "Apologetics"?
October 22, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The Scientific Evidence for God is Growing, Not Shrinking
November 13, 2015 stream.org
the atheism that masquerades as science misrepresents the history of science
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Denying the Signature: Functional Information Is the Fact to Be Explained
November 19, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Fare Thee Well, Kepler 438b
November 19, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Denying the Signature: Methodological Naturalism and Materialism-of-the Gaps
November 21, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Rocket Science in a Microbe Saves the Planet
November 23, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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New Fossils, Old Stories
November 23, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
you can sing any words to the same tune, if you don’t know any other tunes and don’t care how well the syllables rhyme or fit
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New species of early anthropoid primate found amid Libyan strife
November 23, 2015 Science Daily
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Mars once had a moderately dense atmosphere
November 24, 2015 Science Daily
the fingerprints of early photochemistry provide a solution to the long-standing mystery
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Major Scientific Revolutions Are Still Possible
November 24, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Beware the myth of progress. There’s more scientists don’t know than what they know.
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How Animals Keep Warm in Freezing Wetness
November 25, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
We shiver to think of going without heavy coats in snow, but snowshoe hares, gophers and birds look perfectly comfortable. What’s their secret?
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Betrayals of trust: Human nature's dark side may have helped us spread across the world
November 25, 2015 Science Daily
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CEH Is Thankful to You
November 26, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers. We appreciate your faithful visits!
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Mystery of how snakes lost their legs solved by reptile fossil
November 27, 2015 Science Daily