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Evidence for a Young Earth and Creation
November 29, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Homo sapiens Might Not Be Responsible for Neanderthal Demise
November 29, 2019 The Scientist
Researchers’ simulations suggest that small population sizes and inbreeding made Neanderthal populations vulnerable to chance fluctuations in population size.
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Fact and Fiction: Ohio Bill Stirs Needless Alarm
November 29, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Bacterial Flagellar Hook As a Universal Joint
November 29, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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So Then Maybe We ARE Privileged Observers
November 29, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists Recreated Volcanic Lightning by Blasting Ash Out of a Cannon
November 29, 2019 Gizmodo
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Siberia: 18,000-year-old frozen ‘dog' stumps scientists
November 28, 2019 BBC
Researchers are trying to determine whether an 18,000-year-old puppy found in Siberia is a dog or a wolf.
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Does AI Challenge Biblical Archeology?
November 28, 2019 Mind Matters
Many surviving documents are so damaged that they cannot be read using traditional methods.
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Those Neanderthals Were Always Too Dumb to Know How Dumb We Needed Them to Be
November 28, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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In This Version, We Did NOT Kill Off the Neanderthals
November 28, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Animal Embryos Evolved Before Animals
November 28, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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New Atheism: An Autopsy
November 27, 2019 Arc Digital
What to make of online unbelief -- now that its moment is over
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New Study Claims We Probably Didn't Wipe Out the Neanderthals After All
November 27, 2019 Science Alert
They disappeared about 40,000 years ago. Despite their rich culture, their robust anatomy, and the many similarities we shared, Neanderthals vanished from the face of the Earth. Why?
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Dinosaurs Had Reptilian Metabolic Adaptation
November 27, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Animal embryos evolved before animals
November 27, 2019 University of Bristol
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Top Dark Matter Candidate Loses Ground to Tiniest Competitor
November 27, 2019 Quanta Magazine
Physicists have long searched for hypothesized dark matter particles called WIMPs. Now, focus may be shifting to the axion -- an ultra-lightweight particle whose existence would solve two mysteries at once.
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Malaria parasites fine-tune mutations to resist drugs
November 27, 2019 Nature
Drug resistance in malaria parasites is mediated by mutations in a transporter protein. The transporter’s structure reveals the molecular basis of how key mutations bring about resistance to different drugs.
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Is This the First Fossil of an Embryo?
November 27, 2019 New York Times
Mysterious 609-million-year-old balls of cells may be the oldest animal embryos -- or something else entirely.
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Studying the universe’s origins hint that its beginning has no end
November 27, 2019 New Scientist
The cosmos is stranger than we ever imagined and new bubbles of space-time may pop up and grow continuously with no beginning or end
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News Update/Commentary
Solving fossil mystery could aid quest for ancient life on Mars
November 27, 2019 Science Daily
The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by fresh insights into ancient rocks on Earth.
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers study chickens, ostriches, penguins to learn how flight feathers evolved
November 27, 2019 Science Daily
If you took a careful look at the feathers on a chicken, you'd find many different forms within the same bird -- even within a single feather.
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Will AI End Astrophysics As We Know It?
November 27, 2019 Mind Matters
Astrophysicists will certainly be spending much less time staring at very slowly changing skies
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Academics should not need to live in fear for the pursuit of their science
November 27, 2019 Nature
Attacks on scholars are on the rise at the same time as universities find themselves at the centre of student protests.
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Body Wonders to Be Thankful For
November 27, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
You may not have much money or fancy belongings, but you live in the greatest traveling home one could wish for.
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News Update/Commentary
Humans co-evolved with immune-related diseases -- and it's still happening
November 27, 2019 Science Daily
Some of the same mutations allowing humans to fend off deadly infections also make us more prone to certain inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, such as Crohn's disease.
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News Update/Commentary
Inbreeding and population/demographic shifts could have led to Neanderthal extinction
November 27, 2019 Science Daily
Neanderthal extinction could have occurred without environmental pressure or competition with modern humans
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Design in the First Animals
November 27, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Evolution of Neanderthal Spin
November 27, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Q&A with Behe: Your Thoughts on Common Descent?
November 27, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Claim: Many Types of Human Were Kayoed in the Sixth Great Extinction
November 27, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Some Dinos Replaced Their Teeth Multiple Times a Year
November 27, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Talk About Hope Springing Eternal: 2020 for Our History-Making Alien Life Find?
November 27, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Like Neanderthals, early modern humans used their teeth as tools
November 27, 2019 PBS
New findings bolster the argument that the two groups of early humans had a lot of behavioral similarities.
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Antarctic Ice Cores Offer a Whiff of Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere
November 27, 2019 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Bubbles of greenhouse gases trapped in ice shed new light on an important climate transition that occurred about a million years ago.
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E. coli bacteria engineered to eat carbon dioxide
November 27, 2019 Nature
Feat could turn bacteria into biological factories for energy and even food.
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Meet DNA’s chaperone
November 26, 2019 University of Colorado, Boulder
Researchers have discovered the structure of the FACT protein -- a mysterious protein central to the functioning of DNA
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Drug-Resistant Flu Can Emerge After Patients Take Antiviral
November 26, 2019 The Scientist
Roughly a quarter of 38 viral samples from people treated with Xofluza had mutations in their genomes that made the pathogens less susceptible to the drug.
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What would count as ‘new information’ in genetics?
November 26, 2019 Creation Ministries International
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Convergent Evolution: A Better Explanation
November 26, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The Major Convergent Evolution Obstacle: Can an Event Acknowledged as Improbable Occur Many Times?
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists dissect and redesign protein-based pattern formation
November 26, 2019 Science Daily
Probing the functional segments, or ‘motifs', of proteins has helped scientists identify the minimal ingredients needed for them to form biological patterns.
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Thanksgiving Day, 1859 -- Guess What Happened?
November 26, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Human Origins: Not a Simple Question
November 26, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Q&A with Behe on Intelligent Design: “A Strong Desire to Misunderstand These Arguments”
November 26, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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John Horgan on How Multiverse Theories Are Bad for Science
November 26, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Michael Behe: There Are No “Trenchant” Criticisms of ID
November 26, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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An Article Started Out Sounding Like the Usual Darwinsludge
November 26, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Spiky Dino May Upset Species Classifications
November 26, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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19 more galaxies mysteriously missing dark matter have been found
November 25, 2019 Science News
The newly found outliers defy ideas of how these star systems evolve
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Dinosaur skull turns paleontology assumptions on their head
November 25, 2019 University of Alberta
University of Alberta paleontologists uncover spiky skull -- and overturn long-standing assumptions in identifying horned dinosaurs.
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People and the Cosmos: Constructor Theory
November 25, 2019 Aero magazine