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• As Progressive Inquisitors Purge Classrooms of Intelligent Design, ‘ID’ Continues to Grow

• The Gupta Scandal

  Fossil Friday

• Powerful microscope captures motor proteins in unprecedented detail

  Called MINFLUX, the super-resolution method allows researchers to track molecules under cellular conditions.

• Octopuses edit their own genetic code to adapt to colder water

  When the temperature drops, octopuses recode their RNA in thousands of places to alter the proteins made in their nerve cells

• Plio-Pleistocene African megaherbivore losses associated with community biomass restructuring

  Mammal faunas in the past were rich, with very large species on all continents, but the vast majority of these species are now extinct. It is reasonably well accepted that the arrival of humans led to extinction of these megafauna in many regions.