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• What Do We Really Know About Neanderthals?

  May 1, 2019 Franz Lidz Smithsonian Magazine

  Revolutionary discoveries in archaeology show that the species long maligned as knuckle-dragging brutes deserve a new place in the human story

• An Amphibious Whale from the Middle Eocene of Peru Reveals Early South Pacific Dispersal of Quadrupedal Cetaceans

  April 22, 2019 Olivier Lambert, et al. Current Biology

• The Origin of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction

  April 18, 2019 Harry F. Sanders, III Answers in Genesis

• Darwin Devolves, Again: Study Finds Bacteria Eject Their Flagella to Avoid Starvation

  April 18, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today

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  Fish under threat release chemicals to warn others of danger

  April 18, 2019 University of Saskatchewan Science Daily

  Fish warn each other about danger by releasing chemicals into the water as a signal, research has found.

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  Taming the genome's ‘jumping' sequences

  April 18, 2019 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Science Daily

  Scientists have discovered how a family of proteins that regulates the activity of transposable elements in the genome allows them to make inheritable changes to the growing fetus.

• Researcher: Finding Helium Hydride Today Confirms Its Presence from Within 100,000 Years of the Big Bang

  April 18, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Researchers: Universe’s Proposed First Chemical Detected for the First Time

  April 18, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• ‘Partly Alive’: Scientists Revive Cells in Brains from Dead Pigs

  April 17, 2019 Gina Kolata New York Times

  In a study that upends assumptions about brain death, researchers brought some cells back to life -- or something like it.

• Circulation and Cell Function Revived in Dead Pigs’ Brains

  April 17, 2019 Chia-Yi Hou The Scientist

  Researchers develop a system to deliver synthetic blood to isolated brains hours after death.

• Pig brains kept alive outside body for hours after death

  April 17, 2019 Sara Reardon Nature

  Revival of disembodied organs raises slew of ethical and legal questions about the nature of death and consciousness.

• Pig brains have been partly revived after death -- what does this mean?

  April 17, 2019 Clare Wilson New Scientist

• Testing Behe’s Principle that Darwin Devolves

  April 17, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today

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  Coelacanth reveals new insights into skull evolution

  April 17, 2019 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Science Daily

  Their study provides new insights into the biology of this iconic animal and the evolution of the vertebrate skull.

• News Update/Commentary

  These beetles have successfully freeloaded for 100 million years

  April 17, 2019 California Institute of Technology Science Daily

  Ancient beetle infiltrated earliest-known ant colonies like its modern relatives

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  Is one toe really better than three? How horse' legs evolved for travel rather than speed

  April 17, 2019 University of Bristol Science Daily

  Palaeobiologists have uncovered new evidence that suggests that horses' legs have adapted over time to be optimized for endurance travel, rather than speed.

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  New deep-learning approach predicts protein structure from amino acid sequence

  April 17, 2019 Harvard Medical School Science Daily

  A scientist has used a form of artificial intelligence known as deep learning to predict the 3D structure of effectively any protein based on its amino acid sequence.

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  New software tool could provide answers to some of life's most intriguing questions

  April 17, 2019 University of Waterloo Science Daily

  A researcher has spearheaded the development of a software tool that can provide conclusive answers to some of the world's most fascinating questions.

• Researchers: Human Face Evolved to Enhance Social Expression

  April 17, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Two Jellyfish Genomes Differ “As Drastically As Humans Do from Sea Urchins.”

  April 17, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• When Medical Journals Get Woke…

  April 17, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Darwin’s Magic Evolutionary Ideology

  April 16, 2019 Mike Scruggs The Tribune Papers

  Intelligent Design versus Humanist Dogma

• Liquid Blood Extracted From 42,000-Year-Old Foal Found Frozen in Siberia

  April 16, 2019 George Dvorsky Gizmodo

• Why Chimpanzees Have Big Testes, and Mandrills Have Small Ones

  April 16, 2019 Katarina Zimmer The Scientist

  For primates, males’ fancier ornaments are linked with smaller testes, according to a new comparative study.

• What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

  April 16, 2019 Chelsea Whyte New Scientist

  From wormhole passages to white hole escape routes, no one knows for certain what lurks beyond a black hole’s event horizon -- so choose your own unsettling fate

• Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

  April 16, 2019 Colin Barras New Scientist

• Rutgers University Law Journal Advocates “Intelligence-Based Alternatives” to Darwinism

  April 16, 2019 Sarah Chaffee Evolution News & Science Today

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  Honey, I ate the kids: The sweet side of filial cannibalism

  April 16, 2019 Frontiers Science Daily

  This Easter, researchers reveal why some parents eat their kids' eggs: it's because they care

• Increasing Skepticism Among Secular Scientists?

  April 16, 2019 Barry Arrington Uncommon Descent

• Face facts: we have evolved to communicate

  April 16, 2019 Nick Carne Cosmos Magazine

  Scientists suggest there’s a reason we look so different to our near relatives.

• Facing up to injustice in genome science

  April 16, 2019 Giorgia Guglielmi Nature

  Researchers from under-represented groups are making genomics more inclusive by working with communities that have been overlooked or abused.

• The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has resolved the event horizon of a supermassive black hole

  April 16, 2019 John Hartnett Creation Ministries International

• Why AI Can't Win Wars As If Wars Were Chess Games

  April 16, 2019 Bradley A. Alaniz Mind Matters

  Is Vladimir Putin right? Will whoever leads in AI rule the world? It’s not so simple

• Does Social Ability Distinguish Human Intelligence from That of Apes

  April 16, 2019 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Not altogether, of course, but it plays a bigger role than we sometimes assume

• The sorrows of psychiatry

  April 15, 2019 Alison Abbott Nature

  the fraught nexus of mental illness and biology

• Inferential Science -- What Could Go Wrong?

  April 15, 2019 Kirk Durston Evolution News & Science Today

• Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life

  April 15, 2019 Viviane Callier Quanta Magazine

  Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which viruses strategically manipulate and cooperate with one another.

• How Heroes Hurt Science

  April 15, 2019 Sabine Hossenfelder backreaction.blogspot.com

• Researchers: Origin of Life More Likely in Ponds, Assisted by Lightning, Than Oceans

  April 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Big Data Can Lie: Simpson's Paradox

  April 15, 2019 Robert J. Marks Mind Matters

  Simpson’s Paradox illustrates the importance of human interpretation of the results of data mining.

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  To protect stem cells, plants have diverse genetic backup plans

  April 15, 2019 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Science Daily

  When it comes to stem cell management, all flowering plants work to maintain the same status quo. Researchers have now identified the various strategies plants use to preserve a single, essential genetic circuit.

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  The history of humanity in your face

  April 15, 2019 Arizona State University Science Daily

  The face you see in the mirror is the result of millions of years of evolution and reflects the most distinctive features that we use to identify and recognize each other, molded by our need to eat, breath, see, and communicate.

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  What makes a jellyfish?

  April 15, 2019 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University Science Daily

  Genomic study reveals how jellyfish develop into floating beauties, rather than staying stationary like corals or sea anemones.

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  Cell biology: The complexity of division by two

  April 15, 2019 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Science Daily

  Researchers have identified a novel protein that plays a crucial role in the formation of the mitotic spindle, which is essential for correct segregation of a full set of chromosomes to each daughter cell during cell division.

• A Journalist at Stephen Meyer’s Dallas Speech Recalls His Own Remarkable Response

  April 15, 2019 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Sabine Hossenfelder: Has the Large Hadron Collider “Broken Physics”?

  April 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Hugh Ross: How Recent Measurements Support the Big Bang Theory

  April 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• From the Poached Egg: How Darwinism Dumbs Us Down

  April 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Logic & First Principles, 17: Pondering the Hyperreals *R with Prof Carol Wood (Including Infinitesimals)

  April 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Richard Weikart: Is Life a Cosmic Accident?

  April 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent