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The enigmatic organisms of the Ediacaran Period
November 13, 2020 Nature
New fossil finds and new techniques reveal evidence that early animals were more complex than previously thought.
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Darwinists Build Fake Phylogenetic Trees
November 13, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
No matter what kinds of organisms they study, Darwinists run into trouble by trying to prove ancestry.
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Did Social Media Panic Drive Up the Damage from COVID-19?
November 12, 2020 Mind Matters
Richards: It was, honestly, terrifying to watch important stories and studies get buried in real time on Google searches.
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When scientific journals take sides during an election, the public’s trust in science takes a hit
November 12, 2020 The Conversation
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What Is a Particle?
November 12, 2020 Quanta Magazine
It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more than it is changing now.
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News Update/Commentary
Cysteine synthesis was a key step in the origin of life
November 12, 2020 Science Daily
All proteins are built from the same 20 amino acids. One of these, cysteine, was assumed not to have been present at the origin of life. In a new study, scientists have recreated how cysteine was formed at the origins of life.
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Animals Set World Records
November 12, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Today: Debut of New “Long Story” on Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance, with Live Chat
November 12, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Novel insights on cellular suicide could provide new avenues for cancer therapies
November 12, 2020 Science Daily
When it comes to complex life -- that of the multicellular variety -- cell death can be just as important as survival. It allows organisms to clean house and prevent the proliferation of damaged cells that could compromise tissue function.
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Slice of History: Darwin Helped His Co-Theorist Wallace Get a Pension
November 12, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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At New Scientist: Questioning the Idea of Species
November 12, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Lizards that lost their legs re-evolved them as the climate got wetter
November 11, 2020 New Scientist
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Giant seal fossil found in New Zealand hints they evolved in the south
November 11, 2020 New Scientist
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Why haven't we found alien life yet? Blame our closed minds
November 11, 2020 Astronomy magazine
Are we simply looking for life in the wrong places, in the wrong way? Would we even recognize the signs? One astronomer says that out there ideas may point the way to E.T.
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Folding proteins feel the heat, and cold
November 11, 2020 Science Daily
Atom-scale models could help refine established theories on how proteins interact with solutions
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Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right
November 11, 2020 BBC
In a few scrawled notes to a friend, biologist Charles Darwin theorised how life began. Not only was it probably correct, his theory was a century ahead of its time.
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New genome alignment tool empowers large-scale studies of vertebrate evolution
November 11, 2020 Science Daily
Three new articles present major advances in understanding the evolution of birds and mammals, made possible by new methods for comparing the genomes of hundreds of species.
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How organ functions were shaped over the course of evolution
November 11, 2020 Science Daily
The scientists investigated RNA synthesis and subsequent protein synthesis in the organs of humans and other representative mammals.
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Intelligent Design -- Join the Resistance While There’s Still Time
November 11, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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From Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking in Three Catastrophic Steps
November 11, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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On the Recent Behe-Swamidass Debate
November 11, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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At the BBC: Should “Killing Nature” Be a Crime?
November 11, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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As Part of Science Reform, Should Peer Reviewers Be Paid?
November 11, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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New Ediacaran Fossils, 570-560 Mya, Make the Picture Clearer
November 11, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Have Researchers Discovered Why Humans Are Smarter Than Animals?
November 11, 2020 Mind Matters
According to a new study, human memories are not stored in patterns, like animal memories, but jumbled all together
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How Can People Lead Normal Lives Without a Connected Brain?
November 11, 2020 Mind Matters
Roughly 25% of people who lack the brain’s transfer station between the hemispheres live normal lives
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There’s a New Buzz on the Block, “Social Genomics”
November 10, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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A Naturalist's Strong Case Against Abiogenesis
November, 2020 Apologetics Press
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Well-preserved addition to the evolution story
November 10, 2020 Cosmos Magazine
South African cave throws up another important find.
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It’s a CELL World After All!
November 10, 2020 Answers in Genesis
Cell diversity explained by creation
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Radioactive elements may be crucial to the habitability of rocky planets
November 10, 2020 Science Daily
internal heating from the radioactive decay of the heavy elements thorium and uranium drives plate tectonics and may be necessary for the planet to generate a magnetic field
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Chronic stress causes genetic changes in chickens
November 10, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists have now found that what are known as epigenetic biomarkers could be used to detect long-term exposure to stress in commercially raised chickens. This may, in time, lead to improved conditions in animal rearing.
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Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
November, 2020 William Morrow
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These are science’s Top 10 erroneous results
November 10, 2020 Science News
Mistakes from the past demonstrate the reliability of science
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Study identifies new ‘hidden' gene in COVID-19 virus
November 10, 2020 Science Daily
Overlapping gene in SARS-CoV-2 may have affected its biology and ability to spread
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Darwin Is Now Blamed for Environmental Destruction
November 10, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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At Science News: Top Ten Wrong Results in Science
November 10, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Can a Pill Change Your Mind About Basic Issues in Life?
November 10, 2020 Mind Matters
The legalization of mind-altering drugs raises the question in the research community
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Stretton's Paradox: The Paradox of the Lowly Worm
November 10, 2020 Mind Matters
Because nature is full of intelligence, the more we learn, even about a worm, the less we “know"
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Blog Post
The Truth About Galileo and the Church
November 9, 2020 NeuroLogica
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“The origin of SARS-CoV-2 is being seriously questioned”
November 9, 2020 CNRS News
Nearly a year after the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was identified, researchers have yet to determine how it “jumped species” to infect humans.
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Diet and lifestyle during pregnancy linked to modifications in infants' DNA
November 9, 2020 Science Daily
A new study has shown pregnant women with obesity could reduce the health risks for their infants through improved diet and more physical activity.
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Researchers discover bacterial DNA's recipe for success
November 9, 2020 Science Daily
A single criterion predicts whether a genetic package such as antibiotic resistance will thrive in a given environment
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Newly discovered fossil shows small-scale evolutionary changes in an extinct human species
November 9, 2020 Science Daily
Fossil cranium suggests environmental conditions drove rapid changes
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Half-a-billion year old microfossils may yield new knowledge of animal origins
November 9, 2020 Science Daily
When and how did the first animals appear? Researchers have now jointly found, in Greenland, embryo-like microfossils up to 570 million years old, revealing that organisms of this type were dispersed throughout the world.
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Yin and Yang: Two signaling molecules control growth and behavior in bacteria
November 9, 2020 Science Daily
Bacteria are considered to be true experts in survival. Their rapid adaptive response to changing environmental conditions is based, among other things, on two competing signaling molecules.
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Karl Popper Never Really Retracted His Doubt of Darwin
November 9, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Did Climate Change Cause the Extinction of Two Hominin Species?
November 9, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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The Tale of How Duckbilled Dinosaurs Crossed the Ocean to Africa
November 9, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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As Science Frauds Go, Haeckel Beats Piltdown Man
November 9, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today