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Put Some of This on That Wound, Honey
February 12, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Podcast: A Modern Way to Look for Aliens
February 12, 2021 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is undergoing a 21st century transformation. The field is poised to lead the way as an example of interdisciplinary research and inclusive science.
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News Update/Commentary
Portrait of young galaxy throws theory of galaxy formation on its head
February 11, 2021 Science Daily
Scientists peer 12 billion years into the past to reveal distant galaxy with an unexpected appearance
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New Abiogenesis Series: James Tour Strikes Back
February 11, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
From Junk to Genes: The Birth of New miRNA Genes in the Human Genome
February 11, 2021 YouTube
One of the biggest surprises of the genomics era is the discovery that every family, genus, and even species, has a shocking number of unique genes that are not found in closely related species.
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What happens when you replace a human gene with its Neanderthal version?
February 11, 2021 ars technica
Neural stem cells with the Neanderthal version of a key gene behave differently.
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In Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’
February 11, 2021 Quanta Magazine
A new study shows that extreme black holes could break the famous “no-hair” theorem, and in a way that we could detect.
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Aliens Must Be Out There
February 11, 2021 New York Times
Why aren’t we looking for them?
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The Ultimate Scientific Rebuttal to Darwin’s Descent of Man?
February 11, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Breakthrough findings repudiate Darwin with falsifiable and fulfilled predictions -- the gold standard of actual scientific research.
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News Update/Commentary
How a single gene alteration may have separated modern humans from predecessors
February 11, 2021 Science Daily
Novel study used brain organoids genetically modified to mimic now-extinct Neanderthals
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Does the Habitability of Exoplanets Depend on Nitrogen?
February 11, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Snowflake Structure Is a Beautiful Classic in Natural Law-Based Design
February 11, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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An Animal You Would Swear Was Just Plant Refuse
February 11, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Big Bang Anomaly Prompts Excuses
February 11, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The excuse for this astronomical problem sounds like the excuses Darwinists give for sudden appearance.
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Neanderthal-like ‘mini-brains’ created in lab with CRISPR
February 11, 2021 Nature
Organoids that contain an ancient version of a gene that influences brain development are smaller and bumpier than those with human genes.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover is about to land on Mars and look for life
February 11, 2021 New Scientist
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Frederick Douglass, Champion Abolitionist and Former Slave, on Evolutionary Racism
February 11, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists Speak Out About Evidence of Intelligent Design in Nature
February 10, 2021 YouTube
Scientists from around the world speak out about the convincing evidence of purpose and intelligent design they see in nature.
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Fact Checked: No Conspiracy Here (But a Lot of Fallacies There)
February 10, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Responding to “Why Creationism Bears All the Hallmarks of a Conspiracy Theory”
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Avi Loeb interview: Could ‘Oumuamua be alien technology after all?
February 10, 2021 New Scientist
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has drawn criticism for suggesting a weird object passing through the solar system could be an alien spacecraft. But he insists we must keep an open mind when nature throws us a curveball
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News Update/Commentary
A new way to look for life-sustaining planets
February 10, 2021 Science Daily
A new system for mid-infrared exoplanet imaging in combination with long observation time allows ground-based telescopes to directly capture images of planets about three times the size of Earth within the habitable zones of nearby stars.
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Higher Mutation Rates in Non-Double Helix DNA Create Intriguing Alternative to Common Ancestry
February 10, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Darwin and Race: Three Strikes, He’s Out
February 10, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Vid: Scientists Speak Out on Intelligent Design
February 10, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
In search of the RNA world on Mars
February 10, 2021 geobiology
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We don't really understand the habitable zones of alien planets
February 10, 2021 space.com
Is our search for life ignoring one major factor?
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Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
February 10, 2021 Air & Space (Smithsonian)
Could they help us understand intelligent life on other worlds?
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Concerns about ideological activism in science research and communications
February 10, 2021 Genetic Literacy Project
Misleading glyphosate-cancer study Part 2: ‘Symptom of a widespread problem’
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Origins of modern human ancestry
February 10, 2021 Nature, v.590, p.229-237
New finds in the palaeoanthropological and genomic records have changed our view of the origins of modern human ancestry. Here we review our current understanding of how the ancestry of modern humans around the globe can be traced into the deep past
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Mammalian Middle Ear Evolution: Story Gets More Wobbly
February 10, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The evolution of mammalian middle ear bones: new study makes a fantastic evolutionary tale even more fantastic
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News Update/Commentary
On the origin of our species
February 10, 2021 Science Daily
New research suggests that genetic and fossil records will not reveal a single point where modern humans originated.
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Odd: Koala Fingerprints Almost Indistinguishable from Human Ones
February 10, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
The science of siestas: New research reveals the genetic basis for daytime napping
February 10, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers identified 123 regions in the human genome that are associated with daytime napping and three distinct mechanisms that promote napping. Many napping-related genes also regulate other aspects of sleep.
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Life on Mars? Escaping water vapour offers new clues
February 10, 2021 The Guardian
Researchers detected water emanating high up in thin atmosphere of red planet while Tianwen-1 probe entered orbit on Wednesday
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The Most Amazing Fact About Koalas
February 9, 2021 Real Clear Science
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Left Brain-Right Brain Research Isn't What It Used to Be
February 9, 2021 Psychology Today
New studies shed light on how “left brain" and “right brain" rely on each other.
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Huge Fish, Once Believed Extinct, Isn’t the ‘Living Fossil’ Scientists Thought
February 9, 2021 Gizmodo
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Ancient caterpillar had armoured spikes to protect it from early birds
February 9, 2021 New Scientist
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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome May Be Inherited Epigenetically
February 9, 2021 The Scientist
Female mice modeling the hormonal disorder can pass symptoms down for several generations, likely via changes in genome methylation that are similarly observed in women with PCOS.
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News Update/Commentary
Astronomers offer possible explanation for elusive dark-matter-free galaxies
February 9, 2021 Science Daily
Extreme tidal mass loss in dwarf galaxies formed in a simulation
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News Update/Commentary
Unusual DNA folding increases the rates of mutations
February 9, 2021 Science Daily
New research shows that the elevated mutation rate in these sequences plays a major role in determining regional variation in mutation rates across the genome.
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Evolutionary Paleontologists Ask Wrong Questions
February 9, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Data that should falsify evolutionary timelines instead is used to launch new storytelling speculations.
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News Update/Commentary
All in the head? Brains adapt to support new species
February 9, 2021 Science Daily
Scientists studying forest dwelling butterflies in Central and South America have discovered that changes in the way animals perceive and process information from their environment can support the emergence of new species.
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Viruses, the Immune System, and Computer Systems
February 9, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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At ScienceNews: “Fake” Fossils More Common Than Real Ones
February 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How Darwinism Became a Dogma
February 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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In Big Tech World: The Journalist As Censor, Hit Man, and Snitch
February 9, 2021 Mind Matters
Glenn Greenwald looks at a disturbing trend in media toward misrepresentation as well as censorship
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Scientists Invent a Machine That Generates Mathematics We've Never Seen Before
February 8, 2021 Science Alert
His name was Srinivasa Ramanujan, and he had a unique gift for dreaming up mathematics of a kind few, if any, had ever contemplated.
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Newly Published Analysis Refutes Claims that Sahelanthropus tchadensis Was Human Ancestor
February 8, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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You Are More than a Primitive Fish
February 8, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Consider this headline: “We’re more like primitive fishes than once believed.” Why aren’t people insulted?