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Blog Post
At Last, the Details of How Proteins Evolve?
February 21, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Magazine Article
Why speech is a human innovation
February 21, 2019 Knowable magazine
Many animals have the equipment for spoken language, but only people have all the right neural connections
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No ‘proof texts': Wheaton College scholar seeks to shelve Old Testament moral rules (updated)
February 21, 2019 Get Religion
The unending debate over the Bible and same-sex relationships is the most troublesome one for U.S. Protestantism since the Civil War.
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Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design -- Unique Opportunity for the Sincerely Curious Learner
February 21, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Nature Retracts Paper on Delivery System for CAR T Immunotherapy
February 20, 2019 The Scientist
The manuscript had amassed more than 50 comments about problematic figures and data on PubPeer.
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From Human Zoos, College Students Learn the Consequences of Scientific Racism
February 20, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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From Swamidass on Chloroquine Resistance, a Response that Doesn’t Respond
February 20, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Establishing the molecular blueprint of early embryo development
February 20, 2019 Science Daily
A team of biologists, physicists and mathematical modellers have studied the genetic activity of over 100,000 embryonic cells to establish the molecular blueprint of mouse early embryo development.
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News Update/Commentary
Earliest example of animal nest sharing revealed by scientists
February 20, 2019 Science Daily
An international team of scientists has shown that fossilized eggshells unearthed in western Romania represent the earliest known nest site shared by multiple animals.
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News Update/Commentary
Zebra stripes are not good landing strips
February 20, 2019 Science Daily
Stripes reduce controlled landing by biting flies, supporting the leading hypothesis of their utility
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News Update/Commentary
Developmental changes resulted in changes to crocodile snouts
February 20, 2019 Science Daily
Despite often being portrayed as creatures that have remained virtually unchanged for millions of years, a new Harvard study shows crocodiles have repeatedly altered their developmental patterns,
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News Update/Commentary
Extinguishing fear memories relies on an unusual change to DNA
February 20, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered a DNA modification that enhances our ability to extinguish fear. The findings could help guide the development of new treatments for fear-related anxiety disorders.
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News Update/Commentary
Massive database traces mammal organ development, cell by single cell
February 20, 2019 Science Daily
Largest single-cell database of its kind sheds light on early mouse development, lays groundwork for understanding developmental diseases
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News Update/Commentary
Water is more homogeneous than expected
February 20, 2019 Science Daily
In order to explain the known anomalies in water, some researchers assume that water consists of a mixture of two phases even under ambient conditions. However, new X-ray spectroscopic analyses show that this is not the case.
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News Update/Commentary
Plants: How cell walls are assembled
February 20, 2019 Science Daily
Plant researchers are providing new insights into basic cell division in plants. The scientists have succeeded in understanding how processes are coordinated that are pivotal in properly separating daughter cells during cell division.
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Blog Post
The Greatest Scandal in the History of Science
February 20, 2019 Power Line
I have written many times about the unwarranted “adjustments” to measured past temperatures by government agencies,
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Peer-reviewed Paper
De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation
February 20, 2019 Nature Scientific Reports
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The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and the Origin of the Universe
February 19, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Ancient humans thrived in rainforests by hunting monkeys and squirrels
February 19, 2019 New Scientist
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Blog Post
Amazing Preservation Fails to Shock Evolutionists
February 19, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The first question ought to be, how can such things survive hundreds of thousands or millions of years?
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Perplexing: Michael Behe’s Critics Falsely Claim He Ignores Exaptation
February 19, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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On Chloroquine Resistance, Nathan Lents Severely Misrepresents Behe’s Arguments
February 19, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Elephant Evolution: What Do We Really Know?
February 19, 2019
Another Test for Gradualism, Punctuated Equilibrium, and Intelligent Design
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Science Historian Michael Keas: Let’s Not Compound the Tragedy of Giordano Bruno
February 19, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Marsupial lived among Arctic dinosaurs
February 19, 2019 Science Daily
A research team has discovered a previously unknown species of marsupial that lived in Alaska's Arctic during the era of dinosaurs, adding a vivid new detail to a complex ancient landscape.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion
February 19, 2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1819366116
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Video
See a salamander grow from a single cell
February 19, 2019 National Geographic
A filmmaker has captured mesmerizing and intimate details of an alpine newt's first days.
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Blame Academia for Junk Science and Media Hype?
February 19, 2019 American Council on Science and Health
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New Squid Genome Shines Light on Symbiotic Evolution
February 19, 2019 Quanta Magazine
Researchers hope that the genes of a glowing squid can illuminate how animals evolved organs for beneficial bacteria.
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Magazine Article
A Different Kind of Theory of Everything
February 19, 2019 The New Yorker
Physicists used to search for the smallest components of the universe. What if that’s not the point?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Concepts of the last eukaryotic common ancestor
February 18, 2019 Nature Ecology & Evolution, v.3, p.338-344
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Seeking Racial Reconciliation in the Heart of Texas at a Screening of Human Zoos
February 18, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Dentist in the Sahara: Doug Axe on the Rarity of Proteins Is Decisively Confirmed
February 18, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Widely Used Neuroimaging Analyses Allow Almost Any Result To Be Presented As a Successful Replication, Paper Claims
February 18, 2019 Research Digest, The British Psychological Society
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News Update/Commentary
Physicists pinpoint a simple mechanism that makes bacteria resistant to antibiotics
February 18, 2019 Science Daily
Physicists have for the first time identified a simple mechanism used by potentially deadly bacteria to fend off antibiotics, a discovery which is providing new insights into how germs adapt and behave at a level of detail never seen before.
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Neandertals’ main food source was definitely meat
February 18, 2019 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Isotope analyses performed on single amino acids in Neandertals’ collagen samples shed new light on their debated diet
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Blog Post
Never again confuse Dark Matter with Dark Energy
February 18, 2019 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Life quickly finds a way: the surprisingly swift end to evolution’s big bang
February 18, 2019 The Conversation
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Epitranscriptomics: The new RNA code and the race to drug it
February 18, 2019 Chemical & Engineering News
A small group of scientists studying chemical modifications on RNA ushered in the field of epitranscriptomics. Now they’re hoping it will create an entirely new way to treat cancer
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Diversity on land is not higher today than in the past, study shows
February 18, 2019 University of Birmingham
The rich levels of biodiversity on land seen across the globe today are not a recent phenomenon: diversity on land has been similar for at least the last 60 million years, since soon after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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New Paper: Common Design Trounces Common Descent for Diversity of Life
February 18, 2019 Detecting Design
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Big data: the end of thescientific method?
February 18, 2019 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
We argue that the boldest claims of big data are in need of revision and toning-down, in view of a few basic lessons learned from the science of complex systems.
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The Evidence Is In: We’re Alone in the Universe
February 17, 2019 Answers in Genesis
ET isn’t a mystery, if you’re willing to examine the data from 60 years of research and take it to its logical conclusion.
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Blog Post
Mudstones Form Rapidly
February 17, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
One of the most common sedimentary rocks can form a hundred times faster than previously thought.
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In the Controversy over Intelligent Design, Seeking Genuine Dialogue
February 17, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
Neanderthals Are Evolving
February 16, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Blog Post
Neanderthals Are Evolving
February 16, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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The replication crisis may also be a theory crisis
February 16, 2019 ars technica
Theory protects from "personal intuitions and culturally biased folk theories."
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Blog Post
Finally, the Details of How Proteins Evolve
February 16, 2019 darwins-god.blogspot.com
A Step-By-Step Description
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AAAS: Machine learning ‘causing science crisis'
February 16, 2019 BBC News