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News Update/Commentary
Scientists solve 50-year-old mystery behind plant growth
November 18, 2021 Science Daily
Molecule masterminds elaborate growth process
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Science Writer: Extinctions Don’t Necessarily Lead to New Diversity
November 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
How cells feel curvature
November 18, 2021 Science Daily
Scientists find mechanism that allows cells to sense the curvature of tissue around them
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New Ice Core Expected to Contain Creation Evidence
November 18, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Paleontologists debunk fossil thought to be missing link between lizards and first snakes
November 18, 2021 Science Daily
Filling in the links of the evolutionary chain with a fossil record of a ‘snake with four legs' connecting lizards and early snakes would be a dream come true for paleontologists. But a specimen formerly thought to fit the bill is not the missing piece
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How Convergent Animal Algorithms Challenge Darwinism
November 18, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why science and religion come together when discussing extraterrestrial life
November 18, 2021 The Hill
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Blog Post
Michael Shermer documents the decline and fall of Scientific American
November 18, 2021 Why Evolution Is True
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‘Landmark' Study Gives Unprecedented Glimpse at Mysterious Phase of the Human Embryo
November 18, 2021 Science Alert
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News Update/Commentary
Dengue’s dance: Host immunity drives viral evolution
November 18, 2021 Science Daily
New research provides evidence that host immunity drives evolution of the dengue virus. The research analyzes two decades of genetic variation from Thailand alongside population-level measures of infection and immunity.
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News Update/Commentary
New cell discovered and shown to regulate heart rate
November 18, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers discovered a new type of cell in the heart that may help regulate heart rate, and could be an important key in understanding certain types of congenital heart defects and other diseases that involve the heart.
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Astronomer: We Can’t Just Assume Countless Earths Out There
November 18, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Snake with Four Legs Turns Out Not To Be a Snake
November 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent
NO: paleontologists’ dream come true
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Manufacturing a Science Consensus
November 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How Even Random Numbers Show Evidence of Design
November 17, 2021 Mind Matters
Random number generators are actually pseudo-random number generators because they depend on designed algorithms
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Video
Fossils: Mysterious Origins (Science Uprising, Ep. 9)
November 17, 2021 YouTube
It's often claimed that fossils provide convincing evidence for Darwinian evolution in the history of life. But is that really the case?
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News Update/Commentary
One way genetic mutations occur during formation of eggs and sperm
November 17, 2021 Science Daily
Investigators have employed mutant mice to study how the accumulation of genetic errors is managed during egg and sperm formation.
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Why haven't we heard from aliens? There is a reason for the silence
November 17, 2021 New Scientist
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been going on for 60 years without success. Given the hurdles to interstellar communication, that's just a blink of an eye
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World's largest mass extinction may have begun with volcanic winter
November 17, 2021 New Scientist
The end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago might have begun when eruptions triggered a volcanic winter
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Why do we exist? The meaning of life isn’t to be found in the stars
November 17, 2021 New Scientist
We are tiny specks of life in a vast, indifferent cosmos -- but to say that decreases the value of our existence is to measure ourselves against the wrong thing
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Why is quantum theory so strange? The weirdness could be in our heads
November 17, 2021 New Scientist
Quantum theory is peerless at explaining reality, but assaults our intuitions of how reality should be. It seems likely the fault lies with our intuitions
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Human Birth Canal Is Well Designed
November 17, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Human birth canal shown to be well designed, thereby demolishing one of the last few remaining claims of poor design
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Unvarnished Fossil Record Is Bad News for Darwin
November 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Neil Thomas’s Next Book Will Examine Darwinism As a Modern Creation Myth
November 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Why is the universe just right for life? Blame the multiverse
November 17, 2021 New Scientist
Physicists have long speculated why our universe seems “just right” for life. The most complex answer might be the simplest -- that every other universe also exists
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Why is the universe intelligible? Things aren’t as clear as we think
November 17, 2021 New Scientist
We have made huge progress in understanding some bits of the cosmos, but we’ve hit a brick wall with things like quantum theory and our own minds. Is there a way round?
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Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal
November 17, 2021 New Scientist
Dig down, and evolution by natural selection is just about spontaneous, sustained accumulation of complexity -- if life elsewhere exists, it’s likely to develop in the same way
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False Biosignatures on Mars: Anticipating Ambiguity
November 17, 2021 Journal of the Geological Society
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Why do we grieve? The surprising origin of the feeling of loss
November 17, 2021 New Scientist
The debilitating pain we sometimes feel at the loss of those we love is an evolutionary mystery. It could all come down to what happens in our childhoods
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At the Smithsonian It’s All Darwin, All the Time
November 17, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
the nation’s museum
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William Dembski: Gauging the Success of Intelligent Design
November 16, 2021 YouTube
Mathematician and philosopher explains the theory of intelligent design and examines its successes and challenges over the past decades.
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Can Wholly Random Processes Produce Information?
November 16, 2021 Mind Matters
Can information result, without intention, from a series of accidents? Some have tried it with computers…
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New mission to scour our interstellar neighbourhood for planets that could sustain life
November 16, 2021 The Guardian
Privately funded Toliman telescope to be launched into low-earth orbit to search Alpha Centauri star system
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Spider Webs Are Big Ears
November 16, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A spider web is not just a trap for prey. It’s also a giant acoustic sensory antenna.
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News Update/Commentary
Life on Mars search could be misled by false fossils, study says
November 16, 2021 Science Daily
Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests.
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Navigational Genius -- Not Just for the Birds
November 16, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Harvard U Press Computer Science Author Gives AI a Reality Check
November 16, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience
November 16, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book Excerpt: Navigational Genius of Insects
November 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Why, Contra Darwin, Do Male Snakes Eat Female Snakes?
November 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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On Life from the Lab: “Information First” Is Essential
November 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Human Neurons, Brains, Much More Efficient Than Animal Ones
November 16, 2021 Mind Matters
What was formerly thought to be “junk DNA” differs between humans and chimpanzees and plays a role in brain development
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‘The Wonder of Science’
November 16, 2021 Creation Ministries International
Exploring the creation/evolution debate
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Weak scale as a trigger
November 15, 2021 Physical Review D, v.104
The weak scale trigger links the tuning of the Higgs mass to that of the cosmological constant
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As data probe concludes, spider biologist placed on leave, has Ph.D. thesis ‘withdrawn’
November 15, 2021 Science
Canadian university completes investigation into star ecologist Jonathan Pruitt, but does not release its findings
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How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin: A Coda
November 15, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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“Just How Bad Is the Fossil Record for Darwin’s Theory?”
November 15, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
asked by new Science Uprising episode
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Culture Watch: “This Is Us" Recognizes Limits of Machines
November 15, 2021 Mind Matters
Let's hope that this becomes a trend of popular culture dealing with the realities of technology and its limitations
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Male Snakes Cannibalizing Females Present Evolutionary Puzzle
November 15, 2021 The Scientist
The Scientist speaks with organismal biologist Xavier Glaudas about possible reasons for his recent finding that male Montpellier snakes cannibalize female conspecifics.
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Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve
November 15, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today