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Scientists Merge Biology and Technology by 3D Printing Electronics Inside Living Worms
April 14, 2023 Singularity Hub
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Book
‘Radical by Nature’ Review: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Evolution
April 14, 2023 Wall Street Journal
Wallace, often billed as the co-discoverer of natural selection, didn’t seek sole credit for the theory. | See Also Amazon
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Miraculous Discovery in Spain: A Tailoring Tool from 40,000 Years Ago
April 13, 2023 Haaretz Newspaper (Israel)
For the first time, archaeologists have found evidence of the ability to create haute couture before the rise of the needle
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Early break-up of eastern African forests shaped our ape ancestors
April 13, 2023 New Scientist
Forests in eastern Africa started turning into grassland 10 million years earlier than previously thought, which may have driven the evolution of upright apes
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Rumors of War and Evidence of Peace Between Science and Christianity
April 13, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Marking Time
April 13, 2023 Science
Radiocarbon timestamps left in ancient tree rings by cosmic ray bombardments can date historical events with unprecedented precision
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Quantum Biology and the Origin of Life
April 13, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Tadpole embryos grow strong jaws if they sense shrimp in the water
April 13, 2023 New Scientist
Mexican spadefoot toad embryos that sense lots of shrimp in the water before they are born grow bigger and stronger jaws, ready for their first meals after hatching
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists track evolution of microbes on the skin's surface
April 12, 2023 Science Daily
A new analysis reveals how Staphylococcus aureus gains mutations that allow it to colonize eczema patches
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News Update/Commentary
Starting small and simple -- key to success for evolution of mammals
April 12, 2023 Science Daily
The ancestors of modern mammals managed to evolve into one of the most successful animal lineages -- the key was to start out small and simple, a new study reveals.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The little skate genome and the evolutionary emergence of wing-like fins
April 12, 2023 Nature, v.616, p.495-503
Skates are cartilaginous fish whose body plan features enlarged wing-like pectoral fins, enabling them to thrive in benthic environments. However, the molecular underpinnings of this unique trait remain unclear.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Earth shaped by primordial H2 atmospheres
April 12, 2023 Nature, v.616, p.306-311
Earth’s water, intrinsic oxidation state and metal core density are fundamental chemical features of our planet. Studies of exoplanets provide a useful context for elucidating the source of these chemical traits.
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Hawking Left Our Privileged Planet on an Absurd Note
April 12, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
His Legacy Might Be Called ‘On the Origin of a Fine-Tuned Universe from Nothing’
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Breakthroughs Unveil Evidence of Foresight in Nature
April 12, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Never-before-seen Bible chapter discovered using UV light
April 12, 2023 Independent (UK)
‘Until recently, only two manuscripts were known to contain the Old Syriac translation of the gospels’
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52 million-year-old bat skeleton belongs to a never-before-seen species
April 12, 2023 Live Science
The bat skeletons unearthed in southwest Wyoming are the oldest ever found, and their discovery has sparked a reshuffle in the bat family tree.
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Transcending the Evolution-Creation Debate
April 12, 2023 Crisis magazine
Recent scientific developments and philosophical interpretations of these developments can lead to a greater unity among Catholics debating evolution.
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Why some cosmologists found the Big Bang offensive
April 12, 2023 Big Think
For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.
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The mystery of the human genome's dark matter
April 12, 2023 BBC
Twenty years ago, an enormous scientific effort revealed that the human genome contains 20,000 protein-coding genes, but they account for just 2% of our DNA. The rest of was written off as junk -- but we are now realising it has a crucial role to play.
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Genome reveals how the skate got its wings
April 12, 2023 Nature
Genome sequencing, combined with methods for deducing how genomic regions interact, have now provided insight into how the wings that give skates and rays their characteristic shapes evolved more than 200 million years ago.
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How octopuses taste with their arms
April 12, 2023 Nature
Ultra-specialized proteins enable octopuses and squids to taste surfaces with their suckers -- and these proteins are tailored to each animal’s way of life.
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How I use ChatGPT responsibly in my teaching
April 12, 2023 Nature
Large language models are here to stay. Here’s how I’m incorporating them
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News Update/Commentary
How skates learned to fly through water
April 12, 2023 Science Daily
Genes are not the only drivers of evolution. The iconic fins of skates are caused by changes in the non-coding genome and its three-dimensional structure, an international research team reports.
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Video
Finding Ancient Minds in the Human Evolutionary Tree
April 11, 2023 YouTube
John Hawks, Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UW-Madison, gives an update on Homo naledi research in South Africa, and outlines recent discoveries from around the world showing the behavioral complexity of ancient human relatives.
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How like the kiwi we are
April 11, 2023 Aeon
To understand helpless human babies, our big brains and oddly involved dads, look to the evolution of birds not mammals
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Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity
April 11, 2023 Quanta Magazine
As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells now growing in labs are giving us our best glimpses of the forerunners of all complex life.
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Bible exhibit challenges belief that faith and science have nothing to do with each other
April 11, 2023 Fox News
NASA astronaut endorses museum's ‘Scripture and Science' exhibit -- Bible not in conflict with science
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News Update/Commentary
Stowaways in the genome
April 11, 2023 Science Daily
Thousands of unknown viruses hide in the DNA of unicellular organisms
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News Update/Commentary
Male yellow crazy ants are real-life chimeras
April 11, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers discovered that males of the yellow crazy ant have maternal and paternal genomes in different cells of their body and are thus chimeras.
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Debate About the God Hypothesis
April 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
an overview with Stephen Meyer
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Even More Mammoth Devolution
April 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imagination
April 11, 2023 New Scientist
There is probably a plane of knowledge beyond the grasp of human minds. But mathematician and physicist David Wolpert says it is still possible to explore this unimaginable realm
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News Update/Commentary
How an African bird might inspire a better water bottle
April 11, 2023 Science Daily
An extreme closeup of feathers from a bird with an uncanny ability to hold water while it flies could inspire the next generation of absorbent materials.
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Luke Barnes and Fine Tuning
April 10, 2023 Reasonable Faith
Cosmologist and astronomer Dr. Luke Barnes examines the Reasonable Faith animated video on the Fine-Tuning Argument.
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There Was Berra’s Blunder; Now Lieberman’s Lapse
April 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Luna moths use their tails solely for bat evasion
April 10, 2023 Science Daily
What is it good for? Absolutely one thing
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Why Does Creation Groan?
April 10, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Christianity Today Gives a Very Wrong Answer
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An ancient gene stolen from bacteria set the stage for human sight
April 10, 2023 Science
More than 500 million years ago, early vertebrates acquired bacterial DNA that made possible their evolution of vision
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Common Birds Astound Scientists
April 10, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Look at some denizens of your garden or town and be amazed
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Bacterial origin of a key innovation in the evolution of the vertebrate eye
April 10, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Since the time of Charles Darwin, explaining the stepwise evolution of the eye has been a challenge. Here, we describe the essential contribution of bacteria to the evolution of the vertebrate eye
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Blog Post
My Controversial Diatribe Against “Skeptics”
April 10, 2023 the science writer
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How Stephen Hawking flip-flopped on whether the Universe has a beginning
April 10, 2023 Nature
The question of what the Big Bang really represented still bamboozles cosmologists -- and Hawking provided more than one answer.
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News Update/Commentary
New textile unravels warmth-trapping secrets of polar bear fur
April 10, 2023 Science Daily
Engineers invents bilayered fabric, 30% lighter than cotton and far warmer
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Ideology sucks another scientific field down the drain
April 9, 2023 Why Evolution Is True
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Shock Boson Result Upending Physics Was a Miscalculation
April 9, 2023 Science Alert
Last year a new finding in particle physics stunned scientists: a fundamental particle responsible for one of the Universe's four fundamental forces was heavier than predicted.
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Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory
April 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Forget the Habitable Zone -- We Need to Find the Computational Zone
April 8, 2023 Universe Today
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Evolutionary Psychology Tries to Replace Religion
April 8, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Anything a church can do, evolution can do better, think evolutionary psychologists. But is science on their side?
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The Aliens Have Landed, and We Created Them
April 8, 2023 Bloomberg
The Cassandras are out in force claiming artificial intelligence will be the end of mankind. They have a very good point.
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Video
I Think Faster Than Light Travel is Possible. Here's Why.
April 8, 2023 YouTube
If you've been following my channel for a really long time, you might remember that some years ago I made a video about whether faster-than-light travel is possible. I was trying to explain why the arguments saying it's impossible are inconclusive