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News Update/Commentary
Did early mammals turn to night life to protect their sperm?
October 15, 2019 Science Daily
Diurnalism is by far the exception rather the rule in mammals. About 250-230 million years ago, the mammalian ancestors, called the therapsids, became exclusively nocturnal, and stayed so until the demise of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
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News Update/Commentary
DNA fracturing rewires gene control in cancer
October 15, 2019 Science Daily
A multi-institutional team has brought attention to genomic structural variation as a previously unappreciated mechanism involved in altering DNA methylation, a form of gene control, in human cancers.
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News Update/Commentary
Sperm and egg cell ‘immune response' protects koala DNA
October 15, 2019 Science Daily
Discovery of a type of immunity that protects koalas' DNA from viruses has importance for the survival of koalas and our fundamental understanding of evolution.
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The War on Math Targets the Equals Sign
October 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Giant Molecules Show Quantum Effects: Appear in Two Places at Once
October 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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One in 2000 People May Have Two Copies of a Chromosome from One Parent
October 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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How Do Liquid Organelles Coexist Without Merging?
October 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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A Frank Look at Female Orgasms and Rabbits
October 15, 2019 Discover magazine
A very weak paper in PNAS has attracted some attention lately: An experimental test of the ovulatory homolog model of female orgasm
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Geneticists retract study suggesting first CRISPR babies might die early
October 14, 2019 Nature
Researchers rapidly corrected finding through discussions on social media and preprints.
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Lee Berger: We have made another major discovery about early humans
October 14, 2019 New Scientist
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Blog Post
Darwin Got It Wrong
October 14, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
More findings contradict Darwinian principles. When will scientists jump his sinking ship?
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Oxford Philosopher: Without a Soul, There Is No Self
October 14, 2019 Mind Matters
He presents new philosophical arguments, supported by modern neuroscience, in defense of the soul
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News Update/Commentary
How mucus tames microbes
October 14, 2019 Science Daily
Specialized sugar molecules called glycans can disarm opportunistic pathogens and prevent infection
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Our Enterprising Ancestors’ Version of Canned Soup, 400 Kya
October 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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This week, Science Uprising Is coming to Facebook. Here’s How You Can Help
October 14, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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“Junk DNA” as a Cause of Cancer
October 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Bacteria Thrive Via Non-Darwinian “Survival of the Friendliest”
October 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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My Perspective: The Case for Creation Science
October 13, 2019 Prescott enews
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Nathan Lents Plugs Joshua Swamidass’s Book on Adam and Eve at USA Today
October 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Real Science vs Pseudoscience -- According to Pop Science
October 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon on Whether True Religion and Correct Science Can Contradict Each Other
October 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Has the Universe Really Stopped Making Sense?
October 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Nathaniel Comfort, Fresh Off an Op-Ed in Nature, Skewers Pop Darwinian Steven Pinker
October 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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New evidence shows how asteroid dust cloud may have sparked new life on Earth 470m years ago
October 12, 2019 The Guardian
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Darwin Contradicted: Survival of the Friendliest Bacteria
October 12, 2019 SciTechDaily
New microbial research at the University of Copenhagen suggests that ‘survival of the friendliest’ outweighs ‘survival of the fittest’ for groups of bacteria
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Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action
October 12, 2019 Reuters
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At Scientific American: We Did Find Life on Mars in the ‘70s. Rob Sheldon Weighs In
October 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Citation Cartels?
October 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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How the Universe Stopped Making Sense
October 11, 2019 Live Science
We're getting something wrong about the universe.
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Science, Scientism, and Steven Pinker
October 11, 2019 Genotopia
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5 of history's strangest scientific theories
October 11, 2019 Big Think
Rest assured: Kooky ideas like the Earth being flat or vaccines causing autism are nothing new. Humanity has had worse ideas before.
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Life may have begun with simple genes made out of urine
October 11, 2019 New Scientist
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What Do the Turing Test and ID Have in Common?
October 11, 2019 Mind Matters
George D. Montañez shows that if a test can detect intelligence in computers, a test could also detect intelligent design in nature
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Rankled by Mount Fuji, Darwinist Jeffrey Shallit Offers Little Self-Refuting Black Holes
October 11, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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How “Single-Study Stories” Build Up Science’s Neverland
October 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Do Jeffrey Shallit’s Writings Offer More Information Than a Blank Page?
October 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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A Virus in Koala DNA Shows Evolution in Action
October 10, 2019 New York Times
Many animals, including humans, have DNA left over from ancient viral infections. In koalas, researchers are studying the process in real time.
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Neanderthal Legs and Feet -- Suited to Sprinting
October 10, 2019 Sapiens
If you’re like me, you view long-distance running as a somewhat unrealistic aspiration and see those people who do it well as remarkable creatures.
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Book
Book Review: Humans 2.0 by Fazale R. Rana and Kenneth R. Samples
October 10, 2019 Apologetics 315
Humans 2.0: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives on Transhumanism | See Also Amazon
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Scientists speed up the evolution of yeast to create tastier and healthier alcohol
October 10, 2019 Horizon
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Exoplanets, Life, and the Danger of a Single Study
October 10, 2019 undark.org
There’s value in covering new research advances, even when the underlying science is unsettled. But there are also risks.
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Denisovan Epigenetics Reveals Human Anatomy
October 10, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Blog Post
Antibiotic Resistance Is Shared, Not Evolved
October 10, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Growing evidence undermines commonly-cited examples of evolution happening right before our eyes.
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I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s
October 10, 2019 Scientific American
The Labeled Release experiment on the Viking mission reported positive results, although most have dismissed them as inorganic chemical reactions
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News Update/Commentary
Koala epidemic provides lesson in how DNA protects itself from viruses
October 10, 2019 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists ‘must be allowed to cry' about destruction of nature
October 10, 2019 Science Daily
Scientists witnessing the destruction of the natural world must be supported and ‘allowed to cry,' researchers say.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists ask: How can liquid organelles in cells coexist without merging?
October 10, 2019 Science Daily
Physicists use model systems to explore the forces that may be at play
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Censors Silenced Eric Hedin, but They Couldn’t Silence David Gelernter: Here’s Why It Matters
October 10, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Beyond the ‘replication crisis,' does research face an ‘inference crisis'?
October 10, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers test expert inferences against known data, find inconsistency
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It’s Another Great Nobel Year for Design
October 10, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today