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| ARTICLES - November 2020 |
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| PHYSICS / ASTRONOMY / COSMOLOGY |
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| The universe is expanding too fast, and that could rewrite cosmology |
New Scientist |
| Here’s why the quantum world is just so strange |
Mind Matters |
| The scariest things in the universe are black holes - and here are 3 reasons |
The Conversation |
| Did A Black Hole Give Birth To Our Universe? |
Forbes |
| Has the hidden matter of the universe been discovered? |
Science Daily |
| Physicists Are Expanding the Search for Dark Matter |
Quanta Magazine |
| To explain away dark matter, gravity would have to be really weird, cosmologists say |
Science Magazine |
| At Science mag: “Really weird” gravity would be needed to explain away dark matter |
Uncommon Descent |
| Dark matter and dark energy as 21st century Ptolemaic epicycles? - Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts |
Uncommon Descent |
| No, Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Information Paradox Hasn't Been Solved |
Forbes |
| At Forbes: Hawking’s black hole paradox is NOT solved |
Uncommon Descent |
| Swarms of 'primordial' black holes might fill our universe |
Live Science |
| Virtual particles do not exist |
Einstein’s Cup Of Tea |
| What Is a Particle? |
Quanta Magazine |
| Six questions physicists ask when evaluating scientific claims |
Symmetry Magazine |
| Prospects for life on Venus fade - but aren't dead yet |
Nature |
| The lonely universe: Is life on Earth just a lucky fluke? |
Astronomy |
| The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolved. Because it's unsolvable. |
BackReaction |
| Sabine Hossenfelder: The black hole information problem is not solvable |
Uncommon Descent |
| Some of the Milky Way's oldest stars aren't where they're expected to be |
Universe Today |
| Hmm. The Milky Way’s oldest stars are out of place |
Uncommon Descent |
| Contemplating the End of Physics |
Quanta Magazine |
| At Quanta: Are we looking at the end of physics? |
Uncommon Descent |
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| EARTH SCIENCES / GEOLOGY / PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Soft Tissue Fossils Reveal Incriminating Trends |
ICR |
| The Fossils Still Say No: The Cambrian Explosion |
ICR |
| At Geological Society of America’s house rag: QUIT calling it the Cambrian Explosion! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Pterosaur Feathers: Another Myth Exploded |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Researchers: Earliest evidence of animals at 635 mya turns out to be common algae |
Uncommon Descent |
| Twisting Abrupt Appearance into Anti-Creationism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The mystery of feather origins: how fluffy pterosaurs have reignited debate |
The Conversation |
| Are radioactive elements crucial for rocky planets? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Newly discovered lizard skull is “perplexing” Its place in Tree of Life uncertain |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ancient crocodiles' family tree reveals unexpected twists and turns |
Science Daily |
| How long do most species last before going extinct? |
Live Science |
| The tale of how duckbilled dinosaurs crossed the ocean to Africa |
Uncommon Descent |
| Newly discovered fossil shows small-scale evolutionary changes in an extinct human species |
Science Daily |
| Some strengths and weaknesses of the polymer shield explanation for soft tissue fossils |
Journal of Creation - Perspectives |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Life with Purpose |
Aeon |
| A return of purpose to biology? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Genetic entropy: The silent killer |
Creation |
| Review of Behe's Darwin Devolves |
Journal of Creation |
| Karsten Pultz: Review of Denton’s “The Miracle Of The Cell” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Behe's New "Mousetrap" Book - The Fragility of Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| Film clip on the probability of a protein forming by chance passes 500k views |
Uncommon Descent |
| Engineer Stuart Burgess on “bad design” in nature |
Uncommon Descent |
| Study: The human brain and the universe are remarkably similar |
Mind Matters |
| Human Hands Are Designed, Not Evolved |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Molecular Darwinism Ignores Information |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| “Identical evolution” of isolated groups of early vertebrates confirmed |
Uncommon Descent |
| A rethink about how cells organize themselves? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bacterium alters its genome to adapt to new conditions |
Uncommon Descent |
| On the "Sisyphean Evolution of Darwin's Finches" |
Evolution News |
| Darwin Is on the Roof - New Book from Michael Behe, Available Now |
Evolution News |
| Regulators of Gene Activity in Animals Are Deeply Conserved |
The Scientist |
| A Naturalist's Strong Case Against Abiogenesis |
Apologetics Press |
| Do Origin-of-Life Researchers Now Accept Intelligent Design? |
Evolution News |
| Did early life need long, complex molecules to make cell-like compartments? |
Penn State |
| Not what Darwinists expected: Critical genes evolve in “genome’s junkyard” |
Uncommon Descent |
| What are chemical signs of life beyond Earth? |
C&EN |
| The human genome is amazingly complex |
Creation |
| Moths evade bats using acoustic camouflage on their wings |
Uncommon Descent |
| Are Galápagos Finches "Evolution in Action"? |
Evolution News |
| Galápagos Finches and a Surprising Deletion |
Evolution News |
| Galápagos Finches - A Paradigm of the Limits of Natural Selection? |
Evolution News |
| Galápagos Finches - An "Exceptionally Strong Natural-Selection Event"? |
Evolution News |
| Galápagos Finches - Some Contradictions Solved |
Evolution News |
| "Darwin's Finches": Galápagos Islands as an Evolutionary Model |
Evolution News |
| Researchers urge: See DNA as an energy code |
Uncommon Descent |
| Cells ordered to commit suicide don’t necessarily die |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinists Build Fake Phylogenetic Trees |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| It's a CELL World After All! |
Answers in Genesis |
| The genetic factors of bilaterian evolution |
eLife Sciences |
| At New Scientist: Questioning the idea of species |
Uncommon Descent |
| Has a computer algorithm discovered the secret of life? - Fazale Rana |
Mind Matters |
| Celebrate ENCODE III and the demise of 'Junk DNA' |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| We are encouraged to celebrate ENCODE III and the demise of junk DNA |
Uncommon Descent |
| Researchers discover bacterial DNA's recipe for success |
Science Daily |
| Regulators of Gene Activity in Animals Are Deeply Conserved |
The Scientist |
| Selectionism: An Empty Idea |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Have Researchers Developed a Computer Algorithm that Explains the Origin of Life? |
Reasons to Believe |
| Sorry, Origin-of-Life Researchers, But Bubbles Are Not Cells |
Evolution News |
| Origin of life: If bubbles were cells, gloves would be hands |
Uncommon Descent |
| Stretton’s Paradox: The paradox of the lowly worm |
Mind Matters |
| Human intelligence just got less mysterious |
Science Daily |
| Have researchers discovered why humans are smarter than animals? |
Mind Matters |
| Are Proteins Attracted to Function? |
Evolution News |
| Near-atomic 'maps' reveal structure for maintaining pH balance in cells |
Science Daily |
| Scientists discover new organic compounds that could have helped form the first cells |
Uncommon Descent |
| Debut of New "Long Story" on Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance |
Evolution News |
| As If the Platypus Couldn't Get Any Weirder |
Gizmodo |
| Snake vision inspires pyroelectric material design |
Physics World |
| Researchers discover bacterial DNA's recipe for success |
Science Daily |
| Model of multicellular evolution overturns classic theory |
Science Daily |
| Where Evolutionary Tree Diagrams Come From: Evidence for Evolution (Part 9) |
Answers in Genesis |
| How the gut protects the brain |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Animals' magnetic 'sixth' sense may come from bacteria |
Science Daily |
| Could symbiosis with bacteria play a role in the widespread use of magnetic navigation in animals? |
Uncommon Descent |
| An animal has been discovered that does not need oxygen to live |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ancient fish were “prepared” for life on land |
Uncommon Descent |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| “Answering Theological Questions on Neanderthal-Human Interbreeding” by Fazale Rana |
Reasons to Believe |
| Controversial 7-Million-Year-Old Skull May Not Have Been as Human as We Thought |
Science Alert |
| Where Was the Birthplace of Modern Humans? |
Discover Magazine |
| Study puts Denisovans on roof of the world |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Neanderthal children grew and were weaned similar to us |
EurekAlert |
| War in the time of Neanderthals: how our species battled for supremacy for over 100,000 years |
The Conversation |
| Neanderthals Didn't Use Their Thumbs Like Modern Humans Do |
Gizmodo |
| Is it empathy, not intellect, that makes humans unique? |
Mind Matters |
| Well-preserved addition to the evolution story |
Cosmos Magazine |
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| PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / HISTORY / THEOLOGY |
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| How Einstein Reconciled Religion to Science |
Nautilus |
| At Nautilus: How Einstein reconciled religion to science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can we find purpose in a universe with no underlying purpose? |
Mind Matters |
| Has Cognitive Science Explained (Away) God? |
The Gospel Coalition |
| Review of Keas's Unbelievable |
Journal of Creation |
| The surprising facts about why atheists become Christians and vice versa |
Patheos - Unbelieveable Blog |
| How is the Intelligent Design Movement Doing? Interview with William Dembski |
Uncommon Descent |
| How post-modernism can strangle research |
Uncommon Descent |
| We are urged: Keep science irrational |
Uncommon Descent |
| Keep science irrational |
Aeon |
| Gizmodo asks experts for the three biggest science frauds of the past 50 years |
Uncommon Descent |
| 1 Peter 3:15 and Cultural Engagement |
The Worlview Bulletin |
| A materialist gives up on determinism |
Mind Matters |
| Moving beyond the paradigm |
Science Magazine |
| Paradigm Busters vs Paradigm Preservers |
Inside Higher Education |
| Busting the paradigm without busting your career? |
Uncommon Descent |
| An academic discovers the “dark side” of Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Bizarre Theories of the American School of Evolution |
JSTOR Daily |
| Karsten Pultz on the recent Behe-Swamidass debate |
Uncommon Descent |
| Ted Davis on why Christianity is good for science |
Uncommon Descent |
| Laszlo Bencze: Karl Popper never really retracted his doubt of Darwin |
Uncommon Descent |
| Matti Leisola - bioengineer dumps Darwin, declares design |
Creation |
| The Human Error Darwin Inspired - How the demotion of Homo sapiens led to environmental destruction |
Nautilus |
| Darwin is now blamed for environmental destruction |
Uncommon Descent |
| Michael Behe: Kafka in Dover, Pennsylvania |
Evolution News |
| Big Science Shocked At Its Own Cluelessness |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| At Science News: Top Ten wrong results in science |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Denialist Playbook - Sean Carroll |
Scientific American
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| Falsificationism and the Pragmatic Problem of Induction |
Organon |
| When science becomes fiction, it often appears happy with the transformation |
Uncommon Descent |
| What Is the First Prophecy of the Coming of the Messiah in the Bible? |
Reasons to Believe |
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| AND MORE |
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| Advice to experts on humility |
Uncommon Descent |
| Douglas Axe: The Sway of Self-Image in Evolutionary Debates |
Evolution News |
| Protein chemist Doug Axe nails self-image problem in biology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Particle physicist offers 75 reasons we don’t see aliens |
Mind Matters |
| Why search for extraterrestrial life? Why not make it ourselves? |
Mind Matters |
| Can a pill change your mind about basic issues in life? |
Mind Matters |
| I Published a Fake Paper in a 'Peer-Reviewed' Journal |
Undark |
| A laugh from the world of predatory journals |
Uncommon Descent |
| A neuroscientist on why we can build human-like brains |
Mind Matters |
| The Brain Is Not a Computer and Big Data Is Not a Big Answer |
Mind Matters |
| Will quantum mechanics produce the true thinking computer? |
Mind Matters |
| Can We Make Brains in a Dish? Can we make MINDS in a dish? |
Mind Matters |
| New test reveals AI still lacks common sense |
Science Daily |
| Did social media panic drive up the damage from COVID-19? |
Mind Matters |
| We finally know what has been making fast radio bursts |
ars technica |
| Has the Singularity been called off? Indefinitely postponed? |
Mind Matters |
| The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed |
Technology Review |
| Could carbon computing make computers more environment friendly? |
Mind Matters |
| Do time and space mean the same thing to humans as to computers? |
Mind Matters |
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