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Looks can deceive
June 30, 2022 Big Think
Evolutionary trees based on anatomy may be wrong
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Pleiotropic effects of trans-regulatory mutations on fitness and gene expression
June 30, 2022 Science, v.377, n.6601, p.105-109
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News Update/Commentary
Cosmological thinking meets neuroscience in new theory about brain connections
June 30, 2022 Science Daily
A collaboration between a former cosmologist and a computational neuroscientist generates a new way to identify essential connections between brain cells.
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Copper Reveals Its Role in Exploding Plants -- and in the Miracle of Man
June 30, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rocket Lab Launches NASA’s CAPSTONE Mission to the Moon
June 30, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Found: The ‘Holy Grail of Catalysis'
June 30, 2022 Uncommon Descent
turning methane into methanol under ambient conditions using light
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Scientists say they've solved a 700-year-old mystery: Where and when Black Death began
June 30, 2022 National Public Radio
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The Human Brain Has Neural Networks Not Found in Lab Mice
June 29, 2022 Mind Matters
They are complex special networks whose purpose is silencing other neurons
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Ice Age wolf DNA reveals dogs trace ancestry to two separate wolf populations
June 29, 2022 Francis Crick Institute
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South African Hominin Fossils Predate Lucy, Analysis Suggests
June 29, 2022 The Scientist
A newer dating technique using cosmogenic isotopes finds Australopithecus remains from the Sterkfontein caves to be about 1 million years older than previous estimates, potentially changing scientists’ understanding of humanity’s origins.
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Mars Curiosity Rover Collects Rock Samples Containing Key Ingredient of Life
June 29, 2022 Daily Wire
The Monday press release noted the discovery of high levels of organic carbon, a key basis for molecules measured for the first time on the red planet.
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Once again: A misguided article on why the theory of evolution is obsolete
June 29, 2022 Why Evolution Is True
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Video
Eric Metaxas and Stephen Meyer Tackle Science and God
June 29, 2022 YouTube
Bestselling authors Metaxas and Meyer have a free-wheeling discussion of science, faith, and God during a special episode of “Socrates in the City" taped at the Westminster Conference on Science and Faith in the Philadelphia area in April 2022
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Ghost DNA from hybrid coyotes could save endangered red wolves
June 29, 2022 New Scientist
A hidden reservoir of red wolf DNA has been found in coyotes in southwestern Louisiana -- and it could be used to help the endangered wolves grow their wild population
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Dinosaurs in Birds’ Clothing?
June 29, 2022 Answers in Genesis
on thinking biblically about dinosaurs
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SETI’s search for alien life has entered a new era
June 29, 2022 Big Think
SETI is no longer just a guessing game.
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Darwin’s Tree Chopped Down
June 29, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists lied, people died, but you can trust what they’re saying now.
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers develop online portal to show how biases in RNA sequences affect gene expression
June 29, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers explain the importance of identifying and understanding how differences between tissues and cells alter gene expression without changing the underlying genetic code.
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News Update/Commentary
Enzyme of bacterial origin promoted the evolution of longhorned beetles
June 29, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have resurrected the primordial enzymes, which first appeared in a common ancestor of longhorned beetles. Horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to the beetle as well as gene duplications promoted the evolution of this family
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Why scientists really, really want to know if there was ever life on Mars
June 29, 2022 Vox
If there was life on Mars billions of years ago -- even just microbial life -- it could change our understanding of how life begins.
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News Update/Commentary
New kangaroo described -- from Papua New Guinea
June 29, 2022 Science Daily
The new description of the fossil kangaroo has found that, rather than being closely related to Australian kangaroos, it most likely belongs to a unique genus of more primitive kangaroo found only in PNG.
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What Is Life?
June 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Mars Curiosity Rover Collects Rock Samples Containing Key Ingredient of Life
June 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The origins and future of the Grand Canyon
June 29, 2022 Knowable magazine
How old is the Grand Canyon? Will the Colorado River run dry? Learn about how the Big Ditch formed, and the present state and uncertain future of the Colorado River watershed
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When a Neurosurgeon and a Biologist Keep on Arguing ...
June 28, 2022 Mind Matters
… we suspect some pretty basic science issues are involved
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Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?
June 28, 2022 Mind Matters
Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness
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Marks: Artificial Intelligence Is No More Creative Than a Pencil
June 28, 2022 Mind Matters
You can use a pencil -- but the creativity comes from you. With AI, clever programmers can conceal that fact for a while
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Do we need a new theory of evolution?
June 28, 2022 The Guardian
A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists -- and the conflict may determine the future of biology
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Adult Body Proportions Partly Solved
June 28, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Progress in solving the mystery of adult-size similarity in animals: New genetic process sheds light on how organ proportionality works
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News Update/Commentary
How did vertebrates first evolve jaws?
June 28, 2022 Science Daily
Scientists reveal clues about the evolutionary origin of jaws by studying the embryonic development of zebrafish -- an approach known as ‘evo-devo.'
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News Update/Commentary
Tadpoles undergo surprising number of vision changes when becoming frogs
June 28, 2022 Science Daily
It's already known that tadpoles go through a physical metamorphosis on their way to becoming a frog, but what wasn't known is how their vision adapts at a molecular level across the life stages to a strikingly different environment.
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News Update/Commentary
Role identified for key gene in developmental disability syndrome
June 28, 2022 Science Daily
Single gene previously linked to rare syndrome of epilepsy, autism and developmental disability
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Early human fossils found in cave are a million years older than expected
June 28, 2022 CNN
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Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?
June 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”
June 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Did Life Originate on Earth or in the Cosmos? Part 2
June 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Fossils in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ may be more than a million years older than previously thought
June 27, 2022 Purdue University
Cosmogenic nuclide dating of Australopithecus at Sterkfontein, South Africa
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Why the paradoxes of infinity still puzzle us today
June 27, 2022 Big Think
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.
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5 revolutionary cosmic ideas that turned out to be wrong
June 27, 2022 Big Think
No matter how beautiful, elegant, or compelling your idea is, if it disagrees with observation and experiment, it's wrong.
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News Update/Commentary
New way in which T cells learn to tell friend from foe
June 27, 2022 Science Daily
As part of this early education, specialized thymus cells ‘pose' as different tissues, teaching the immune system how to recognize both friend and foe. Immune cells that mistakenly react to the body's own proteins are eliminated or reassigned.
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News Update/Commentary
Fossils in the ‘Cradle of Humankind' may be more than a million years older than previously thought
June 27, 2022 Science Daily
This would make them older than Dinkinesh, also called Lucy, the world's most famous Australopithecus fossil.
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News Update/Commentary
Virus discovery offers clues about origins of complex life
June 27, 2022 Science Daily
The discovery offers tantalizing clues about the origins of complex life and suggests new directions for exploring the hypothesis that viruses were essential to the evolution of humans and other complex life forms.
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Intelligent Design Gets Its Own Car
June 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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More on Self-Replicating Machines
June 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Check Their Privilege: Are Squirrels Socially Unjust?
June 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Can’t We Drink Saltwater?
June 27, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Archaeologists Believe They Found the Oldest Hebrew Text in Israel
June 27, 2022 Uncommon Descent
including the name of God
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Can Squirrels Really Be Socially Unjust? Check Their Privilege?
June 27, 2022 Mind Matters
A recent paper suggests that the animal world, untroubled for aeons by any notion of conscience, has a lot to answer for
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Anthropologist Wows Scientists
June 27, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Rogue planets with weird atmospheres and no star could host life
June 27, 2022 New Scientist
Worlds that hold onto their dense primordial atmospheres of hydrogen and helium may stay warm enough to maintain liquid water on their surfaces, even without starlight