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Why a Science Fiction View of the Universe Makes Sense
February 19, 2022 Mind Matters
Our universe is very difficult to understand, as a theoretical cosmologist explains
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Some Elements of Our Universe Do Not Make Scientific Sense
February 19, 2022 Mind Matters
Well-attested observations of neutrinos are not compatible with the Standard Model of our universe that most physicists accept
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Here’s the Webinar on Topoisomerase
February 18, 2022 Uncommon Descent
the complex, specified “untangling” enzyme in our cells
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When we talk about the scientific consensus, we need to be clear what we mean
February 18, 2022 The Skeptic; Reason with Compassion
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How Protestants are Waking Up to a Theology of the Body
February 18, 2022 YouTube
with Nancy Pearcey and Sam Allberry
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Book
A fantastical dinosaur journey
February 18, 2022 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte (Macmillan, London, 2018) | See Also Amazon
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106-million-year-old virus found ‘fossilised’ in the human genome
February 18, 2022 New Scientist
The remnants of a virus that plagued our mammal ancestors during the age of the dinosaurs have been found lurking in our genomes
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Climate Science Is Imprecise
February 18, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The alarmist warmists ignore papers that keep calling for a “rethink” about carbon sources and sinks
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News Update/Commentary
Research advances knowledge of the battle between viruses and human cells
February 18, 2022 Science Daily
Discovery of protective RNA mechanism informs pursuit to develop anti-viral drugs
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers identify protein complex critical in helping control cell death
February 18, 2022 Science Daily
The team's preclinical findings suggest that an inhibitor targeting this PPP13RG protein complex can help prevent or reduce deaths and severe tissue damage from heart attacks and other inflammation-associated diseases.
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E. O. Wilson and Racism: The Smoking Gun Is Found
February 18, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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ReThink Origins: Science & Faith (Panel Discussion)
February 18, 2022 YouTube
Featuring: Fazale Rana, PhD (Reasons To Believe), Marcus Ross, PhD (Center For Creation Studies, Cornerstone Educational Supply, Liberty University), S. Joshua Swamidass, MD, PhD (Washington University, Peaceful Science).
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New Study in Nature Showing “Non-Random” Mutation Spells Trouble for Neo-Darwinism
February 18, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Evolution Problems: “Species” Is Such a Mess of a Concept
February 18, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
New fossil birds discovered near China’s Great Wall -- one had a movable, sensitive ‘chin'
February 18, 2022 Science Daily
Two new species of fossil birds that lived alongside the dinosaurs have ben discovered near the Great Wall of China. One of the new species had a sensitive, movable bony appendage at the tip of its lower jaw that it might have used to find food.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Guidelines and standards for the study of death and recalled experiences of death
February 18, 2022 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
a multidisciplinary consensus statement and proposed future directions | See Also PDF
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When a Tiny Brain Is Actually an Advantage
February 18, 2022 Mind Matters
Small size -- which includes having a small brain -- hones the gnat ogre’s remarkable neurological abilities
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Devolution in a Flower Is Remarketed As “Sudden Evolutionary Change”
February 18, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Mysterious Expanding Regions of Dark Matter May Challenge Established Physics
February 17, 2022 Motherboard (Tech by Vice)
Observations of galaxies up to seven billion light-years away revealed a potential conflict with the standard model of cosmology.
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How the theory of evolution sparked bizarre ideas about human origins in the North
February 17, 2022 Big Think
After it became clear that the world wasn't 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.
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The man rethinking the definition of reality
February 17, 2022 BBC
Across his career, the philosopher David Chalmers has challenged what we hold to be true about consciousness and the mind. Now he is questioning reality itself.
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News Update/Commentary
How superbugs uses mirror images to create antibiotic resistance
February 17, 2022 Science Daily
In recent research, the team discovered how a single small mutation makes a big difference in drug efficacy.
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News Update/Commentary
Independent evolution of a complex sucking pump in arthropods
February 17, 2022 Science Daily
A sucking pump has thus evolved independently in different groups of organisms over several 100 million years. In the process, astonishingly similar biomechanical solutions for ingesting liquid food have evolved in widely distant animal groups.
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Cinderella Story? Transposons Gain New Respect
February 17, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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When The Centers for Disease Control Abandon Science…
February 17, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The Galapagos Finches As Fractured Icons of Darwinian Evolution
February 17, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Darwinizing Uncooperative Observations
February 17, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s a fine art often associated with politics: spin doctoring. Evolutionists are well trained in this art. They have to be.
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Teleology in Biology -- Our Topoisomerase Webinar Is Now Up
February 17, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Speciation
February 17, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Biden names Francis Collins and Alondra Nelson to act as White House science leadership
February 17, 2022 Chemical & Engineering News
The appointments come after former advisor Eric Lander resigned over bullying claims
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Humanity is not even a Type 1 civilization. What would a Type 3 be capable of?
February 17, 2022 Big Think
The Kardashev scale ranks civilizations from Type 1 to Type 3 based on energy harvesting.
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What If Quantum Physics Were Applied to Economics?
February 17, 2022 Mind Matters
A mathematician argues that ideas that seemed bizarre in classical physics makes perfect sense in economics
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Tidally Locked and Loaded with Questions
February 17, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Tidally locked planets always present the same face to their host stars. What does this mean for their potential to support life?
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Why Would a Purely Physical Universe Need Imaginary Numbers?
February 16, 2022 Mind Matters
Our computers and the entire modern world depend on them, says science writer Michael Brooks in an excerpt from his new book
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Life’s Twists and Turns Are Designed to Start in the Birth Canal
February 16, 2022 Reasons to Believe
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Untangler of Knots: The Amazing Topoisomerase Molecular Machine
February 16, 2022 YouTube
Topoisomerase II is an extremely important enzyme in your cells that is designed to untangle knots and supercoils in DNA strands that arise during replication and transcription.
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Cosmic Disturbances Shake Astronomer Confidence
February 16, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
When theory and observation don’t match there is a loss in consumer confidence in science
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The Amazing Topoisomerase Enzyme
February 16, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
new molecular machine animation from Discovery Institute
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Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Mutation
February 16, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Prof: There Are Evolutionary Advantages to Pedophilia
February 16, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Horizontal Gene Transfer from Invertebrates to Snakes Helps Solve Australian Snake Mystery
February 16, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Why Molecular Phylogeny Is a Problem in Evolution
February 16, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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These Orangutans Got Suspiciously Close to Inventing Stone Tools
February 16, 2022 Gizmodo
Untrained orangutans seemed to instinctively use a stone hammer and cutting implement, surprising researchers
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New Evidence Revives Old Questions About E.O. Wilson and Race
February 16, 2022 undark.org
Wilson’s papers at the Library of Congress include correspondence with a psychologist known for his racist work.
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News Update/Commentary
New study illuminates how tiny flies solve complex navigational challenges
February 16, 2022 Science Daily
Research offers valuable insights for efforts to design robots, drones and more.
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Newly identified dinosaur had teeth that were constantly replaced
February 16, 2022 New Scientist
Iberospinus natarioi, a new species of spinosaur dinosaur found in Portugal, constantly grew new teeth to replace those it broke while hunting fish and other aquatic animals
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Could ancient viruses from melting permafrost cause the next pandemic?
February 16, 2022 New Scientist
Bacteria and viruses can survive for millions of years frozen in glaciers, ice sheets and permafrost and as global warming increases they are emerging. Here's what we know about the threat
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Bacteria-Infecting Viruses in Gut Microbiome Linked to Cognition
February 16, 2022 The Scientist
Research in mice and flies suggests that bacteriophages, including those found in dairy foods, may have an influence on an animals’ ability to learn and remember information.
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News Update/Commentary
How plants evolved to colonize land over 500-million years ago
February 16, 2022 Science Daily
Analysis of one of the largest genomic datasets of plants reveals how they colonized land millions of years ago
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News Update/Commentary
Hidden diversity: When one wasp species is actually 16 wasp species
February 16, 2022 Science Daily
Advanced genetic techniques reveal several look-alike parasitoid wasps previously grouped as one species