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Gecko Smacks Latest Convergence Tale
January 26, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A “gecko-approved” story of convergent evolution is more like a funny Darwin commercial.
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Michael Levin on the Engineering Approach to Biology
January 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Can We Prove the World Isn’t a Simulation?
January 26, 2022 nautil.us
You might think we have definitive evidence we’re not in a simulation. That’s impossible.
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Tribute to a Creation Scientist: Dr. Kevin Anderson
January 26, 2022 Answers in Genesis
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Did a mega drought topple empires 4,200 years ago?
January 26, 2022 Nature
People abandoned thriving cities in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and farther afield at about the same time as a decades-long drought gripped parts of the planet.
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Control review: The troubling past, present and future of eugenics
January 26, 2022 New Scientist
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Doubts Raised Over Whether Mice Can Truly Inherit Immunity
January 26, 2022 The Scientist
An independent lab fails to replicate results suggesting mammals exposed to pathogens could pass on immunological protections through epigenetic mechanisms.
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News Update/Commentary
Ground-breaking study reveals dynamics of DNA replication ‘licensing’
January 26, 2022 Science Daily
A new study has illuminated an important process that occurs during cell division and is a likely source of DNA damage under some circumstances, including cancer.
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News Update/Commentary
Microscopic inner ear structures reveal why major groups of bats echolocate differently
January 26, 2022 Science Daily
By examining the microscopic inner ears of bats from 19 of the 21 known bat families, the researchers were able to show that the presence of extra neurons and specialized ear structures align with a split in bat evolution revealed by DNA.
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Uncannily Organic: Navigation Is More than Genes
January 26, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Enlightenment (Re)turn to Atomism
January 26, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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It Just So Happens That Essential Genes Are Protected from Mutations
January 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Royal Society: Don't Censor Misinformation; It Makes Things Worse
January 25, 2022 Mind Matters
While others demand crackdowns on “fake news,” the Society reminds us that the history of science is one of error correction
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The Rise of Science-Based Investigative Journalism
January 25, 2022 Global Investigative Journalism Network
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Eden Reconsidered
January 25, 2022 Peaceful Science
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Royal Society: Don't Censor Misinformation; It Makes Things Worse
January 25, 2022 Mind Matters
While others demand crackdowns on “fake news,” the Society reminds us that the history of science is one of error correction
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Will the Real “Predatory Journal" Please Stand Up?
January 25, 2022 Mind Matters
Large publishers serve themselves by painting “predatory journals" with a broad brush
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Did meat-eating really play a big role in human evolution?
January 25, 2022 Cosmos Magazine
New study calls an old evolutionary assumption into question.
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Monkeying around with human embryos?
January 25, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Big Science Has Sold Its Soul
January 25, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Stop kidding yourself. Big Science is a willing accomplice of the Democrat Party and the global elitists.
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No Iron, No Life: Intelligent Design in Iron Availability
January 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Much Difference Did Meat-Eating Make to Human Evolution?
January 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Present Day Martian Groundwater a Mirage, Researchers Say
January 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Has a 243 Year-Old Puzzle Been Solved Via a “Quantum Solution”?
January 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Why we are living in an era of unnatural selection
January 25, 2022 BBC
Humanity's influence on living organisms -- both intentional and unintentional -- is causing them to evolve in new and unusual ways. But how far could human-driven adaptation go?
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NASA’s Webb telescope is an initial success -- despite formidable odds
January 25, 2022 Nature
Science stands to make huge gains from the James Webb Space Telescope, but there are also lessons to learn from the epic management failures that beset the project.
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Essential Genes Protected from Mutations
January 25, 2022 The Scientist
Epigenetic structures appear to reduce the rate of changes in genes essential for survival and reproduction, a study finds, challenging the notion that mutations are evenly distributed throughout the genome prior to selection.
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Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus
January 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Higgs boson could have kept our universe from collapsing
January 24, 2022 Live Science
Other patches in the multiverse would have, instead, met their ends.
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Mars ‘lake' may actually be volcanic rocks buried beneath the ice cap
January 24, 2022 New Scientist
Radar images of Mars’s southern ice cap indicated that there could be a lake there -- but a new set of simulations hints that it could be volcanic rock instead
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BioLogos: House of Heresy & False Teaching, Part 2
January 24, 2022 Answers in Genesis
BioLogos vs. the Bible on creation, Noah’s flood, Adam and Eve, and why this so-called “Christian” ministry cannot be trusted
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How Whales Swallow Underwater
January 24, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A whale has to lunge at a mouthful of krill, then take it down and eat it without drowning.
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News Update/Commentary
Hope for present-day Martian groundwater dries up in new study
January 24, 2022 Science Daily
Liquid water previously detected under Mars' ice-covered south pole is probably just a dusty mirage, according to a new study of the Red Planet. The finding challenges a 2018 study that appeared to find liquid water under Mars' south polar cap.
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News Update/Commentary
Cracking chimpanzee culture
January 24, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have now used field experiments to show that chimpanzees thus do not simply invent nut cracking with tools, but need to learn such complex cultural behaviors from others. Their culture is therefore more similar to human culture than often assu
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Chromosomal Fusion and Correcting Mistakes
January 24, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
a retrospective on an old debate
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Why Junk Design Arguments Are Junk Science
January 24, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Another Layer of Protection for DNA That Just Happened To Evolve…
January 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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But Wasn’t Eugenie Scott PAID To Confuse People?
January 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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JPL Is Paying a Massive Lawsuit for Discrimination Against Other Employees
January 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
long after Dave Coppedge got the boot for discussing ID at JPL
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After reaching deep space haven, Webb telescope begins 5 months of fine-tuning
January 24, 2022 Science
Operators will focus mirror segments after parking the James Webb Space Telescope in L2 orbit
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The ancient whale from my Egyptian home town
January 24, 2022 Nature
Abdullah Gohar studies fossils from the Faiyum Depression, which occurred where he grew up.
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Webb telescope reaches its final destination far from Earth
January 24, 2022 Nature
The ambitious observatory has arrived at its home -- near a gravitationally special spot called L2 -- for a premier view of the Universe.
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Most Medical Papers Didn’t Disclose Industry Payments: Preprint
January 24, 2022 The Scientist
Authors of papers published in JAMA and NEJM received millions in undisclosed payments in 2017, an analysis finds.
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Astronomers Might Have Detected the Background Gravitational Waves of the Universe
January 23, 2022 Universe Today
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Chalmers and Penrose Clash Over “Conscious Computers"
January 23, 2022 Mind Matters
Philosopher Chalmers thinks computers could be conscious but physicist Penrose says no
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Will we ever know the true nature of 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar visitor?
January 23, 2022 space.com
Probably not.
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Did Victorian Sexism Influence Darwin’s Theory of Sexual Selection?
January 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
of course it did
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String Theory Again: Will a Correction to Einstein Save It?
January 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Nathan Lents Argues That the Human Eye Refutes Design
January 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Palmer Study Course on Intelligent Design: Part 5
January 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
Origin of Life, Part I