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News Update/Commentary
Protein tells developing cells to stick together
December 24, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists have provided experimental evidence that cell stickiness helps them stay sorted within correct compartments during development. How tightly cells clump together appears to be enabled by a protein better known for its role in the immune system.
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News Update/Commentary
Early mammal with remarkably precise bite
December 24, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers investigate teeth of a small carnivorous mammal that are almost 150 million years old
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A Farewell to Darwin Doubter Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922-2019)
December 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
From science historian Michael Flannery
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From The Smithsonian: Top Ten Dino Discoveries of 2020
December 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Not-Yet-Specialized Cells Seem To Know Where To Go
December 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Ancient DNA Is Changing How We Think About the Caribbean
December 23, 2020 New York Times
New research delivers surprising findings about Indigenous people in the region before contact with Europeans.
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Ancient DNA Shows Humans Settled Caribbean in 2 Distinct Waves
December 23, 2020 New York Times
Millions of people living on the islands today inherited genes from the people who made them home before Europeans arrived.
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We Need to Change How We Search for Alien Life
December 23, 2020 Slate
Until we have a scientific theory for what life is, we’ll never have a decisive discovery.
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The Biggest Science News of 2020
December 23, 2020 The Scientist
Neanderthal DNA surprises in modern humans, the first blood test for Alzheimer’s, a discovery of new human salivary glands, and, oh yeah, a pandemic
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Plate Beneath China Verifies Rapid Subduction
December 23, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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A New Human Reference Genome Represents the Most Common Sequences
December 23, 2020 The Scientist
Researchers create a “consensus genome” that halves the number of errors when mapping transcripts, although they say the current standard is still a good tool.
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Out There Near Pluto, Mysterious Arrakoth May Be a Time Capsule into Our Early Solar System
December 23, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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If You Get Canceled, Like Paleontologist Gunter Bechly, Where Do You Go?
December 23, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
New mammal reference genome helps ID genetic variants for human health
December 23, 2020 Science Daily
A new reference genome assembly identified more than 85 million genetic variants in the rhesus macaque, the largest database of genetic variation for any one nonhuman primate species to date.
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News Update/Commentary
New research highlights the importance of a forgotten organ in ensuring healthy pregnancies
December 23, 2020 Science Daily
An international research team has uncovered for the first time the importance of a small gland tucked behind the sternum that works to prevent miscarriage and diabetes in pregnant women.
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Dinosaurs' gravity: explaining gigantic dinosaurs
December 23, 2020 dinox.org
Have you ever wondered why dinosaurs were so big?
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Physicists: Our Galaxy Is Probably a Graveyard of Failed Alien Civilizations
December 23, 2020 Hot Air
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News Update/Commentary
Breaking bad: How shattered chromosomes make cancer cells drug-resistant
December 23, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists describe how a phenomenon known as ‘chromothripsis' breaks up chromosomes, which then reassemble in ways that ultimately promote cancer cell growth.
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Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing
December 23, 2020 nautil.us
How we evolved to read is a story of one creative species.
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Study: Biology professors are biased against Evangelicals
December 22, 2020 Creation Ministries International
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Welcome to the Ruthless, Cutthroat World of Paleoanthropology
December 22, 2020 New York Times
REVIEW: Fossil Men & The Sediments of Time
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News Update/Commentary
Frozen: Cutting-edge technology reveals structures within cells
December 22, 2020 Science Daily
Temperatures of minus 196 degrees Celsius enable high-resolution imaging of the cell's interior. Researchers are thus able to show for the first time how the active form of a protein complex plays critical roles in cell motility
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False History of Creationism Is Full of Beans
December 22, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2020
December 22, 2020 Smithsonian Magazine
Paleontologists uncovered a great deal about the “terrible lizards” this year
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An updated way to calculate the likelihood of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations
December 22, 2020 phys.org
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How Claude Shannon Invented the Future
December 22, 2020 Quanta Magazine
Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.
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Evolutionists Gloss Over Implications of Dinosaur Tissue Remains
December 22, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, so these delicate remains are at least that old. Move along; nothing to see here.
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Authors of Article on Female vs Male Mentorship Have Now Retracted Their Own Paper
December 22, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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From the “They’re Out There” Files
December 22, 2020 Uncommon Descent
New Scientist Cautious on That Strange Radio Signal
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Mistletoe Differs from All Other Cellular Life
December 22, 2020 Uncommon Descent
Having Largely Lost the Ability To Produce Fuel
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Günter Bechly: Welcome to the Underground
December 22, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
New flower from 100 million years ago
December 22, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers have identified a spectacular new genus and species of flower from the mid-Cretaceous period, a male specimen whose sunburst-like reach for the heavens was frozen in time by Burmese amber.
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Cretaceous Bird Beak Pecks Holes in Evolution
December 21, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Weird radio beam probably isn’t aliens but it’s the best candidate yet
December 21, 2020 New Scientist
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The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes
December 21, 2020 Quanta Magazine
Mistletoes have all but shut down the powerhouses of their cells. Scientists are still trying to understand the plants’ unorthodox survival strategy.
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A Wolf Pup Mummy from the Ancient Arctic
December 21, 2020 New York Times
Melting permafrost yields secrets of how a 6-week-old wolf puppy lived and died.
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News Update/Commentary
Study resolves the position of fleas on the tree of life
December 21, 2020 Science Daily
A study of more than 1,400 protein-coding genes of fleas has resolved one of the longest standing mysteries in the evolution of insects, reordering their placement in the tree of life and pinpointing who their closest relatives are.
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News Update/Commentary
New 3D maps reveal inner workings of immune cell gene expression
December 21, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists track down control elements that govern gene expression from a distance
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News Update/Commentary
The mechanics of the immune system
December 21, 2020 Science Daily
Not only chemistry plays a role in the docking of antigens to the T-cell; micromechanical effects are important too. Submicrometer structures on the cell surface act like microscopic tension springs.
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Grandeur in Extinctions?
December 21, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Muscle Fibers Resemble Entire Tissues with Many Nuclei
December 21, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Cells Activate Individual Quality Control Responses
December 21, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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The Guardian: Maybe Our Early Human Ancestors Hibernated
December 21, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Our Danish Correspondent, Karsten Pultz, Brings Us Up To Date on Jørn Dyerberg
December 21, 2020 Uncommon Descent
and the Growth of ID Thinking in Scandinavia
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Large sample spaces do not imply biological systems are ‘fine-tuned’
December 21, 2020 Journal of Theoretical Biology, v.507
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The Wobbly Anomaly and Other Magnetic Weirdness
December 21, 2020 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
From the connection between Earth’s core and life on the surface, way out to the ends of the solar system, this month’s issue of Eos takes a look at the study of magnetic fields.
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Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating
December 20, 2020 The Guardian
Seasonal damage in bone fossils in Spain suggests Neanderthals and their predecessors followed the same strategy as cave bears
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A New Book Discusses Walter Bradley’s Life and Legacy
December 20, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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A Darwinian Tries To Coopt the Gaia Hypothesis
December 20, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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First Alignment of Jupiter and Saturn in Centuries
December 20, 2020 Uncommon Descent