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Your ingenious immune system
July, 2021 Creation Ministries International
Cleverly configured to devour, deactivate, and destroy
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Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?
June 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Physicist's Defense of Reality, Despite Quantum Physics
June 13, 2021 Mind Matters
He explains why Eddington’s solid table really IS solid, even if, at the highest resolution, it is mostly empty space
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Do Any Dogs Go to Heaven? If So, Why?
June 13, 2021 Mind Matters
Neuroscientist Christof Koch was troubled as a child by the Catholic tradition that dogs like his beloved Purzel did not go to heaven
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Researchers Can't Explain: Memories Drift from Neuron to Neuron
June 12, 2021 Mind Matters
Memories are supposed to stay put in the neurons that lay them down. A recent study, published at Nature, shows that they move a lot…
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Neuroscientist: Conscious AI is not an insurmountable problem
June 12, 2021 Mind Matters
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Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery” Is Not Alone: Gaps Everywhere!
June 12, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Protist Hosts Both Green Algae and Purple Bacteria Symbionts
June 11, 2021 The Scientist
Having two different endosymbionts may allow the ciliate Pseudoblepharisma tenue to live in both oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor zones of the muddy bogs of southern Germany.
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Many female animals are evolving to look more attractive to mates
June 11, 2021 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
New discovery shows human cells can write RNA sequences into DNA
June 11, 2021 Science Daily
In a discovery that challenges long-held dogma in biology, researchers show that mammalian cells can convert RNA sequences back into DNA, a feat more common in viruses than eukaryotic cells.
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CELS 2021 -- A Report from the Trenches
June 11, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
The first-ever Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS 2021) was held June 3-5, in Denton, Texas
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Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Still Alive and Kicking
June 11, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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150 Years of Darwin’s Dangerous Book
June 10, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
This year is the 150th anniversary of the most dangerous book ever published: Darwin’s racism and sexism are now acknowledged
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Directed evolution suggests way viruses could have evolved
June 10, 2021 Chemical & Engineering News
Researchers evolve bacterial enzyme to package and protect its own RNA, as viruses do
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The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve
June 10, 2021 Quanta Magazine
The accelerating effort to understand the mathematics of quantum field theory will have profound consequences for both math and physics.
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An arc of galaxies 3 billion light-years long may challenge cosmology
June 10, 2021 Science News
The discovery is a “big deal” if true, but still needs to be confirmed
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Scientists Discover “Gorditas” and Other Novel Brain Cell Types
June 10, 2021 The Scientist
A pool of neural stem cells that ordinarily lies dormant in the brains of adult mice spawns two types of never-before-documented glial cells when artificially reactivated, potentially pointing to a novel mechanism of brain plasticity.
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We Could Be Wrong About How the Brain Works
June 9, 2021 Psychology Today
Our cognitive biases limit our ability to understand our own brains.
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A deep look at a speck of human brain reveals never-before-seen quirks
June 9, 2021 Science News
Extra-strong connections, whorled tendrils and symmetrical cells hint at deep brain mysteries
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Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain
June 9, 2021 The Atlantic
“Scientists are meant to know what’s going on, but in this particular case, we are deeply confused.”
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DNA Jumps Between Animal Species. No One Knows How Often.
June 9, 2021 Quanta Magazine
The discovery of a gene shared by two unrelated species of fish is the latest evidence that horizontal gene transfers occur surprisingly often in vertebrates.
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What happened before the Big Bang?
June 9, 2021 Big Think
Asking science to determine what happened before time began is like asking, “Who were you before you were born?"
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Some early land-dwelling amphibians evolved back into aquatic species
June 9, 2021 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Not just a phase for RNAs
June 9, 2021 Science Daily
Phenomenon known as ‘phase separation' allows an RNA to tightly control the activity of a protein that regulates neurodegeneration and aging
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Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God
June 9, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Solid objects and empty atoms
June 9, 2021 iai News
Why everyday reality is not illusory but emergent
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Do You Want AI to Be Conscious?
June 9, 2021 nautil.us
Consciousness is an important function for us. Why not for our machines?
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When time runs backwards: What thermodynamics can tell us about life
June 9, 2021 New Scientist
The second law of thermodynamics, which gives us an arrow of time, is routinely violated at the smallest scales -- an insight that is already yielding fresh clues to some of biology's great mysteries
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Do humans provide any benefit to planet Earth except for ourselves?
June 9, 2021 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
How the amphibians got their vertebrae
June 9, 2021 Science Daily
Ancient amphibians evolved stiffer intervertebral joints for aquatic lives
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Where's my missing link?
June 8, 2021 Core Academy of Science
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New Study Says an Extra-Dimension May Explain Dark Matter
June 8, 2021 The Debrief
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A single honeybee has cloned itself hundreds of millions of times
June 8, 2021 New Scientist
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Cattle that spend more time around humans have smaller brains
June 8, 2021 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists develop the ‘evotype' to unlock power of evolution for better engineering biology
June 8, 2021 Science Daily
Scientists have pioneered a new approach to help biological engineers both harness and design the evolutionary potential of new biosystems. Their concept of the ‘evotype' lays a foundation for the next generation of biotechnologies.
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News Update/Commentary
Monarchs raised in captivity can orient themselves for migration
June 8, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers found monarchs raised in captivity can successfully migrate if given time to orient themselves. They discovered this by equipping the butterflies with tiny radio transmitters and monitoring them for 200 km
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Axe: Why “No Free Lunch” for Darwin?
June 8, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Line of galaxies is so big it breaks our understanding of the universe
June 8, 2021 New Scientist
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Life Fights Entropy with Intelligent Design
June 8, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Functional biology in its natural context
June 7, 2021 eLife
A search for emergent simplicity
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Underwater avalanche continued for two days
June 7, 2021 BBC
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New species of dinosaur -- up to 30m long -- confirmed as largest ever found in Australia
June 7, 2021 The Guardian
The massive Titanosaur, which lived more than 90m years ago, was discovered in south-west Queensland
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Towards an engineering theory of evolution
June 7, 2021 Nature Communications, v.12
Biological technologies are fundamentally unlike any other because biology evolves. Bioengineering therefore requires novel design methodologies with evolution at their core.
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News Update/Commentary
Nucleosome breathing from atomistic time snapshots
June 7, 2021 Science Daily
Computer simulations visualize in atomic detail how DNA opens while wrapped around proteins.
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New Atheists Accused of Intellectual Grift and Abject Surrender
June 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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These Tiny Creatures Were Revived After 24,000 Years Frozen in the Siberian Permafrost
June 7, 2021 Science Alert
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Dinosaurs Evolved Flight at Least Three Times
June 7, 2021 Smithsonian Magazine
A new study finds that many feathered dinosaurs were more aerodynamic than previously thought
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Will Computers and Robots Ever Become Self-Aware?
June 7, 2021 Wintery Knight
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Blog Post
How to Cover Up a Design Inference: The Coronavirus as a Case Study
June 7, 2021
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We Are Now Informed: Consciousness Does Not Really Exist
June 6, 2021 Mind Matters
Rubbish. Giving up consciousness as an illusion would be like turning off the master switch. What would the ensuing darkness and powerlessness tell us?