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Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is
January 23, 2019 New Scientist
Humans once mated with Neanderthals so are we hybrids? How we see ourselves and the rest of nature is changing, raising the question of whether species even exist
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Star material could be building block of life
January 23, 2019 Science Daily
An organic molecule detected in the material from which a star forms could shed light on how life emerged on Earth.
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When species compete, physical structures and ecological relationships matter
January 23, 2019 Science Daily
When competing for limited resources, structures in an environment can be the difference between species coexisting or one species eliminating another. Relationships between species are important, too.
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First Successful Gene Drive in Mammals
January 23, 2019 The Scientist
Researchers use a CRISPR-Cas9 strategy to expand a desired trait from 50 percent of mouse pups to about 72 percent.
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Neanderthal Ancestry in Europeans Unchanged for Last 45,000 Years
January 23, 2019 The Scientist
The findings of a new study contradict previous results from some of the same scientists that suggested Neanderthal DNA was gradually removed from modern human genomes.
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In surprising reversal, scientists find a cellular process that stops cancer before it starts
January 23, 2019 Science Daily
Cellular recycling process, thought to fuel cancer's growth, can actually prevent it
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Plants can smell, now researchers know how
January 23, 2019 Science Daily
First steps to understanding biochemistry of how plants detect odors
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Copy cats: When is a bobcat not a bobcat?
January 23, 2019 Science Daily
Telling similar animals apart challenges even the experts
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How male dragonflies adapt wing color to temperature
January 23, 2019 Science Daily
New research in how dragonflies may adapt their wing color to temperature differences might explain color variation in other animals, from lions to birds.
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It may be possible to restore memory function in Alzheimer's, preclinical study finds
January 23, 2019 Science Daily
New research reveals a new approach to Alzheimer's disease (AD) that may eventually make it possible to reverse memory loss, a hallmark of the disease in its late stages.
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On Intelligent Design, Do Your Own Homework. Make Up Your Own Mind.
January 23, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Maxwell’s demon and the hunt for alien life
January 22, 2019 Nature
a study of life that takes up where Erwin Schrödinger left off
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How One Sense Smells a Trillion Scents
January 22, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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How Should Christians View Biological Classification?
January 22, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Bird beaks did not adapt to food types as previously thought
January 22, 2019 Science Daily
the connection between beak shapes and feeding ecology in birds is found much weaker and more complex than expected
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Frontal Lobotomies: a Darwinian Mental Health Holocaust
January 22, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Long-read DNA analysis can give rise to errors
January 22, 2019 Science Daily
Advanced technologies that read long strings of DNA can produce flawed data that could affect genetic studies, research suggests.
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Parental PTSD affects health behavior and aging among offspring of Holocaust survivors
January 22, 2019 Science Daily
Holocaust survivors suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and their adult offspring exhibit more unhealthy behavior patterns and age less successfully in comparison to survivors with no signs of PTSD
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Bird beaks did not adapt to food types as previously thought
January 22, 2019 Science Daily
A new study has shed some new light on how the beaks of birds have adapted over time.
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How sex pheromones diversify: Lessons from yeast
January 22, 2019 Science Daily
What happens to sex pheromones as new species emerge?
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Multi-hop communication: Frog choruses inspire wireless sensor networks
January 22, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers looked to nature for inspiration in designing more effective wireless sensor networks.
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We need to rethink everything we know about global warming
January 22, 2019 Science Daily
New calculations show scientists have grossly underestimated the effects of air pollution
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Urbanization changes shape of mosquitoes' wings
January 22, 2019 Science Daily
Research shows that rapid urbanization in São Paulo City, Brazil, is influencing wing morphology in the mosquitoes that transmit dengue and malaria.
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Human mutation rate has slowed recently
January 22, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered that the human mutation rate is significantly slower than for our closest primate relatives.
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Stifling the Intelligent Design Debate Is Bad Science
January 22, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Self-Induced Blindness: Round 3 with Kevin Williamson
January 22, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable
January 22, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Myth of Genetic Superbabies
January 21, 2019 Scientific American
Gene-editing technologies are advancing rapidly, but human enhancement is harder than many seem to think
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The last Neanderthals may have died out much earlier than we thought
January 21, 2019 New Scientist
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Global Warming: The Big Picture
January 21, 2019 powerlineblog.com
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Reefer Madness 2.0: What Marijuana Science Says, and Doesn’t Say
January 21, 2019 undark.org
A new book and New Yorker feature are filled with cherry-picked data, oversimplified studies, and scientific errors.
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Viewpoint: GMO crops are key to sustainable farming
January 21, 2019 Genetic Literacy Project
Why are some scientists afraid to talk about them?
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Bizarre deep-sea fish living in Gulf of California with 'virtually no oxygen' puzzles biologists
January 21, 2019 Fox News
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Another Living Fossil Challenges Darwinian Explanations
January 21, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The excuses that Darwinists make up for evidence against their theory need to be exposed and shamed.
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Scientist Forged Ethical Reviews for CRISPRed Babies
January 21, 2019 The Scientist
He Jiankui could face charges after an investigation finds he used techniques prohibited in China to edit the genes of twin girls.
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Scientists find genes with large effects on head and brain size
January 21, 2019 Science Daily
The size of children's heads is not only related to the growth of their skull, but also their brain. A genome-wide analysis now reports the largest known genetic effects on head circumference and the related measure of intracranial volume.
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Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree
January 21, 2019 Science Daily
The 100-million-year-old fossil helps answer questions about when these ancient, jawless fish branched off the evolutionary tree from the lineage that gave rise to modern-day jawed vertebrates, including bony fish and humans.
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Genetic study provides novel insights into the evolution of skin color
January 21, 2019 Science Daily
Skin color is one of the most visible and variable traits among humans and scientists have always been curious about how this variation evolved.
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“Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast
January 21, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Dallas Conference on Science and Faith Is a Hit, as Meyer, Metaxas, Tour Welcome Surprise Guest
January 21, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Penguins -- Perplexing and Proficient!
January 20, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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False Claims in Particle Physics
January 20, 2019 science2.0
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A snapshot of our mysterious ancestor Homo erectus
January 20, 2019 The Conversation
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Polystrate Fossils -- Evidence Against Millions of Years
January 20, 2019 YouTube
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From Materialists, More Reductio ad Absurdum
January 20, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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'Missing link' in human history confirmed after long debate
January 19, 2019 CNN
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Natural Selection: The Ghost Idol of Biology
January 19, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A spirit that works in mysterious ways. Biologists cannot nail it down, but insist it can turn bacteria into biologists.
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Pioneering brain study reveals ‘software’ differences between humans and monkeys
January 19, 2019 Nature
Neuroscientists tracked the activity of single neurons deep in the brain and suggest the findings could explain humans’ intelligence -- and susceptibility to psychiatric disorders.
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The Cerebellum Is Your "Little Brain" -- and It Does Some Pretty Big Things
January 18, 2019 Scientific American
A newly identified circuit connecting the cerebellum to the brain’s reward centers in mice could help scientists understand autism and addiction
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"Is Science Racist?" Book Review
January 18, 2019 Areo