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Stunning footprints push back human arrival in Americas by thousands of years
September 23, 2021 National Geographic
The tracks at New Mexico's White Sands National Park are upending past assumptions on when humans first ventured into North and South America
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Ancient footprints could be oldest traces of humans in the Americas
September 23, 2021 Nature
Children left tracks in New Mexico around 22,500 years ago -- thousands of years before most scientists thought humans settled in North America.
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Like Neanderthals, Early Humans Endured a Frigid Europe
September 23, 2021 Gizmodo
Evidence from a Bulgarian cave suggests early humans in southeast Europe faced subarctic conditions for thousands of years.
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Protein Size Matters
September 23, 2021 The Scientist
A study probes how genetic duplications that can swell protein length influence human traits such as height and kidney function.
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Alu Leap May Explain Why Apes Don’t Have Tails
September 23, 2021 The Scientist
A transposable element that jumped into the TBXT gene, which is linked to tail morphology, appears to be to blame for our missing appendage.
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Trust in Science: How the Replication Crisis Got Started
September 23, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How Animals Survive Without Sexual Reproduction
September 23, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Debate: Former Atheist Neurosurgeon vs. Former Christian Activist
September 22, 2021 Mind Matters
At Theology Unleashed, each gets a chance to state his case and interrogate the other
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Earless worms ‘listen’ through their skin
September 22, 2021
Common model species can sense sound waves without ears, providing a new tool for studying auditory sensation.
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Photos of an Eruption: Canary Island Volcano Sends Thousands Fleeing
September 22, 2021 New York Times
This is what it looks like in La Palma, where the most powerful volcanic eruption in half a century has upended life for islanders.
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The philosophical problems of cosmology
September 22, 2021 iai News
A deep-dive into the foundations of cosmology
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Dark energy might be neither particle nor field
September 22, 2021 Big Think
Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.
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Five Human Species You May Not Know About
September 22, 2021 Sapiens
Homo sapiens is currently the only member of the genus Homo alive. There’s only one species of human -- but it wasn’t always so.
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Why I now believe parapsychology is a science not a pseudoscience
September 22, 2021 The Skeptic
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Hubble telescope discovers 6 mysteriously dead, massive galaxies from early universe
September 22, 2021 CBS News
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A Quest for the Historical Adam: A Conversation with William Lane Craig
September 22, 2021 YouTube
Were Adam and Eve historical? Is belief in an original couple compatible with science? In this interview, I talk with philosopher William Lane Craig about his latest book
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Abiogenesis: Can Life Come from Non-Living Chemicals?
September 22, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Naturalistic evolutionists require life to arise from non-life -- which hasn’t been observed and is antithetical to God’s history of the universe in Genesis.
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DNA Methylation Influences Replication and Genome Organization
September 22, 2021 The Scientist
A study links the loss of DNA methylation across the genome—as is common in cancer—to the disruption of the 3-D compartments that organize the genome and to the timing of DNA replication.
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The black hole paradox that thwarts our understanding of reality
September 22, 2021 New Scientist
Black holes devour stuff and then shrivel away over billions of years. Explaining what happens to anything that falls in explodes our current theories of physics, says cosmologist
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News Update/Commentary
Some animal species can survive successfully without sexual reproduction
September 22, 2021 Science Daily
Studying a species of beetle mite, an international research team has demonstrated for the first time that animals can survive over very long periods of time (possibly millions of years) entirely without sex.
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News Update/Commentary
Those earrings are so last year -- but the reason you're wearing them is ancient
September 22, 2021 Science Daily
Shell beads found in a cave in Morocco are at least 142,000 years old. The archaeologists who found them say they're the earliest known evidence of a widespread form of human communication.
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic regulation of blood cells: Proximity of a gene to a genetic change plays an important role
September 22, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have gained significant new insight into the genetic regulation of blood cells. They achieved this by analyzing a dataset that included more than 31,000 study participants, to date the largest dataset of its kind.
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News Update/Commentary
Dog parasite is developing resistance to treatments
September 22, 2021 Science Daily
Hookworms have evolved to evade all FDA approved medications veterinarians use to kill them
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Paper on Bacterial Mobility (Motility) Doesn’t Invoke “Evolution”
September 22, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Single Cells Evolve Large Multicellular Forms in Just Two Years
September 22, 2021 Quanta Magazine
Researchers have discovered that environments favoring clumpy growth are all that’s needed to quickly transform single-celled yeast into complex multicellular organisms.
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What does the Copernican principle say about life in the universe?
September 22, 2021 Big Think
The Copernican principle states that Earth is an ordinary planet, but that does not mean that life is ordinary in the universe.
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Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers
September 22, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Earth's tides may be linked to the rise of life as we know it
September 22, 2021 National Geographic
As the moon's tug on the ocean slowed the rotation of our planet, longer days may have helped photosynthetic microbes breathe new life into the world.
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New Find: Cell Growth Processes Are Coupled
September 22, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Sabine Hossenfelder Asks, What’s Up with Neutrinos?
September 22, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Norm Macdonald’s God Hypothesis
September 21, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book
Believing Is Seeing
September, 2021 Tyndale
A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith | See Also Amazon
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If Google Thinks for You, Use Their Search Engine. Otherwise ...
September 21, 2021 Mind Matters
Google’s monopoly affects the free exchange of ideas in the public square and our electoral process
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Is Cancer an Example of Evolution?
September 21, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Does everything evolve, even cancer? No! Actually, cancer research is based on intelligent design, not evolution
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Mathematical Analysis of Fruit Fly Wings Hints at Evolution’s Limits
September 21, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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An Appeal for an Honest Debate in Science About the Origin of COVID-19
September 21, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Can There Be a General Theory for Fine-Tuning?
September 21, 2021 Mind Matters
If you make a bowl of alphabet soup and the letters arrange themselves and say, good morning, that is specified. What are the probabilities?
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This mutation may explain how humans lost their tails
September 21, 2021 ZME Science
Some lucky ape-like ancestor got it 20 million years ago.
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Darwin’s short-beak enigma solved
September 21, 2021 University of Utah
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News Update/Commentary
Regulator proteins or symphonies of genes
September 21, 2021 Science Daily
Statistical modeling points way toward unified theory for DNA folding
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“It from Bit” Is Winning the Cosmology Wars
September 21, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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At The Ness: Science Is Not Just Philosophy
September 21, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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The Canary Island’s Explosive Volcanic Eruption in 6 Photos
September 20, 2021 Gizmodo
Some are worried that the explosion could cause a tsunami that impacts the East Coast. In reality, the impacts are likely to stay local.
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Extreme volcanism did not cause the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous
September 20, 2021 phys.org
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Mars habitability limited by its small size, isotope study suggests
September 20, 2021 Washington University, St. Louis
Water is essential for life on Earth and other planets, and scientists have found ample evidence of water in Mars’ early history. But Mars has no liquid water on its surface today.
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Life Is So Wonderfully Finely Tuned That It's Frightening
September 20, 2021 Mind Matters
A mathematician who uses statistical methods to model the fine tuning of molecular machines and systems in cells reflects…
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What am I again?
September 20, 2021 Core Academy of Science
Every couple of years, I spend a little bit of time trying to think of what to call myself and my position.
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John Lennox Discusses the Beginning of the Universe
September 20, 2021 YouTube
In this new bonus interview for the Science Uprising series, Oxford University mathematician John Lennox discusses whether the big bang theory disproves the need for God and several other provocative questions
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Blog Post
Science is not Just Philosophy
September 20, 2021 NeuroLogica
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea
September 20, 2021 Scientific Reports, v.11