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(Reformed) New Scientist 3: The Selfish Gene Is No Longer Cool
September 26, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Bird genes are multitaskers, say scientists
September 26, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists have found that although male and female birds have an almost identical set of genes, they function differently in each sex through a mechanism called alternative splicing.
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Cancel Darwin? No, But Do Recognize How Evolution Boosted Racism
September 25, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
The male Y chromosome does more than we thought
September 25, 2020 Science Daily
While the Y chromosome's role was believed to be limited to the functions of the sexual organs, a scientist has shown that it impacts the functions of other organs as well.
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Did Neanderthals Really Live in Caves?
September 25, 2020 Discover magazine
Despite their reputation as cave dwellers, there was a lot more variety in where these ancient human ancestors called home.
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A 5D universe is plausible given the data
September 25, 2020 medium.com
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Rapid evolution due to extreme climate events could lead to extinction
September 25, 2020 New Scientist
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Ancient microbial life used arsenic to thrive in a world without oxygen
September 25, 2020 The Conversation
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Newly Discovered Brain Structure May Grant Birds Impressive Intelligence
September 25, 2020 Real Clear Science
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News Update/Commentary
The surprising organization of avian brains
September 25, 2020 Science Daily
A research team clears up 150 years of false assumptions
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News Update/Commentary
Primate brain size does not predict their intelligence
September 25, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists from Göttingen compare cognitive skills of different primate species
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Researchers Have Been Confirming Quantum Entanglement in Brain Tissue
September 25, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Reformed New Scientist 2: Evolution Shows Intelligence
September 25, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Man Finds 9-Carat Diamond He Thought Was Glass in Arkansas State Park: ‘I Was in Complete Shock'
September 25, 2020 People
“I honestly teared up when they told me," Kevin Kinard recalled of the moment he learned his crystal was a 9.07-carat diamond
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How Much Can New AI Tell Us About Ancient Times?
September 24, 2020 Mind Matters
An ambitious new project hopes to use the predictive text that cell phones use to unlock their stories
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Life on Earth may have begun in hostile hot springs
September 24, 2020 Science News
Understanding how complex molecules formed on our planet could guide the search for life elsewhere in the solar system
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Y chromosomes of Neandertals and Denisovans now sequenced
September 24, 2020 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Neandertals have adopted male sex chromosome from modern humans
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“100-Million-Year-Old" Bacteria?
September 24, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Y Chromosome from Early Modern Humans Replaced Neanderthal Y
September 24, 2020 The Scientist
A selective advantage may have led the modern human Y chromosome to sweep through the Neanderthal population after it was introduced via interbreeding more than 100,000 years ago.
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Darwinians Displayed Bones of Inferior Races in Museums
September 24, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Displaying the bones of ‘inferior races’ in museums: The whitewashing of Darwinism may be ending
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News Update/Commentary
A question of reality
September 24, 2020 Science Daily
Physicists have published a review that explores Bell's inequalities and his concepts of reality and explains their relevance to quantum information and its applications.
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News Update/Commentary
Placenta is initiated first, as cells of a fertilized egg divide and specialize
September 24, 2020 Science Daily
The finding highlights the importance of healthy placental development in pregnancy, and could lead to future improvements in fertility treatments such as IVF, and a better understanding of placental-related diseases in pregnancy.
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Bechly Series: No Ancestors for Cambrian Animals; Darwin’s Doubt Remains
September 24, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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(Reformed) New Scientist on the Genome: Not Destiny
September 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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At The Scientist: Stuff About Darwinian Racism We’ve Been Saying for Years…
September 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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New Origin of Life Theory Emphasizes a Hostile OOL Environment
September 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Astronomers may have found the first planet in another galaxy
September 23, 2020 New Scientist
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Physicists Argue That Black Holes from the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter
September 23, 2020 Quanta Magazine
It was an old idea of Stephen Hawking’s: Unseen “primordial” black holes might be the hidden dark matter. It fell out of favor for decades, but a new series of studies has shown how the theory can work.
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A mother mouse’s gut microbes help wire her pup’s brain
September 23, 2020 Science News
Research in mice links mom’s gut microbes to her baby’s sensory connections
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What Is Math?
September 23, 2020 Smithsonian Magazine
A teenager asked that age-old question on TikTok, creating a viral backlash, and then, a thoughtful scientific debate
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The longest whale dive ever recorded clocks in at almost 4 hours
September 23, 2020 New Scientist
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Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn't Be
September 23, 2020 Popular Mechanics
They might just rewrite the history of human migration.
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How a 6-year-old had half his brain removed and recovered in 3 months
September 23, 2020 New Scientist
David Eagleman's book Livewired explores neuroplasticity, the brain's superpower, which lets it reshape after extreme surgery and adapt to losing a sense
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News Update/Commentary
Genome duplications as evolutionary adaptation strategy
September 23, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers study relationship of morphological variation and biological diversity in plants
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At New Scientist: We Must Rethink the (Darwinian) Theory of Nature
September 23, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Mathematicians Debate the War on Math
September 23, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Some frogs have evolved eyes that are far too big for their bodies
September 23, 2020 New Scientist
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Evolution is evolving: 13 ways we must rethink the theory of nature
September 23, 2020 New Scientist
Do species really exist? Are genes destiny? Do only the fittest survive? Can we shape or stop evolution? New insights into nature are providing surprising answers, and a glorious new picture of life’s complexity
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News Update/Commentary
Structural biology: Ribosomes and Russian dolls
September 23, 2020 Science Daily
Maturation of the ribosome is a complex operation. Work now shows that the 90S precursor of the small 40S subunit undergoes a ‘molting' process, during which it progressively discards its outermost components.
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Louis Agassiz and Alexander Winchell
September 23, 2020 Answers in Genesis
Two Case Histories of Creationists Who Illustrate That Rejecting Genesis Influences the Acceptance of Racism
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Sleep on It: Design in the Subconscious Brain
September 23, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Gravity causes homogeneity of the universe
September 22, 2020 Universität Wien
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A Bridge Too Far? In Search of Precambrian Sponges
September 22, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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People in Cape Verde evolved better malaria resistance in 550 years
September 22, 2020 New Scientist
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Isn’t the Whale Transitional Series a Perfect Example of Evolution?
September 22, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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The Lancet Alters Editorial Practices After Surgisphere Scandal
September 22, 2020 The Scientist
The changes, which affect the declarations authors have to sign and the peer-review process, have received a mixed response from the scientific community.
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Scientific Journals Are Now Like Facebook
September 22, 2020 American Council on Science and Health
Bad behavior has consequences, except when you are a social media platform.
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More Unknowns Found in Climate Change Models
September 22, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
(continued from yesterday)
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Living in an anoxic world: Microbes using arsenic are a link to early life
September 22, 2020 Science Daily
Much of life on planet Earth today relies on oxygen to exist, but before oxygen was present on our blue planet, lifeforms likely used arsenic instead.
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News Update/Commentary
‘Cheater mitochondria' may profit from cellular stress coping mechanisms
September 22, 2020 Science Daily
Cheating mitochondria may take advantage of cellular mechanisms for coping with food scarcity in a simple worm to persist, even though this can reduce the worm's wellbeing.