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‘Avalanche’ of spider-paper retractions shakes behavioural-ecology community
February 7, 2020 Nature
Allegations of fabricated data have prompted a university investigation and some soul-searching.
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Researchers Find Cell-Free Mitochondria Floating in Human Blood
February 7, 2020 The Scientist
The functional, respiring organelles appear to be present in the blood of healthy people, but their function is yet unclear.
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Cancer Is Devolution
February 7, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A major consortium examined 2,658 cancer genomes and found evolution going downward, not upward.
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News Update/Commentary
Simulating a universe in which Newton's laws are only partially valid
February 7, 2020 Science Daily
For the first time, researchers have simulated the formation of galaxies in a universe without dark matter. To replicate this process on the computer, they have instead modified Newton's laws of gravity.
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Ethan Siegel Warns Us Against Five Myths About The Big Bang
February 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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ID Literature and the Great Evolutionary Firewall
February 7, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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“Let’s See Them Rip Up Dr. Neto’s Science Papers… "
February 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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At Nature: Worries Aired About “Truth Decay”, Rob Sheldon Responds
February 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Coronaviruses in creation
February 6, 2020 Creation Ministries International
Does the recent coronavirus outbreak support evolution?
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Getting “Intelligent Design” Backward
February 6, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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“Phantom Genes” Turn Out To Be Useful
February 6, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Sokal Hoaxer Peter Boghossian Makes Some Utah State Students Feel That They Are Not “Safe”
February 6, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Antarctic Ice Cores Might Be Older Than Dirt
February 6, 2020 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Using cosmogenic nuclide dating, scientists determined a 10-meter core just below the surface to be over a million years old.
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Theological Fraud
February 6, 2020 First Things
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Did Neutrinos Stop the Early Universe from Annihilating Itself?
February 6, 2020 Universe Today
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Anti-Plagiarism Software Goof: Paper Rejected for Repeat Citations
February 6, 2020 Mind Matters
The scholar was obliged by discipline rules to cite the flagged information repetitively
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Researchers: Trees “Sense" Their Height and Weight
February 6, 2020 Mind Matters
We have only recently discovered how complex plant communications are
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Don't Believe These 5 Myths About The Big Bang
February 6, 2020 Forbes
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Did the Chicken Come First or Is It Turtles All the Way Down?
February 6, 2020 Quanta Magazine
The apparent paradox of the chicken and the egg smells like “turtles all the way down.” This puzzle shows how biology and physics can overcome infinite regress.
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Have humans evolved beyond nature -- and do we even need it?
February 6, 2020 The Conversation
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How plants are built to be strong and responsive
February 6, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers have solved the long-standing mystery of how plants control the arrangement of their cellulose fibers.
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Breathing may change your mind about free will
February 6, 2020 Science Daily
Do you think that you are clicking on that button when your mind decides to do so? Think again
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‘Reading' proteins for new properties
February 6, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers can now translate patterns to determine how a protein will condense during phase separation
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“Secrets of the Cell" hosted by Michael Behe -- Trailer
February 5, 2020 YouTube
The cell is what biochemist Michael Behe has called evolution’s “black box,” its spectacularly complex, superbly designed contents unknown to Charles Darwin.
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Landmark study to transform cancer treatment
February 5, 2020 BBC
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Penguin calls found to conform to human linguistic laws
February 5, 2020 phys.org
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Wise Blood: Antibodies, the Principle of Overcoming in Disease (Part 2)
February 5, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Neanderthals’ relatives climbed an erupting volcano 350,000 years ago
February 5, 2020 ars technica
A new study says footprints in volcanic rock probably belong to Homo heidelbergensis.
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Same-sex attraction isn't an evolutionary paradox -- here's why
February 5, 2020 New Scientist
Our explanations for how same-sex attraction evolved are wrong -- it's the spectrum of sexuality that is important
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The flawed experiment that destroyed the world's faith in psychiatry
February 5, 2020 New Scientist
Fifty years ago, psychiatrist David Rosenhan went undercover in a psychiatric hospital to expose its dark side. But his shocking findings aren't what they seem
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How to silence an X chromosome
February 5, 2020 Nature
The non-coding RNA Xist has been shown to enlist the SPEN protein to recruit a team of protein complexes -- initiating the process that prevents transcription of one of the two X chromosomes found in female mammalian cells.
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Scientists unravel mystery of photosynthesis
February 5, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists have solved a critical part of the mystery of photosynthesis, focusing on the initial, ultrafast events through which photosynthetic proteins capture light and use it to initiate a series of electron transfer reactions.
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Genome stability: Intricate process of DNA repair discovered
February 5, 2020 Science Daily
The findings further challenge the belief that broken DNA floats aimlessly -- and highlight the value of cross-disciplinary research in biology and physics.
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Gene variants provide insight into brain, body incongruence in transgender
February 5, 2020 Science Daily
Some of the first biological evidence of the incongruence transgender individuals experience, because their brain indicates they are one sex and their body another, may have been found in estrogen receptor pathways in the brain of transgender individuals.
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Why males pack a powerful punch
February 5, 2020 Science Daily
Upper arm strength, different from females', may have specialized for forceful blows
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Retraction Watch Guys Hallucinate “Intelligent Design” Yet Again
February 5, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Steve Fuller in Times Higher: Academics Are the Last “Feudal Lords”
February 5, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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The Wholly Accidental World of the Placenta…
February 5, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: We Switched the Direction of Electrons in Photosynthesis
February 5, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved
February 5, 2020 The Institute of Art and Ideas
The sooner we acknowledge it, the sooner we’ll solve the hard problem of consciousness
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Superintelligent AI Is Still a Myth
February 5, 2020 Mind Matters
Neither the old classical approaches nor the new data scientific angle can make any headway on good ol’ common sense
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Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence
February 5, 2020 New Scientist
With the help of their webs, spiders are capable of foresight, planning, learning and other smarts that indicate they may possess consciousness
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Meet Iowa's 400,000-Year-Old Living Fossil
February 4, 2020 Gizmodo
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Evolution & Racism
February 4, 2020 Commonweal
Complementary Conclusions in Science and Catholicism
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Born Kind? Researchers Prove Altruism Begins in Infancy
February 4, 2020 Study Finds
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Mathematicians Prove Universal Law of Turbulence
February 4, 2020 Quanta Magazine
By exploiting randomness, three mathematicians have proved an elegant law that underlies the chaotic motion of turbulent systems.
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Natural Selection Is Neither Natural nor Selection
February 4, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists keep failing to grasp the inherent illogic of their favorite explanation for everything.
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Step aside CRISPR, RNA editing is taking off
February 4, 2020 Nature
Making changes to the molecular messengers that create proteins might offer flexible therapies for cancer, pain or high cholesterol, in addition to genetic disorders.
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Wasps' gut microbes help them -- and their offspring -- survive pesticides
February 4, 2020 Science Daily
Additionally, the altered microbiome confers atrazine resistance, which is inherited across successive generations not exposed to the pesticide.
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Water, water everywhere, and it's weirder than you think
February 4, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers show that liquid water has 2 distinct molecular arrangements: tetrahedral and non-tetrahedral. By computer simulations and analysis of X-ray scattering data, the researchers were able to settle a very old controversy in science.