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Book
Higher Ed Is Crumbling
April 13, 2020 Law & Liberty
REVIEW; The Breakdown of Higher Education, by John M. Ellis | See Also Amazon
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Artificial intelligence is evolving all by itself
April 13, 2020 Science
Researchers have created software that borrows concepts from Darwinian evolution, including “survival of the fittest,” to build AI programs that improve generation after generation without human input.
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News Update/Commentary
When fathers are pregnant
April 13, 2020 Science Daily
Immune system alteration identified as key process in the male pregnancy of pipefishes and seahorses
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News Update/Commentary
Vulnerable cells armor themselves against infection by depleting surface cholesterol
April 13, 2020 Science Daily
Cells in some of the body's most vulnerable entry routes to bacterial infection buffer themselves when the immune system detects danger by reorganizing the cholesterol on their surfaces, a new study suggests.
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Pseudogenes Are Going the Way of Darwin’s “Rudimentary Organs”
April 13, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Homo Erectus Skull Conclusively Dated to 2 Million Years Ago, “Nearly Human-Like”
April 13, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Zoom Webinar with Wells, Sternberg on Whale Evolution; Join Us on April 23!
April 13, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Species Barrier? Hawks Jump Genus Lines
April 13, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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What Happened Before The Big Bang Is Not Really a Science Question
April 13, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Sea Creature Challenges Our Conception of Life
April 13, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Another Ancient Primate Lineage Sailed to South America
April 10, 2020 The Scientist
A new fossil discovery indicates a second primate group also traversed the Atlantic millions of years ago on a raft of vegetation.
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No, Despite Often-Heard Claims, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Is Not Evolution
April 10, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Awakening volcanic region in Iceland ‘could cause disruption for centuries'
April 10, 2020 The Guardian
Reykjanes peninsula’s last active period started in 10th century and lasted 300 years
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News Update/Commentary
Flaw in Rubber Hand Illusion raise tough questions for psychology
April 10, 2020 Science Daily
A world-famous psychological experiment used to help explain the brain's understanding of the body, as well as scores of clinical disorders, has been dismissed as not fit-for-purpose in a new article.
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News Update/Commentary
Discovery of a mechanism plants use to toggle on photosynthesis
April 10, 2020 Science Daily
A research team has developed a new tool to study how lipids interact with proteins in plants to help understand how photosynthesis happens.
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Where Do New Genes Come From?
April 9, 2020 Quanta Magazine
In their search for sources of genetic novelty, researchers find that some “orphan genes” with no obvious ancestors evolve out of junk DNA, contrary to old assumptions.
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Fascinating Discovery Suggests Neanderthals Invented String
April 9, 2020 Gizmodo
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New observations show that the Universe might not be expanding at the same rate in all directions
April 9, 2020 Universe Today
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Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa
April 9, 2020 phys.org
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Monkeys made their way from Africa to South America at least twice
April 9, 2020 New Scientist
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Oldest ever piece of string was made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago
April 9, 2020 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
How do mantis shrimp find their way home?
April 9, 2020 Science Daily
New research indicates mantis shrimp use path integration to find their way back to their burrows after leaving to seek food or mates. That means they can track their distance and direction from their starting point.
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News Update/Commentary
Making sense of scents: 3D videos reveal how the nose detects odor combinations
April 9, 2020 Science Daily
Every moment of the day we are surrounded by smells. Odors can bring back memories, or quickly warn us that food has gone bad. But how does our brain identify so many different odors?
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa
April 9, 2020 Science Daily
Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient primates journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa.
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Human Body Marvels You Probably Don’t Know About
April 9, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here’s news of interest to everyone who inhabits a human body. Space aliens, eat your heart out.
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Dark Matter Search Keeps Coming Up Empty
April 9, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Evolutionary Theory Might Explain…a Deadly Disease
April 9, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Doubts about basic assumption for the universe
April 8, 2020 Science Daily
No matter where we look, the same rules apply everywhere in space: countless calculations of astrophysics are based on this basic principle. A recent study, however, has thrown this principle into question.
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Origins of Earth’s magnetic field remain a mystery
April 8, 2020 MIT News
The existence of a magnetic field beyond 3.5 billion years ago is still up for debate.
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Video
Does Science Point to God? -- Stephen Meyer at Dallas Science Faith Conference 2020
April 8, 2020 YouTube
Philosopher of science, intelligent design scholar, teacher, and New York Times bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt, Meyer presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology
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What should Christians think about artificial selection and genetic modification?
April 8, 2020 Creation Ministries International
Where are the ethical boundaries?
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New search methods are ramping up the hunt for alien intelligence
April 8, 2020 Science News
Six decades of radio silence hasn’t stopped scientists from seeking E.T.
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Botanical Marvels: How Plants Catch Light and Take Flight
April 8, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Land plants enhance our world in many ways, but some of the most amazing ways are at the micro level and atomic level.
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We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time
April 8, 2020 New Scientist
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Mishandled Data Determine New Hominid Ages
April 8, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
New fossil from Brazil hints at the origins of the mysterious tanystropheid reptiles
April 8, 2020 Science Daily
New species named after Tolkien's Aragorn hints at early southern evolution for these reptiles
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Watch: Preview Stephen Meyer’s New Book -- The Return of the God Hypothesis
April 8, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Advance in understanding actin sheds light on cell function
April 8, 2020 Science Daily
Atomic level insight into proteins furthers fundamental understanding of human life
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Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come from a Century-Old Approach to Math
April 7, 2020 Quanta Magazine
The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers.
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Viruses Make Good Food for Sea Creatures
April 7, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Coquí fossil from Puerto Rico takes title of oldest Caribbean frog
April 7, 2020 Science Daily
The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely resounded through Caribbean forests for at least 29 million years.
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News Update/Commentary
How wallflowers evolved a complementary pair of plant defenses
April 7, 2020 Science Daily
New findings show that a pair of complementary chemical defenses evolved independently in wallflowers, shaped by co-evolution with local insects
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News Update/Commentary
The evolution of color: How butterfly wings can shift in hue
April 7, 2020 Science Daily
A selective mating experiment by a curious butterfly breeder has led scientists to a deeper understanding of how butterfly wing color is created and evolves.
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Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design: Case of the Coronavirus
April 7, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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High-Speed Bird Communication Is Complex
April 6, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Here’s How to Use Precious Family Time, Wisely
April 6, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
Right now, you may have more opportunities to interact with your children than you are accustomed to. I encourage you to use this time to educate them about intelligent design.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolution of new enzymes by gene duplication and divergence
April 6, 2020 Federation of European Biochemical Societies
Thousands of new metabolic and regulatory enzymes have evolved by gene duplication and divergence since the dawn of life.
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Opposition Is True Friendship: A Remembrance of Adolf Grünbaum (1923-2018)
April 6, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Whale sharks: Atomic tests solve age puzzle of world's largest fish
April 6, 2020 BBC News
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The weirdness of water
April 6, 2020 Chemistry World