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DNA May Be “Junk” at One Level But of Utmost Significance at Another
July 29, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists Discover Source of Stonehenge's Largest Boulders
July 29, 2020 Gizmodo
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The invisible superpower that helped dinosaurs conquer the world
July 29, 2020 New Scientist
From beginnings as skulking, cat-sized reptiles, dinosaurs came to rule Earth for 100 million years -- but how? Their secret wasn’t teeth or claws, but something deep inside them
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Native Creationists
July 28, 2020 Core Academy of Science
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What dark matter is (probably) not
July 28, 2020 Symmetry magazine
No one knows for sure what dark matter is. But we know we need something to explain what we see in the universe, and we’ve crossed a few ideas off of our list.
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An Alternative to Dark Matter Passes Critical Test
July 28, 2020 Quanta Magazine
Modified gravity theories have never been able to describe the universe’s first light. A new formulation does.
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Bacteria dug up from beneath the seabed may be 100 million years old
July 28, 2020 New Scientist
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Mysterious evolution of wonky whale skulls revealed by new study
July 28, 2020 The Conversation
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Rest, Revival, and Creation
July 28, 2020 Creation Ministries International
Genesis negates evolutionary compromise
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‘Impossible’ Hybrid Suggests Non-Darwinian Change
July 28, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Animals may be more capable of sharing genetic information than coming up with it de novo.
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News Update/Commentary
Deep sea microbes dormant for 100 million years are hungry and ready to multiply
July 28, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers reveal that given the right food in the right laboratory conditions, microbes collected from subseafloor sediment as old as 100 million years can revive and multiply, even after laying dormant since large dinosaurs prowled the planet.
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Astrophysicist investigates the possibility of life below the surface of Mars
July 28, 2020 Science Daily
Although no life has been detected on the Martian surface, a new study from astrophysicist and research scientist finds that conditions below the surface could potentially support it.
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Exposure to enzymes causes peculiar response in liquid droplets formed by DNA
July 28, 2020 Science Daily
‘A watched pot never boils,' as the saying goes, but that was not the case for researchers watching a ‘pot' of liquids formed from DNA. In fact, the opposite happened.
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The Fairy Tale World of an Evolution Textbook
July 28, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Perseverance Rover, Whatever Befalls It, Is Real Science
July 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Offers To Explain How The Universe Made Us
July 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists reveal an explosive secret hidden beneath seemingly trustworthy volcanoes
July 28, 2020 Science Daily
Volcanologists working on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago have found that volcanoes can hide chemically diverse magmas in their underground plumbing systems -- including some with the potential to generate explosive activity.
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How Much of Today’s Anarchic Nihilism Can Be Laid at Darwin’s Feet?
July 28, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists reveal an explosive secret hidden beneath seemingly trustworthy volcanoes
July 28, 2020 Science Daily
Volcanologists working on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago have found that volcanoes hide chemically diverse magmas in their underground plumbing systems -- including some with the potential to generate explosive activity.
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News Update/Commentary
New approach refines the Hubble's constant and age of universe
July 27, 2020 Science Daily
Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to refine calculations in Hubble's constant, astronomers estimates the age of the universe at 12.6 billion years.
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Sabine Hossenfelder: Einstein’s Greatest Legacy Was the Thought Experiment
July 27, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Could COVID-19 Help Us Understand the Current Buzz in Science Media About Space Aliens?
July 27, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Measuring ripples in the curvature of space-time
July 27, 2020 Nature
Experimental physicist Sheila Rowan works with laser beams and suspended mirrors to sharpen detection of collapsing stars and other celestial events.
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How Can Life Forms Show Intelligence with No Brain?
July 27, 2020 Mind Matters
A Wall Street Journal piece points to the flatworm as an example
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Origins2020 recap
July 27, 2020 Core Academy of Science
The weirdness of 2020 continued last week with our first Origins conference conducted entirely online.
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A College Student Gets Educated on Darwinian “Morality”
July 26, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ethics Prof Slams Claims About Why Pregnant Women “Nest"
July 26, 2020 Mind Matters
Evolutionary psychology is among the “scienciest” of the sciences; implicit belief does not require serious evidence
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Richard Dawkins, as Seen Apart from Proxy Darwin Worship
July 26, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Wintery Knight: Does the Multiverse Counter the Fine-Tuning Argument for God’s Existence?
July 26, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Nancy Pearcey: A Dispatch from the Woke War on Math
July 26, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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But, in the End, Did the Chimpanzee Really Talk?
July 25, 2020 Mind Matters
A recent article in the Smithsonian Magazine sheds light on the motivations behind the need to see bonobos as something like an oppressed people, rather than apes in need of protection
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By Design, Earth Is a Planet Fit for Fire
July 25, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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The real science behind SETI’s hunt for intelligent aliens
July 25, 2020 ars technica
Inside the current hunt for “technosignatures” in radio waves.
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The New York Times Runs an “Aliens Are Maybe Real” Story
July 25, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Fossil tracks: Wrong number of fingers leads down wrong track
July 24, 2020 Science Daily
Have you ever wondered why our hands have five fingers while amphibians usually only have four? Until now it was assumed that this was already the case with the early ancestors of today's frogs and salamanders, the Temnospondyli.
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Darwinist: ID Could Have Redeemed Itself by Leaping to Prejudged Conclusion on COVID-19
July 24, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Reconciling Evolution and Cooperation
July 24, 2020 Science 2.0
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The Doctor from Nazi Germany and the Search for Life on Mars
July 24, 2020 New York Times
Astrobiologists have used Mars Jars for decades. Many didn’t know about the controversial Air Force scientist who started them.
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Ear Muscle “Wiggle”: A Vestigial-Organ Claim That We Should ‘Turn a Deaf Ear To’
July 24, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Human ears were not designed to wiggle; their muscles were designed for other functions
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Plagues Can Arise Quickly Without Evolution
July 24, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Smallpox and mosquitoes illustrate how diseases can arise quickly and spread through human populations.
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News Update/Commentary
Different from a computer: Why the brain never processes the same input in the same way
July 24, 2020 Science Daily
The brain never processes the same information in the same way. Scientists have found out why this is the case and how it works. A decisive role plays a critical state of the neuronal networks.
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic mutations help MRSA to become highly resistant to antibiotics
July 24, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists have found that genetic mutations in MRSA allow it to evolve and become more resistant to antibiotics such as penicillin.
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Researchers Have Discovered More About the Tiny Packages Cells Use to Move Molecules Around
July 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Neurons are genetically programmed to have long lives
July 24, 2020 Science Daily
study identifies mechanism that prevents death of neurons
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Has the Genetic Code for Mammals Gained Another Letter?
July 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Neurons Are Programmed for Long Life, Not Like Other Cells
July 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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In Carbon Isotope Excursions, Darwinists Lose Another Excuse for the Cambrian Explosion
July 23, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Neanderthal gene linked to increased pain sensitivity
July 23, 2020 Nature
People who have inherited nerve-altering mutations from the ancient hominins tend to experience more pain.
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World’s smallest dinosaur is probably a lizard
July 23, 2020 Nature
Paper that reported the animal’s discovery was retracted following new evidence from a similar fossil.
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Learning Without a Brain
July 23, 2020 Wall Street Journal
New research shows that even slime molds and flatworms can figure out how to change in response to their environment.