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The rise of the molecular machines set to make new wonder materials
March 2, 2022 New Scientist
Machines made of atoms are being used to sew together new materials molecule by molecule, which could open the floodgates to all manner of innovation
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How Can an Intestinal System Have an “Innate Memory”?
March 2, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
General statistical model shows that macroevolutionary patterns and processes are consistent with Darwinian gradualism
March 2, 2022 Nature Communications, v.13
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How artificial intelligence can help us figure out how life began
March 2, 2022 New Scientist
How inanimate molecules first arranged themselves into life is one of the great mysteries. The answer could lie in a systematic exploration of chemical space
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News Update/Commentary
Tooth study prompts rethink of human evolution
March 2, 2022 Science Daily
A study into tooth wear in a group of wild Japanese macaques has significant implications for the study of human evolution, a new study has shown.
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News Update/Commentary
Gradual evolution is back: Darwinian theory of gradual process explained in new research
March 2, 2022 Science Daily
Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals -- short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form -- have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin.
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Ancient DNA Overturns Assumptions
March 2, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Increasing availability of sequences from ancient DNA is raising eyebrows among evolutionists but should raise alarms, too
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Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars
March 2, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Remarkable Things We’re Learning About Bird Intelligence
March 2, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The New Yorker Takes “A Journey to the Center of Our Cells”
March 2, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Efforts to Resist the Big Bang and Its Implications for Cosmic Design
March 2, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Expanded alphabet, precise sequencing make DNA the next data storage solution
March 2, 2022 Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois
Adding seven new letters to DNA’s molecular alphabet and developing a precise readout method enabled Illinois researchers to transform the double helix into a robust, sustainable data storage platform fit for the Information Age.
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Bacteria Provided Plants with Genes To Colonize Land
March 2, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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A Rapidly Closing Window to Secure a Liveable Future
March 2, 2022
The IPCC goes all in with implausible scenarios and political exhortation
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Debunked Transitional Fossils Just the Tip of the Iceberg
March 2, 2022 ID the Future
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Even Worms Feel Pain
March 2, 2022 nautil.us
An evolutionary biologist argues that animals could feel more pain than humans.
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On the Re-Release of Evolution: A View from the 21st Century
March 2, 2022 Uncommon Descent
zoom call with biochemist James Shapiro
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Book
A Little Book about the Big Bang
March, 2022 Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
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Book
God: Eight Enduring Questions
March, 2022 University of Notre Dame Press
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Heart of Darkness
March, 2022 Inference
Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt. -- Lev Landau
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Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right
March 1, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Molecular Machines
March, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
informational
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Five Amazing Adaptations That Help Animals Thrive in the Dark
March 1, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine
From snakes that use infrared radiation to find prey to deep sea fishes that communicate via bioluminescence, these creatures flourish without light
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News Update/Commentary
Harmless or deadly? New study examines evolution of E. coli bacteria
March 1, 2022 Science Daily
Genetic material from E. coli bacteria in farm animals could be contributing to the evolution of deadly strains of E. coli in humans.
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News Update/Commentary
Bacteria genes gave ancient plants traits to colonize land
March 1, 2022 Science Daily
Genes jumping from microbes to green algae hundreds of millions of years ago might have driven the evolution of land plants. Their analysis reveals that hundreds of genes from bacteria, fungi, and viruses have been integrated into plants
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Animal DNA Modifier Captured from Bacteria 60 Million Years Ago
March 1, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Paradox: Why Wasn’t Our Planet Frozen Solid in the Early Solar System?
March 1, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Future evolution: from looks to brains and personality
March 1, 2022 The Conversation
how will humans change in the next 10,000 years?
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What you eat can reprogram your genes
March 1, 2022 The Conversation
an expert explains the emerging science of nutrigenomics
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Why Are Some Beetles Shiny? It’s Not What Researchers Thought
March 1, 2022 The Scientist
The glossy shell of some beetles, it has long been speculated, helps hide the insects from predators. A recent paper put the hypothesis to the test -- and found it wanting.
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Opinion: How to Confront Anti-Science Sentiment
March 1, 2022 The Scientist
Reaching a science skeptic is not a matter of credentials; it’s a matter of heart.
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News Update/Commentary
Deciphering algorithms used by ants and the Internet
March 1, 2022 Science Daily
These algorithms invest incrementally more resources as long as signs are encouraging but pull back quickly at the first sign of trouble. The systems are designed to be robust, allowing for portions to fail without harming the entire system.
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News Update/Commentary
The rare discovery of a protein function universal to bacteria and humans
March 1, 2022 Science Daily
Knowing how binding mechanism works could aid in drug design
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Can Waiting for a Marshmallow Predict a Child's Future?
March 1, 2022 Mind Matters
Believing so was all the rage in recent decades but later research didn’t back up the idea
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How to Adapt Without New Genes
March 1, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists are finding out, to their surprise, that organisms can adapt without mutations and natural selection
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A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws
March 1, 2022 Quanta Magazine
For three decades, researchers hunted in vain for new elementary particles that would have explained why nature looks the way it does. As physicists confront that failure, they’re reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller s
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Remember When Cells Were Random Blobs?
March 1, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Roles of transposable elements in the regulation of mammalian transcription
February 28, 2022 Nature Reviews, Molecular Cell Biology
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Malebranche’s Theory of Ideas and Vision in God
February 28, 2022 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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A Journey to the Center of Our Cells
February 28, 2022 The New Yorker
Biologists are discovering the true nature of cells -- and learning to build their own.
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Marvin Olasky Joins Discovery Institute as New Senior Fellow
February 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Elephant seals seem to have precise mental maps for navigating home
February 28, 2022 New Scientist
Northern elephant seals seem to know how far they have travelled and when they need to head back towards the beaches where they breed
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Religion Journalism After God Is Declared Dead
February 28, 2022 Mind Matters
Writer and editor Ed Simon examines and makes a case for the New Religion Journalism, offering us help with praying to a dead god
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News Update/Commentary
New DNA modification system discovered in animals, captured from bacteria more than 60 MYA
February 28, 2022 Science Daily
Epigenetic marks are modifications to DNA bases that don't change the underlying genetic code, but ‘write' extra information on top of it that can be inherited along with your genome.
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Is Alphazero Actually Superior to the Human Mind?
February 28, 2022 Mind Matters
Comparing AI and the human mind is completely apples and oranges
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News Update/Commentary
Discovery of an innate immunological memory in the intestine
February 28, 2022 Science Daily
Using an intestinal infection model, scientists discovered that innate effector cells act not only during the early stages of infection but can also be trained to develop an innate form of immunological memory that can protect the host during reinfection.
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News Update/Commentary
Scaling laws in enzymes may help predict life ‘as we don't know it'
February 28, 2022 Science Daily
A team of researchers is developing tools to predict the features of life as we don't know it. In a new study, they identify universal patterns in the chemistry of life that do not appear to depend on specific molecules.
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Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance
February 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Will the Big Bang Repeat?
February 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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TV Nite: Media To Watch -- or Watch For
February 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent