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• Coral symbiosis is a three-player game

  April 3, 2019 Thomas A. Richards and John P. McCutcheon Nature

  DNA analysis and microscopy reveal a third organism in the symbiosis that forms coral. The finding underscores the functional and evolutionary complexity of the symbiotic relationships that support many ecosystems.

• Genetic paradox explained by nonsense

  April 3, 2019 Miles F. Wilkinson Nature

  Gene mutations that truncate the encoded protein can trigger the expression of related genes. The discovery of this compensatory response changes how we think about genetic studies in humans and model organisms.

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  Gorillas gather around and groom their dead

  April 3, 2019 PeerJ Science Daily

  It is now known that many animals exhibit unique behaviors around same-species corpses, ranging from removal of the bodies and burial among social insects to quiet attendance and caregiving among elephants and primates.

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  Scientists discover first organism with chlorophyll genes that doesn't photosynthesize

  April 3, 2019 University of British Columbia Science Daily

  The peculiar organism is dubbed ‘corallicolid' because it is found in 70 per cent of corals around the world and may provide clues as to how to protect coral reefs in the future.

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  Study illuminates the brain's inner workings

  April 3, 2019 University at Buffalo Science Daily

  Research assesses how large-scale patterns of brain activity could vary between cognitive systems and across people

• Rocks on Super-Earths May Flow Too Close to the Surface for Life

  April 3, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• The Amazing Energy Efficiency of Cells

  April 3, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• AI Is Not a Simple Fix for Plagiarism

  April 3, 2019 Mind Matters

  The internet speeded up a perennial problem without changing it

• In Addition to DNA, Our Cells Have an Instruction Language Written in Sugar

  April 3, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• If Thoughts Were Data, Machines Could Write

  April 3, 2019 Mind Matters

  Human experience is what makes sense of the written word

• Science and Its Consequences: Kevin Williamson Versus Intelligent Design, Again

  April 3, 2019 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• In His Latest Review of Behe’s Darwin Devolves, Nathan Lents Misses the Forest for the Trees

  April 3, 2019 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

• God and the Origin of the Universe, Pt. 1

  April 3, 2019 Stephen Meyer Discovery Institute

  This episode of ID the Future features part one of a talk given by Stephen Meyer at the 2019 Dallas Science and Faith Conference.

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  Dark matter is not made up of tiny black holes

  April 2, 2019 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe Science Daily

  An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its most rigorous test to date

• Four Fascinating Facts About Kneecaps

  April 2, 2019 Ross Pomeroy Real Clear Science

• Walter Bradley: Tell People About AI, Not Sci-Fi

  April 2, 2019 Mind Matters

  His struggle to bring reality to“sci-fi” origin of life research is the Center’s inspiration

• The real extremism

  April 2, 2019 Dominic Statham Creation Ministries International

• Science Editor: Dark Matter Is Real! The Crisis Is the Words We Use!

  April 2, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Does T-urf13 Refute Irreducible Complexity? A Response to Arthur Hunt

  April 2, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today

• Do ‘depression genes’ exist? It’s not so simple, new study concludes

  April 2, 2019 Lisa Marshall University of Colorado, Boulder

• Has the Liberal Bias in Psychology Contributed to the Replication Crisis?

  April 2, 2019 Jesse Singal Research Digest, British Psychological Society

• Do humans have a ‘ghost’ ancestor? Artificial intelligence thinks so.

  April 2, 2019 Kristen Hovet Genetic Literacy Project

• Evolution of Kneecaps a Bit of a Mystery

  April 2, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• When Earth’s Magnetic Field Nearly Disappeared

  April 2, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Researchers: Warm Weather Made Cannibals of Neanderthals

  April 2, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• News Update/Commentary

  Prebiotic chemistry: Stable majorities

  April 2, 2019 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Science Daily

  How could prebiotic information-bearing DNA sequences survive in the face of competition from a vast excess of shorter molecules with random sequences? Scientists now show that a relatively simple mechanism could have done the trick.

• Sea Pens

  April 1, 2019 Don Batten Creation Ministries International

  ‘Extreme’ living fossils shout ‘after their kind’

• Could Grandpa’s Early Diet Affect Your Health?

  April 1, 2019 Shawna Williams The Scientist

  A large study seeks to answer whether a man’s childhood diet has transgenerational repercussions.

• Largest Delta Plain in Earth’s History Discovered in Arctic

  April 1, 2019 Kimberly M. S. Cartier Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  If this Triassic period delta existed today, its footprint would equal about 1% of all land on Earth.

• Dark Matter is Real. “Dark Matter” is a Terrible Name for It

  April 1, 2019 Corey S. Powell Discover magazine

• When the Link Between Space and Time Will Be Intuitive

  April 1, 2019 Brian Gallagher nautil.us

• Wheaton scholars pen first ‘Origins' college textbook bridging the Bible to ‘mainline science’

  April 1, 2019 Samuel Smith Christian Post

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  Complex artefacts don't prove brilliance of our ancestors

  April 1, 2019 University of Exeter Science Daily

  Artefacts such as bows and arrows do not necessarily prove our ancestors had sophisticated reasoning and understanding of how these tools worked, new research suggests.

• Engineered Adaptability: New Distributed Problem-Solving Model for Population Adaptation

  April 1, 2019 Phil B. Gaskill and Randy J. Guliuzza Institute for Creation Research

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  First bacterial genome created entirely with a computer

  April 1, 2019 ETH Zurich Science Daily

  Scientists have developed a new method that greatly simplifies the production of large DNA molecules containing many hundreds of genes. With this method, they have built the first genome of a bacterium entirely designed by a computer algorithm.

• Researchers: Complex Tools Don’t Show Ancient Humans Were Smart

  April 1, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• News Update/Commentary

  Building blocks of DNA and RNA could have appeared together before life began on Earth

  April 1, 2019 Scripps Research Institute Science Daily

  Finding weighs against popular ‘RNA World' hypothesis

• Why Does Matter, Not Antimatter, Dominate Our Universe? Physicists Don’t Know.

  April 1, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Gunter Bechly: Ediacaran Fossil Paper Is “Junk Science”

  April 1, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Vindicated by Behe: Devolution Is Natural, Evolution Is Not

  April 1, 2019 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Science Today

• Watch: Behe and Metaxas Talk Evolution, Design, Implications, and Academic Freedom

  April 1, 2019 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• On Academic Freedom Laws, National Law Review Takes a Tumble

  April 1, 2019 Sarah Chaffee Evolution News & Science Today

• The Dark Matter of the Human Proteome

  April 1, 2019 Annie Rathore The Scientist

  Advances in the functional characterization of newly discovered microproteins hint at diverse roles in health and disease.

• What is mutation?

  April 1, 2019 Devon M. Fitzgerald and Susan M. Rosenberg Public Library of Science

  A chapter in the series: How microbes “jeopardize” the modern synthesis

• Still No Space Aliens? That’s Because They Are Keeping Us in a Zoo!

  April 1, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• How Darwin Devolves Everything from Birds to Bacteria

  April 1, 2019 Michael Behe Discovery Institute

  On this episode of ID the Future, biochemist Michael Behe discusses part 3 of his new book Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA That Challenges Evolution.

• Fantastic voyage from the womb

  April 1, 2019 Lainna Callentine Creation Ministries International

  The amazing changes in a new born baby’s circulation

• Tiny First Temple find could be first proof of aide to biblical King Josiah

  March 31, 2019 Amanda Borschel-Dan The Times of Israel

  Rare seal impression from 8th century BCE, bearing the name Nathan-Melech, found in dig at large Iron Age administrative center in Jerusalem’s City of David

• ‘Zoo hypothesis' may explain why we haven't seen any space aliens

  March 31, 2019 Seth Shostak NBC News (Mach)

  The hypothesis holds that they can see us, but we can't see them.

• MIT Prof Was Smarter Than God

  March 31, 2019 Uncommon Descent