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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover potential key missing link protein bridging eukaryotes and prokaryotes
April 20, 2022 Science Daily
Modern eukaryotic cells have proteins that enable chromosome segregation during cell division, new discoveries shed light on their origin in simpler prokaryotic organisms.
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Sea of Tranquility review: A disturbing tale of time travel
April 20, 2022 New Scientist
The new science fiction novel from Station Eleven's author is mostly set centuries into the future -- but also contains scary glimpses of a pandemic-strewn past
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Claim: Research Shows That Animals Have a Moral Sense
April 20, 2022 Mind Matters
We are informed at Nautilus, the Templeton Foundation’s magazine, that “It’s time to take moral emotion in animals seriously.” Really?
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Can a Human Being Be Gifted Despite Missing Lots of Brain?
April 20, 2022 Mind Matters
So many would think -- but that’s not what the evidence shows
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Hard Problem of Consciousness Solved?: A 4th Spatial Dimension?
April 20, 2022 Mind Matters
Philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes argues that higher spatial dimensions might hold the key
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Scientists Just Found a Mystery Insect Organ
April 20, 2022 Popular Mechanics
Researchers hypothesize that the organ is a way for certain species of insects to communicate amongst each other.
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The Absence of Universally Conserved Protein-Coding Genes
April 20, 2022 Answers Research Journal
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Is Psychiatry Facing an Existential Crisis?
April 20, 2022 Psychology Today
Have the field's dominant paradigms failed?
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Pterosaur fossil suggests feathers may have evolved long before flight
April 20, 2022 New Scientist
Feathers of different colours have been found on a fossilised pterosaur skull, hinting that an ancestor of these winged reptiles had feathers far earlier than we thought
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A colourful view of the origin of dinosaur feathers
April 20, 2022 Nature
Birds and their dinosaur ancestors had feathers, and now it seems that a distantly related group called pterosaurs had them, too. The finding extends the origins of feathers back to long before birds evolved, and sheds light on their role.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Pterosaur melanosomes support signalling functions for early feathers
April 20, 2022 Nature
Remarkably well-preserved soft tissues in Mesozoic fossils have yielded substantial insights into the evolution of feathers.
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News Update/Commentary
How do our eyes stay focused on what we reach for?
April 20, 2022 Science Daily
Findings offer new insights into how our movements are coordinated
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News Update/Commentary
Pterosaur discovery solves ancient feather mystery
April 20, 2022 Science Daily
Palaeontologists have discovered remarkable new evidence that pterosaurs, the flying relatives of dinosaurs, were able to control the color of their feathers using melanin pigments.
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News Update/Commentary
Widespread brain receptor hides surprising mechanism of action
April 20, 2022 Science Daily
One of the most important molecules in the brain doesn't work quite the way scientists thought it did, according to new work.
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Charles Darwin’s “Intelligent Design”
April 20, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin Wrote a Book About Orchids
April 20, 2022 Uncommon Descent
and it was better received than Origin of Species
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Video
Prehistoric Planet -- Official Trailer
April 20, 2022 YouTube
The world’s most extraordinary creatures like you’ve never seen them before in an epic five-night event. Prehistoric Planet streams May 23
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In Sexy Worms, Inheritance Beyond Genes Can Help Evolution
April 19, 2022 Quanta Magazine
Experiments that showed a surprising persistence of sexiness in worms reveal how much we are still learning about the rules governing heritability, epigenetics and natural selection.
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Darwin’s Most Important Book?
April 19, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Not Only Did Researchers Discover a New Type of Cell But It Has Regenerative Properties
April 19, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Darwinism Made Racism Science
April 19, 2022 Uncommon Descent
few want to hear this but …
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Physicist: Living Systems Must Obey the Same Rules As Maxwell’s Demons
April 19, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Trilobite Eye Dazzles Government Engineers
April 19, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
This extinct marine animal had binocular eyes with such amazing properties they want to imitate it
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Darwin Wept: Cambrian Brains and Other Challenges for Evolution
April 19, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Yes! There Is Evidence for the Intelligent Design of the Brain
April 19, 2022 Mind Matters
If our brains were not intelligently designed, we would have no reason to believe anything our senses tell us
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News Update/Commentary
Regulating the regulators of the immune system
April 19, 2022 Science Daily
Scientists reveal a new layer of complexity with which the immune system finds a balance between controlling pathogens and protecting healthy tissue.
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Does Creationism Lead to Racism?
April 18, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Brain Facts Challenge Materialism
April 18, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
These would not happen if the brain were mere atoms in motion
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Who’s Killing Physics
April 18, 2022 Uncommon Descent
Sabine Hossenfelder tells us
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A Lost Flower Named “Extinctus” Has Been Rediscovered
April 18, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Cretaceous Charcoal Gives a Glimpse of Plant Evolution
April 18, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
New data from vegetal charcoal in northwestern India support the theory of paleowildfires as a global phenomenon and an evolutionary force for biodiversity.
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Video
The Judeo-Christian Origins of Modern Science
April 18, 2022 YouTube
Bestselling author Stephen Meyer explores how three key Judeo-Christian presuppositions encouraged the rise of modern science, and he explores the influence of faith on the life and work of Sir Isaac Newton.
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Quantum experiments add weight to a fringe theory of consciousness
April 18, 2022 New Scientist
Experiments on how anaesthetics alter the behaviour of tiny structures found in brain cells bolster the controversial idea that quantum effects in the brain might explain consciousness
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Brain Facts Challenge Materialism
April 18, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
These would not happen if the brain were mere atoms in motion
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Has Interest in Intelligent Design WANED?
April 18, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Applying the Design Filter to Biological Sands
April 18, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Opinion: Another Species of Hominin May Still Be Alive
April 18, 2022 The Scientist
Do members of Homo floresiensis still inhabit the Indonesian island where their fossils helped identify a new human species fewer than 20 years ago?
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Remember When Near-Death Experiences Were Mental Cases?
April 17, 2022 Mind Matters
Scientists “knew” it wasn’t true. Then modern medicine started bringing people back from the dead…
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Neuroscientists: Near-Death Perceptions Not Just Hallucinations
April 17, 2022 Mind Matters
Published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
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Luskin, Shapiro: Has Intelligent Design Waned?
April 17, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Did Harvard University Go After Its Best Black Professor?
April 17, 2022 Uncommon Descent
somebody wonders
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Darwin Prof Targets Discovery Institute
April 17, 2022 Uncommon Descent
weird story
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Why the Miller-Urey Experiment Was So Important
April 17, 2022 Uncommon Descent
to many high school science teachers
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Would Advanced Aliens Be Fully Mechanical? or Like Octopuses?
April 16, 2022 Mind Matters
Astrobiologist Dirk Schultze-Makuch muses on the possibilities
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The Physics of Consciousness: There Is Such a Thing?
April 16, 2022 Mind Matters
There are no really good theories of consciousness but some physicists, including Roger Penrose, make a good stab at it. Jordan Peterson listens
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Methane could be the key to discovering alien life in space, scientists say
April 16, 2022 Study FInds
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The female orgasm may have evolved as a mate-selection tool, according to new research
April 16, 2022 PsyPost
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The ‘Perfect Human Body' Created by Biologists Is Creeping People Out
April 16, 2022 Unilad (UK)
Anatomists have created a mock-up of the ‘perfect body' -- and it's the stuff of nightmares.
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The Really Strange Story About Creationism and Racism
April 16, 2022 Uncommon Descent
took a new turn recently
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Get Rid of the Science Paper?
April 16, 2022 Uncommon Descent