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Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH
December 28, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
#5 Story of 2021
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A Lot of People Are Getting Right What Dawkins Got Wrong
December 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Jerry Coyne on the War on Math, Science, in New Zealand
December 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
and falling scores
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Why We Shouldn’t “Follow the Science”
December 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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“Darwin’s Heir” E. O. Wilson Remembered for Ants
December 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
his sociobiology is sidelined
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Peer-reviewed Paper
First Occurrence of a Giant Sea Cow (cf. Hydrodamalis cuestae)
December 27, 2021 Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, v.120, n.3, 128-131
from the Pliocene Pico Formation of Santa Clarita, Southern California
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The Role of Cannibalism in the Extinction of the Neandertals
December 27, 2021 Psychology Today
Could a Neanderthal taste for Neandertal have hastened their downfall?
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News Update/Commentary
How DNA is preserved in archaeological sediments for thousands of years
December 27, 2021 Science Daily
Ancient human and animal DNA can remain stably localized in sediments, preserved in microscopic fragments of bone and feces
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The Red Sky Paradox Will Make You Question Our Very Place in The Universe
December 27, 2021 Science Alert
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The Invisible Organ Shaping Our Lives: Milestones in Human Microbiota Research
December 27, 2021 MIT Press Reader
A survey of over 300 years of microbiome research.
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What belongs in the “gray area” between science and pseudoscience?
December 27, 2021 Big Think
In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.
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Are the Brain Cells in a Dish That Learned Pong Conscious?
December 27, 2021 Mind Matters
Human-derived organoids learned faster than AI and always outperformed mouse-derived organoids in terms of volley length, raising troubling questions
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Talk About Doubts with Jonathan McLatchie
December 27, 2021 Apologetics 315
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What did the Galileo affair say about science vs. religion?
December 26, 2021 Why Evolution Is True
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Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis
December 26, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
#7 Story of 2021
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Stephen Meyer Asks: What’s Wrong with Atheism?
December 26, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Does Superdeterminism Resolve Dilemmas Around Free Will?
December 26, 2021 Mind Matters
If we lack free will, we have no justification whatsoever to even believe that we lack free will
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Webb telescope blasts off successfully -- launching a new era in astronomy
December 25, 2021 Nature
Hundreds of engineering steps must now take place as the observatory unfurls and travels to its new home.
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An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing
December 25, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
#8 Story of 2021 ... Merry Christmas!
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NASA’s revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope successfully launches to space
December 25, 2021 The Verge
At long last, the telescope is off our planet
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The James Webb Telescope Launched Today, To Study Primordial Galaxies
December 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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A Million to One Odds That the Universe’s Expansion Mystery Is a Statistical Fluke
December 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Could Newly Hatched Pterosaurs Fly?
December 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Can Giant Ichthyosaur Fossil Shed Light on Whale Development?
December 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How small was the Universe when the hot Big Bang began?
December 24, 2021 Big Think
We know it couldn't have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
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Fingertips Can Detect Single Atom Differences
December 24, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The touch sensitivity of finger skin could not be improved. There’s a purpose for fingerprints, too.
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News Update/Commentary
Venoms in snakes and salivary protein in mammals share a common origin
December 23, 2021 Science Daily
A new study has found that a class of toxins found in snake and mammalian venom evolved from the same ancestral gene.
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World's oldest family tree created using DNA
December 23, 2021 BBC
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A New Idea for How Dark Matter Came to Dominate the Universe
December 23, 2021 Inside Science
A new paper hypothesizes how the amount of dark matter could have grown exponentially in the early universe.
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News Update/Commentary
Blueprint reveals how plants build a sugar transport lane
December 23, 2021 Science Daily
A tiny region at the root tip has been found to be responsible for orchestrating the growth and development of the complex network of vascular tissues that transport sugars through plant roots.
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Was Spriggina an Evolutionary Ancestor of Arthropods?
December 23, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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On Evolution and Racism, Scientific American Goes to War Against the Truth
December 23, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
#10 Story of 2021
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This Sea Lizard Had a Grand Piano-Size Head and a Big Appetite
December 23, 2021 New York Times
Scientists have described a giant new species of ichthyosaur that evolved its 55-foot-long body size only a few million years after the lizards returned to the seas.
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Revisiting paleontology’s greatest hits
December 23, 2021 Science, v.374, n.6575, p.1566
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Large ocean fossil discovered in Nevada could hold key to aquatic evolution
December 23, 2021 CBS News
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How a Tardigrade “Micro Animal" Became Quantum Entangled with Superconducting Qubit
December 22, 2021 Discover magazine
Physicists have extended the conditions in which life can exist further than ever before.
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News Update/Commentary
New insights into the timeline of mammal evolution
December 22, 2021 Science Daily
A new study has provided the most detailed timeline of mammal evolution to date.
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What is life like elsewhere in the Universe?
December 22, 2021 Big Think
Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.
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Flecks of silver in poop of ancient Cambrian creature baffle scientists
December 22, 2021 Live Science
How did metal get into this worm's poop 500 million years ago?
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If Imaginary Numbers Are Needed To Describe Reality, Then Isn’t Materialism Dead Already?
December 22, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How Our Brain Preserves Our Sense of Self
December 21, 2021 Scientific American
One brain region is crucial for our ability to form and maintain a consistent identity both now and when thinking about the future
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News Update/Commentary
Key neural mechanism believed to support advanced cognitive abilities discovered
December 21, 2021 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered a neural mechanism that is believed to support advanced cognitive abilities such as planning and problem-solving.
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Video
Science Points to a Creator
December 21, 2021 YouTube
McLatchie is a Christian apologist, an evolutionary biologist, writer, speaker, and debater. He has done many debates against people defending atheism, Islam, and other worldviews.
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Video
Scientific Evidence for a Creator
December, 2021 Discovery Institute
(1) Are religion and science in conflict? (2) How did the universe begin? (3) Aliens, the multiverse, or God? (4) What is intelligent design? (5) What's wrong with atheism?
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See a rare baby dinosaur curled up in its fossilized egg
December 21, 2021 National Geographic
One of the most complete dino embryos ever found shows the ancient infant tucked into a position that's strikingly similar to today’s unhatched chickens.
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How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate
December 21, 2021 Wall Street Journal
They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration.
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Imaginary numbers could be needed to describe reality, new studies find
December 21, 2021 Live Science
If standard quantum theory holds up, imaginary numbers are critical.
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Believing in God and Science at the Same Time
December 21, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Why Astronomers Are “Crying and Throwing Up Everywhere” Over the Upcoming Telescope Launch
December 21, 2021 Slate
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This Startup Is Making -- and Programming -- Human Cells
December 20, 2021 Wired
Creating bespoke cells could transform testing and help develop new treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s.