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Jumping Genes Can Cause Movement Disorder
September 13, 2022 The Scientist
Mice with overactive LINE-1 retrotransposons in their brains exhibit movement difficulties, suggesting the genetic elements may play a role in ataxia in humans.
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Five-year campaign breaks science’s citation paywall
September 13, 2022 Nature
Reference lists for more than 60 million journal studies in Crossref are now free to view and reuse.
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Lifting the veil on the oldest-known animals
September 13, 2022 Nature
Gaps in the fossil record mean that the origins of ancient animals such as jellyfish and corals have remained a mystery. Now, a long-awaited fossil discovery reveals key features of this group during the early stages of its evolution.
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Simple puzzles are revealing why humans are the only talking apes
September 13, 2022 New Scientist
Cognitive scientist Gillian Forrester is challenging chimps and gorillas to solve puzzles in an attempt to address the long-standing mystery of how humans evolved the ability to speak
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Quirky Kinesin
September 13, 2022 Answers in Genesis
Biological “robots” were there from the beginning
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Does Co-Evolution Explain Helminth Therapy?
September 13, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Co-Evolution theory fails, thus cannot be used to explain the inverse correlation between parasitic helminth infection and immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
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Charles Darwin’s Freudian Slip
September 13, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Atheists Who Scold Us on Morality Unwittingly Acknowledge God’s Existence
September 13, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Newton You Didn't Know
September 13, 2022 American Institute of Physics
Apart from his publications on gravity and optics, Newton was also a biblical scholar, religious mystic, and alchemist. In fact, a great deal of his work focuses on subjects that modern audiences might not consider to be scientific.
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The Drake Equation and Extraterrestrial Life
September 13, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Stuart Burgess Informs Evolutionist Nathan Lents on the Design Genius of the Ankle and Wrist
September 13, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Advancing Human-Like Perception in Self-Driving Vehicles
September 13, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Atheists Who Scold Us on Morality Acknowledge God's Existence
September 12, 2022 Mind Matters
For example, every time internet-famous atheist P. Z. Myers scolds humanity on morality and immorality, he demonstrates the point
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The Noncoding Regulators of the Brain
September 12, 2022 The Scientist
Noncoding RNAs are proving to be critical players in the evolution of brain anatomy and cognitive complexity.
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Self-replicating protein factories are a step towards artificial life
September 12, 2022 New Scientist
Ribosomes, tiny structures where proteins are produced inside cells, have been made to self-replicate outside cells for the first time, which could help us understand the origins of life
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Stuart Burgess Informs Evolutionist Nathan Lents on the Design Genius of the Ankle and Wrist
September 12, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Contentious Compatibility of Evolution and Design: Introduction to the Book Symposium
September 12, 2022 Zygon
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An Evaluation of the Biological Case for Design
September 12, 2022 Zygon
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Response: The Compatibility of Evolution and Design
September 12, 2022 Zygon
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Did Gregor Mendel Fabricate His Gene Data?
September 12, 2022 Discover magazine
Questions about bias and skewed experiments have circulated for more than 100 years regarding Mendel's famous research on pea genes.
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Physics alone can't answer the big questions
September 12, 2022 iai News
The blurry boundary between religion and science
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Re the Webb Findings Uproar: Who Owns the Big Bang Anyhow?
September 11, 2022 Mind Matters
Researcher and science writer Eric Lerner would never have attracted the attention he has in recent weeks if the Webb findings were not disturbing to many cosmologists
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Sabine Hossenfelder Asks, Is the Multiverse Science or Religion?
September 11, 2022 Mind Matters
Or pseudoscience? The no-nonsense theoretical physicist reveals a gift for comedy as she tries to explain theories that place no constraints on what can happen
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How Do We Know the Age of the Universe?
September 11, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Is Psychology Schizophrenic?
September 10, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Psychology is so stuck on an illogical paradigm, it is out of touch with reality. As it tries to explain schizophrenia, it exemplifies it.
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Can Myths About Dogs Give Us a Clue Re Their Origins?
September 9, 2022 Mind Matters
A French historian studies the relationship between ancient stories told about dogs and information from genetics and archeology
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Fossil Friday: Sahelanthropus, to Be or Not to Be Bipedal
September 9, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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God or Science?: Is Science Denying God?
September, 2022 World Scientific
Did the Universe and life appear by chance or is there evidence of a bigger scheme of thing behind them? This problem is addressed using knowledge in cosmology, physics and biology. | See Also Amazon
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News Update/Commentary
‘Jumping gene' found to be strongly linked to depression, fear, and anxiety
September 9, 2022 Science Daily
By combining molecular biology with neuroscience, researchers have found that a well-known gene works to withstand psychiatric stress
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Earliest land animals had fewer skull bones than fish -- restricting their evolution, scientists find
September 9, 2022 Science Daily
The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to a latest study.
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Capturing Beauty, Painting Creation
September 9, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Evolution, Chance, Necessity, and Design
September 9, 2022 Zygon
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Frank Drake, SETI Pioneer, 1930-2022
September 9, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Philosophy: Can Red Have “Redness" If No Self Perceives It?
September 8, 2022 Mind Matters
As Closer to Truth’s Robert Kuhn interviews philosopher Julian Baggini, they now tackle the question of “qualia” -- part of the nature of conscious experiences
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When Should AI Art Be Protected by Copyright?
September 8, 2022 Mind Matters
Headlines read that AI has recently won an art contest. But what is art?
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Did this gene give modern human brains their edge?
September 8, 2022 Nature
A mutation present in modern humans seems to drive greater neuron growth than does an ancient hominin version.
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Study reveals striking differences in brains of modern humans and Neanderthals
September 8, 2022 The Guardian
Results believed to be first compelling evidence that modern humans were cognitively better than Neanderthals
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God's Gift of Speech
September 8, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Cutting Down Ockham's Razor
September 8, 2022 Open Mind
William of Ockham famously argued that the simplest explanation is likely the best one. The idea is appealing, widely believed, and deeply misleading.
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Surprise finding suggests ‘water worlds' are more common than we thought
September 8, 2022 phys.org
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News Update/Commentary
Physicists invoke the cosmological collider to explain why matter, and not antimatter, dominates the universe
September 8, 2022 Science Daily
Early in its history, shortly after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with equal amounts of matter and ‘antimatter' -- particles that are matter counterparts but with opposite charge. But then, as space expanded, the universe cooled.
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Weedy rice has become herbicide resistant through rapid evolution
September 8, 2022 Science Daily
Aggressive, herbicide-resistant weed is a threat in nation's largest rice production region
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Bird neurons use three times less glucose than mammalian neurons
September 8, 2022 Science Daily
Birds have impressive cognitive abilities and show a high level of intelligence. Compared to mammals of about the same size, the brains of birds also contain many more neurons.
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Changes in the tree canopy facilitated the evolution of the first-ever gliding reptile
September 8, 2022 Science Daily
There are now enough fossils to create a near-perfect skeletal reconstruction of this unusual dragon-like creature
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Altogether -- Unbelievable! Part 2
September 8, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Christian radio interview with Francis Collins and Richard Dawkins
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A Closer Look at Hummingbird Tongue Design
September 8, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Electric Cell: More Synergy with Physics Found in Cellular Coding
September 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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What Makes the Human Brain Different?
September 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Glaciers Flowed on Ancient Mars, But Slowly
September 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Another Philosopher Argues That the Unified Self Is an Illusion
September 7, 2022 Mind Matters
At Closer to Truth, Lawrence Kuhn interviews Julian Baggini, who claims, in terms reminiscent of Thomas Metzinger, that a unified self is an illusion