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Rhinoceros beetles have weird mouth gears that help them chew
February 1, 2019 New Scientist
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Blog Post
Darwin, the Idol of Richard Dawkins and His Followers
February 1, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Histone Code: A Challenge to Evolution, an Inference to Design
February 1, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Academic Freedom Resolutions -- For Darwin Day, Another Valuable Option for Citizen Activists
February 1, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Newspaper Article
What Science Can Learn from Religion
February 1, 2019 New York Times
Hostility toward spiritual traditions may be hampering empirical inquiry.
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Exosomes Make Their Debut in Plant Research
February 1, 2019 The Scientist
A growing branch of research on how plants use exosomes to interact with their environment is opening up a new field of plant biology.
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Mutations in One Gene Linked to Two Separate Birth Defects
February 1, 2019 The Scientist
The same network of transcription factors may be responsible for both cleft palate and neural tube defects, according to a new study connecting mouse and human data.
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Morality Is Not Scientific
February 1, 2019 The Gospel Coalition
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Book
Glass House: Shattering the Myth of Evolution (pdf)
February 1, 2019 Master Books
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Engineered Adaptability: Trait Selection Is Internal, Not External
January 31, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Earth's Thick Ice Sheets Are Young
January 31, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Red Algae Lazarus Effect Can't Resurrect Evolution
January 31, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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A Rock-Based Global Sea Level Curve
January 31, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Battle over when giant pandas started their bamboo diet heats up
January 31, 2019 Nature
Switch to such restricted fare probably happened thousands of years ago, not millions, as some research has suggested.
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Ancient asteroid impacts played a role in creation of Earth's continents
January 31, 2019 phys.org
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Listen: Why Scientific Materialism Is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
January 31, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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When It Comes to Origins Science, Is PNAS Really “Ready When You Are”?
January 31, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Evolutionary history of baboons
January 31, 2019 Science Daily
Life on earth is complex and diverse. In the course of evolution, more and more new species have emerged that are adapted to constantly changing environments.
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News Update/Commentary
How the fruit fly got its stripes
January 31, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers explore the precision of embryonic development
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News Update/Commentary
Membraneless protocells could provide clues to formation of early life
January 31, 2019 Science Daily
Membraneless protocells allow RNAs to participate in fundamental chemical reactions, providing clues to early steps in origin of life on Earth.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution in vertebrates
January 31, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers conducted a years-long study that not only confirmed the intuition that light-colored mice survive better in light-colored habitats, and vice versa for dark-colored mice, but also allowed researchers to pinpoint a mutation related to survival,
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient pandas weren't exclusive bamboo eaters, bone evidence suggests
January 31, 2019 Science Daily
according to new evidence, extinct and ancient panda species most likely had a more varied and complex diet
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Mixing it up in the web of life
January 31, 2019 knowable magazine
Many types of marine plankton are either animal-like or plant-like. But a huge number are both, and they are upending ideas about ocean ecology.
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Magazine Article
The Wild Experiment That Showed Evolution in Real Time
January 31, 2019 The Atlantic
By placing wild mice in large outdoor enclosures, an ambitious team of scientists has illustrated the full process of natural selection in a single study.
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Blog Post
The War on Standards: NIH Edition
January 31, 2019 powerlineblog.com
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Dark matter may not actually exist -- and our alternative theory can be put to the test
January 31, 2019 The Conversation
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Pseudoscience invades Social Work
January 31, 2019 Science-Based Medicine
Acutonics, aura infusions and angelic channeling: pseudoscience has invaded the practices of social workers.
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Book Review: Nature’s Case for God by John Frame
January 31, 2019 Apologetics 315
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One rogue agent suffices for genomic chaos
January 30, 2019 Nature
Genetic instability is a hallmark of cancer cells, and occurs when genes required for genomic maintenance are inactivated. It emerges that altering just one of the two copies of certain genes can drive genetic instability in yeast.
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Black-hole jets begin to reveal their antimatter secrets
January 30, 2019 Nature
The first simulations of matter and antimatter particles swirling around a rotating black hole hint at the origins of the enigmatic jets.
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Signalling protein protects the heart muscle from pressure-related stress
January 30, 2019 Nature
If blood flow from the heart is impeded, the pressure created causes tissue dysfunction. It emerges that different signals converge on the TSC2 and mTOR proteins to fine-tune the response of heart cells to stress.
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Land Ho! Visiting a Young Island
January 30, 2019 NASA Earth Expeditions
report of first landing on a volcanic island formed in January 2015
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Cave That Housed Neandertals and Denisovans Challenges View of Cultural Evolution
January 30, 2019 Scientific American
Researchers have deduced which early human species occupied Denisova Cave and when, drawing surprising conclusions about who made the sophisticated artifacts found there
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State Science Standards and You: Utah in Focus
January 30, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Unifying Specified Complexity: Rediscovering Ancient Technology
January 30, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Engineers create a robot that can ‘imagine' itself
January 30, 2019 Science Daily
Engineers have created a robot that learns what it is, with zero prior knowledge of physics, geometry, or motor dynamics. Initially the robot has no clue what its shape is.
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News Update/Commentary
A small fish provides insight into the genetic basis of evolution
January 30, 2019 Science Daily
Genetic analysis of sticklebacks shows that isolated populations in similar environments develop in comparable ways. The basis for this is already present in the genome of their genetic ancestors.
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News Update/Commentary
How transcription factors explore the genome
January 30, 2019 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered how proteins that regulate gene transcription can scan and bind the genome efficiently.
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Strange fossil may be rare insect preserved in gemstone
January 30, 2019 National Geographic
The “incredibly unlikely object” has experts clamoring to study how it formed and what secrets it may reveal.
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The Case for Professors of Stupidity
January 30, 2019 nautil.us
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Magazine Article
A New Look at Neurogenesis in Humans
January 30, 2019 Discover magazine
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Why Evolution Reversed These Insects’ Sex Organs
January 30, 2019 Quanta Magazine
Among these cave insects, the females evolved to have penises -- twice. The reasons challenge common assumptions about sex.
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Blog Post
Just because it’s falsifiable doesn’t mean it’s good science.
January 30, 2019 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Ancient Mongolian skull is the earliest modern human yet found in the region
January 30, 2019 University of Oxford
A much debated ancient human skull from Mongolia has been dated and genetically analysed, showing that it is the earliest modern human yet found in the region, according to new research
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Yeast Introns Not Junk After All
January 29, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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We've only just found out exactly how sperm wiggle their tails to swim
January 29, 2019 New Scientist
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Neanderthals may have been sprinters not endurance runners
January 29, 2019 New Scientist
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“No Astronomical Investigations of Importance” in the Middle Ages? Not True!
January 29, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mission Impossible: Darwinizing Beauty
January 29, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Dangerous bee virus might be innocent bystander
January 29, 2019 Science Daily
Beekeepers urged to rethink fears around deadly virus