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News Update/Commentary
Ancient viral elements embedded in human genome not from fossil retrovirus
May 27, 2022 Science Daily
The ancient retrovirus moves around our genome and may be a risk for regenerative medicine
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News Update/Commentary
An arms race that plays out in a single genome
May 27, 2022 Science Daily
Example of coevolution in fruit flies has implications for human health
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Imagining early Earth as an exoplanet can help us search for alien life, scientists say
May 27, 2022 space.com
“Molecular time travelers" are one piece of the puzzle to understand whether there's life beyond Earth.
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The surprisingly complex tRNA subsystem: part 4
May 27, 2022 Creation Ministries International
tRNA fragments regulate processes
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Is the Term “Darwinism” Really Used Only by “Creationists”?
May 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
fact-checking “Professor Dave”
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What is it about the human brain that makes us smarter than other animals?
May 27, 2022 The Conversation
New research gives intriguing answer
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Should We Expect Efficiency Inside the Cell?
May 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Were It Not for Cosmic Good Fortune, We Wouldn’t Be Here
May 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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These Animals Know How to Self-Medicate
May 26, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science Snapshot: Free Fallin’ Salamanders
May 26, 2022 The Scientist
Arboreal salamanders use skydiving techniques to avoid smashing to the ground after a fall.
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DNA of Pompeii Man Killed During Vesuvius Eruption Yields Its Secrets Almost 2,000 Years Later
May 26, 2022 Wall Street Journal
Scientists fully sequence the genetic material from a victim of the cataclysm that killed thousands in central Italy in A.D. 79
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Woman Missing Key Language Part of Brain Scores 98% in Vocab Test
May 26, 2022 Mind Matters
Missing her left temporal lobe, she was told for years by doctors that her brain did not make sense
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Aerial Engineering and Physics of the Dragonfly
May 26, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Asteroid evidence for life on earth coming from outer space?
May 26, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Do amino acids found on Ryugu (the first asteroid to be sampled) support chemical evolution?
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Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder
May 26, 2022 Quanta Magazine
The second law of thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always rested on 19th century arguments about probability. New arguments trace its true source to the flows of quantum information.
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Most Dinosaurs Were Warm-Blooded After All
May 26, 2022 The Scientist
Endothermy was widespread among both avian and non-avian dinosaurs, a study suggests, so the metabolic strategy is unlikely to account for birds’ survival through the mass extinction event that wiped out their dinosaur cousins.
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Do Invertebrates Have Emotions?
May 26, 2022 The Scientist
And how do scientists go about answering that question?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals
May 26, 2022 Science, v.376, n.6596, p.1012-1016
Human impacts are leading to exceedingly rapid alteration of our world, from land conversion and habitat loss to climate change. Some have proposed that rapid adaptation could help some species persist
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How full is the evolutionary fuel tank?
May 26, 2022 Science
Fisher famously stated that “natural selection is not evolution,” meaning that if a trait is not heritable, no amount of selection will result in a change in the offspring of surviving parents.
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Wild animals are evolving faster than anybody thought
May 26, 2022 The Conversation
Although Charles Darwin thought the process occurred over geological timescales, we have seen examples of dramatic adaptive evolution over only a handful of generations.
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From the Ancient Ashes of Vesuvius, Human DNA
May 26, 2022 New York Times
Genetic material recovered from a 1st-century Pompeii man reveals a spinal disorder and ancestral links to Anatolia.
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News Update/Commentary
Perplexing fish-like fossil finally classified
May 26, 2022 Science Daily
For the first time since its discovery 130 years ago one of the most mysterious fossil vertebrates has finally been classified, increasing our possible understanding of the first animals to crawl on Earth.
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Skull Duggery in Whale Evolution
May 26, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
-- or Skull Dodgery: Evolutionists dodge a heady issue, thinking a skull will evolve a brain complete with new skills
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Fascia, Your Body’s Fashionable “New” Organ
May 26, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Fossil biomolecules reveal an avian metabolism in the ancestral dinosaur
May 25, 2022 Nature, v.606, p.522-526
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How plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth’s ‘Goldilocks’ climate
May 25, 2022 The Conversation
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How to improve the search for aliens
May 25, 2022 The Economist
So far, people have sought Earthlike biology. That will change
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New discovery about distant galaxies: Stars are heavier than we thought
May 25, 2022 University of Copenhagen
A team of University of Copenhagen astrophysicists has arrived at a major result regarding star populations beyond the Milky Way. The result could change our understanding of a wide range of astronomical phenomena, including the formation of black holes,
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An intriguing rethink of cause and effect could shake up biology
May 25, 2022 New Scientist
Some scientists insist that the cause of all things exists at the most fundamental level, even in complex systems like living things. What if it isn't so?
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News Update/Commentary
Bat brains organized for echolocation and flight
May 25, 2022 Science Daily
A new study shows how the brains of Egyptian fruit bats are highly specialized for echolocation and flight, with motor areas of the cerebral cortex that are dedicated to sonar production and wing control.
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Can science explain the beginning of the Universe?
May 25, 2022 Big Think
Everyone loves a good origins story.
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Dark energy is here to stay, and a “Big Crunch” isn’t coming
May 25, 2022 Big Think
13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here's why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn't how it will end.
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Günter Bechly Repudiates “Professor Dave’s” Attacks Against ID
May 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The Struggle To Find the Origins of Time
May 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Good Earth: Luskin Explores Design Evidence from Geology
May 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Tremendous trilobites
May 25, 2022 Creation Ministries International
With complex, compound eyes -- complete from creation
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Prehuman Ancestors Are Fiction
May 25, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
More problems in the many attempts to prove human evolution: A clear gap is shown between claimed prehumans and genus Homo
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Yawn: Atheist YouTuber “Professor Dave” Rants about Intelligent Design
May 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
Insights from Geology on the Design of Our Planet for Life
May 24, 2022 Discovery Science
The Good Earth ... how it contains many intricate geological processes that are required for life and suggest intelligent design
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Book
A Critique of William Lane Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam
May, 2022 Wipf & Stock Pub
| See Also Amazon
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This 12,000-Year-Old Wyoming Quarry Could Be North America’s Oldest Mine
May 24, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine
The state’s archaeologists believe people quarried red ocher at Powars II starting 12,840 years ago
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On the Inordinate Amount of “Living Fossils” in the Flowering Plants (Angiospermae)
May 24, 2022
Or how Darwin’s “abominable mystery” has become even more “abominable” and “mysterious” during the last 150 years than ever before
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient proteins resolve controversy over the identity of Genyornis eggshell
May 24, 2022 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The Effect of Ocean Salinity on Climate and Its Implications for Earth's Habitability
May 24, 2022 Geophysical Research Letters
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Video
The Good Earth: Insights from Geology on the Design of Our Planet for Life
May 24, 2022 YouTube
Geologist Casey Luskin explains how Earth contains many intricate geological processes that are required for life and suggest intelligent design.
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William Lane Craig and his historical Adam conference
May 24, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Southern Baptist College fosters compromise with Templeton pieces of silver
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Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire
May 24, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
With the evidence of our unique fitness for fire-making, the picture is complete. Nature is uniquely fit for man, designed with us in mind. The anthropocentric claim of Judeo-Christian tradition is vindicated.
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Video
Origins of the RNA-Protein World
May 24, 2022 YouTube
Lost in Translation?
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Book
Why You Are Not -- and Cannot Be -- Computable
May 24, 2022 Mind Matters
A computer science prof explains in a new book that computer intelligence does not hold a candle to human intelligence. | See Also Discovery Institute Press
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Biochemist: Why Only Humans Could Learn To Use Fire
May 24, 2022 Mind Matters
Many animals display intelligence but controlling fire requires other advantages as well