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News Update/Commentary
What evolution reveals about the function of bitter receptors
February 2, 2021 Science Daily
From coelacanths to humans
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Origin of Life: A Review of Paul Davies’ Demon in the Machine
February 2, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: 635 Million-Year-Old Fossil Helped the Planet Recover from an Ice Age
February 2, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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People Are Saying Great Things About the Film, My Octopus Teacher
February 2, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Science needs a radical overhaul
February 1, 2021 iai News
The lure of the illusion of discovery
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News Update/Commentary
Physics of snakeskin sheds light on sidewinding
February 1, 2021 Science Daily
Microscopic look reveals differences in the surfaces of snakes' bellies
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More Evidence That Neanderthals Were ‘Absorbed’ by Humans, Not Wiped Out
February 1, 2021 Gizmodo
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The ‘Time Has Come’ to Extend Human Embryo Research From 14 to 28 Days, Argues Bioethicist
February 1, 2021 Gizmodo
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Human placentas are full of mutated cells dumped by the embryo
February 1, 2021 New Scientist
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Seeing Fake Life in Dead Minerals
February 1, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Fooled by wishful thinking, some paleontologists call round things microfossils when they were never alive.
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News Update/Commentary
Searching for dark matter through the fifth dimension
February 1, 2021 Science Daily
A discovery in theoretical physics could help to unravel the mysteries of dark matter
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Where physics meets biology: More information
February, 2021 Physics Today, v.74, n.2, p.10
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Where physics meets biology: More information
February, 2021 Physics Today, v.74, n.2, p.11
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News Update/Commentary
How early tetrapods learned to live -- and eat -- on land
February 1, 2021 Science Daily
Recent research has found evidence that the lobe-finned fish species Tiktaalik roseae was capable of both biting and suction during feeding, similar to modern-day gars.
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Conference;
Schedule and details for the May 29 meeting on “Is there intelligent life in outer space?”
February, 2021
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Your Soul Has No “Off Switch"
January 31, 2021 Mind Matters
A major modern misunderstanding of the human mind is to assume that it is like a machine with an “on” and an “off” switch
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To a theologian on the subject of hominins
January 31, 2021 Core Academy of Science
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Did a Supermassive Black Hole Influence the Evolution of Life on Earth?
January 31, 2021 Scientific American
The idea isn’t as crazy as it might sound
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Space Debris Oumuamua As a Space Alien Signal
January 31, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Some reviews of Avi Loeb’s Book
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A Physicist Asks, Was the Universe Made for Us? She Says No
January 31, 2021 Mind Matters
But the question is more complicated than it appears at first
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Video
Has Protein Folding Been Solved?
January 30, 2021 YouTube
Recently Deepmind made big headlines with its AlphaFold success. Did it really “solve" protein folding? What did actually happen? In this video I explain what the protein folding problem is, why it's important, and what the current situation is.
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Video
Has Protein Folding Been Solved?
January 30, 2021 YouTube
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Humans Had Tools Before Opposable Thumbs?
January 30, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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New Genetic Information Proposals Fail
January 30, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Getting new genetic information is required for evolution -- but every proposed (and imaginative) method for obtaining it fizzles one way or another
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Tantalizing Evidence Hints Ancient Humans Had Stone Tools Before Opposable Thumbs
January 29, 2021 Science Alert
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Arsenic and (Very) Old Life
January 29, 2021 Air & Space (Smithsonian)
This normally toxic substance might have been useful in the oxygen-deprived environment of early Earth.
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Witnesses to Earth’s early history
January 29, 2021 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
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Two Meanings of “Creation”
January 29, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ancient Tuatara Turns Out To Have Two Mitochondrial Genomes
January 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Fun: The New Bad Is “Species-ist” Language
January 29, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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The Fossils Still Say No: The Mystery of Jawed Vertebrates
January 29, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Experiments show the record of early life could be full of ‘false positives'
January 29, 2021 Science Daily
For most of Earth's history, life was limited to the microscopic realm, with bacteria occupying nearly every possible niche.
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News Update/Commentary
Immune system sets ‘tripwire' to protect against viruses
January 29, 2021 Science Daily
Cell defenses have evolved to turn the tables on viral attacks by using bait and sounding an alarm
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News Update/Commentary
635 million-year-old fungi-like microfossil that bailed us out of an ice age discovered
January 28, 2021 Science Daily
A team of scientists has discovered the remains of a fungi-like microfossil that emerged at the end of an ice age some 635 million years ago.
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Life on Venus claim faces strongest challenge yet
January 28, 2021 Nature
New studies knock down a controversial report observing phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere.
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Flowering plants may be 100 million years older than we thought
January 28, 2021 New Scientist
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Theory of Mudstones Evolving Toward Flood Geology
January 28, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A radical revision of the origin of mudstones in 2014 just got another surprising update favorable to creationists.
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News Update/Commentary
Malaria threw human evolution into overdrive on this African archipelago
January 28, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers uncover recent traces of human adaptation in the Cabo Verde islands
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists find key function of molecule in cells crucial for regulating immunity
January 28, 2021 Science Daily
Scientists discovered that AIM2 is important for the proper function of regulatory T cells, or Treg cells, and plays a key role in mitigating autoimmune disease.
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Juggling Terms to Maintain the Illusion of Darwinian Selection
January 28, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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About Why He Thinks Oumuamua Represents Extraterrestrials
January 28, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Avi Loeb Talks to Sean Carroll at Preposterous Universe
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The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans
January 27, 2021 New Scientist
The existence of the Denisovans was discovered just a decade ago through DNA alone. Now we're starting to uncover fossils and artefacts revealing what these early humans were like
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An Asteroid “Double Disaster” Struck Germany in the Miocene
January 27, 2021 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
By analyzing sediments jostled by ground shaking, researchers have shown that two impact craters near Stuttgart were created by independent asteroid impacts rather than a binary asteroid strike.
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Cell Bones Mystery Solved with Supercomputers
January 27, 2021 Texas Advanced Computing Center
XSEDE Stampede2 simulates polarized elongation of actin filaments
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The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans
January 27, 2021 New Scientist
The existence of the Denisovans was discovered just a decade ago through DNA alone. Now we're starting to uncover fossils and artefacts revealing what these early humans were like
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How to spot an alien megastructure: The new search for Dyson spheres
January 27, 2021 New Scientist
Intelligent extraterrestrials may have built vast solar power plants around their host stars. The hunt for their telltale glow is hotting up
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Why Does This Finch Drink Blood?
January 27, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Did some of Darwin’s Finches evolve to drink blood? An evaluation of this claim
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News Update/Commentary
Cell death shines a light on the origins of complex life
January 27, 2021 Science Daily
Organelles continue to thrive after the cells within which they exist die, scientists have found, overturning previous assumptions that organelles decay too quickly to be fossilized.
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Share Alfred Russel Wallace on Intelligent Design
January 27, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Sewell: Top Five Evidences for Intelligent Design
January 27, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today