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Irreducible Complexity and Michael Behe on Intelligent Design »
Posted by: cyberlemur 2 months ago in News
Challenge to Evolution . The book's central thesis is
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Michael Behe and Intelligent Design on NPR »
Posted by: cyberlemur 2 months ago in News
A critical summary of Behe's appearance on NPR in 2002.
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Can a Nuclear Explosion Impact Earth's Spinning? »
Posted by: Green84 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Undoubtedly nuclear weapons currently represent the most powerful weapon on earth. However, even their enormous power is less likely to have an impact on the ...
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Science's awesome challenge: Creating artificial life »
Posted by: idyll 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Scientists are advancing slowly toward one of the most audacious goals humans have ever set for themselves: creating artificial life.
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Five scientific discoveries that got the wrong name »
Posted by: capn_caveman 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Apart from iconic figures like Darwin and Einstein, most scientists labor in obscurity. One of the few ways in which they can gain lasting recognition ...
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New Microscope Ditches The Lenses »
Posted by: capn_caveman 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Researchers have come up with a microscopic microscope, tiny enough to fit on a fingertip, that can be cheaply mass-produced and used to scan blood ...
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Nearly half of primates face extinction »
Posted by: capn_caveman 2 months ago in Science & Technology
In pictures: Monkeys, apes and other primates under threat
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The Escalating Coevolutionary Arms Race between Cuckoos and their Hosts »
Posted by: grrlscientist 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoos are very sensitive to social shaping by their hosts so they successfuly parasitize several species.
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NASA Data Show Some African Drought Linked to Warmer Indian Ocean »
Posted by: capn_caveman 2 months ago in Science & Technology
A new study, co-funded by NASA, has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa. Computer models ...
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iNPLACENEWS »
Posted by: inplacenews 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Booger is back. An American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South ...
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Globular Clusters Tell Tale of Star Formation in Nearby Galaxy Metropolis »
Posted by: capn_caveman 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Globular star clusters, dense bunches of hundreds of thousands of stars, have some of the oldest surviving stars in the universe. A new study of ...
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“Cosmic Ghost” Discovered by Volunteer Astronomer »
Posted by: capn_caveman 2 months ago in Science & Technology
When Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloging galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Hanny van ...
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Cloned pit bull puppies revealed. All five of him - Cloning and stem cells - MSNBC.com »
Posted by: daducha 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Woman paid $50,000 to Korean lab to turn skin cells from pet into embryos
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A Complete History of Carbon
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| DISCOVER Magazine »Posted by: sirayot74 2 months ago in Science & Technology
It wasn’t always a footprint . Follow carbon’s journey from how it is born in stars to how it became the molecular backbone of ...
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How do SF writers handle the Fermi Paradox? »
Posted by: Wil 2 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
The Fermi Paradox states simply that if there are aliens, where are they? It's a vexing question, especially for science fiction writers who need ...
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