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Promising sign of life on Venus might not exist after all
October 23, 2020 National Geographic
The detection of phosphine gas in the clouds of Venus -- a possible sign of life -- might be due to a fluke in data processing, new analyses suggest.
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Aliens from These Worlds Could Be Watching Us Right Now
October 22, 2020 Gizmodo
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Humans are born with brains ‘prewired’ to see words
October 22, 2020 Ohio State University
Study finds connections to language areas of the brain
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Venus Is Dead!
October 22, 2020 Forbes
New analysis shows phosphine, a possible biosignature, is absent
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Particle Physicists Continue To Make Empty Promises
October 22, 2020 backreaction.blogspot.com
Sabine Hossenfelder
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Homo erectus, not humans, may have invented the barbed bone point
October 22, 2020 Science News
An 800,000-year-old tool may be the oldest known of its kind
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The first flying dinosaurs were a failed evolutionary experiment
October 22, 2020 New Scientist
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These two bird-sized dinosaurs evolved the ability to glide, but weren't great at it
October 22, 2020 Science Daily
The findings support that dinosaurs evolved flight in several different ways before modern birds evolved.
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New Human Salivary Glands Discovered
October 22, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Determinism: Smart People and an Absurd Claim
October 22, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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There, That’s It! Environment Changes Made Humans More Adaptable
October 22, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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How Is That Project of Reintroducing Lost Species Coming?
October 22, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Another Argument As to How a Complex Metabolism “May Have” Self-Assembled
October 22, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Why AI Geniuses Think They Can Create True Thinking Machines
October 22, 2020 Mind Matters
Early on, it seemed like a string of unbroken successes …
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How genetic variation gives rise to differences in mathematical ability
October 22, 2020 Medical xpress
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Ancient origins of speed control during movement
October 22, 2020 Science Daily
Learning how a zebrafish moves will aid understanding of human movement and disorders
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‘Spooky' similarity in how brains and computers see
October 22, 2020 Science Daily
Natural and artificial intelligence networks process 3D fragments of visual images in same way
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Scientific Paper Reaffirms New Genes Required for Cambrian Explosion
October 21, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Turbulent environment set the stage for leaps in human evolution and technology 320,000 years ago
October 21, 2020 The Conversation
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Possible new organ in the human throat discovered by Dutch scientists
October 21, 2020 CNN
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Superhabitable Planets
October 21, 2020 Answers in Genesis
Astronomers have attempted to identify exoplanets likely to support life though their efforts have generated scant results so far.
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Scientists Discover New Human Salivary Glands
October 21, 2020 The Scientist
The findings may have implications for radiotherapy, a cancer treatment that can cause damage to salivary glands and leave lasting complications.
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Why Physics Can’t Tell Us What Life Is
October 21, 2020 nautil.us
The origin of life can’t be explained by first principles.
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DNA-binding proteins meet their mismatch
October 21, 2020 Nature
Mismatches are alterations in DNA that prevent the bases on each strand of the double helix from aligning correctly. It emerges that mismatches can bend DNA into favourable conformations for binding by proteins.
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Congress must clarify limits of gene-editing technologies
October 21, 2020 Science Daily
How the next Congress decides to handle the issue editing human sperm and eggs will affect the science, ethics and financing of genomic editing for decades to come
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Do We Really Have Free Will? Four Things to Know
October 20, 2020 Mind Matters
Free will makes more sense of our world than determinism and science certainly allows for it
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Researcher Proposes New Theory of Consciousness
October 20, 2020 Neuroscience News
A new theory suggests electromagnetic energy in the brain enables neurons and brain regions to create consciousness and our ability to critically think.
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The Standard Model Is Not Enough, New LHC Study Shows
October 20, 2020 Forbes
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Venus might not have signs of life after all, say astronomers
October 20, 2020 New Scientist
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The road to uncovering a novel mechanism for disposing of misfolded proteins
October 20, 2020 Science Daily
The discovery of the cause of a rare liver disease in babies led to uncovering a novel cellular mechanism for disposing of misfolded proteins that has implications for neurodegenerative conditions of older age.
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Karsten Pultz Offers Some Thoughts on the Flap Over the Now-Famous Thorvaldsen and Hössjer Paper
October 20, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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One of Those Rare Instances Where Science Is Self-Correcting … Ioannidis Is Vindicated
October 20, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Some Researchers Arrive at an Important Truth About “Consensus Science”
October 20, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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New Perspectives on Human Origins: Three Challenges for Christian Theology
October 20, 2020 Theology and Science, v.18, n.4, p.524-536
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Does phosphine prove life on Venus?
October 20, 2020 Creation Ministries International
Do tiny amounts of phosphine in Venus’s clouds prove that life made it? Why is phosphate vital for life?
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Natural Selection Undoes What It Does
October 20, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A theory that can explain opposites can explain anything, therefore nothing. Darwin’s chief mechanism for evolution collapses.
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Journal Finds It Can’t Keep a Good Pro-ID Paper Down
October 20, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
October 19, 2020 Geomar -- Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
New study provides a comprehensive reconstruction of the Permian-Triassic boundary event
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Higgs boson possibly caught in act of never-before-seen transformation
October 19, 2020 Live Science
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The Science & Faith Podcast: Confronting Christianity
October 19, 2020 YouTube
this interview discusses the intellectual movement of Christianity, how it relates to humanity and science, and Dr. McLaughlin's book “Confronting Christianity", where she dives head first into 12 objections to Christian faith
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Advancing wildlife genomics through the development of molecular methods
October 19, 2020 Science Daily
A team of scientists report a new method for identifying any genome sequence located next to a known sequence.
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Primates aren't quite frogs
October 19, 2020 Science Daily
Spinal modules in macaques can independently control forelimb force direction and magnitude
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Stephen Meyer, John Lennox: Against the Tide Sweeps Away Atheist “Power Play”
October 19, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Dragon snakeheads -- strange new underground fish -- discovered in India
October 19, 2020 National Geographic
The primitive fishes, which scientists call “living fossils,” represent a new taxonomic family, a rare finding.
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New study shows how complex metabolism may have self-assembled from simple precursors
October 19, 2020 Science Daily
carrier molecules can be made easily in the environment in the absence of biology, providing a hint as to how life may have started
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An unusual mechanism of robustness in charge of brain mRNAs
October 19, 2020 Science Daily
During embryonic development, 3'UTRs in hundreds of RNAs lengthen exclusively in neurons, which is crucial for the cells of the brain to function properly.
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Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
October 19, 2020
New study provides a comprehensive reconstruction of the Permian-Triassic boundary event
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Stephen Meyer Interviews John Lennox about going “Against the Tide"
October 19, 2020 YouTube
Intelligent design proponent Stephen Meyer talks with Oxford mathematician, and debater extraordinaire, John Lennox. Both have explored the intersection of science and faith, and challenged the atheistic materialism pushed by many scholars.
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Why “Science" Follows the Left
October 19, 2020 PowerLine
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2,000-Year-Old Cat Etching Found at Nazca Lines Site in Peru
October 19, 2020 New York Times
Archaeologists came across the faded feline outline while conducting maintenance work at the UNESCO heritage site.