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Beyond Genes: Biologists Seek Purpose in Unknown Substances, Processes
August 8, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Just How Well Does That Cherry-Picked Data Fit an Evolutionary Tree?
August 8, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Exploring the Deep Mystery of Life's Origins
August 8, 2022 YouTube
As an evolutionary biochemist at University College London, Nick Lane explores the deep mystery of how life evolved on Earth. His hypothesis is that life arose through primitive metabolic reactions in deep-sea hydrothermal vents
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Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism
August 8, 2022 Preposterous Universe
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If DNA Is a Language, Who Is the Speaker
August 7, 2022 Mind Matters
Philosopher Steve Meyer talks about the significance of Francis Crick’s sequence hypothesis that shows that DNA is literally a language of life
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Denis Noble goes after Darwinian evolution again, scores own goal
August 7, 2022 Why Evolution Is True
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Earth Is Spinning Too Fast -- The Consequences for Timekeeping May Be Unprecedented
August 6, 2022 Inverse
The answer could come from deep below.
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Bees Feel Pain. Therefore…Insect Rights?
August 6, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Did Physicists Open a Portal to Extra Time Dimension, As Claimed?
August 6, 2022 Mind Matters
That’s the way the story reads at Scientific American. But experimental physicist Rob Sheldon says not so fast…
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NASA on UFOs: Not Nearly So Snarky Now. Here Are 3 Reasons Why
August 6, 2022 Mind Matters
In the three decades since the discovery of the first exoplanets, science has gradually been overtaking science fiction
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Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives
August 6, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
New research on the emergence of the first complex cells challenges orthodoxy
August 5, 2022 Science Daily
A new study challenges a popular scenario put forward to explain the arrival of the first eukaryotic organisms.
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Human Brain Shape Hardly Changed in 160,000 Years
August 5, 2022 Mind Matters
Faces changed, yes, and researchers think diet may have played a role
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Bees Feel Pain. And Therefore ... Insect Rights?
August 5, 2022 Mind Matters
As we learn more from research about how various life forms respond to experiences, a more complex picture may raise political issues
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No, the Human Brain Did Not Shrink 3,000 Years Ago
August 5, 2022 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
In new paper, UNLV-led anthropology team balks at a widely held belief that modern humans experienced an evolutionary decrease in brain size.
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World’s first ‘synthetic embryo’
August 5, 2022 The Conversation
why this research is more important than you think
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Deficient RNA Editing Implicated in Inflammatory Disease
August 5, 2022 The Scientist
Genetic variants that reduce the editing levels of double-stranded RNA are associated with autoimmune and immune-mediated conditions, a study finds.
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Gonorrhea-Blocking Mutation Also Protects Against Alzheimer’s
August 5, 2022 The Scientist
Research traces the evolution of a gene variant that reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, finding that it originally evolved in response to infectious bacteria.
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Q&A: Whole Genomes of 150,000 Britons Reveal Novel Genetic Variants
August 5, 2022 The Scientist
Height and onset of menarche are among traits linked to previously unidentified genetic variants in noncoding regions of the human genome.
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News Update/Commentary
Signs of disturbance in nearby dwarf galaxies indicate an alternative gravity theory
August 5, 2022 Science Daily
According to the standard model of cosmology, the vast majority of galaxies are surrounded by a halo of dark matter particles.
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News Update/Commentary
A brain mechanism underlying the evolution of anxiety
August 5, 2022 Science Daily
New research using genome editing technology has allowed scientists to create a model and assess a gene mutation associated with neuropsychiatric disorders in humans.
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Why Their Separate Ancestry Model Is “Wildly Unrealistic”
August 5, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Amazing Prehistoric Fish Fossil Looks Like It's ‘Leaping Out of the Rock'
August 5, 2022 Geology In
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Early humans may have wiped out many turtles millions of years ago
August 5, 2022 New Scientist
Our hominin ancestors wiped out many land-living turtle and tortoise species starting around 5 million years ago, an analysis of the fossil record suggests
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Fossil Friday: Treehopper Nymph in Dominican Amber and the Miracle of Mimicry
August 5, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives
August 5, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Do ‘bouncing universes’ have a beginning?
August 4, 2022 University at Buffalo
Some cosmological models propose that the universe expands and contracts in infinite cycles, but new research finds a crucial flaw in the latest version of this theory
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AI, Man & God
August 4, 2022 YouTube
They discuss the shortcomings of science in the search for universal truth, the factors behind rising secularism in the West, China’s rapid AI implementation, our growing desire for immortality through biomedicine and the true meaning of ‘faith’.
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Clip: What is life? Do we have a soul?
August 4, 2022 YouTube
discussion on whether life can be defined
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Are Some People Born with Tails? (Part 1)
August 4, 2022 Answers in Genesis
Tall tales told by evolutionists about supposed “atavistic” organs
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Misinformation abounds because “trusted” sources promote untrustworthy information
August 4, 2022 Big Think
Scientific journals, which are supposed to be the sacred scriptures of academia, are often full of shoddy research and misinformation.
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The fight for the future of biology
August 4, 2022 iai News
The broken paradigm of Neo-Darwinism
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Archaeologists Find 12,000-Year-Old Human Footprints in Utah
August 4, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine
The 88 individual footprints were were discovered on a remote desert Air Force training site that was once a wetland
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Could We Really Increase Human IQ Via Genetic Engineering?
August 4, 2022 Mind Matters
One suggested approach is to only implant “intelligent” human embryos and discard the rest, to avoid editing individual genes
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Nanoscale Rotors Constructed from DNA -- Smallest Flow-Driven Motors in the World
August 4, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Why aren’t neutrinos adding up?
August 4, 2022 Symmetry magazine
Physicists take on the mystery of the missing (and extra) neutrinos.
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5 truths about dark matter that no scientist can deny
August 4, 2022 Big Think
Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here's what to know.
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News Update/Commentary
These baboons borrowed a third of their genes from their cousins
August 4, 2022 Science Daily
Genetic analyses of baboons in Kenya reveals that most of them carry traces of hybridization in their DNA. As a result of interbreeding, about a third of their genetic makeup consists of genes from another, closely-related species.
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How Immature Egg Cells in Ovaries Resist Aging
August 4, 2022 The Scientist
The cells’ mitochondria skip a key metabolic reaction that takes place in other cells in the body, a study finds.
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JWST Surprises and Discoveries
August 4, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Galaxies evolve quicker than expected, and stunning new images of Hubble classics dazzle the eyes.
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I Got Critiqued by YouTuber Gutsick Gibbon
August 4, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Advance bioelectric signals used to repair alcohol-induced defects in embryos
August 4, 2022 Current Science Daily
by Tufts scientists
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Volcanic super eruptions are millions of years in the making -- followed by swift surge
August 3, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth's crust, formed over millions of years, move rapidly to the surface disrupting pre-existing rock.
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An Evolutionary Mathematician Flunks Biology
August 3, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Can Old Dogs Learn New Tricks? Scientists Aim To Find Out
August 3, 2022 Mind Matters
Not much is known for sure about how dogs age. The Dog Aging Project aims to change that through systematic research programs
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Scientists create world’s first ‘synthetic embryos’
August 3, 2022 The Guardian
Researchers use stem cells from mice to form embryo-like structures with intestinal tract, beginnings of a brain, and a beating heart
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Scientists grow synthetic embryos without any sperm, egg, or even a womb
August 3, 2022 ZME Science
This may one day make it possible to grow organs for transplant using synthetic embryo models.
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What If . . . ? Convergence Strengthens the Case for Creation?
August 3, 2022 Reasons to Believe
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Hybrid brains: the ethics of transplanting human neurons into animals
August 3, 2022
Transplanting human cells into animal brains brings insights into development and disease along with new ethical questions.
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Does life on Earth have a purpose?
August 3, 2022 Big Think
The answer is both disappointing and exciting.