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Immortal jellyfish genes identified that may explain their long lives
August 29, 2022 New Scientist
By performing a DNA comparison of two similar jellyfish species, researchers have found the genes that could stop and reverse ageing in immortal jellyfish
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Science or Philosophy?
August 29, 2022 Answers in Genesis
The death grip of scientific naturalism
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Slimy Evolution
August 29, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The media repeat stupid stories about mucus evolution, but to discerning readers, it’s snot funny.
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Video
Appreciating Design and Designer
August 29, 2022 YouTube
What does it take to say something is designed? Theologian Vern Poythress explores this and many other questions surrounding the discussion of intelligent design in nature. This presentation was taped at the 2022 Westminster Conf. on Science and Faith
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Ancient Fish Fossil Suggests That Teeth Didn't Evolve from Inside the Mouth
August 28, 2022 Science Alert
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New Webb Telescope Observations Throw a Wrench in Our Understanding of the Big Bang
August 28, 2022 Inverse
The latest Webb observations do reveal some strange and unexpected things about the universe.
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The Fall of ‘Nature’
August 28, 2022 Quillette
A once-respected journal has announced that it will be subordinating science to ideology.
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Astrophysicist: Webb Finds May Bring “Revolutionary Changes"
August 28, 2022 Mind Matters
It doesn’t disprove the Big Bang, says Brian Koberlein… but read the fine print. And Fermilab’s Don Lincoln gets the religious implications all wrong
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Is Ours One of a Few Working Universes Among Countless Flops?
August 28, 2022 Mind Matters
Is that probable? How would we know? Philosopher Stephen C. Meyer offers some suggestions
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Have Astronomers Found Life’s Building Blocks?
August 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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A New Study Confirms That Gravity Has Remained Constant for the Entire Age of the Universe
August 27, 2022 Universe Today
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Big Science Losing Its Monopoly
August 27, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The big journals have been ordered to make federally-funded research available to the public immediately upon publication. They’re terrified.
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Blog Post
We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know
August 27, 2022 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Calm Down: Yes, the Big Bang Happened
August 26, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Nature: Manuscripts that are ideologically impure and “harmful” will be rejected
August 26, 2022 Why Evolution Is True
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Can we predict evolution?
August 26, 2022 Big Think
Organisms respond in similar ways to similar circumstances.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A mechanism of gene evolution generating mucin function
August 26, 2022 Science Advances, v.8, n.34
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Mucus has evolved at least 15 times in mammals
August 26, 2022 New Scientist
Mucus-producing mucin proteins have repeatedly and independently emerged in mammals, possibly through co-option of existing proteins into slime factories
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News Update/Commentary
The evolution of mucus: How did we get all this slime?
August 26, 2022 Science Daily
In mammals, proteins called mucins evolved -- again and again -- by co-opting non-mucin proteins in a surprising way, study suggests
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News Update/Commentary
Protein structures aren't set in stone
August 26, 2022 Science Daily
Study on plant enzyme shows that proteins can change their structural arrangement with surprising ease
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Mars Water Hope Evaporates
August 26, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists have a strange way of expressing disappointment. They pretend to be excited about it.
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Reconstructing Ice Age Diets Reveals Unraveling Web of Life
August 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe
August 26, 2022 Science, v.377, n.6609
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Scientists are stumped why quakes keep hitting this small South Carolina town
August 26, 2022 National Public Radio
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Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia
August 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Could Extinct Tasmanian Tigers Be Brought Back from the Dead?
August 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Look-Alike Humans Have Similar DNA
August 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Mouse embryos grown without eggs or sperm: why and what’s next?
August 25, 2022 Nature
Two research teams grew synthetic embryos using stem cells, long enough to see some organs develop.
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Atheist Philosopher Sam Harris Supports Online Political Censors
August 25, 2022 Mind Matters
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News story miscasts Alzheimer’s science
August 25, 2022 Science
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia
August 25, 2022 Science, v.377, n.6609, p.982-987
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‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages
August 25, 2022 Science
Trio of studies suggests new homeland for earliest Indo-European speakers and traces movements of ancient Greeks, Imperial Romans
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No, the James Webb Space Telescope did not disprove the Big Bang
August 25, 2022 Big Think
Unexpected images of galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope do not disprove the Big Bang. There are other likelier explanations.
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News Update/Commentary
How do molecular motors convert chemical energy in to mechanical work?
August 25, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers reveal structure and function of a complex micro machine
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News Update/Commentary
What makes the human brain different? Study reveals clues
August 25, 2022 Science Daily
What makes the human brain distinct from that of all other animals -- including even our closest primate relatives? In an analysis of cell types in the prefrontal cortex of four primate species, researchers identified species-specific features
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News Update/Commentary
‘Synthetic' embryo with brain and beating heart grown from multiple stem cells
August 25, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have created model embryos from mouse stem cells that form a brain, a beating heart, and the foundations of all the other organs of the body -- a new avenue for recreating the first stages of life.
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Conventional Scientists Reach for Evolution's Replacement
August 25, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin Comes to America
August 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Sahelanthropus, the oldest representative of humanity, was indeed bipedal
August 24, 2022 Science Daily
...but that's not all!
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News Update/Commentary
30-million-year-old amphibious beaver fossil is oldest ever found
August 24, 2022 Science Daily
Anklebone analysis reveals when beavers evolved to swim
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Human ancestors may have walked on two legs 7 million years ago
August 24, 2022 New Scientist
An analysis of thigh and forearm bones from Sahelanthropus tchadensis suggests the early hominin was mainly bipedal, but the claim is controversial
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A Change of Climate in Human Evolution Storytelling
August 24, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
New findings continue to complicate theories of human evolution. Maybe they can sound trendy by dragging climate change into it.
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Optimization: A Key Concept in Intelligent Design
August 24, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace
August 24, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Darwin and the English Class System
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Postcranial evidence of late Miocene hominin bipedalism in Chad
August 24, 2022 Nature
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Seven-million-year-old femur suggests ancient human relative walked upright
August 24, 2022 Nature
Formal description of the leg bone, which belongs to Sahelanthropus tchadensis, comes two decades after it was discovered.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Postcranial evidence of late Miocene hominin bipedalism in Chad
August 24, 2022 Nature
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Standing up for the earliest bipedal hominins
August 24, 2022 Nature
A leg bone and two arm bones of a hominin from Chad suggest that, seven million years ago, around the time that the human and chimpanzee lineages split, early hominins were bipedal but were also able to climb trees.
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The Big Bang no longer means what it used to
August 24, 2022 Big Think
As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.
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News Update/Commentary
Sawfish fossils suggest teeth likely evolved from body scales in ancient fish
August 24, 2022 Science Daily
Scientists have long debated the origins of teeth. Did they evolve from body scales that migrated into the mouths of ancient vertebrates and became adapted for eating -- an idea known as the ‘outside-in' hypothesis?