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Nobel Prize vs. the Peppered Myth
October 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
How a bunch of seemingly disorganized cells go on to form a robust embryo
October 10, 2024 Science Daily
Embryo development starts when a single egg cell is fertilized and starts dividing continuously. Scientists have now provided new insights into the process, emphasizing the critical role of both chaos and order.
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How playing songs to Darwin's finches helped biologists confirm link between environment and the emergence of new species
October 10, 2024 Science Daily
Long-term scientific effort to empirically link evolution to environmental change succeeds thanks to songs from future finches
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The Opossum Is Not an Animal Who “Understands Death”!
October 10, 2024 Mind Matters
And “human exceptionalism” is just a fact.
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Why Stephen Hawking gave up on a Theory of Everything
October 10, 2024 iai News
The scientist who gave up on truth
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An ideologically-based and misleading critique of how modern genetics is taught
October 10, 2024 Why Evolution Is True
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Dark energy: could the mysterious force seen as constant actually vary over cosmic time?
October 10, 2024 The Conversation
As I finished my PhD in 1992, cosmologists had made little progress in our understanding of the universe since the discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the Big Bang, in the 1960s.
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How Journalists Perpetuate Darwin Dogma
October 10, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Science reporters do this to ensure Darwinism remains the only allowable explanation
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Why the black hole information paradox still hasn’t been solved
October 10, 2024 Big Think
Black holes encode information on their surfaces, but evaporate away into Hawking radiation. Is that information preserved, and if so, how?
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Stuart Burgess Demonstrates the Exquisite Engineering of Human Limbs
October 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Nanostructures Found in Deep Sea Vents Generate Energy Without Life
October 9, 2024 Science Alert
Hidden deep in the Pacific Ocean are a group of hydrothermal vents, which could provide some vital clues as to how life got started on Earth.
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News Update/Commentary
In studying the mating rituals of fruit flies, scientists may have learned something about how brains evolve
October 9, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers have identified how the architecture of brain circuits helps different species flexibly adapt to new mating signals across evolutionary timeframes.
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Over 160,000 new viruses discovered by AI
October 9, 2024 Science Daily
Largest discovery of new viruses sheds light on hidden virosphere
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World’s oldest known artwork in Indonesian cave dated using lasers
October 9, 2024 Nature
Laser-induced imaging of radioactive elements was used to work out the age of an ancient cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The results reveal that the narrative scene is 51,200 years old
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The ‘Beautiful Confusion’ of the First Billion Years Comes Into View
October 9, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history.
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Newly discovered Late Cretaceous birds may have carried heavy prey like extant raptors
October 9, 2024 Science Daily
New fossil species reveal diverse body sizes and lifestyles of birds before mass extinction
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You get your energy from your mom
October 8, 2024 University of Colorado, Boulder
Most animals, including humans, inherit the DNA inside their mitochondria -- the cell’s energy centers -- from their mothers alone, with all traces of their father’s mitochondrial genome destroyed the moment sperm joins egg.
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A cave in France is revealing how the Neanderthals died out
October 8, 2024 New Scientist
Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them
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After Dawkins Is Canceled, What Comes Next?
October 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
New seed fossil sheds light on wind dispersal in plants
October 8, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered a new plant seed fossil, Alasemenia, one of the earliest known examples of a winged seed
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Molecular Mirage: Lab Findings Question Signs of Alien Life
October 8, 2024 Sci Tech Daily
A study reveals that certain biosignatures, such as dimethyl sulfide, which were previously considered indicators of life on other planets, can be created in lab environments.
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DNA from the last woolly mammoths
October 8, 2024 Creation Ministries International
Surprising results support the Flood account
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Certain quantum systems may be able to defy entropy's effects forever
October 7, 2024 New Scientist
A mathematical proof shows that some quantum states can resist nature’s tendency to disorder -- but only under very specific conditions
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The First Nitrogen-Fixing Eukaryotic Marine Alga Discovered
October 7, 2024 The Scientist
What scientists thought was an endosymbiont in algae turned out to be an organelle.
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To Weed the Garden, or Not to Weed the Garden, That Is the Question
October 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science Professor Canceled by Atheists Because He Exposed Students to Evidence of Intelligent Design
October 7, 2024 YouTube
Eric Hedin was enjoying a productive career as a physics professor at Ball State University when atheist activists tried to cancel him for exposing students to scientific evidence the universe was intelligently designed.
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The Moon Mission Making Waves
October 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Europa Clipper
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Science Professor Canceled by Atheists
October 7, 2024 Discovery Science
atheist activists tried to cancel him for exposing students to scientific evidence the universe was intelligently designed
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After injury, these comb jellies can fuse to become one
October 7, 2024 Science Daily
one species of comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) can fuse, such that two individuals readily turn into one following an injury. Afterwards, they rapidly synchronize their muscle contractions and merge digestive tracts to share food.
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How cells maintain their central processing unit for cell division
October 7, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists have unveiled the role of enzyme PLK1 in regulating centromeres' restoration after cell division, a process at the basis of life
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The physicist who argues that there are no objective laws of physics
October 7, 2024 New Scientist
Daniele Oriti’s pursuit of a theory of quantum gravity has led him to the startling conclusion that the laws of nature don’t exist independently of us -- a perspective shift that could yield fresh breakthroughs
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How Science Is Changing on the Subject of Consciousness
October 7, 2024 Mind Matters
In 2023, dualist philosopher David Chalmers unexpectedly won an important 25-year science wager with neuroscientist Christof Koch. Chalmers took the view that no physical “consciousness spot” would be found in the brain by 2023 -- and it wasn't.
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Kinesins: Nanoscale Molecular Motors, Each Built for a Purpose
October 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Nobel prize for medicine goes to the pair who discovered microRNA
October 7, 2024 New Scientist
The 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery that tiny pieces of RNA called microRNAs play a key role in controlling genes
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Evolutionary Medicine: Help or Hindrance?
October 7, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Does evolutionary theory promote development of new therapies to treat disease? Proponents make big claims but there is little evidence that it helps.
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RNA as Cells’ “Text Messaging” System
October 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Problematic Ediacaran sail-shaped fossils from eastern Yunnan, China
October 6, 2024 Historical Biology, v.37, n.7
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Suppression of Science and Inconvenient Truths
October 6, 2024 YouTube
May discusses historical and recent examples of censorship in scientific publishing, arguing that peer review is broken and that important dissenting voices are often silenced.
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Darwin's Bluff: The Secret Book Darwin Never Published!
October 6, 2024 YouTube
Darwin kept reminding his colleagues that the Origin of Species was just an abstract. Why did he publish it hurriedly? He then promised to release a massive book that addressed the gaps in the abstract and provided more evidence. He never published it.
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Pterosaurs needed feet on the ground to become giants
October 4, 2024 Science Daily
Study determines when and how pterosaurs went from tiny tree-climbers to towering terrestrial titans
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The case against simplistic genetic explanations of evolution
October 4, 2024 Development, v.151, n.20
Humans are curious to understand the causes of traits that distinguish us from other animals and that distinguish vastly different species from one another. We also have a proclivity for simple stories
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Return of the God Hypothesis
October 4, 2024 YouTube
How do the origin of the universe, the fine-tuning in the universe, and the information in DNA point to God as the creator?
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New mechanism uncovered for the reduction of emu wings
October 4, 2024 Science Daily
The lack of muscle at the distal wings leads to bone reduction and asymmetry
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A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
October 4, 2024 The Transmitter
Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?
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Three Recent Books Argue for Consciousness in Plants
October 4, 2024 Mind Matters
The award-winning environment journalist who reviews the books tackles the question, “If so, is it right to eat even plants?”
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The World’s Oldest Termite Mound Is 34,000 Years and Counting
October 4, 2024 New York Times
Scientists recently found the planet’s longest continuously occupied termite colony in an arid region of South Africa. It dates to the time of the Neanderthals.
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Hobbits Thwart Darwinian Predictions Again
October 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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2-billion-year-old rock home to living microbes
October 3, 2024 Science Daily
New research could help us understand very early life on Earth and the hunt for evidence of life on Mars
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A bird’s-eye view of avian extinctions
October 3, 2024 Science, v.386, n.6717, p.23-24
Conservation should consider species’ functional and phylogenetic traits
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Mooney Tunes: The Fantasy Moons of Astrobiologists Leave Science Far Behind
October 3, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
You could be an astrobiologist, too. Just make up imaginary worlds filled with imaginary life.