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News Update/Commentary
Kick-starting the genome in early development
January 28, 2019 Science Daily
Unravelling how instructions for new life are read
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News Update/Commentary
Interactions of messenger RNAs and micro-RNAs during brain development
January 28, 2019 Science Daily
One of the big challenges in neurobiology is cell classification, a problem compounded by the fact that the same cell type can look different depending on the method of analysis used to classify it
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News Update/Commentary
A solid scaffolding for our cells
January 28, 2019 Science Daily
To perform properly the task for which they have been synthesized, proteins must first assemble to form effective cellular 'machines'. But how do they recognize their partners at the right time?
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Getting it right
January 28, 2019 Aeon
Truth is neither absolute nor timeless. But the pursuit of truth remains at the heart of the scientific endeavour
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Why Did Darker and Lighter Human Skin Colors Evolve?
January 28, 2019 Discover magazine
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Junk Science or the Real Thing? ‘Inference’ Publishes Both.
January 28, 2019 undark.org
The newish ‘quarterly review of science’ sometimes muddies the waters between science and political ideology. It is funded by Peter Thiel.
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Science Is No Enemy of Christianity
January 28, 2019 The Gospel Coalition
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Darwinism -- Like Every Other Known Natural Process -- Devolves
January 27, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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The 500-Year-Long Science Experiment
January 27, 2019 The Atlantic
In 2014, microbiologists began a study that they hope will continue long after they’re dead.
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Advanced Extraterrestrials as an Approximation to God
January 26, 2019 Scientific American
Our first encounter with E.T. technology could be as baffling to us as a smartphone would have been to a Neandertal
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Blog Post
Epigenetics in the News
January 26, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Epigenetics has gone mainstream. Processes “above” genetics are showing to have more control over life than previously thought.
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‘I predict a great revolution': inside the struggle to define life
January 26, 2019 The Guardian
Paul Davies thinks combining physics and biology will reveal a pattern of information management
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Blog Post
The Riot and the Dance Now on DVD
January 26, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Neanderthals: javelin athletes helped us show how effective they were at hunting with weapons
January 25, 2019 The Conversation
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4bn-year-old ‘Earth rock' found in Apollo 14 crew's moon haul
January 25, 2019 The Guardian
Scientists say rock must have been blasted to moon, buried then uncovered by asteroid impacts
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Blog Post
UK Pushing Darwinism on Elementary Students
January 25, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
With new methods and materials, UK teachers will be promoting Darwinism on Grade 5-6 students.
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Dallas and Westminster Conferences Tackle Science-Religion “Warfare Myth”
January 25, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
An integrative approach to studying lipid biology
January 25, 2019 Science Daily
Combining structural, biochemical, and computational studies, scientists have now discovered how a lipid-binding protein can access, select, and move a lipid ''cargo'' during the biosynthesis of the important coenzyme Q.
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Why some mites are mightier than others: The evolution of lethal fighting in a spider mite
January 25, 2019 Science Daily
Unlike most male animals, some males of the social spider mite engage in deadly fights with rival males.
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New estimate of primate mutation rates helps genetics match fossils
January 25, 2019 ars technica
Understanding the differences in rates means a better picture of our history.
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News Update/Commentary
Neanderthal hunting spears could kill at a distance
January 25, 2019 Science Daily
Neanderthals have been imagined as the inferior cousins of modern humans, but a new study reveals for the first time that they produced weaponry advanced enough to kill at a distance.
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Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves -- When You’re Ready to Think for Yourself
January 25, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Intermediate Gas Giants Challenge Planet Formation Theory
January 24, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Viewpoint: Why we still underestimate the Neanderthals
January 24, 2019 BBC News
The director of the Gibraltar Museum explains why some old assumptions about the intellectual capabilities of our evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals persist today. But a body of evidence is increasingly forcing us to re-visit these old ideas.
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Researchers Describe New Reptile Platypus from the Early Triassic
January 24, 2019 University of California, Davis
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A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!
January 24, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
What it takes to be a giant shark
January 24, 2019 Science Daily
Have you ever wondered why the Megalodon shark became to be so big? Or wondered why some other sharks are much smaller?
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The helix, of DNA fame, may have arisen with startling ease
January 24, 2019 Science Daily
Here's a science enigma: Try to explain where the neat, even DNA/RNA helix came from. Ha! Easy one! It probably spun around itself long before first life evolved like it did in a lab.
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News Update/Commentary
An entire botanical garden of genomes
January 24, 2019 Science Daily
A new article provides genome sequencing data that triples the number of plant species with available genome data.
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The Sciences and Christian Formation: Helping Today’s Students Find Deeper Faith in a Science-Dominated World
January 24, 2019 Christian Higher Education
The perceived conflict between science and Christianity continues to be a strong and prevalent narrative, both inside and outside the church.
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Hagfish Haunts Darwin
January 24, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A zombie hagfish rises from the dead, and scares Darwin from two directions.
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Can evangelicals agree on ten theses about creation and evolution?
January 24, 2019 Creation Ministries International
Answering Christianity Today’s claim that Evangelicals can agree to differ
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News Update/Commentary
Crocodiles have complex past
January 24, 2019 Science Daily
Modern-day crocodiles and alligators came from variety of surroundings
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Noisy gene atlas to help reveal how plants 'hedge their bets' in race for survival
January 24, 2019 Science Daily
Plant scientists have built a gene expression atlas that maps the 'noisy genes' of genetically identical plants.
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News Update/Commentary
Study of archaeal cells could teach us more about ourselves
January 24, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers wanted to better understand the archaeal cell by studying Sulfolobus islandicus, an archaeal microorganism that is found in geothermal hot springs.
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As Predicted by Intelligent Design, “Junk” Introns Are Actually Functional
January 24, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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China's Latest Cloned-Monkey Experiment Is an Ethical Mess
January 23, 2019 Gizmodo
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The Anthropomorphization of the Universe
January 23, 2019 Slate
We long to see a friendly face in the stars.
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Newspaper Article
The Uncertain Future of Particle Physics
January 23, 2019 New York Times
Ten years in, the Large Hadron Collider has failed to deliver the exciting discoveries that scientists promised.
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Planetary collision that formed the moon made life possible on Earth
January 23, 2019 Rice University
Study: Planetary delivery explains enigmatic features of Earth’s carbon and nitrogen
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Exclusive: 600-million-year old blobs are earliest animals ever found
January 23, 2019 New Scientist
Fossils in China suggest that that some of the first animals in existence may have been carnivorous comb jellies similar to some species that still exist today
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Inside Earth, Microbes Approach Immortality
January 23, 2019 Scientific American
Mostly dead is slightly alive
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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