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Additional Method of Analysis Confirms Human-Chimp Genomes Are About 15 Percent Different
May 27, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
Human and chimpanzee genome similarity reconsidered?
May 26, 2025
“pattern is more useful than percent"
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News Update/Commentary
A root development gene that's older than root development
May 26, 2025 Science Daily
The discovery highlights the fundamental evolutionary dynamic of co-opting, evolving a mechanism first and adopting it for a different purpose later.
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Enzyme assembly instructions
May 26, 2025 Science Mag News
Universal rules help you design the optimal enzyme from scratch
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Why Life is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe
May 26, 2025 Discovery Science
the complex, organized nature of life defies the natural tendency of matter and energy towards disorder and equilibrium, suggesting that life requires something only an intelligent designer could provide
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Attempts to Deal with the “Death Before Sin” Dilemma
May 26, 2025 Answers in Genesis
Part 2 of “God is Good! All the time?”
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Humans: Intelligent from the Very Beginning
May 26, 2025 Answers in Genesis
Astonishing evidence of ancient humans’ ingenuity
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Monkey Drumming Is Not Music
May 26, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary scientists claim to have found the “building blocks of human musicality”
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How Did Earth Get Its Water?
May 26, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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AI’s Contradictory Impact on Productivity: Squeezing a Balloon
May 26, 2025 Mind Matters
AI appears to give support workers a big revolution in productivity. But it is somewhat like a child squeezing a balloon; the air pushes out someplace else
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Physicists are waging a cosmic battle over the nature of dark energy
May 26, 2025 New Scientist
Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy, a mysterious force in the universe, is changing over time. This would completely re-write our understanding of the cosmos -- but now other physicists are challenging it
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A photon caught in two places at once could destroy the multiverse
May 26, 2025 New Scientist
The idea of a multiverse of universes is derived from a particular interpretation of quantum mechanics, but now a new twist on a classic experiment says it is time to put the idea to bed
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How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?
May 26, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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A land bridge through a lost ocean allowed elephants and apes to migrate between Africa and Asia
May 25, 2025 Science Norway
Researchers have looked into what happened when Africa came on a collision course with Europe and Asia.
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How the Physicalist Theory of Mind Blows Itself Up
May 25, 2025 Mind Matters
If we examine its basic premise that the brain is a computer and the mind is software we come across a startling contradiction
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Fossils as Magical Darwin Relics
May 25, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why the Theory That the Brain Is Like a Computer Is Wrong
May 24, 2025 Mind Matters
The pattern we see in artificial intelligence progress is that the movement towards emulating the human mind is also a movement away from the brain
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“Don’t Talk About Physics Fight Club”
May 23, 2025 Piers Morgan Uncensored
For centuries, scientists have grappled with the most fundamental question of them all -- what is reality? Is it a matter of common sense? Or can God or some higher being only know? And what was there before the Big Bang created the world we live in?
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Were Rock Layers and Fossils Formed Quickly?
May 23, 2025 Answers in Genesis
15 pieces of fossil and geological evidence for a young earth and global flood -- with pictures.
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The other Homo sapiens
May 23, 2025 Aeon
We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they -- and why did we replace them?
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Why do the numbers that shape our universe exist at all?
May 23, 2025 space.com
We can never 100% prove that the constants really are constant.
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New Studies Dismiss Signs of Life on Distant Planet
May 23, 2025 New York Times
In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent analyses discount the evidence.
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Humans Are Evolving Right in Front of Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau
May 23, 2025 Science Alert
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Was the Universe “timeless” before the Big Bang?
May 23, 2025 Big Think
Here in our Universe, time passes at a fixed rate for all observers: one second-per-second. Before the Big Bang, things were very different.
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News Update/Commentary
Mystery of ‘very odd' elasmosaur finally solved: fiercely predatory marine reptile is new species
May 23, 2025 Science Daily
A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally identified as belonging to a ‘very odd' new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known.
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News Update/Commentary
Different phases of evolution during ice age
May 23, 2025 Science Daily
Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. ... around 700,000 years ago many of the current cold-adapted species, as well as extinct ones like mammoths, evolved.
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Deep Reading in a World Full of Words
May 23, 2025 Mind Matters
The media environment is saturated with images, videos, and words. How can we regain our attention?
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What’s the Best Explanation for Human-Chimp Genetic Differences?
May 23, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Morphological evolution of the hominid brain
May 23, 2025 Academia Biology, v.3, n.2
A comparative analysis of the brain surfaces and endocasts of 35 hominid specimens was performed to search for morphological transformations that occurred over time throughout the hominid lineage.
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‘Landmark’ evolution study shows how rice inherits tolerance to cold without DNA changes
May 22, 2025 Nature
The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.
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The perils of paranormal investigations
May 22, 2025 Science, v.388, n.6749, p.822
A candid tale of a team of quirky ghost hunters offers insights into the rise of scientific illiteracy
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The emergence and demise of giant sloths
May 22, 2025 Science, v.388, n.6749, p.864-868
Today, there are six species of sloths, all of which have similar ecologies such as arboreality and a slow metabolism. These species are a tiny remnant of a once diverse American clade that was mostly made up of large-bodied species.
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How the Origin of Life Points to the Existence of God
May 22, 2025 Cold-Case Christianity
Has science answered the question of life’s origin? How do philosophically natural scientists tackle the “chicken and egg” problems related to the origin of life? What is the best explanation for the information found in the genetic code?
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On the Multiverse and the Laws of Physics
May 22, 2025 Closer To Truth Chats
renowned theoretical physicist and science communicator, explores bold ideas about the cosmos: the possibility of a finite universe, the nature of extra dimensions, and how abstract mathematical truths might constrain the physical world
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A Universe Without Einstein’s Cosmological Constant
May 22, 2025 Brian Keating
Can geometric unity actually solve the deepest mysteries of our universe, or will it join the many others that have tried unsuccessfully in the past to create a new unified theory?
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Introducing Biblical Biology 101
May 22, 2025 Creation Ministries International
A new resource for students and anyone else interested in biology
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Scientists Gave a Mouse a Stretch of Human DNA and Its Brain Grew 6% Bigger
May 22, 2025 ZME Science
A single DNA enhancer may help explain the human brain’s extraordinary size and complexity.
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A quantum miracle enabled the formation of neutral atoms
May 22, 2025 Big Think
If it weren’t for the intricate rules of quantum physics, we wouldn’t have formed neutral atoms “only” ~380,000 years after the Big Bang.
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News Update/Commentary
‘Selfish' genes called introners proven to be a major source of genetic complexity
May 22, 2025 Science Daily
a genetic element is the mechanism by which many introns spread within and between species ... it provides evidence of transfer between unrelated species in a process called ‘horizontal gene transfer'
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient DNA used to map evolution of fever-causing bacteria
May 22, 2025 Science Daily
Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained and lost genes
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists have figured out how extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong
May 22, 2025 Science Daily
Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.
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Giant ground sloths evolved three different times for the same reason
May 22, 2025 New Scientist
An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to cold and dry conditions
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The Origin of Eukaryotes
May 22, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Breaking the Darwinian Monopoly: Reflections on the New Education Agenda
May 22, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Nearly 300 scientists demand a shift from profit to “fostering human flourishing” in education -- is it time to break free from Darwin’s grip?
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The Mind Beyond the Brain: Insights from a Neurosurgeon
May 22, 2025 Mind Matters
Dr. Michael Egnor argues, “There’s something about the relationship between the mind and the brain that’s not in the textbooks.”
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Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps Represent Functional DNA
May 22, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
Why Intelligence Is Not a Computational Process
May 22, 2025 YouTube
Breakthrough Discuss is an annual academic conference focused on life in the Universe and novel ideas for space exploration. Breakthrough Discuss 2025: Life As We Don't Yet Know It was held April 23-24, 2025, at the University of Oxford.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The origin of vertebrate teeth and evolution of sensory exoskeletons
May 21, 2025 Nature
The earliest record of tooth antecedents and the tissue dentine, an early-vertebrate novelty, has been controversially represented by fragmentary Cambrian fossils
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The evolutionary origin of sensitive dental structures
May 21, 2025 Nature
Fossil data shed light on a debate about when vertebrate dental tissues arose by assigning an early sensory structure to arthropods rather than to vertebrates.
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Bird feeders have caused a dramatic evolution of California hummingbirds
May 21, 2025 Science
Beaks have grown longer and larger, and ranges have expanded to follow the feeders