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News Update/Commentary
Diabetes can drive the evolution of antibiotic resistance
February 12, 2025 Science Daily
Researchers have proven that antibiotic-resistant strains of a harmful bacteria thrive in a diabetic infection environment.
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News Update/Commentary
Masquerading moth deploys unique optical tricks to evade predators
February 12, 2025 Science Daily
Scientists have described a nocturnal moth's unique evolutionary trick in replicating the appearance of 3D leaf, with potential applications for the development of advanced camouflage materials and technologies.
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New Science Journal Strives for Openness, Fairness, in Peer Review
February 12, 2025 Mind Matters
At Just the News, Greg Piper reports that the editors of the new Journal of the Academy of Public Health are addressing oft-complained-of problems with peer reviewed journals
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Chromosome 2 Design | Bird Flight: Designed or Random
February 12, 2025 YouTube
A recent study of how birds fly without a vertical tail reveals the sophisticated system of sensors, reflexes, and materials used to achieve “rudderless” flight.
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Record-breaking neutrino spotted tearing through the Mediterranean Sea
February 12, 2025 New Scientist
A neutrino with more energy than we've ever seen before was picked up by a detector on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, and it seems to have a distant cosmic origin
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A whole new world of tiny beings challenges fundamental ideas of life
February 12, 2025 New Scientist
The surprising discovery of entities smaller than viruses raises profound questions about what life is and how it got started
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Why You Can Wiggle Your Ears
February 12, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The Human Ear Muscles, Usually Undeveloped in Persons Living in Modern Western Society, Are in Fact Functional -- Not Useless Vestiges
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Intelligent Design in Action
February 12, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
DNA Cryptography
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Bill Dembski on MrBeast, Ethics, and Small Probabilities
February 11, 2025 Mind Matters
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How Does the Human Mind Work?
February 11, 2025 YouTube
How does human thinking and feeling affect human culture? How does collective society emerge from individual mentalities?
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News Update/Commentary
‘Junk' RNA segments play role in protein production, cell stress response
February 11, 2025 Science Daily
Study is first to show some tRNA introns affect gene expression
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Re-Examining the Arguments for the Existence of God
February 11, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Should We Think About Prior Probability?
February 11, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design
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‘Junk' RNA segments found to play role in protein production and cell stress response
February 11, 2025 phys.org
Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs
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The saga of Mitochondrial Eve continues
February 11, 2025 YouTube
Where do we place Mitochondrial Eve on the human family tree? How many mutations have occurred within the human mtDNA sequence? How much of that sequence is evolutionarily constrained? Are mtDNA mutations predictable?
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Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we're related to Australopithecus
February 11, 2025 New Scientist
Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil record is spotty in places, but the latest finds could give us enough clues to pin down how we are linked
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How studying babies' minds is prompting us to rethink consciousness
February 11, 2025 New Scientist
The debate over when consciousness arises has been revitalised by new tests of awareness in infants -- raising the possibility that it emerges just before birth
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How Mathematician Kurt Gödel Proved the Unprovable Proposition
February 10, 2025 Mind Matters
He kicked over the rhetorical mathematical sandcastles of those who proposed a mathematical Theory of Everything
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How Cells Protect the Body
February 10, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Some of our best defenders operate quietly as microscopic machines within our cells
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Boosting evolution: How humans unintentionally altered the skulls of pigs
February 10, 2025 EurekAlert!
Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs.
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How cosmic stasis may drastically rewrite the history of the universe
February 10, 2025 New Scientist
Unexpected epochs of stillness that punctuate the cosmic timeline could offer a natural explanation for dark matter and many other unsolved astronomical mysteries
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News Update/Commentary
Less, but more: A new evolutionary scenario marked by massive gene loss and expansion
February 10, 2025 Science Daily
Losing opens up new possibilities for subsequent gains
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Darwinism Is “Broken,” Intelligent Design Is “Catching Up”
February 10, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Bret Weinstein on the Joe Rogan Podcast
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New Book: The Catholic Case for the Design of Nature
February 9, 2025 Mind Matters
Fr. Martin Hilbert notes that the history of life seems more like a separate collection of bushes than a single tree
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Now Welcoming You to the Big Universe, Goldilocks Planet section…
February 8, 2025 Mind Matters
Barry Arrington, a lawyer who practices in Colorado, has let slip that he is planning a book on the current contentions between the non-materialist and the materialist point of view on a number of topics.
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A Mathematician’s View of Evolution
February 8, 2025 The American Spectator
There are at least four fundamental problems with Darwinian evolution as an answer to the origins and complexity of life on earth.
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That’s No Moon; It’s an Ocean World
February 7, 2025 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
If Saturn’s cratered moon Mimas has liquid water beneath its surface, ocean worlds might be far more common in the solar system than we thought.
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Soft tissue from a 183 Million-Year-Old Jurassic Plesiosaur analysed
February 7, 2025 Lund University
The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it could both swim rapidly and move along rough seabeds.
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Science Writing: Cat Intelligence Compared with Baby Intelligence
February 7, 2025 Mind Matters
Cat intelligence is of a rather different kind from dog intelligence
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News Update/Commentary
Spliceosome: How cells avoid errors when manufacturing mRNA
February 7, 2025 Science Daily
Structural biologists provide a first-time look at the atomic level into the quality control mechanism of this complex molecular machine
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News Update/Commentary
Scientist discovers 16 new grasshopper species, champions desert biodiversity
February 7, 2025 Science Daily
A scientist has discovered a hopping treasure trove -- 16 new species of grasshoppers living in the thorny scrubs of U.S. and Mexican deserts.
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My Favorite Argument for the Existence of God
February 7, 2025 New York Times
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been recording conversations about my new book, “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious”
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Big Questions in Free Will
February 7, 2025 YouTube
Free will seems obvious, simple, common; but it’s subtle, profound, maddening. Free will probes the deep nature of human existence. But big questions have big problems. How to make progress?
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032 -- how worried should we be?
February 6, 2025 New Scientist
The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we should be scrambling to prepare for an impact in 2032?
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Scientists Look for any Explanation for the Big Bang
February 6, 2025 YouTube
Except the Obvious
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News Update/Commentary
How life's building blocks took shape on early Earth
February 6, 2025 Science Daily
The limits of membraneless polyester protocell formation
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Amazing plesiosaur fossil preserves its skin and scales
February 6, 2025 New Scientist
A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs that lived during the same period
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London Underground mutant mosquitoes have surprisingly ancient origins
February 6, 2025 New Scientist
Genetic analysis suggests a form of mosquito found in urban subway systems evolved in the Middle East thousands of years ago
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Does God Intervene in Human Affairs?
February 6, 2025 YouTube
Does God make specific interventions in the course of human events to ensure that God’s purpose be fulfilled? Or did God so set the laws of nature such that God’s goals would be achieved without God’s special interventions?
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Science Writing: Dog Intelligence Compared with Baby Intelligence
February 6, 2025 Mind Matters
It’s an odd question because what we should be asking is, “Are kittens and puppies smarter than babies?”
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Joe McDonald: How AI Can Complement Human Capabilities
February 6, 2025 Mind Matters
Despite its limitations, AI excels in areas where humans struggle, such as analyzing large datasets, identifying patterns, and automating repetitive tasks
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Hand Axes from As Long As 1.5 Million Years Ago Found in Iraq
February 6, 2025 Mind Matters
The prospecting campaign was on an area that during the Pleistocene housed a large lake with ancient dry riverbeds. Egberts collected over 850 artifacts, ranging from very old hand axes to Levallois reduction flakes from the Paleolithic
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Convergent evolution in whale and human vocal cultures
February 6, 2025 Science, v.387, n.6734, p.581-582
The complex songs of humpback whales conform to fundamental laws of language
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Humpback Whales Sing the Way Humans Speak
February 6, 2025 New York Times
The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new study suggests.
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Early Bird Swims Like a Duck
February 6, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, what is it?
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Ancient Mollusks Were Complex
February 6, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
Breaking News
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What's the point of explaining science in the public domain?
February 5, 2025 King's College London
As a professional science educator, I have put a high priority on teaching for understanding. I always wanted my students to make good sense of the concepts being taught
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans
February 5, 2025 Nature, v.639, p.132-142
The Yamnaya archaeological complex appeared around 3300 bc across the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas, and by 3000 bc it reached its maximal extent, ranging from Hungary in the west to Kazakhstan in the east.
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Blog Post
How a Skeptical Philosopher Becomes a Christian
February 5, 2025
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Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth’s missing elements
February 5, 2025 EurekAlert!
Understanding where Earth’s essential elements came from -- and why some are missing -- has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new study reveals a surprising twist in the story of our planet’s formation.