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World’s biggest set of human genome sequences opens to scientists
November 30, 2023 Nature
The whole genomes of 500,000 people in the UK Biobank will help researchers to probe our genetic code for links to disease.
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Babies Start Learning Their Home Language Before Birth
November 29, 2023 Mind Matters
Neuroscience researchers found that newborns responded better to a folk tale in French than in Spanish or English -- when French was their mothers’ native language
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Genetic Study Confirms Dr. Craig's Model
November 29, 2023 YouTube
A recent study provides strong evidence in support of Dr. Craig's book on the historical Adam.
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Key molecule for life may have formed on interstellar ice
November 29, 2023 New Scientist
Some scientists suspect that amino acids were transported to Earth by meteorites. A team has now found that an amino acid called carbamic acid forms at extreme cold temperatures, suggesting that it may have been created on clumps of ice in deep space
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Psychological science can help counter spread of misinformation
November 29, 2023 Science Daily
Debunking, ‘prebunking,' nudging and teaching digital literacy are several of the more effective ways to counter misinformation, according to a new report.
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The ‘longevity bottleneck' hypothesis
November 29, 2023 phys.org
Research suggests that dinosaurs may have influenced how human beings age
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Millions of years before the earliest birds appeared, mystery animals walked around on birdlike feet
November 29, 2023 CNN
Birdlike three-toed fossil footprints that date back more than 210 million years were created by bipedal reptiles, according to a new analysis.
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Early humans hunted beavers, 400,000 years ago
November 29, 2023 Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Evidence from eastern Germany shows that early humans had a more varied diet than previously known
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Tracing the Evolution of the “Little Brain"
November 29, 2023 Heidelberg University
Heidelberg scientist unveil genetic programmes controlling the development of cellular diversity in the cerebellum of humans and other mammals
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The New Quest to Control Evolution
November 29, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Modern scientists aren’t content with predicting how life evolves. They want to shape it.
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Scientism Moves into Speculative Fantasyland
November 29, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Abandoning rigor, the Big Science Cartel and its promoters in the media turn goofy
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The physical and philosophical problem of time
November 29, 2023 Big Think
Our intuitive understanding of time is very different from a physicist's understanding of time. How do we reconcile these views?
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Angiosperm flowers reached their highest morphological diversity early in their evolutionary history
November 29, 2023 New Phytologist
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The alien hunter: has Harvard’s Avi Loeb found proof of extraterrestrial life?
November 29, 2023 The Guardian
The astrophysicist and professor likes to ruffle feathers -- and says his critics are merely jealous. He discusses UFOs, interstellar objects and the risks of his all-consuming search
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The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter
November 29, 2023 New Scientist
Physicists are coming to realise that hypothetical particles called axions could explain not only dark matter, but dark energy too, and more besides. Now there is fresh impetus to detect them
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Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
November 29, 2023 YouTube
If the question is “What brought all into existence?” the answer is “Consciousness”. Some say this is a ‘cosmic consciousness’ of which our personal consciousness is a small part. Others, that the ultimate consciousness is God.
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Unknown animals were leaving bird-like footprints in Late Triassic Southern Africa
November 29, 2023 Science Daily
These tracks pre-date the oldest bird bone by around 60 million years
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Landscape dynamics determine the evolution of biodiversity on Earth
November 29, 2023 Science Daily
A landmark study into the geological timescale distribution of sediment and nutrients over 500 million years shows that species biodiversity on Earth is driven by landscape dynamics.
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Building blocks for life could have formed near new stars and planets
November 29, 2023 Science Daily
While life on Earth is relatively new, geologically speaking, the ingredients that combined to form it might be much older than once thought.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Generation of de novo miRNAs from template switching during DNA replication
November 29, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The emergence of novel genes from previously nonfunctional sequence has gained significant attention, but the mechanisms behind this process have remained elusive.
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Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm
November 29, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Defending Douglas Axe on the Rarity of Protein Folds
November 29, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Razor sharp: The role of Occam’s razor in science
November 29, 2023 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v.1530, n.1, p.8-17
I argue that inclusion of Occam’s razor is an essential factor that distinguishes science from superstition and pseudoscience. I also argue that science is primarily the means to discover the simplest descriptions of our world.
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Science and the Origin of Life, Cambridge Faculty Roundtable
November 28, 2023 YouTube
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Dr. Matt McLain discusses Archosauromorphs
November 28, 2023 YouTube
Interviews with Matt McLain from The Masters University in Santa Clarita, California about paleontology, fossils, and evolution within a young-age creationist worldview.
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Epigenetic Changes Drive Cancer
November 28, 2023 The Scientist
An analysis of almost 700 different tumors revealed that DNA methylation drives tumorigenesis just like genetic mutations do.
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Hossenfelder vs Goff: Do electrons exist?
November 28, 2023 iai News
Are Electrons Real? And Should We Even Care?
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Gifts of the Magi
November 28, 2023 Chronicle of Higher Education
Anthony Grafton argues that the line between knowledge and magic is thinner than we think
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How shifting climates may have shaped early elephants' trunks
November 28, 2023 Science Daily
A study of the evolution of longirostrine gomphotheres, an ancestor of the modern day elephant, suggests moving into open-land grazing helped develop their coiling and grasping trunks.
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A spectrum of possibilities: Insights into the evolution of far-red light photosynthesis
November 28, 2023 Science Daily
This discovery could pave the way for engineering plants with enhanced light absorption capabilities and has implications for our search for extraterrestrial life.
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Science communicators need to stop telling everybody the universe is a meaningless void
November 28, 2023 The Conversation
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How DNA Is Packaged in Sperm Cells
November 28, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
No Evidence Exists for Sperm Evolution: More Complex than Assumed Just a Few Months ago
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Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science
November 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes
November 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking
November 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Did Earth’s axial tilt originate at Noah’s Flood?
November 28, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Claim: What Consciousness Studies Needs Is More Darwinism
November 28, 2023 Mind Matters
The Darwinian view of the evolution of the human mind is, at best, a ladder with no upper rungs
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Were Neanderthals smart? New finds about their behavior
November 28, 2023 knowable magazine
They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains. Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast.
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Physicists find ultimate limit for how accurate clocks can be
November 28, 2023 New Scientist
A fundamental trade-off between the resolution of a clock and its accuracy could have important implications for quantum computers, which must measure short timescales accurately
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A 27,000-year-old pyramid? Controversy hits an extraordinary archaeological claim
November 28, 2023 Nature
The massive buried structures at Gunung Padang in Indonesia would be much older than Egypt’s great pyramids -- if they’re even human constructions at all.
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Webinar with Maverick Scientist
November 28, 2023 Discovery Institute
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The Likely Reason the Human Mind Has No History
November 27, 2023 Mind Matters
Our efforts to explain the origin of the human mind fall flat because we are looking for an origin that probably doesn’t exist
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Distant Barred Spiral Galaxy Shouldn't Exist?
November 27, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Core Academy research in the 2023 ICC Proceedings
November 27, 2023 Core Academy of Science
Human History from Adam to Abraham & Testing the Order of the Fossil Record & Hominin Baraminology Reconsidered with Postcranial Characters
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Fish IgM structure sheds light on antibody evolution
November 27, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have analyzed the antibody Immunoglobulin M in rainbow trout to shed some light on why these proteins may have evolved over time.
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Rewinding Paley’s Watch (Part 2)
November 27, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Why the argument for design only gets stronger over time
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Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute
November 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology
November 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm
November 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference
November 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today