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We can close our eyes and mouth. Why can’t we close our ears?
March 10, 2022 Science Norway
Wouldn't it be nice if you could close your ears underwater or when you’re in noisy surroundings?
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Ten-Limbed Octopus Ancestor Described, Named After Biden
March 10, 2022 The Scientist
Octopuses were around 82 million years earlier than scientists previously thought -- and had two extra limbs at the time.
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Does Quantum Mechanics Rule Out Free Will?
March 10, 2022 Scientific American
Superdeterminism, a radical quantum hypothesis, says our “choices” are illusory
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What about gap theories?
March 10, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Creation Answers Book (8th ed. 2019) Chapter 3
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Amber Fossil Shows 100 Million-Year Stasis in Plant Genus
March 10, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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What Makes a Law of Nature a “Law,” Exactly?
March 10, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Darwin's Nightmare (Basics of Intelligent Design Biology)
March 9, 2022 Discovery Science
When Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species” in 1859, he was painstakingly aware of the fact that the fossil record diametrically opposed his theory.
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Darwin's Nightmare (Basics of Intelligent Design Biology, Ep. 1)
March 9, 2022 YouTube
When Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species” in 1859, he was painstakingly aware of the fact that the fossil record diametrically opposed his theory.
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Police rely on radiocarbon dating to identify forged paintings
March 9, 2022 Nature
Advances in the technique have bolstered its reputation as a tool for investigating faked artwork.
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Stalagmites trace climate history and impact from volcanic eruptions
March 9, 2022 EurekAlert!
Research team studies volcanic impact on ecosystems in Patagonia
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News Update/Commentary
Avian secret: The key to agile bird flight is switching quickly between stable and unstable gliding
March 9, 2022 Science Daily
The finding could have implications for future agile autonomous aerial vehicles
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News Update/Commentary
An ‘oracle' for predicting the evolution of gene regulation
March 9, 2022 Science Daily
Computational biologists have created a neural network model capable of predicting how changes to non-coding DNA sequences in yeast affect gene expression. They also devised a unique way of representing this data in two dimensions
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Is information the fifth state of matter?
March 9, 2022 ZME Science
Physicist says there’s one way to find out. ... If true, this could have major implications for physics.
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How Carnivorous Plants Evolved
March 9, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine
Botanists are beginning to trace the origins of their gruesome appetites
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A Rosid by any other name would be less abominably mysterious
March 9, 2022 Nature, Ecology & Evolution
Naming a mid-Cretaceous fossil as a modern genus could have far-reaching consequences for our understanding of angiosperm evolution
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The evolution, evolvability and engineering of gene regulatory DNA
March 9, 2022 Nature, v.603, p.455-463
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Creatures living in our cities are evolving in some surprising ways
March 9, 2022 New Scientist
From mosquitoes and rats to foxes and birds, the urban environment is transforming animals that live among us -- but which new species should we expect next?
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Earning the public’s trust
March 9, 2022 Science Advances, v.8, n.10
“Trust science” has become a mantra in recent years -- not just from politicians but also from major segments of the scientific community. The phrase misses the point
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Research sheds light on mysterious messenger RNA modifications
March 9, 2022 Science Daily
A team led by scientists has come a step closer to uncovering the purpose of a distinctive set of modifications found at the beginning of messenger RNA which have long remained a fundamental mystery in molecular biology.
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Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too
March 9, 2022 New Scientist
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The Parrot in the Mirror review: Why humans evolved to be like birds
March 9, 2022 New Scientist
From our long lives to our social skills and even language, zoologist Antone Martinho-Truswell argues that we are more like birds than we think
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An extinct rat shows CRISPR’s limits for resurrecting species
March 9, 2022 Science News
Even a few missing genes in animals’ re-created genomes could be a problem, a study suggests
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New Study Sheds Light on Early Human Hair Evolution
March 9, 2022 George Washington University
Hair is an important feature of primate -- including human -- diversity and evolution, serving functions tied to thermoregulation, protection, camouflage and signaling. However, the evolution of wild primate hair remained understudied until recently
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Mathematical discovery could shed light on secrets of the Universe
March 9, 2022 Science Daily
How can Einstein's theory of gravity be unified with quantum mechanics? It is a challenge that could give us deep insights into phenomena such as black holes and the birth of the universe.
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“Darwin’s Nightmare”
March 9, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
first episode of YouTube series with Lukas Ruegger
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“Miraculously” Fine-Tuned Universe?
March 9, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
evidence from the Large Hadron Collider
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Debunked Transitional Fossils with Gunter Bechly
March 9, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Some Genes Are Unique to Humans
March 9, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The Elephant Seal in the Room
March 8, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book
Atheism on Trial: A Lawyer Examines the Case for Unbelief
March, 2022 Intervarsity Press
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Science Writer: Explain-Away-the-Mind Book Doesn't Succeed
March 8, 2022 Mind Matters
In a departure from an all-too familiar approach to science writing, Philip Ball offers constructive criticism of the “nothing but” approach to the mind
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Why Is Cancel Culture Such a Big Part of Our Lives Today?
March 8, 2022 Mind Matters
To understand the Twitter mob’s destruction of lives and careers, it’s essential to address the immense power of groupthink
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Peptides on Stardust May Have Provided a Shortcut to Life
March 8, 2022 Quanta Magazine
The discovery that short peptides can form spontaneously on cosmic dust hints at more of a role for them in the earliest stages of life’s origin, on Earth or elsewhere.
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How to break a theory
March 8, 2022 Symmetry magazine
When a theory breaks, you learn how to build it better.
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The positive case for creation
March 8, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Sometimes the best defense is a good offense!
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Student researchers discover genes unique to humans in search for source of our evolutionary distinctiveness
March 8, 2022 Science Daily
The students found at least three families of microRNA genes on chromosome 21.
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New species of extinct vampire-squid-like cephalopod is the first of its kind with 10 functional arms
March 8, 2022 Science Daily
Description of exceptionally preserved fossil pushes back age of Vampyropoda by nearly 82 million years
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Research advances understanding of DNA repair
March 8, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers discovered that base excision repair has a built-in mechanism to increase its effectiveness -- it just needs to be captured at a very precise point in the cell life cycle.
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Nature Communications Retroactively Concedes a Lack of Evidence for Darwinian Gradualism
March 8, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Darwinians Deal with the Lack of Evidence for Gradualism
March 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Whales Have Developed a Unique Sleep Solution
March 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
shut down only half the brain at a time
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Intelligent Design, Now in Polish
March 8, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Response to “Mere Theistic Evolution”
March 7, 2022 The 71st Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society
Murray and Churchill’s paper do an admirable job defending theistic evolution against theological objections.
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Looking at genes through a human lens
March 7, 2022 iai News
Why it's okay for biologists to anthropomorphize
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Bacteria Set Off Viral “Bombs” Inside Neighbors
March 7, 2022 The Scientist
A study finds some E. coli can deploy a chemical called colibactin to reawaken long-dormant viruses inside bacteria, causing destruction.
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Fossil hints that orcas don’t have a long history of killing whales
March 7, 2022 New Scientist
A 1.4-million-year-old fossil relative of killer whales had teeth that suggest it ate small fish rather than large marine mammals
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Special brain cells may signal when to start new memories
March 7, 2022 New Scientist
Recordings from electrodes in people’s brains reveal that certain neurons in the hippocampus show a burst of activity to mark the boundary between different events
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Social spiders synchronise to catch prey hundreds of times their size
March 7, 2022 New Scientist
Some spider species that live in groups of thousands on enormous webs synchronise their movements to catch insects up to 700 times heavier than an individual spider
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Mouse pups born from unfertilised eggs through genetic manipulation
March 7, 2022 New Scientist
Parthenogenesis, the development of offspring from unfertilised eggs, was thought to be impossible in mammals, but researchers have used genetic trickery to make it happen
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Collectors in the prehistoric world recycled old stone tools to preserve the memory of their ancestors
March 7, 2022 Science Daily
New study unravels recycling practices 500,000 years ago