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Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how embryos evolved
April 17, 2024 New Scientist
We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, but simple organisms with a multicellular life stage offer intriguing clues
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Mutations Battle Living Fossils
April 17, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Attempts to harmonize living fossil research with mutation research fail
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic variant identified that shaped the human skull base
April 17, 2024 Science Daily
This study provides a greater understanding of human disease and evolution.
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Drawing a line back to the origin of life
April 17, 2024 University of Cambridge
molecules, vital to the development of life, could have formed from a process known as graphitisation. Once verified in the laboratory, it could allow us to try and recreate plausible conditions for life's emergence.
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How Does Pure Math Generate Matter?
April 17, 2024 YouTube
How does pure mathematics generate matter? And how did the Big Bang arise from nothing? No matter how much we know about physics and how deeply we understand the Universe, there are still many fundamental questions that no one has answers to.
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An 11-Year-Old Girl’s Fossil Find Is the Largest Known Ocean Reptile
April 17, 2024 New York Times
When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs.
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News Update/Commentary
Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human -- defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates
April 17, 2024 Science Daily
Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins -- and produced a ‘bizarre' evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage -- that revises the start and end dates for many of our early ancestors.
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The universe may be dominated by particles that break causality and move faster than light
April 17, 2024 Live Science
With the nature of the universe's two most elusive components up for debate, physicists have proposed a radical idea: Invisible particles called tachyons, which break causality and move faster than light, may dominate the cosmos.
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Ancient human evolution is “unparalleled” in nature
April 17, 2024 Cosmos Magazine
Interspecies competition in ancient humans saw an evolutionary trend that is the complete opposite of almost all other vertebrates, according to a new study.
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The sympathetic nervous system arose in the earliest vertebrates
April 17, 2024 Nature
The sympathetic nervous system, which enables the fight-or-flight response, was thought to be present only in jawed vertebrates. Analysis of a jawless vertebrate suggests that this system might be a feature of all animals with a spine.
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Humans and their livestock have sheltered in this Saudi Arabian cave for 10,000 years
April 17, 2024 Nature
Saudi herders have travelled the same routes for millennia, cave discovery suggests.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
CryoEM structures reveal how the bacterial flagellum rotates and switches direction
April 17, 2024 Nature Microbiology
Bacterial chemotaxis requires bidirectional flagellar rotation at different rates. Rotation is driven by a flagellar motor, which is a supercomplex containing multiple rings.
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Ancient humans lived inside a lava tube in the Arabian desert
April 17, 2024 New Scientist
Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert landscape of Saudi Arabia
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Leveraging the Design Inference for Effectively Falsifying Data
April 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits
April 17, 2024 Nature, v.628, p.811-817
Hybridization allows adaptations to be shared among lineages and may trigger the evolution of new species. However, convincing examples of homoploid hybrid speciation remain rare
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Surprise hybrid origins of a butterfly species
April 17, 2024 Nature
Mating between different species has often been considered an evolutionary dead end, but a study in longwing butterflies suggests that such hybridization could underlie the origins of a new species.
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News Update/Commentary
New butterfly species created 200,000 years ago by two species interbreeding
April 17, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers have shown that an Amazonian butterfly is a hybrid species, formed by two other species breeding together almost 200,000 years ago.
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Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus is able to support life
April 17, 2024 The Conversation
my research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells there
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Physicist Studying SARS-CoV-2 Virus Believes He Has Found Hints We Are Living in a Simulation
April 17, 2024 IFL Science
Studying the evolution of the virus, he found signs that the information entropy decreased over time.
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Utah Versus Nature Rights
April 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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This Lava Tube in Saudi Arabia Has Been a Human Refuge for 7,000 Years
April 17, 2024 New York Times
Ancient humans left behind numerous archaeological traces in the cavern, and scientists say there may be thousands more like it on the Arabian Peninsula to study.
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Did Homo Erectus Have Language, Build Boats, and Sail Across Oceans?
April 17, 2024 IFL Science
Humans may have had language for millions of years.
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Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain -- here's how they move
April 16, 2024 New Scientist
Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhythmically along the seabed without a central nervous system
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How did life on Earth begin? Cracks may have been the key.
April 16, 2024 Washington Post
In a groundbreaking experiment in the early 1950s, a scientist tried to re-create the conditions of early Earth in a test tube.
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News Update/Commentary
Seed ferns: Plants experimented with complex leaf vein networks 201 million years ago
April 16, 2024 Science Daily
Flowering plant-type leaf veins died out and re-evolved several times in the course of the Earth's history
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A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy
April 16, 2024 New Scientist
A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever spotted, and its strange companion star could help explain how it got so huge
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National Geographic’s Article Misses the Boat
April 16, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Is the account of the Ark of Noah plausible?
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Intact Dinosaur Molecules Found
April 16, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A skeptic’s own lab proves that amino acids came from the original dinosaur
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New Study Reveals Secrets of Honey Bee Waggle Dance
April 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ernst Haeckel: Evolutionary Huckster
April 16, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
The Creation Podcast: Episode 71
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This Bird Is Evolving Right in Front of Us
April 16, 2024 YouTube
Florida’s snail kites
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Isaac Newton: Laws of motion from the law of God
April 15, 2024 YouTube
on the Scientific Revolution
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Is There Existence Outside of Time?
April 15, 2024 YouTube
Is it possible to exist outside of time? Are we just static objects, or do we have to continually reassemble ourselves in order to exist? This is a question that will have to be answered if we are ever to understand the origins of life.
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How logic alone may prove that time doesn’t exist
April 15, 2024 The Conversation
Einstein’s theory of relativity, for example, suggests the universe is a static, four-dimensional block that contains all of space and time simultaneously -- with no special “now”.
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Building a Scientific Narrative
April 15, 2024 The Scientist
A strong narrative is as integral a part of science writing as it is for any other form of communication.
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Did Warm-Bloodedness Pave the Path to Sentience?
April 15, 2024 MIT Press Reader
An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”
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The mistake at the heart of the physics of time
April 15, 2024 iai News
Why is time so weird?
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Conference;
Challenging the standard cosmological model
April 15, 2024
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Extreme genome scrambling in marine planktonic Oikopleura dioica cryptic species
April 15, 2024 Genome Research
Genome structural variations within species are rare. How selective constraints preserve gene order and chromosome structure is a central question in evolutionary biology that remains unsolved.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Microbial Diversity and Open Questions about the Deep Tree of Life
April 15, 2024 Genome Biology and Evolution, v.16, n.4
the transformative impact and inherent limitations of metagenomics and single-cell genomics on our understanding of microbial diversity and their integration into the Tree of Life
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Could JWST solve cosmology’s big mystery? Physicists debate Universe-expansion data
April 15, 2024 Nature
Results from the telescope could help to end a long-standing disagreement over the rate of cosmic expansion. But scientists say more measurements are needed.
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Bees Master Complex Tasks Through Social Interaction
April 15, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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The sounds of science -- a symphony for many instruments and voices
April 15, 2024 Physica Scripta, v.99
Despite its amazing quantitative successes and contributions to revolutionary technologies, physics currently faces many unsolved mysteries
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Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals
April 15, 2024 New Scientist
One species of nematode worm turns into a kin-devouring nightmare if it grows up in a crowded environment with a poor diet
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We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology
April 15, 2024 New Scientist
Mounting evidence suggests our galaxy sits at the centre of an expanse of nothingness 2 billion light years wide. If so, we may have to rethink our understanding of the universe
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution's recipe book
April 15, 2024 Science Daily
How ‘copy paste' errors cooked up the animal kingdom
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Ignorance of Evolutionary Theory as a “Superpower”
April 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Gould’s Panda Argument Is a Problem for Atheistic and Agnostic Views
April 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
April 14, 2024 The Guardian
Meeting at London’s Royal Society will scrutinise basic model first formulated in 1922 that universe is a vast, even expanse with no notable features
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Does Brain Science Eliminate Free Will?
April 14, 2024 YouTube
Who’s the boss, me or my brain? Brain data does not favor free will. In the famous Libet experiment, my brain makes decisions prior to my conscious sense of making that decision -- brain activity precedes personal awareness.