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News Update/Commentary
Size matters: New data reveals cell size sparks genome awakening in embryos
June 18, 2019 Science Daily
Study provides a new perspective on how a zygote transitions from maternal to zygotic control
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News Update/Commentary
Origin of life: A prebiotic route to DNA
June 18, 2019 Science Daily
DNA, the hereditary material, may have appeared on Earth earlier than has been assumed hitherto. Chemists now show that a simple reaction pathway could have given rise to DNA subunits on the early Earth.
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News Update/Commentary
Biological evolution inspires machine learning
June 18, 2019 Science Daily
Evolution allows life to explore almost limitless diversity and complexity. Scientists hope to recreate such open-endedness in the laboratory or in computer simulations,
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News Update/Commentary
Dinosaur bones are home to microscopic life
June 18, 2019 Science Daily
Scientists didn't find ancient DNA or proteins in fossils, but they did find lots of strange microbes
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The Masks of Prague
June 18, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Cretaceous dinosaur bone contains recent organic material and provides an environment conducive to microbial communities
June 18, 2019 eLife
Fossils were thought to lack original organic molecules, but chemical analyses show that some can survive. Dinosaur bone has been proposed to preserve collagen, osteocytes, and blood vessels.
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Blog Post
Creationists Let Facts Speak for Themselves in Mainstream Science Publication
June 17, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Evidence for Irreducible Complexity in Proteins
June 17, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Getting the Facts Right on “Unbelief”
June 17, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Toxic Gases Would Slow Emergence of Life on Exoplanets
June 17, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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DNA Is Code: Who Coded It? (Science Uprising 03)
June 17, 2019 YouTube
Is the software that runs life the result of accumulated copying errors? Or does it require a programmer?
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News Update/Commentary
The evolution of puppy dog eyes
June 17, 2019 Science Daily
New research comparing the anatomy and behavior of dogs and wolves suggests dogs' facial anatomy has changed over thousands of years specifically to allow them to better communicate with humans.
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Cornelius Hunter: More “Junk” DNA Is Crucial
June 17, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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A prebiotic route to DNA
June 17, 2019 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
DNA, the hereditary material, may have appeared on Earth earlier than has been assumed hitherto. LMU chemists led by Oliver Trapp show that a simple reaction pathway could have given rise to DNA subunits on the early Earth.
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Why Do Skulls Have So Many Bones? (It's Loads More Than You Think)
June 16, 2019 Live Science
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Theologian, Battling Depression, Reaffirms the Existence of the Soul
June 16, 2019 Mind Matters
J. P. Moreland reasons his way to the evidence and captures his discoveries in a book
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Blog Post
Being a Christian in Academia Can Be Costly
June 16, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What happened to a Christian on his journey to a PhD is shocking and shameful, but his situation was far from unique.
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Copernicus: National Geographic Tries to Get the History Right
June 16, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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The Problem of “God-Talk” in Biology Textbooks
June 16, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Why Is The New York Times into Witchcraft Now?
June 16, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
Being a Christian in Academia Can Be Costly
June 16, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What happened to a Christian on his journey to a PhD is shocking and shameful, but his situation was far from unique.
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Could the Big Bang be Wrong?
June 15, 2019 Discover magazine
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The Complex Physics of Global Warming
June 15, 2019 powerline
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Logic vs. the Multiverse: Gunter Bechly Offers Some Insights
June 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Ten Thinkers Tell Us What Post-Modernism Means
June 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon: Taken Seriously, the Multiverse Proves the Existence of God
June 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Oldest Meteorite Collection Found in World’s Oldest Desert
June 14, 2019 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Rare 2-million-year record reveals the meteorite flux rate.
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Should We Teach Evolution as a Sensitive Issue?
June 14, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of Postmodernism
June 14, 2019 Chronicle Review
No other idea from the humanities had so massive, if murky, an influence.
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Superweeds are on the brink of becoming resistant to all weedkillers
June 14, 2019 New Scientist
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We Can Imagine Robots That Think and Feel
June 14, 2019 Mind Matters
But does that make them more likely?
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News Update/Commentary
Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get their wings
June 14, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers shed light on the important role that microbial genes, like those from viruses, can play in insect and animal evolution.
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Once Again: Did Neanderthals Speak?
June 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Why Just Five Digits on Tetrapod Limbs?
June 14, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Two family members each possessing an extra digit on each limb find that having a sixth finger is beneficial and useful.
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Only Some Cells Have “Licences” to Kill? Let’s Look at What That Means
June 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Gene Translation “Much More Complex Than Previously Thought”
June 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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To Fix the Social Sciences, Look to the “Dark Ages” of Medicine
June 13, 2019 MIT Press Reader
If medicine could break with its barbarous past, why shouldn’t the same path be open to the social sciences?
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God and the Nobel Prize
June 13, 2019 michaelgstrauss.com
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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
June 13, 2019 BBC
From the emergence of a spiky growth at the back of some people’s skulls to the enigmatic finding that our elbows are getting narrower, our bones are changing in surprising ways
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News Update/Commentary
Environmental oxygen triggers loss of webbed digits
June 13, 2019 Science Daily
Free fingers have many obvious advantages on land, such as in locomotion and grasping, while webbed fingers are typical of aquatic or gliding animals.
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“Genes Out of Nothing”? Two Studies Demonstrate the Power of Mind
June 13, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Upright Walking and African Witch Doctors
June 13, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Hacked Genome Damages Cell, Declares Creator's Genius
June 13, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Ethics of AI: how should we treat rational, sentient robots -- if they existed?
June 13, 2019 The Conversation
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Jump around: How ‘jumping genes' could transform gene editing
June 13, 2019 Yahoo! News
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How Mitochondria Protect Themselves from Mutations
June 13, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Review: The Why, Not the How, of the Origin of Consciousness
June 13, 2019 Mind Matters
Ventureyra’s new book treats the origin of consciousness as a “first instantiation of a new law of nature”
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News Update/Commentary
Zebras' stripes could be used to control their temperature, study reveals
June 13, 2019 Science Daily
New research indicates that zebras' stripes are used to control body temperature after all -- and reveals for the first time a new mechanism for how this may be achieved.
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News Update/Commentary
Viruses found to use intricate ‘treadmill' to move cargo across bacterial cells
June 13, 2019 Science Daily
State-of-the-art technologies reveal bacterial cells organized like human cells, offering insights for new phage therapies on untreatable infections
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Philip Cunningham: Darwinian Materialism vs. Quantum Biology -- Part II
June 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent