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News Update/Commentary
Shape-shifting protein protects bacteria from invaders
November 29, 2018 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered how bacteria manage to destroy enemy DNA, while keeping their own genetic material safe.
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Lizards adapt to invasive fire ants, reversing geographical patterns of lizard traits
November 29, 2018 Science Daily
Some lizards in the eastern U.S. have adapted to invasive fire ants -- which can bite, sting, and kill lizards -- reversing geographical trends in behavioral and physical traits used to avoid predators.
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Whales lost their teeth before evolving hair-like baleen in their mouths
November 29, 2018 Science Daily
Newly described fossil whale in museum collections reveals a surprising intermediate step in their evolution
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New study reveals common table salt may have been crucial for the origins of life
November 29, 2018 Science Daily
It remains unknown how life began on Earth. It is believed that simple molecules in the early environment became complexified by the input of ambient energy.
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Daily briefing: Mitochondrial DNA can come from fathers too
November 29, 2018 Nature
In rare cases, children can inherit mitochondrial DNA from both parents. Plus: CRISPR-baby scientist presents his research and what life looks like after the digital revolution
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Algeria fossils cast doubt on East Africa as sole origin of stone tools
November 29, 2018 Nature
The discovery pushes back the evidence of hominins in Algeria by 600,000 years, and suggests tool use arose in different parts of Africa independently.
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Blog Post
Big Science Failing Integrity Test
November 29, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What happens when the purveyors of knowledge admit they are unreliable?
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Fossilized Bird Lung Inflates Confidence in Creation
November 29, 2018 Institute for Creation Research
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Revealed: why humans don’t have hairy palms
November 29, 2018 Cosmos Magazine
Researchers find a protein that blocks hair growth.
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Fossil algae reveal 500 million years of climate change
November 28, 2018 phys.org
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‘Junk Science’ Is Everywhere, and the Media Eat It Up
November 28, 2018 Daily Wire
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Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism
November 28, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia
November 28, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Great apes and ravens plan without thinking
November 28, 2018 Science Daily
Planning and self control in animals do not require human-like mental capacities
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists direct bacteria with expanded genetic code to evolve extreme heat tolerance
November 28, 2018 Science Daily
Is nature's 20 amino acid genetic code optimal-evolving proteins using an expanded genetic code?
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CRISPR-baby scientist fails to satisfy critics
November 28, 2018 Nature
He Jiankui gives talk about controversial claim of genome editing babies, but ethical questions remain.
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Blog Post
Natural Sources of Methane Surprise Climate Scientists
November 28, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Methane is 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Look where it comes from.
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Second CRISPR-Modified Pregnancy May Be Underway
November 28, 2018 The Scientist
He Jiankui, who reportedly edited the genomes of two babies already, broke the news at a conference in Hong Kong.
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To Bolster Belief in Evolution, Study Recommends Celebrity Endorsements
November 27, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Genetically Engineered Babies Are Born: Life as Potter’s Clay
November 27, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Prehistoric cave art suggests ancient use of complex astronomy
November 27, 2018 Science Daily
As far back as 40,000 years ago, humans kept track of time using relatively sophisticated knowledge of the stars, new research shows.
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Oxygen could have been available to life as early as 3.5 billion years ago
November 27, 2018 Science Daily
Microbes could have performed oxygen-producing photosynthesis at least one billion years earlier in the history of the Earth than previously thought.
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Blood-sucking flies have been spreading malaria for 100 million years
November 27, 2018 Science Daily
The microorganisms that cause malaria, leishmaniasis and a variety of other illnesses today can be traced back at least to the time of dinosaurs, a study of amber-preserved blood-sucking insects and ticks show.
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Your Dog May Not Be a Genius, after All
November 27, 2018 Scientific American
New study finds that canines are not exceptional in the animal world
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Blog Post
Synapsids Went Extinct, but Did They Evolve?
November 27, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists call them “mammal-like reptiles,” but a very large fossil synapsid upsets evolutionary ideas.
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Humans and Neanderthals were frequent lovers, genetics reveals
November 27, 2018 Cosmos Magazine
Neanderthal DNA in the human genome wasn’t the result of a single encounter.
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Expanding Universe Mystery Deepens
November 27, 2018 Gizmodo
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Radical Findings Show Mitochondrial DNA Can Be Inherited from Dads
November 27, 2018 Science Alert
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He took a crash course in bioethics. Then he created CRISPR babies
November 27, 2018 statnews.com
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News Update/Commentary
'Siberian unicorn' walked Earth with humans
November 27, 2018 BBC News
A giant rhino that may have been the origin of the unicorn myth survived until at least 39,000 years ago -- much longer than previously thought.
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Do social psychologists have an ideological aversion to evolutionary psychology?
November 27, 2018 Research Digest, British Psychological Society
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Bacteriophages, Budding Yeast, and Behe’s Vindication
November 26, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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J.P. Moreland: How Vapid Scientism Exacts Its Toll
November 26, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
How ancient viruses got cannabis high
November 26, 2018 Science Daily
Ancient viruses contributed to the evolution of hemp and marijuana
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Darwin’s finches choose parent lookalikes as mates
November 26, 2018 Nature
A preference for mating with similar individuals can have a key role in speciation. Research on Darwin’s finches suggests that individuals might use the likeness of their parents as a guide for choosing mates.
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Genome-edited baby claim provokes international outcry
November 26, 2018 Nature
The startling announcement by a Chinese scientist represents a controversial leap in the use of genome editing.
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Evolution Is Still True, but...
November 26, 2018 Scientific American
...50 years after the infamous “monkey law” was struck down, anti-evolution fanatics continue to fight it, in ever sneakier ways
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Some rare fathers pass on an extra kind of DNA to their children
November 26, 2018 New Scientist
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The mechanics of embryonic eyes
November 26, 2018 Cosmos Magazine
Modelling shows how physics and biology combine to form ‘optic cups’.
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The 11 Biggest Unanswered Questions About Dark Matter
November 26, 2018 Live Science
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Junk Science Has Become a Profitable Industry. Who Will Stop It?
November 26, 2018 Real Clear Science
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Do Plants Behave Like Animals?
November 26, 2018 Real Clear Science
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The 'Journal of Controversial Ideas' Is a Fantastic Idea
November 26, 2018 American Council on Science and Health
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Theoretical physics has not gone to the dogs.
November 25, 2018 Quantum Frontiers
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Which of the physical sciences does CMI believe in?
November 24, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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More Upsets in Human Evolution
November 24, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If you like scientific truths that become untrue every year or month, join the paleoanthropology guild.
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Did a mysterious extinction event precede Adam and Eve?
November 24, 2018 Fox News
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All humans may be descended from just TWO people and a catastrophic event almost wiped out ALL species 100,000 years ago, study suggests
November 24, 2018 Daily Mail (UK)
Genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals from different species were surveyed
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Testing the Limits of Universalism in Science
November 23, 2018 Areo
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Intelligent Design from Every Angle: Check Out These Fine Christmas Book Offerings!
November 23, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today