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Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head
October 19, 2020 New York Times
They appear to be a fourth pair of large salivary glands, tucked into the space where the nasal cavity meets the throat.
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The Booming Call of De-extinction
October 19, 2020 The Scientist
Scientists seek to combine genome editing with a technique used in chicken breeding to try to bring back lost birds.
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Sappy OOL Hypothesis Turns Sour
October 19, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A spoonful of sugar helps an unrealistic origins story go down, but it doesn’t make it nutritious.
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Getting Carbon into the First Cell
October 19, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists map the human proteome
October 19, 2020 Science Daily
Twenty years after the release of the human genome, the genetic ‘blueprint' of human life, an international research team has now mapped the first draft sequence of the human proteome.
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News Update/Commentary
Prebiotic chemistry: In the beginning, there was sugar
October 19, 2020 Science Daily
Organic molecules formed the basis for the evolution of life. But how could inorganic precursors have given rise to them? Chemists now reports a reaction pathway in which minerals catalyze the formation of sugars in the absence of water.
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Morphogenesis: Coding for Shape
October 19, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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“Castro Consensus”: Scientific Paper Takes a Fresh Look at Scientific Agreement
October 19, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science Writer Mourns the Slow Suicide of Science
October 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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That Notorious ID Paper Was the One Most Downloaded from the Journal …
October 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Huge cat found etched into desert among Nazca Lines in Peru
October 18, 2020 The Guardian
Feline geoglyph from 200-100BC emerges during work at Unesco world heritage site
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The curious DNA circles that make treating cancer so hard
October 18, 2020 Chemical & Engineering News, v.98, n.40
Scientists are examining long-ignored extrachromosomal DNA to understand how cancer evolves resistance to drugs. Can the clues help us outfox cancer itself?
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A Humanities Scholar Gets a Clue About What Darwinism IS
October 18, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Religion, Science, … and the Religion of Science Facing COVID-19
October 18, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Genetic Diversity on Noah’s Ark
October 17, 2020 Creation Ministries International
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Watching Microorganisms Bend “The Rules” of Evolution
October 17, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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ID by Another Name?
October 17, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
Astronomer says 50 percent chance we’re living in computer simulation
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Does Science Fiction Hint That We Are Actually Doomed?
October 17, 2020 Mind Matters
That’s the implication of an influential theory as to why we never see extraterrestrials
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Neuroscience Can Help Us Understand Why Free Will Is Real
October 17, 2020 Mind Matters
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder and biologist Jerry Coyne, who deny free will, don’t seem to understand the neuroscience
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Evolution in Action, or Evolutionist Inaction?
October 16, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
When critiques have been forbidden, lazy evolutionary biologists get away with incompetent scientific work and inept thinking.
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News Update/Commentary
Pinpointing the ‘silent' mutations that gave the coronavirus an evolutionary edge
October 16, 2020 Science Daily
RNA folding may help explain how the coronavirus became so hard to stop after it spilled over from wildlife to humans
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Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Challenges the Evidence for Cosmological Fine-Tuning
October 16, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Universal assembly instructions for the placenta
October 16, 2020 Nature
Our understanding of how mammalian embryos develop is based largely on mice. A study now reveals striking similarities and intriguing differences between mouse, cow and human embryos.
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A Darwinist Recognizes (Some of) the Stakes in the Intelligent Design Debate
October 16, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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The science of wisdom
October 15, 2020 Aeon
Psychological science can now measure and nurture wisdom, superseding the speculations of philosophy and religion
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Religion, Science, and the Religion of Science
October 15, 2020 Tablet magazine
New York’s scapegoated Haredi communities appear to be the last Americans capable of maintaining a sane balance between science and faith
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Nucleus Is Key to How Cells Sense Personal Space
October 15, 2020 The Scientist
In two independent studies, researchers find that the organelle is responsible for a switch that allows cells to start moving when they’re squeezed.
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Lipid Droplets Are Intracellular Bacteria-Fighting Machines
October 15, 2020 The Scientist
Far from being inert fat-storage depots within cells, these lipid-loaded organelles recruit immune proteins and block bacterial growth.
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Climate Change Helped Drive Homo sapiens’ Cousins Extinct: Study
October 15, 2020 The Scientist
Sharp drops in global temperatures helped seal the fate of three extinct hominin species, including our close relatives, the Neanderthals, according to thousands of archaeological specimens and a model of past climate conditions.
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Claims that Humans Are Evolving Fall Apart When Examined
October 15, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evidence humans are ‘evolving as we speak’ turns out to be no evidence for evolution: what is changing is largely the persistence of a nerve
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Monkey study suggests that they, like humans, may have ‘self-domesticated'
October 15, 2020 Science Daily
This is the first study linking the degree of a social trait with the size of a physical sign of domestication, in any species.
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News Update/Commentary
Climate change likely drove early human species to extinction, modeling study suggests
October 15, 2020 Science Daily
a study combining climate modeling and the fossil record in search of clues to what led to extinctions suggests that climate change -- the inability to adapt to either warming or cooling temperatures -- likely played a major role
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Supergene discovery leads to new knowledge of fire ants
October 15, 2020 Science Daily
The research could help development of new pest control methods
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And Now… New Scientist Tells Us Herd Immunity Is “Bad Science”… Rob Sheldon Responds
October 15, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Incredible details of 10,000-year-old trek revealed in fossil footprints
October 15, 2020 National Geographic
A prehistoric traveler carried a child across a muddy landscape, returning a few hours later empty-handed.
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Taking Applications Now to Be Our New Education and Outreach Coordinator!
October 15, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything?
October 14, 2020 Vox
Bad papers are still published. But some other things might be getting better.
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How Venus flytraps store short-term ‘memories’ of prey
October 14, 2020 Science News
Calcium concentrations in leaf cells signal when the carnivorous plants should snap shut
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World first study shows that some microorganisms can bend the rules of evolution
October 14, 2020 Science Daily
The dominant thinking in evolution focuses on inheritance between parent and offspring -- or ‘vertical gene transfer (VGT)'. But now scientists are paying more attention to ‘horizontal gene transfer (HGT)'
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Why Nature supports Joe Biden for US president
October 14, 2020 Nature
We cannot stand by and let science be undermined. Joe Biden’s trust in truth, evidence, science and democracy make him the only choice in the US election.
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Does Darwinism Conflict with Religion?
October 14, 2020 Areo
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Blog Post
Duke University’s stem cell program for autism: The dark(er) side of quackademic medicine
October 14, 2020 Respectful Insolence
Despite a lack of evidence Duke University is all-in on stem cells for autism, thanks to a billionaire benefactor and a Panama stem cell clinic.
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The bizarre anti-vaccine paper a Florida professor has been trying to have retracted to no avail
October 14, 2020 Retraction Watch
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Tardigrades survive deadly radiation by glowing in the dark
October 14, 2020 New Scientist
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‘Ums' and ‘ers' are a hidden code that helped complex language evolve
October 14, 2020 New Scientist
Filler words such as uh, mmm and huh may seem inarticulate, but without them human communication would be far less sophisticated
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It is bad science to say covid-19 infections will create herd immunity
October 14, 2020 New Scientist
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Big Science Abandons Political Neutrality
October 14, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The self-assumed voices of science are now overtly political, and proud of it. Predictably, they have followed the globalist leftists.
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How leaves reflect light reveals evolutionary history of seed plants
October 14, 2020 Science Daily
The researchers found that by measuring the light spectrum reflected by leaves, they can identify the plant and its chemistry, evolution and place in the tree of life.
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Why do identical cells act differently? Team unravels sources of cellular ‘noise'
October 14, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers demonstrated that most of the fluctuations in gene expression between identical cells occur in the first step of protein production, called transcription.
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Optimism in a Dark Time: Meyer, Lennox, and the “God Hypothesis”
October 14, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today