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News Update/Commentary
Newly identified cellular trash removal program helps create new neurons
February 27, 2020 Science Daily
New research reveals how a cellular filament helps neural stem cells clear damaged and clumped proteins, an important step in eventually producing new neurons.
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Overlooked arch in the foot is key to its evolution and function
February 26, 2020 Yale News
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Why Is Courtroom Science So Unscientific?
February 26, 2020 Gizmodo
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How Did Belief Evolve?
February 26, 2020 Sapiens
An anthropologist traces the development of Homo sapiens’ most creative and destructive force, from the making of stone tools to the rise of religions.
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Mystery deepens over animal source of coronavirus
February 26, 2020 Nature
Pangolins are a prime suspect, but a slew of genetic analyses has yet to find conclusive proof.
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New Wrinkle Added to Cosmology’s Hubble Crisis
February 26, 2020 Quanta Magazine
A problem confronts cosmology: Two independent measurements of the universe’s expansion give incompatible answers. Now a third method, advanced by an astronomy pioneer, appears to bridge the divide.
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Why String Theory Is Both a Dream and a Nightmare
February 26, 2020 Forbes
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Thousands of Denisovan tools reveal their Stone Age technologies
February 26, 2020 New Scientist
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We have only just figured out how human feet work
February 26, 2020 New Scientist
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Red panda genes suggest there are actually two different species
February 26, 2020 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
How resident microbes restructure body chemistry
February 26, 2020 Science Daily
A comparison of normal and germ-free mice revealed that as much as 70 percent of a mouse's gut chemistry is determined by its gut microbiome.
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News Update/Commentary
Melting properties determine biological functions of cuticular hydrocarbon layer of ants
February 26, 2020 Science Daily
The bodies of ants are covered with wax-like substances known as cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) that serve communication as well as protection against desiccation.
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Behe and Swamidass Debate Evolution and Intelligent Design at Texas A&M
February 26, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwinism and Intelligent Design in Poland
February 26, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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In Episode 3 of Secrets of the Cell, Michael Behe Tests “The Power of Evolution”
February 26, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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What? New Discoveries in Human Anatomy?
February 26, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Ancient viruses buried in our DNA may reawaken and cause illness
February 26, 2020 New Scientist
Stress or infection may prompt viruses hidden in our genome to stagger back to life, contributing to some cases of multiple sclerosis, diabetes and schizophrenia
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Video
Bugs with Gears
February 26, 2020 Discovery Science
Explore the amazing gears in insects and then investigate the power of evolution in episode 3 of “Secrets of the Cell” hosted by biochemist and bestselling author
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Evolutionist Admits Darwin’s Connection to Racism
February 26, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Finally, some honesty about Darwin’s direct connection to racism: One AAAS scientist admits evolution’s sordid past
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Researchers: Photosynthesis May Be a Billion Years Older Than Thought … But WAIT!
February 26, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists Find the First-Ever Animal That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
February 25, 2020 Science Alert
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Milk and Health: The Evidence
February 25, 2020 Science-Based Medicine
A useful review of all the current evidence about milk and health provides a lot of surprises. It shows that current recommendations are flawed and that much of what we have believed is wrong.
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Peppered Moth Color Changes Are Engineered
February 25, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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How Can We Study Consciousness Scientifically?
February 25, 2020 Mind Matters
Tam Hunt offers some ideas at Scientific American but his dismissal of objectivity is cause for concern. There is a better way.
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Mars InSighters and Mars InBlinders
February 25, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The Mars Insight lander has been on the red planet for a year, looking for evidence of geological activity and life.
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Will Alien Life First Be Discovered on Europa, Exoplanets, or from Extraterrestrials?
February 25, 2020 Forbes
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News Update/Commentary
Deaf moths evolved noise-cancelling scales to evade predators
February 25, 2020 Science Daily
Scales shown to be more efficient than today's sound engineering technology
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News Update/Commentary
By gum! Scientists find new 110-million-year-old treasure
February 25, 2020 Science Daily
A student made the discovery while examining fossilized leaves of the Welwitschiophyllum plant, found in the Crato Formation, Brazil. She noticed thin amber-colored bands locked inside some of the fossilized leaves she was studying.
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Scientific Stagnation Is Not Inevitable
February 25, 2020 National Review
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When Does Human Life Begin?
February 25, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Epigenetics: Researchers Say Separation Stress May Alter Small Children’s Genes
February 25, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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First Known Animal That Doesn’t Breathe
February 25, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists Discover the First Animal That Doesn’t Breathe Oxygen to Live
February 25, 2020 Motherboard (tech by Vice)
The parasite -- which lacks mitochondria, and the genes and proteins needed for breathing -- yet again expands our horizons for the possibilities of life on Earth.
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Book
A ‘genealogical’ Adam and Eve?
February 25, 2020 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry by S. Joshua Swamidass | See Also Intervarsity Press
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Neo-Darwinism and the Big Bang of Man’s Origin
February 25, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Cockroaches preserved in amber are the world’s oldest cave dwellers
February 25, 2020 Nature
Insects showing adaptations to cavernous life scuttled the Earth 99 million years ago.
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Gene loss more important in animal kingdom evolution than previously thought
February 24, 2020 University of Bristol
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Blog Post
Dinosaurs Under the Tundra, Part 1:
February 24, 2020 American Geophysical Union
Talking about Climate Change with a Climate Skeptic
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Alien-life hunters are eyeing icy ocean moons Europa and Enceladus
February 24, 2020 space.com
The late 2030s are a realistic launch target for an alien-ocean explorer, should NASA choose to develop one.
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‘Never Say Die’: Genetic Sleuths Rediscover Extinct Species
February 24, 2020 New York Times
The rediscovery of an insect in Wales hints at environmental DNA sampling’s potential to change endangered species protection.
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News Update/Commentary
Surprising evolutionary shift in snakes
February 24, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists document example of adaptation to compensate for absence of defensive compounds following change to new class of prey
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News Update/Commentary
CRISPR gene cuts may offer new way to chart human genome
February 24, 2020 Science Daily
In search of new ways to sequence human genomes and read critical alterations in DNA, researchers say they have successfully used the gene cutting tool CRISPR to make cuts in DNA around lengthy tumor genes
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In the Beginning: How the Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Got Their Start
February 24, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
Privileged Species: Human Uniqueness
February 24, 2020 Discovery Science
Are humans the accidental products of a blind and uncaring universe? Or are they the beneficiaries of a cosmic order that was planned beforehand to help them flourish? Excerpted from the documentary “Privileged Species."
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News Update/Commentary
One billion-year-old green seaweed fossils identified, relative of modern land plants
February 24, 2020 Science Daily
Paleontologists have made a remarkable discovery in China: 1 billion-year-old micro-fossils of green seaweeds that could be related to the ancestor of the earliest land plants and trees that first developed 450 million years ago.
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The Evolution of the Eye, Demystified
February 24, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Green Plants Discovered in China Dated at a Billion Years Ago
February 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Science Writer Dons Sandwich Board: Ask Me Anything about Evolution!
February 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Forbes’ Physics Columnist Ethan Siegel Can’t Wait To Get Beyond The Big Bang
February 24, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Prickly waterlily and rigid hornwort genomes shed light on early angiosperm evolution
February 24, 2020 Nature Plants
Angiosperms represent one of the most spectacular terrestrial radiations on the planet, but their early diversification and phylogenetic relationships remain uncertain.