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Evolutionary Biologist Concedes Intelligent Design Is Cutting Edge
December 23, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
No. 10 Story of 2024
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Eyelashes’ special features help fling water from the eyes
December 20, 2024 Science News
The hairs’ microstructure and shape help keep vision clear from liquid droplets
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Stem cells head to the clinic: treatments for cancer, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease
December 20, 2024 Nature
More than 100 clinical trials put stem cells for regenerative medicine to the test. It’s a turning point for a field beset with ethical and political controversy.
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Nakridletia -- The Rise and Fall (and Possible Resurrection) of a Fossil Insect Order
December 20, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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The Christmas Star -- A Sign of Design
December 20, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ancient volcanic ash on Mars could offer new clues in search for extraterrestrial life
December 20, 2024 Live Science
Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic eruptions, and may be protecting signs of life -- if there ever was life on Mars.
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Quantifying the global biodiversity of Proterozoic eukaryotes
December 20, 2024 Science, v.386, n.6728
Fossil data from the Phanerozoic eon provide insight into long-term changes in global biodiversity and how it has been shaped by evolution, environmental change, and species interactions. Insights from the earlier Proterozoic eon are relatively lacking
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Physicist: Information, Entropy, First Life
December 20, 2024 YouTube
the challenge that the second law of thermodynamics poses for purely naturalistic scenarios of the origin of living organisms. The problem, Hedin argues, is generating the reams of exquisitely orchestrated biological information required
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“Free Will Fits with Science"
December 20, 2024 YouTube
professor of philosophy at Cambridge University, and an expert on Free Will, discusses positions on the free will debate, compatibilism, what free will deniers get wrong about science and philosophy, libertarianism, and my own views
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Stonehenge may have been built to unify people of ancient Britain
December 20, 2024 New Scientist
Recent findings show that Stonehenge’s stones came from all over Britain -- and this offers clues to the monument’s purpose, say archaeologists
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Does Dark Energy Exist?
December 19, 2024 YouTube
The standard model of cosmology says that the accelerated expansion of the Universe is driven by Dark Energy, but is this true? The Timescape model of cosmology says no.
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News Update/Commentary
Chart of life extended by nearly 1.5 billion years
December 19, 2024 Science Daily
the chart of life now includes life forms from the Proterozoic Eon, 2,500 million to 539 million years ago. Proterozoic life was generally smaller and squishier and left fewer traces to fossilize in the first place.
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Butterfly Learning and Memory
December 19, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Neanderthals Promoted to Relatives
December 19, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Once viewed as an extinct missing link, Neanderthals are now seen as our distant relatives
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Claim: Math Excludes Women Because Rational Thought Is Masculine
December 19, 2024 Mind Matters
No, it’s not a “male chauvinist pig” from the Seventies saying this, it is a Woke feminist.
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Evolutionary Flimflam
December 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Watch Out for These Common Parlor Tricks in Science Reporting
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Life and Origami
December 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding
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Most Expensive Dinosaur Fossil Ever Could Reveal Stegosaurus Secrets
December 19, 2024 Scientific American
The huge Stegosaurus fossil Apex, bought at auction for $44.6 million, has debuted on loan at the American Museum of Natural History
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Blog Post
Jumbo human origins roundup
December 19, 2024 Core Academy of Science
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Becoming Roger Penrose
December 19, 2024 Science, v.386, n.6728, p.1355
A journalist paints a complex and rewarding portrait of the mathematical physicist
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The Miracle of the Cell
December 19, 2024 YouTube
Trillions of cells do compose our physical body and are constantly replaced through a marvelous mechanism. In “The Miracle of the Cell" the author discusses the peculiarities of the cell
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News Update/Commentary
Histone modification important for correct blood cell formation
December 18, 2024 Science Daily
Molecular biologists decode the epigenetic silencing of problematic retroviral gene sequences.
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Cosmic Inflation: The paradigm without a theory
December 18, 2024 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Explaining the origins of the universe
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Mechanics, Not Genetics, Determine Crocodile Head Scale Patterns
December 18, 2024 The Scientist
The scales on a crocodile’s head develop differently than those on its body. The explanation lies in tissue mechanics.
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Could Remnants of Ancient Viral Infections Affect Human Health Today?
December 18, 2024 The Scientist
Patterns of human endogenous retrovirus expression linked to decreased neurodegenerative disease risk.
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Another Idea Fails to Age Saturn’s Rings
December 18, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Japanese scientists attempt to blast the dirt off old ring particles so that they stay young looking
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A dormant overmassive black hole in the early Universe
December 18, 2024 Nature, v.636, p.594-597
Recent observations have found a large number of supermassive black holes already in place in the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, many of which seem to be overmassive
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Tidally driven remelting around 4.35 billion years ago indicates the Moon is old
December 18, 2024 Nature, v.636, p.598-602
The last giant impact on Earth is thought to have formed the Moon. The timing of this event can be determined by dating the different rocks assumed to have crystallized from the lunar magma ocean
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Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga
December 18, 2024 Nature
Paper on hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn.
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Carnivorous Squirrels Documented in California
December 18, 2024 University of California, Davis
First Evidence of Ground Squirrels Hunting and Eating Voles in Bay Area
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Inside the search for dark matter
December 17, 2024 Fermilab/SLAC publication
About 30 years ago an “ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence.
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How religion impedes science
December 17, 2024 Why Evolution Is True
a new historical study
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Ferns Showcase the Meandering Path of Evolution
December 17, 2024 Real Clear Science
Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d see a resemblance, but each generation would look distinct from its predecessors. This is the process of evolution in its simplest form
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Fossil predator is the oldest known animal with “saber teeth”
December 17, 2024 EurekAlert!
“Vaguely dog-like” animal was one of the oldest-known close cousins of modern mammals
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Earliest known sabre-toothed predator hunted 270 million years ago
December 17, 2024 New Scientist
The fossilised remains of an ancient carnivore provide intriguing hints about how early relatives of mammals began regulating their own body temperature
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2024 Nobel Prize Awarded for the Discovery of Function for a Type of “Junk DNA”
December 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Meyer: Cambridge University’s Role in Advancing the Scientific God Hypothesis
December 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Physicists ‘Bootstrap’ Validity of String Theory
December 17, 2024 New York University
NYU and Caltech scientists develop innovative mathematical approach to back existence of long-held framework explaining all physical reality
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Are We Actually Controlled by Mitochondria?
December 17, 2024 YouTube
Mindblowing New Discoveries
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End-of-Year Message on the Progress of Intelligent Design in 2024
December 17, 2024 YouTube
Stephen Meyer, Director of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute, offers his thoughts on the progress made by proponents of intelligent design in 2024.
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3 Game-Changing Benefits of a Theory of Biological Design
December 17, 2024 YouTube
Join host Renée Dusseau and Dr. Randy Guliuzza as they discuss this topic
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The World Was a Weird & Wonderful Place After Noah's Flood
December 17, 2024 YouTube
What was the world like as it recovered from the worldwide Flood of Noah's day? Geologist Dr. John Whitmore and our host Dr. Del Tackett visit an ancient lakebed in Wyoming that just may reveal the answer!
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What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?
December 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Massive subterranean ocean found
December 16, 2024 MSN
3 times more water than Earth’s surface oceans combined
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Tiny ancient worm sheds big light on evolution mystery
December 16, 2024 EurekAlert!
A groundbreaking fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on one of evolution’s greatest mysteries: the origins of Ecdysozoa, a superphylum of molting animals including insects
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Twins were the norm for our ancient primate ancestors
December 16, 2024 The Conversation
one baby at a time had evolutionary advantages
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The hidden risks of Neuralink
December 16, 2024 The Institute of Art and Ideas
How brain enhancements could backfire
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers discover unexpected complexity of sexual differentiation in African clawed frog
December 16, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers have uncovered unexpected diversity in the genetic processes that determine the sex of the African clawed frog, a significant discovery in what was already one of the most widely studied amphibians in the world.
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Hong Kong Dinosaurs Explained by the Flood
December 16, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The emerging archaeological record of Mars
December 16, 2024 Nature Astronomy, v.8, p.1490-1492
Humans first reached Mars in 1971, initiating the record of human activity there. As planetary scientists plan for future planetary protection procedures for Mars, they should consider the developing archaeological record on one of our nearest planets.