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Has LIGO Seen Galaxy-Warped Gravitational Waves?
January 18, 2019 Scientific American
Nobel laureate George Smoot claims LIGO has observed amplified signals of black hole mergers from the very distant universe, but LIGO scientists disagree
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Hoatzin Bird: Evidence Against Evolutionary Ideas
January 18, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake
January 18, 2019 Nature
crustaceans and a tardigrade emerged from a rare mission to drill into a lake sealed off by a kilometre of ice
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Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism
January 18, 2019 Discovery Institute
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Early Cambrian Complexity and Other News
January 18, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism
January 18, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
Bosons and Bubbles: Building a Universe from Scratch
January 17, 2019 physics central
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The Overlooked Organisms That Keep Challenging Our Assumptions About Life
January 17, 2019 The Atlantic
Gorgeous and weird, lichens have pushed the boundaries of our understanding of nature -- and our way of studying it.
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Why the Brain Is So Noisy
January 17, 2019 nautil.us
The surprising importance of spontaneous order and noise to how we think.
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Saturn's spectacular rings are ‘very young'
January 17, 2019 BBC News
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Newspaper Article
Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths -- or Falling Into Old Traps?
January 17, 2019 New York Times
Geneticists have begun using old bones to make sweeping claims about the distant past. But their revisions to the human story are making some scholars of prehistory uneasy.
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Saturn's rings are surprisingly young
January 17, 2019 Astronomy
According to a new study, scientists have found that Saturn’s rings are actually much younger than the planet itself
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Blog Post
Astronomers Lie About Dark Matter
January 17, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s as indefensible as believers in ghosts lying about observational evidence for them.
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Not One, Not Two, But Three Fungi Present in Lichen
January 17, 2019 The Scientist
Scientists discover a third fungus that is widespread in lichens, but it’s not clear yet whether it’s a partner in the algal-fungal symbiosis or a bystander.
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Evolution and the Christian faith
January 17, 2019 Creation Ministries International
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists confirm pair of skeletons are from same early hominin species
January 17, 2019 Science Daily
Research part of detailed accounting of nearly two-million-year-old species
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News Update/Commentary
Complex molecules emerge without evolution or design
January 17, 2019 Science Daily
In biology, folded proteins are responsible for most advanced functions. These complex proteins are the result of evolution or design by scientists.
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News Update/Commentary
Artificially produced cells communicate with each other
January 17, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have for the first time created artificial cell assemblies that can communicate with each other.
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News Update/Commentary
Sea slug study illuminates how mitochondria move
January 17, 2019 Science Daily
Massive energy needed for nerve cells to keep 'talking'
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Jerry Coyne and the Consequences of Denying Free Will
January 17, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Measuring Surprise -- A Frontier of Design Theory
January 17, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Proper Credit -- Who Discovered Hubble’s Law?
January 17, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Our solar system's formation was a lot messier than you think
January 16, 2019 Astronomy magazine
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Gaps in our genes are more important than we thought
January 16, 2019 Nature
Introns, the bits of non-coding DNA scattered through our genes, may play an important role in cell survival
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Carbonate mud deposited below storm wave base: A critical review
January 16, 2019 The Sedimentary Record
Going beyond the “settling from suspension" models
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Cryptic DNA sequences may help cells survive starvation
January 16, 2019 Nature
Stretches of non-coding DNA in genes called introns could have an important survival function.
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A New Role for Yeast Introns: Helping Cells Cope Under Stress
January 16, 2019 The Scientist
Two studies contest the idea that the noncoding sequences are just “junk DNA,” demonstrating that they play important roles in the regulation of cell growth.
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News Update/Commentary
How stem cells self-organize in the developing embryo
January 16, 2019 Science Daily
New study uses live imaging to understand a critical step in early embryonic development -- how genes and molecules control forces to orchestrate the emergence of form in the developing embryo.
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News Update/Commentary
Artificial intelligence applied to the genome identifies an unknown human ancestor
January 16, 2019 Science Daily
By combining deep learning algorithms and statistical methods, investigators have identified, in the genome of Asian individuals, the footprint of a new hominid who cross bred with its ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.
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News Update/Commentary
An ancient relative of humans shows a surprisingly modern trait
January 16, 2019 Science Daily
Study finds an archaic hominin had modern dental growth
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News Update/Commentary
Simple rules predict and explain biological mutualism
January 16, 2019 Science Daily
Machine learning model foretells whether symbiotic relationships will thrive or collapse
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News Update/Commentary
Feathers: Better than Velcro?
January 16, 2019 Science Daily
Engineers detail bird feather properties that could lead to better adhesives (and aerospace materials)
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News Update/Commentary
Proteins use a lock and key system to bind to DNA
January 16, 2019 Science Daily
New study challenges a fundamental assumption of how proteins interact with the human genome
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News Update/Commentary
Coralline red algae have existed for 300 million years longer than presumed
January 16, 2019 Science Daily
Coralline red algae have existed for 130 million years, in other words since the Cretaceous Period, the time of the dinosaurs. At least this was the established view of palaeontologists all over the world until now.
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News Update/Commentary
Mechanism helps explain the ear's exquisite sensitivity
January 16, 2019 Science Daily
A critical gel-like structure in the inner ear moves according to a sound's frequency, researchers find
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Gene therapies only work for some people -- so how do we fix this?
January 15, 2019 mosaicscience.com
Gene therapies could offer long-term fixes for a host of incurable illnesses -- except that many people’s immune systems react to them. So researchers are looking for ways to help the treatments sneak past our antibodies.
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Physics Is Not in Crisis
January 15, 2019 Forbes
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Scientists Have Identified a Bone Marrow Backup System
January 15, 2019 Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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Cosmologist Luke Barnes Answers 11 Objections to the Fine-Tuning Argument
January 15, 2019 Wintery Knight
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News Update/Commentary
Mojave rattlesnakes' life-threatening venom is more widespread than expected
January 15, 2019 Science Daily
It was thought that Mojave rattlesnakes with hemorrhagic venom only lived in Arizona, but new research documents hemorrhagic and neurotoxic venom types throughout the US and Mexico, and even hybrid venom in which one snake exhibits both types.
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News Update/Commentary
Genes reveal clues about people's potential life expectancy
January 15, 2019 Science Daily
Scientists say they can predict whether a person can expect to live longer or die sooner than average, by looking at their DNA. Experts have analyzed the combined effect of genetic variations that influence lifespan to produce a scoring system.
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News Update/Commentary
Why haven't cancer cells undergone genetic meltdowns?
January 15, 2019 Science Daily
Cancer first develops as a single cell going rogue, with mutations that trigger aggressive growth at all costs to the health of the organism.
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News Update/Commentary
Genome doubling, cell size and novelty
January 15, 2019 Science Daily
Investigating the mechanisms of polyploidy in plants
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Darwin Doubting Playwright Matt Chait Returns to the Hollywood Stage
January 15, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Who Was the First Artist?
January 14, 2019 CNRS News
The recent discovery of Neanderthal paintings raises questions about the emergence of the status of artist in the history of humanity.
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Book
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny
January 14, 2019 Harvard University Press
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Mitochondrial DNA can be inherited from fathers, not just mothers
January 14, 2019 Nature
A tenet of elementary biology is that mitochondria -- the cell’s powerhouses -- and their DNA are inherited exclusively from mothers. A provocative study suggests that fathers also occasionally contribute.
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DNA of Red Wolves, Once Gone from the Wild, Discovered in Texas Pack
January 14, 2019 The Scientist
The wild population of the species was declared extinct almost 40 years ago, but now researchers have found their genes in a pack of canines near the Gulf coast.
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News Update/Commentary
Putting cells under pressure
January 14, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers create a device to help understand how cells communicate to form tissues and maintain integrity under loading
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News Update/Commentary
Cilia beat to an unexpected rhythm in male reproductive tract, study in mice reveals
January 14, 2019 Science Daily
Waves of undulating cilia drive several processes essential to life. They clear debris and mucus from the respiratory tract, move spinal fluid through the brain and transport embryos from the ovaries to the uterus for implantation.