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Book
The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms
June 28, 2019 Wipf and Stock
Darwinian Biology's Grand Narrative of Triumph and the Subversion of Religion | See Also author's bio
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Fossilized Dino Bones Are Home to Diverse Microbial Communities
June 28, 2019 The Scientist
A study fails to detect ancient proteins among the microbes, adding to the debate about whether peptides can survive tens of millions of years underground.
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Liberal Journal and Media Disparage Conservatives, but Censor Falsification
June 28, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Another Case of Censorship in Science: Study that disparaged conservatives was falsified, but journal would not retract it.
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An overview of the Denisovan puzzle
June 28, 2019 Creation Ministries International
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Skeptics Analyze Original Tissues with Lousy Logic
June 28, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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New Evidence That Some Comatose People Really Do Understand
June 28, 2019 Mind Matters
Researchers found mental activity in response to verbal commands even in some “completely unresponsive” patients
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Blurring Life’s Boundaries
June, 2019 Anthropocene magazine
Darwinian theory is based on the idea that heredity flows vertically, parent to offspring, and that life’s history has branched like a tree. Now we know otherwise: that the ‘tree’ of life isn’t that simple.
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers decipher the history of supermassive black holes in the early universe
June 28, 2019 Science Daily
Astrophysicists have found evidence for the direct formation of black holes that do not need to emerge from a star remnant.
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Environmental DNA: Information Covers the Globe
June 28, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
A primate's response to death
June 28, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers review 200 years of non-human primate ‘comparative thanatology'
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Jerry Coyne Doesn’t Like Science Uprising
June 28, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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What’s Up with the Science Uprising Mask?
June 28, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Paley’s Ghost Speaks Out: The Problem of [Neo-]Darwinist Evolutionary Incrementalism
June 28, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Deciphering how the brain encodes color and shape
June 27, 2019 Science Daily
Study reveals how the brain processes the external world using overlapping visual circuits
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Why Science Can Be So Indecisive About Nutrition
June 27, 2019 The Atlantic
Years of conflicting studies about certain foods and diets tell us a lot about both our bodies and ourselves.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover how plants breathe -- and how humans shaped their ‘lungs'
June 27, 2019 Science Daily
Experts reveal how plants provide a steady flow of air to every cell. Study shows humans have bred wheat plants to have fewer pores on their leaves and use less water. Findings pave the way to develop more drought-resistant crops.
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Mucus: the body’s unsung hero
June 27, 2019 knowable magazine
The slimy stuff has a surprisingly wide array of beneficial biological functions
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The Lost Wallet Returns -- and Experts Are Baffled
June 27, 2019 Mind Matters
Social scientists struggle for explanations as to why people turned out to be more honest than theory led them to expect
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News Update/Commentary
New AI tool captures top players' strategies in RNA video game
June 27, 2019 Science Daily
Neural network approach could aid efforts to build biomedically useful RNA structures
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News Update/Commentary
Protein scissors for cellular transport
June 27, 2019 Science Daily
The movement of material in and out a cell, endocytosis, depends on proteins that cut the membrane to form vesicles encapsulating the transported materials. Researchers discover the role of the protein ANKHD1 and its ankyrin repeat domains.
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Study of Microbiome’s Importance in Autism Triggers Swift Backlash
June 27, 2019 The Scientist
Independent scientists say the original analysis is flawed; the authors stand by their work and are seeking outside statisticians to reanalyze the data.
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News Update/Commentary
Malaria hijacks your genes to invade your liver
June 27, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have identified more than 100 ‘hijacked' human genes that malaria parasites commandeer to take up residence inside their victim's liver during the silent early stages of infection, before symptoms appear.
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Neanderthal groups more closely related than we thought
June 27, 2019 Cosmos Magazine
Ancient DNA analysis offers clues to prehistoric movements.
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Purposeful Genetic Changes Challenge Evolutionary Theory
June 27, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
Increasing numbers of evolutionists question the validity of their own theory of evolution everyone is taught in school. A recent challenge came from a paper with the intriguing title, “What is mutation?
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Can Buzzwords About “Neural Networks" Save Materialist Neuroscience?
June 27, 2019 Mind Matters
No. Experiments that support an immaterial consciousness often involve split or massively damaged neural networks
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News Update/Commentary
Sea slugs use algae's bacterial ‘weapons factory' in three-way symbiotic relationship
June 27, 2019 Science Daily
The sea slug Elysia rufescens fights predators by wielding toxic chemicals that it acquires from eating algae.
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News Update/Commentary
Some extinct crocs were vegetarians
June 27, 2019 Science Daily
Based on careful study of fossilized teeth, scientists have found that multiple ancient groups of crocodyliforms -- the group including living and extinct relatives of crocodiles and alligators -- were not the carnivores we know today.
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers unlock mysteries of complex microRNA oncogenes
June 27, 2019 Science Daily
A new collaborative study uncovers novel functions for polycistronic microRNAs and showing how cancers such as lymphoma twist these functions to reorganize the information networks that control gene expression.
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Darwin Double-Crossed: The Design of the Human Nervous System
June 27, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researcher Asks, Is the Cell REALLY a Machine?
June 27, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Evolution Is Random, Just Like the Stock Market…
June 27, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Bystander effect: Famous psychology result could be completely wrong
June 26, 2019 New Scientist
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Move over, DNA: ancient proteins are starting to reveal humanity’s history
June 26, 2019 Nature
Proteins dating back more than one million years have been extracted from some fossils, and could help to answer some difficult questions about archaic humans.
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Blog Post
Santa’s Reindeer Latest Victims of Darwin Storytellers
June 26, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwinists play Pin the Ruminants on the Darwin Tree, including reindeer, cows, goats and sheep.
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Blog Post
ATP Synthase Shows Reason for ‘Slippage’
June 26, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The engine of life shows more engineering finesse with each new discovery.
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Nobody Went Downhill Faster Than DNA
June 26, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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SETI: Four Origin of Life Scientists Imagine the Beginning
June 26, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Paper rejected after plagiarism detector stumped by references
June 26, 2019 Times Higher Education
Editors say episode demonstrates need for humans to review work of software
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Stranger on a Plane: Lessons from Flatland
June 26, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Maasai legend behind ancient hominin footprints in Tanzania
June 26, 2019 The Conversation
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To build a goldfish, start with a blueprint
June 26, 2019 National Human Genome Research Institute
Scientists drafted the blueprint for how to build a common goldfish. Now they'll use it to find out what gives ornamental goldfish their nuanced features, gaining insight into human health.
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Neanderthals used resin ‘glue' to craft their stone tools
June 26, 2019 University of Colorado
Archaeologists working in two Italian caves have discovered some of the earliest known examples of ancient humans using an adhesive on their stone tools -- an important technological advance called “hafting.”
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Believing in a Purposeful World Is Good Mental Health!
June 26, 2019 Mind Matters
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Shocking evidence shows people in vegetative states may be conscious
June 26, 2019 New Scientist
1 in 10 people thought to be permanently unconscious as a result of brain trauma may actually be aware. The hunt is on for ways to rescue them from their limbo
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News Update/Commentary
Unlocking secrets of the ice worm
June 26, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have identified an ice worm on Vancouver Island that is closely related to ice worms 1,200 miles away in southern Alaska.
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News Update/Commentary
A new normal: Study explains universal pattern in fossil record
June 26, 2019 Science Daily
Instead of the typical bell-shaped curve, the fossil record shows a fat-tailed distribution, with extreme, outlier, events occurring with higher-than-expected probability.
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Darwin’s Fossils Freak Out Over ID in Brazil
June 26, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life
June 25, 2019 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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A Genetic Ghost Hunt: What Ancient Humans Live on in Our DNA?
June 25, 2019 Discover magazine
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The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades
June 25, 2019 statnews.com