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News Update/Commentary
Primate mothers may carry infants after death as a way of grieving, study finds
September 14, 2021 Science Daily
Some primate species may express grief over the death of their infant by carrying the corpse with them, sometimes for months, according to a new UCL-led study -- with implications for our understanding of how non-human animals experience emotion.
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More than a billion years missing from the Great Unconformity at the Grand Canyon?
September 14, 2021 Creation Ministries International
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Evolutionists Find it Hard to Imagine a Lifeless Mars
September 14, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Is it possible for evolutionary scientists to mention Mars without imagining life?
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Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte -- Thomas Henry Huxley
September 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Further Dispatches from the War on Math
September 14, 2021 Mind Matters
Discussions of social policy where math is relevant can be useful. But a student who does not understand how an equation works will fail at both math AND social policy
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Hand and footprint art dates to mid-Ice Age
September 14, 2021 Cornell Chronicle
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Prehistoric humans rarely mated with their cousins
September 14, 2021 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Scientists screened 1,785 ancient human genomes from the last 45,000 years for parental relatedness
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Modern snakes evolved from a few survivors of dino-killing asteroid
September 14, 2021 University of Bath
Research from the Milner Centre for Evolution suggests modern snakes evolved from a handful of ancestors that survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
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Blog Post
A mammoth debacle
September 14, 2021 Why Evolution Is True
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers discover hormonal regulatory module for root elongation
September 14, 2021 Science Daily
Plants respond to mild nitrogen deficiency by elongating their lateral roots. In this way, more nitrogen can be absorbed than before. Researchers have now discovered a hormonal regulatory module that mediates the molecular processes of this adaptation.
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Was Thomas Henry Huxley the First Science Journalist?
September 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Here’s an Interview with Michael Denton on the History and Future of ID
September 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Life on Mars?
September 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent
maybe it’ll happen when the first humans arrive…
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News Update/Commentary
To colonize different environments, bacteria precisely tune their nanomotors
September 14, 2021 Science Daily
A crude form of proprioception discovered in bacteria for the first time
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A New Company with a Wild Mission: Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth
September 13, 2021 New York Times
With $15 million in private funding, Colossal aims to bring thousands of woolly mammoths back to Siberia. Some scientists are deeply skeptical that will happen.
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The Final Materialist Quest?: A War on the Reality of the Mind
September 13, 2021 Mind Matters
Going to war with the very concept is an approach even George Orwell did not think up
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New Theory of Mind Offers More Information, Less Materialism
September 13, 2021 Mind Matters
First, let’s begin by noting a remarkable fact: Panpsychism seems to have triumphed in the area of theories of consciousness.
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How a ‘fatally, tragically flawed’ paradigm has derailed the science of obesity
September 13, 2021 Stat News
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World's Leading Geneticists Aim to Resurrect Woolly Mammoth
September 13, 2021 Supercluster
The last woolly mammoth to walk the Earth perished nearly 4000 years ago on Wrangel Island, a desolate and remote island off the coast of Russia in the Arctic ocean.
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Evolution of Pathogens Is Mostly Questions, Not Answers
September 13, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Do evolutionists understand the origin of pathogens? Short answer: no. But there are non-Darwinian mechanisms at work.
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The First “Simple” Self-Replicator?
September 13, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment
September 13, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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A New Open Access Paper Offers an Approach to Cancer That Sees Past Darwin
September 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Crowd-Funded Faith-Based Nature Documentary Hopes To Offer an Alternative to Traditional Atheist Approach
September 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists want to resurrect the woolly mammoth
September 13, 2021 CNN
they just got $15 million to make it happen
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News Update/Commentary
Uncertainty on climate change in textbooks linked to uncertainty in students
September 13, 2021 Science Daily
A new study suggests textbook wording that portrays climate change information as uncertain can influence how middle and high school students feel about the information
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Faith-based nature docuseries bypassing gatekeepers thanks to crowdfunding
September 12, 2021 Just the News
"The Riot and the Dance" has raised almost $600,000 with the aid of a trailer set to Kanye West's spiritual "Selah."
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The Remarkable Fine-Tuning of the Dragonfly
September 12, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Can It Really Be Called Science If It Is Purely Theoretical?
September 12, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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What Steven Weinberg’s “Pointless Universe” Really Meant
September 12, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Conference;
Science & Faith Simulcast
September 11, 2021 Discovery Institute
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Bridging Tumorigenesis and Therapy Resistance With a Non-Darwinian and Non-Lamarckian Mechanism of Adaptive Evolution
September 10, 2021 Frontiers in Oncology
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News Update/Commentary
Major branches in the tree of language reconstructed
September 10, 2021 Science Daily
A team of researchers is using a novel technique to comb through the data and to reconstruct major branches in the linguistic tree.
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Trove of CRISPR-like gene-cutting enzymes found in microbes
September 10, 2021 Nature
The search for a CRISPR enzyme’s ancestors has revealed more than one million potential genome-editing tools.
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Start Your Day with a Pre-Cambrian “Swimming Head” Creature
September 10, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum
September 10, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Science “Advances" Disproving the Mind Are Ever More Elusive
September 9, 2021 Mind Matters
A friendly interview with an important neuroscientist makes that starkly clear
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Black holes just got much more complicated thanks to quantum pressure
September 9, 2021 New Scientist
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The barrier has been breached!
September 9, 2021 Creation Ministries International
Making a fool out of Professor Wise-man
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Latest “Walking Whale” Fails
September 9, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Another putative whale ancestor adds to the past pile of failures. Eleven bone fragments have birthed another whale of a tale.
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News Update/Commentary
Moth wingtips an ‘acoustic decoy’ to thwart bat attack
September 9, 2021 Science Daily
Wingtips of certain species of silkmoth are structured to reflect sound and throw off attackers, according to a new study.
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Pseudogenes Aren’t Nonfunctional Relics that Refute Intelligent Design
September 9, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited
September 9, 2021 Journal of the History of Biology, v.54, p.403-443
Julian Huxley’s eclipse of Darwinism narrative has cast a long shadow over the historiography of evolutionary theory around the turn of the nineteenth century. It has done so by limiting who could be thought of as Darwinian.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Causes and Consequences of Apparent Timescaling Across All Estimated Evolutionary Rates
September 8, 2021 Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Evolutionary rates play a central role in connecting micro- and macroevolution. All evolutionary rate estimates, including rates of molecular evolution, trait evolution, and lineage diversification, share a similar scaling pattern with time:
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Scientists Create Artificial Cells
September 8, 2021 New York University
they mimic living cells’ ability to capture, process, and expel material
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“Unworthy lives”: Sophie Scholl vs. Richard Hanania
September 8, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Petrology of the Bright Angel Formation, Tonto Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona
September 8, 2021 Answers Research Journal, v.14, p.303-415
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How the Pandemic Is Changing the Norms of Science
September 8, 2021 Tablet magazine
Imperatives like skepticism and disinterestedness are being junked to fuel political warfare that has nothing in common with scientific methodology
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Giant ‘swimming head' creature lived in our oceans 500 million years ago
September 8, 2021 CNN
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Massive new animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale
September 8, 2021 Royal Ontario Museum
ROM palaeontologists unearth one of the largest radiodonts of the Cambrian explosion