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News Update/Commentary
What role does alternative splicing play in neurodegenerative disease?
June 20, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have written a review to discuss emerging research and evidence of the roles of alternative splicing defects in major neurodegenerative diseases. They also summarize the latest advances in RNA-based therapeutic strategies
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Our New Creation Museum Animal Is a Puzzle for Evolution
June 20, 2023 Answers in Genesis
While I often talk about the platypus as being a conundrum for evolutionists due to its odd combination of features, another lesser-known animal kind poses just as many questions for the evolutionary community -- the tenrecs!
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Faith, Science, and Secularization
June 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
An Illuminating Conference in Poland
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Replacing Chemistry with Purpose
June 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Blind fish have cells that see light
June 20, 2023 Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Most animals on earth have evolved under daily light–dark cycles and consequently possess a circadian clock which regulates much of their biology, from cellular processes to behaviour. There are however some animals ...
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Are We in the Anthropocene?
June 20, 2023 Washington Post
Digging deep into a humble lake in Canada, scientists found a spot on Earth like no other -- and a record that could redefine our history of the planet
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Biological evolution requires an emergent, self-organizing principle
June 19, 2023 Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
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Theoretical Breakthrough Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Invisible Dark Matter
June 19, 2023 The Debrief
A team of Canadian researchers says that the lack of clumpiness in the structure of the universe could help to shed new light on the composition of dark matter.
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Tonga undersea volcano created most intense lightning storm ever recorded
June 19, 2023 space.com
The January 2022 eruption generated more than 192,000 lightning flashes and sent a volcanic plume of ash 36 miles into the sky.
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Reality is not revealed by quantum mechanics
June 19, 2023 iai News
The very small is not fundamental
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How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens
June 19, 2023 New Scientist
Sara Imari Walker, who developed Assembly Theory with chemist Lee Cronin, explains how the theory's definition of life might help us find it on other planets
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A unified science of matter, life and evolution
June 19, 2023 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
We are accustomed to looking at matter, life and evolution from different viewpoints. In this article, we present a simple but unified theoretical framework inspired by classical mechanics and thermodynamics.
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Incredible Honey Bees and Their Nest Constructing Skills
June 19, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
A new tool to study complex genome interactions
June 19, 2023 Science Daily
Genome Architecture Mapping captures complex, multi-way interactions in the genome. This is different than the workhorse technique of 3D genomics, which sees mostly two-way contacts, finds a new study.
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The First of the 7 C’s of History: Creation -- Part 2
June 19, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Why a defense of biblical creation is vital to biblical authority
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Darwinian Natural Selection: A Covert Theology of Nature?
June 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Good as Gould? Ask a Chimp
June 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Webb Telescope is powerful enough to see a variety of biosignatures in exoplanets
June 19, 2023 phys.org
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Life in the cosmos: JWST hints at lower number of habitable planets
June 19, 2023 Nature
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a second world in a seven-planet system lacks an atmosphere.
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Mysterious spiral signals in the human brain could be key to our cognition
June 18, 2023 Live Science
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If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract
June 18, 2023 Quillette
How dissent is policed in social science.
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“Protosterol biota” may explain one mysterious gap in the evolution of complex life
June 18, 2023 Big Think
Embark on a journey through one of the most profound ecological transitions in the history of complex life.
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Neanderthals Invented Process to Produce Birch Tar
June 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The revolutionary power of heresy
June 17, 2023 spiked
Freedom of speech has toppled tyrants and propelled humanity forward. We lose it at our peril.
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Archaeologists find a 3,000-year-old sword so well preserved it’s still gleaming
June 16, 2023 CNN
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Rampant groundwater pumping has changed the tilt of Earth’s axis
June 16, 2023 Nature
Human depletion of underground reservoirs has shifted the global distribution of water so much that the North Pole has drifted by more than 4 centimetres per year.
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Most advanced synthetic human embryos yet spark controversy
June 16, 2023 Nature
A pair of studies raises ethical and legal questions about the status of lab-grown human embryo models.
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News Update/Commentary
AI could replace humans in social science research
June 16, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers look at how AI (large language models or LLMs in particular) could change the nature of social science research.
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How Science Is Bent to the Will of Activists
June 16, 2023 Red State
The word “science” gets bandied about a lot in our current media. And it’s fair to say most people don’t really understand the term. Science is a tool, a process for examining data, arriving at conclusions about that data, and testing those conclusions.
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Why universities should remain viewpoint neutral
June 16, 2023 Why Evolution Is True
An Atlantic article explains why universities and their departments should should not make official pronouncements about morality, ideology, or politics.
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The laws of nature explain very little
June 16, 2023 iai News
The illusory explanatory power of natural laws
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Fossil study challenges long-held theory on Fibonacci spirals found in nature
June 16, 2023 phys.org
A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to fresh insights about spectacular patterns found in plants.
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil study sheds light on famous spirals found in nature
June 16, 2023 Science Daily
A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to fresh insights about spectacular patterns found in plants.
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The Toxic Assumptions of Evolutionary Psychology about Men
June 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Internal Beauty: the Nuclear Pore Complex
June 16, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Like a 3-D puzzle solved in 15 minutes, the nuclear envelope is a wonder to behold
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The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud
June 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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What Do We Know about the Origin of Rhinos?
June 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Defining Science, and Discussing Stephen Meyer’s God Hypothesis
June 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Kuhnian revolution in molecular biology
June 15, 2023 BioEssays
Most genes in complex organisms express regulatory RNAs
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Researchers: Neanderthals Invented Process To Produce Birch Tar
June 15, 2023 Mind Matters
The tar can be used for glue, bug repellent, and killing germs. This finding tracks growing recognition of Neanderthals as intelligent
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Evolution Keeps Making Crabs, and Nobody Knows Why
June 15, 2023 Science Alert
Our planet's convoluted history of evolving life has spawned countless weird and wonderful creatures, but none excite evolutionary biologists -- or divide taxonomists -- quite like crabs.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Leaves and sporangia developed in rare non-Fibonacci spirals in early leafy plants
June 15, 2023 Science, v.380, n.6650, p.1188-1192
Aerial parts of plants arrange their organs around stems, and this arrangement defines their structure. In most existing plant species, organs emerge at 137.5° from the previous organ.
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Robert Boyle, the Bible, and Natural Philosophy
June 15, 2023 Religions, v.14, n.6
The great chemist Robert Boyle was also a serious student of the Bible and Christian theology, both of which profoundly influenced his natural philosophy. Christian beliefs and moral attitudes motivated him to extend human dominion over the creation
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Did Homo Naledi Create Art and Start Fires?
June 15, 2023 Answers in Genesis
In 2015, the news blew up with the announcement that scientists had discovered a new “human-like species” deep in a barely accessible cave in South Africa.
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News Update/Commentary
Illusions are in the eye, not the mind
June 15, 2023 Science Daily
Numerous visual illusions are caused by limits in the way our eyes and visual neurones work -- rather than more complex psychological processes, new research shows.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover urea in atmosphere revealing profound consequences for climate
June 15, 2023 Science Daily
Areas of the ocean that are rich in marine life are having a bigger impact on our ecosystems and the climate than previously thought, new research suggests.
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The Bronze Age Destruction of Jericho, Archaeology, and the Book of Joshua
June 15, 2023 Religions, v.14, n.6
The ancient city of Jericho, located at the archaeological site of Tell es-Sultan west of the Jordan River and adjacent to the Ein es-Sultan spring on the edge of modern Jericho, has often been associated with the biblical city of Jericho and Joshua
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes
June 14, 2023 Nature
the nature and phylogenetic identity of the last common ancestor of Asgard archaea and eukaryotes remain unresolved
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Peer-reviewed Paper
When Does Natural Selection Take Place?
June 14, 2023 International Journal of Organic Evolution
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Saturn's moon Enceladus has all the ingredients for life in its icy oceans. But is life there?
June 14, 2023 space.com
Enceladus has it all, new study reveals!