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Apparent meteorite crashes through roof of New Jersey home and damages floor
May 9, 2023 CBS News
“It was warm"
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The Darwin Wall Still Stands; but for How Long?
May 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Live Courses on Science and Christianity
May 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Coming Soon to DiscoveryU
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Webb Telescope Finds a Star Cloaked in 3 Rings of Ruined Worlds
May 8, 2023 New York Times
Astronomers have gained a new understanding of the chaos that wreathes the bright star Fomalhaut with the help of the powerful space observatory.
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News Update/Commentary
Nose shape gene inherited from Neanderthals
May 8, 2023 Science Daily
Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study.
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News Update/Commentary
An unprecedented view of gene regulation
May 8, 2023 Science Daily
Engineers' new technique analyzes the 3D organization of the genome at a resolution 100 times higher than before
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolutionary trends and goal directedness
May 8, 2023 Synthese, v.201
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The evolution of maximum terrestrial body mass in sauropod dinosaurs
May 8, 2023 Current Biology, v.33, n.9, p.R349-$350
The long-necked dinosaurs, sauropods, are famous for their extreme body sizes, evolving body masses several times greater than the next-heaviest terrestrial animals, elephant-like and rhinoceros- like mammals and ‘duck-billed’ dinosaurs.
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A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation
May 8, 2023 Quanta Magazine
A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly and potentially split species.
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Why “super-Earth” exoplanets are a scientific catastrophe
May 8, 2023 Big Think
They're the most common type of exoplanet known today, and many astronomers have called them "super-habitable." None of that is true.
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“Prehistoric'' Reptile Designed to Swim
May 8, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Elucidating the mysteries of enzyme evolution at the macromolecular level
May 8, 2023 Science Daily
Research team investigates links between molecular structure, function, and dynamics in enzymes
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Rethink Science
May 8, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If scientists knew as much as they think they do, they wouldn’t be rethinking so many things so often.
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On Origin of Life, “Stated Clearly” Has Clearly Misled Viewers
May 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Chance Event 1 Million Years Ago Changed Human Brains Forever
May 7, 2023 Science Alert
Like treasured recipes passed down from generation to generation, there are just some regions of DNA that evolution doesn't dare tweak.
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A Lack of Alien Signals Actually Tells Us a Lot
May 7, 2023 Universe Today
In a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal, a researcher discusses the potential reasons why we haven’t received technoemission from an extraterrestrial intelligence during the 60 years that SETI has been searching,
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Butterflies evolved 100 million years ago in North America
May 7, 2023 New Scientist
Many researchers thought butterflies first evolved in Asia, but a global genetic analysis suggests they arose in North America, well before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct
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Meet Intelligent Design’s Naturalistic Cousin
May 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Assembly Theory
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News Update/Commentary
Scientist uncovers roots of antibiotic resistance
May 5, 2023 Science Daily
By understanding how mutations occur, researchers can better understand and develop therapeutics to combat resistant infections
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Space Aliens Invade Darwin Minds
May 5, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What explains the fascination with extraterrestrials in the science media? In a word: Darwinism.
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The Stubborn Mystery of the Tully Monster
May 5, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Origin and Evolution of the Rhinos (Family Rhinocerotidae)
May 5, 2023
Applying Our Previous Tests for Gradualism, Punctuated Equilibrium and Intelligent Design
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A new model for the evolution of honey bee brains
May 5, 2023 phys.org
three diverse, specialized Kenyon cell subtypes in honey bee brains appear to have evolved from a single, multifunctional Kenyon cell-subtype ancestor
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Watch: Brian Keating and Jordan Peterson on All Things Cosmological
May 5, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Uses Science to Show Why Whites Resemble Monkeys More Than Blacks
May 4, 2023 MSN
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Scientists Discover a Rare Example of Insects Using Tools to Capture Prey
May 4, 2023 Science Alert
In Australia, assassin bugs use a lethal tool to ensnare snacks: resin from spinifex grass. Recent research shows that the crawly critters slather themselves in the gluey gum to catch and keep their prey.
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Did Neandertals Eat Raw Flesh and Brains?
May 4, 2023 Psychology Today
Was the Neandertal desire to eat raw brains another cause of their extinction?
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A New Idea for How to Assemble Life
May 4, 2023 Quanta Magazine
If we want to understand complex constructions, such as ourselves, assembly theory says we must account for the entire history of how such entities came to be.
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News Update/Commentary
Chimpanzees combine calls to communicate new meaning
May 4, 2023 Science Daily
Similar to humans, chimpanzees combine vocalizations into larger communicatively meaningful structures. UZH researchers suggest that this ability might be evolutionarily more ancient than previously thought.
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers use generative AI to design novel proteins
May 4, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can create proteins not found in nature using generative diffusion, the same technology behind popular image-creation platforms such as DALL-E and Midjourney.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover the dynamics of an ‘extra' chromosome in fruit flies
May 4, 2023 Science Daily
Offers unique opportunity to study similar chromosomes linked to cancer and infertility in humans
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Spacetime: is it real and physical, or just a calculational tool?
May 4, 2023 Big Think
Einstein's relativity overthrew the notion of absolute space and time, replacing them with a spacetime fabric. But is spacetime truly real?
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Natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic
May 4, 2023 Science, v.380, n.6645, p.619-624
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Tree Rings Hint at the Fall of the Hittite Empire
May 4, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The Bronze Age civilization adapted to changes in climate but suffered during a prolonged crisis.
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New cellular ‘organelle’ discovered inside fruit-fly intestines
May 4, 2023 Nature
Fruit-fly cells use previously unknown complex cellular structures to store phosphate, a molecule essential to life
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Most Christian College Professors Teach Evolution, not Creation
May 4, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The results of a survey reported in April 2023 show Christian Colleges buckling to Darwinist groupthink
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Human Neurons with ‘Tricks up Their Sleeves'
May 4, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Uracil Discovered on Asteroid Ryugu
May 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
What Does It Mean for the Origin of Life?
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Listen: Stephen Meyer Takes on All Challenges
May 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Jonathan Wells Takes an Objective Look at the Evidence for Evolution
May 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
New DiscoveryU Course
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How thought itself can drive tumour growth
May 3, 2023 Nature
Tumour cells can form connections with neurons in the brain. Examination of a variety of types of evidence concerning human brain cancer sheds light on how these tumour–neuron interactions affect cognition and survival times.
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Who wore this ancient deer pendant?
May 3, 2023 Science
DNA reveals a Stone Age woman with surprising origins ... Pioneering technique allows scientists to read genetic traces of an artifact’s last user
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Caught in the act: Astronomers spot star swallowing a planet for first time
May 3, 2023 ars technica
A sneak peek at Earth's eventual fate.
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Ancient woman’s DNA recovered from a 20,000-year-old pendant
May 3, 2023 Nature
An innovative method was used to obtain a woman’s rich DNA record from a 20,000-year-old pendant found in Siberia, providing the first direct genetic evidence for the identity of an individual who handled an object in the deep past.
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An infrared transient from a star engulfing a planet
May 3, 2023 Nature, v.617, p.55-60
Stars expand as they evolve and thus we expect their close planetary companions to be engulfed, possibly powering luminous mass ejections from the host star.
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Reappraising the palaeobiology of Australopithecus
May 3, 2023 Nature, v.617, p.45-54
The naming of Australopithecus africanus in 1925, based on the Taung Child, heralded a new era in human evolutionary studies and turned the attention of the then Eurasian-centric palaeoanthropologists to Africa, albeit with reluctance.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant
May 3, 2023 Nature
recovery of ancient human and deer mitochondrial genomes allowed us to estimate the age of the pendant at approximately 19,000–25,000 years
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Prehistoric pendant’s DNA reveals the person who held it
May 3, 2023 Nature
An innovative method reveals that an ancient trinket was handled by a woman some 20,000 years ago.
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Gravity Anomalies Lead to Discovery of Vast Unknown Mountain Ranges Under the Ocean
May 3, 2023 Motherboard (Tech by Vice)
Scientists used satellites to detect surface disturbances from the gravitational pull of seamounts, discovering more than 20,000 underwater mountains.
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The Marvel of a Seed
May 3, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today