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Ancient humans may have worn shoes more than 100,000 years ago
August 29, 2023 New Scientist
Three archaeological sites in South Africa feature impressions that might have been made by ancient footwear, but pinpointing when humans first wore shoes is challenging
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How the Supernatural Entered Science
August 29, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution
August 29, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct ‘fossil monster' that lived half a billion years ago. The creature's soft anatomy was well-preserved, allowing it to be imaged almost completely
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News Update/Commentary
Some hosts have an ‘evolutionary addiction' to their microbiome
August 29, 2023 Science Daily
We've long known that hosts malfunction without their microbiome. This malfunctioning is usually explained by the need for microbes to perform unique and beneficial functions, but evolutionary ecologist is questioning that narrative.
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Biologists Take a Hatchet to Tree of Life, Biology Keeps Going Anyway
August 29, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Astronomers May Have Spotted the Birth of a Planet
August 29, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Lumps of dust are spiraling around a young star 5,000 light-years away. They could be Jupiter-like planets in the making.
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Live Q&A on the Origin of Life Challenge
August 28, 2023 YouTube
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Evidence-Based Medicine Is Broken But Science-Based Medicine Can Fix It
August 28, 2023 American Council on Science and Health
while the spirit of evidence-based medicine is to be based on ethical and scientifically rigorous research, in practice, it is often simply shortened to “Is there any evidence at all?”
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News Update/Commentary
Curious and cryptic: New leaf insects discovered
August 28, 2023 Science Daily
An international research team has described seven previously unknown species of leaf insects, also known as walking leaves. The insects belong to the stick and leaf insect order, which are known for their unusual appearance
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How plants pass down genetic memories
August 28, 2023 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
When organisms pass their genes on to future generations, they include more than the code spelled out in DNA. Some also pass along chemical markers that instruct cells how to use that code. The passage of these markers is known as epigenetics
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Closing the Gaps in the Human Genome: Why Y Was the Final Hurdle
August 28, 2023 The Scientist
For two decades, scientists struggled to fully sequence the Y chromosome. Finally, researchers have mapped its full length thanks to recent advances in sequencing technology.
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Study casts doubt on Neanderthal ‘flower burial’ theory
August 28, 2023 The Guardian
Exclusive: Bees may be source of pollen near remains but evidence still suggests bodies were buried with care
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Has Russell Doolittle Provided an Evolutionary Explanation of the Blood Clotting Cascade?
August 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Maxwell's demon imagined by physicists really exists inside our cells
August 28, 2023 New Scientist
Proteins in the cell membranes of most organisms act like the hypothetical “demon” imagined by James Clerk Maxwell in 1867, which was thought to break the laws of physics
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Tiny Worms with an Ability to Suspend Life
August 28, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Physicists Love the Dark
August 28, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Latest news on dark energy and dark matter show secular scientists still clueless but excited
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Are Robo-Pastors the Way of the Future?
August 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Robotic Preachers Reduce Interest in Religious Faith
August 27, 2023 Mind Matters
They are certainly not the answer to declining attendance and involvement that some have hoped they would be
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“Biocentrism”: A scientific answer to the meaning of life
August 27, 2023 Big Think
Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.
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Do Cool Floor Buttons Really Cause Dogs to Talk?
August 26, 2023 Mind Matters
The latest fad in “Talk to the animals” appears to be a classic in confirmation bias
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Gods Appeared Only After the Brain Had Sufficiently Evolved
August 26, 2023 Psychology Today
It appears we’ve always had gods in our lives. The ancient Egyptians invented over two thousand of them.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
How exceptional are the classic adaptive radiations of passerine birds?
August 25, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Genetics of Skin Color Defies Evolution
August 25, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
We used to believe skin color was produced by 3 genes. The number is now 135.
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Could the Universe be a giant quantum computer?
August 25, 2023 Nature
Computational rules might describe the evolution of the cosmos better than the dynamical equations of physics -- but only if they are given a quantum twist.
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Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?
August 25, 2023 Nature
Teams of scientists, physicians and data sleuths argue that in some fields unreliable or fabricated trials are widespread.
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James Tour’s Sensational 60-Day Challenge to Ten Top Researchers
August 25, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Origin of Life
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Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?
August 25, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Update on Origin of Life Debate
August 24, 2023 YouTube
Big Announcement
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Embrace the improbability of existence
August 24, 2023 Science, v.381, n.6660, p.842
Learning to appreciate the rarity of life could improve our climate future, argues a physicist
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Bonobos grow similarly to humans
August 24, 2023 German Primate Center
Growth spurts during puberty are not unique in evolutionary terms
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News Update/Commentary
Fungi-eating plants and flies team up for reproduction
August 24, 2023 Science Daily
Fungi-eating orchids were found for the first time to offer their flowers to fungi-eating fruit flies in exchange for pollination. This unique new plant-animal relationship hints at an evolutionary transition towards mutualistic symbiosis.
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The ‘treadmill conveyor belt' ensuring proper cell division
August 24, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered how proteins work in tandem to regulate ‘treadmilling', a mechanism used by the network of microtubules inside cells to ensure proper cell division.
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Butterflies Can Remember
August 24, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Good Science Still Flourishing Without Darwinism
August 24, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Take heart at the good things that are coming from Darwin-free research, especially findings that improve our lives
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Why the Blood Clotting Cascade Challenges Evolution
August 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Meyer and Tour Complete Four-Part Seminar on Origin of Life
August 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Will Professor Dave Watch?
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Does God Exist? | The Scientific Case for Intelligent Design
August 24, 2023 YouTube
Meyer received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture in Seattle.
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Scientists discover a previously unknown way cells break down proteins
August 24, 2023 Science Daily
Short-lived proteins control gene expression in cells to carry out a number of vital tasks, from helping the brain form connections to helping the body mount an immune defense. These proteins are quickly destroyed once they've done their job.
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What’s the World’s Oldest Language?
August 24, 2023 Scientific American
Debate rages over which languages can claim to have the earliest origin
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Why Hands-On Chemistry Experiments Can’t Simulate a Prebiotic Earth
August 23, 2023 YouTube
When scientists claim they have simulated early earth chemistry to create life from non-life, are they being honest? Enjoy the conversation between philosopher of science Stephen Meyer and James Tour, a world-leading synthetic organic chemist
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Top journal “Science" says more than 2,600 of its papers may have ‘exaggerated claims’
August 23, 2023 Just the News
A non-profit watchdog reported that the AAAS has received millions of dollars per year from the federal government. The AAAS publication “Science" is reviewing 2,600 of its own articles for possible “exaggeration."
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Darwin Fish Is to Blame for Heart Attacks
August 23, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The Darwin mind virus has invaded Japan. Now, Tokyo scientists are wasting their lab time.
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The Incredible Design of Vertebrate Blood Clotting
August 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Dependency Graph Model
August 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
from Winston Ewert
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How a cup of water can unlock the secrets of our universe
August 23, 2023 phys.org
there is a range in which fundamental constants can vary, allowing for the viscosity needed for life processes to occur within and between living cells
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News Update/Commentary
Biologist gets the scoop on squash bug poop
August 23, 2023 Science Daily
A discovery about how a common insect acquires a microbe that is essential for its growth may help in the control of an agricultural pest.
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Natural selection can slow evolution, maintain similarities across generations
August 23, 2023 Science Daily
New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The researchers worked with a plant called wild radish and its stamens, or pollen-producing parts
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Noncoding DNA explains a majority of the heritability of dairy cattle traits, like milk production and fertility
August 23, 2023 Science Daily
Regulatory genes -- genes that control how other genes are used -- are responsible for 69% of the heritability of dairy cattle traits such as milk production and fertility, according to a new study. This contribution is 44% more than expected
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Researchers Fully Sequence the Y Chromosome for the First Time
August 23, 2023 National Institute of Standards and Technology
What was once the final frontier of the human genome -- the Y chromosome -- has just been mapped out in its entirety.
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Quantum physics reveals the unity of the universe
August 23, 2023 iai News
Reviving ancient philosophies