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The search for the world's ‘missing' genomes
February 27, 2023 BBC
Enormous strides have been made to unravel the secrets of the human genome, so why are we missing the genetic information of most of the planet?
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The Radical Naturalism of Naturalistic Philosophy of Science
February 27, 2023 Topoi
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Our Genomes Are Full of ‘Junk DNA' That Could Be Way More Important Than We Realized
February 27, 2023 Science Alert
Of three billion base pairs making up the human genome, only 2 percent encodes proteins, leaving 98 percent as useless ‘junk DNA'; its origins, effects, and potential purpose in the evolution of life has attracted attention ever since the 1960s.
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Ancient Proteins Offer New Clues About Origins of Life on Earth
February 27, 2023 Johns Hopkins University
In early Earth simulation co-led by researchers at Johns Hopkins, scientists gain insights into how amino acids shaped the genetic code of ancient microorganisms
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Findings provide insights into the surprising evolution of proteins
February 27, 2023 phys.org
why modern proteins use a quasi-universal repertoire of 20 canonical amino acids. The study shows that foldability was likely a critical factor in the selection of the canonical alphabet.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolutionary history of detoxifying enzymes reconstructed
February 27, 2023 Science Daily
Biochemists have succeeded in resurrecting the ancestral genes of five detoxifying enzymes which are present in all tetrapods to show how their divergence in function has occurred.
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News Update/Commentary
Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxies in early universe
February 27, 2023 Science Daily
While analyzing data from JWST, astronomers discovered a galaxy previously hidden -- one that surprisingly seems to have already hosted multiple generations of stars despite its young age, estimated at 1.4 billion years old.
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Metaxas, Berlinski: A Match Made in Heaven
February 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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How the Earth Operates Supply Chains for Life
February 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Origin of Life
February 27, 2023 YouTube
William Lane Craig is researching the latest developments in Origin of Life studies.
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Answers in Genesis CALLS OUT Young Earth Creationists for believing in EVOLUTION?
February 27, 2023 YouTube
Answers in Genesis has recently posted a number of articles attempting to warn people of Young Earth Creationists that believe in evolution. ... Ross wrote many articles for AiG and yet thinks they are strongly misrepresenting “Young Earth Evolutionists"
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The future of evolutionary medicine
February 26, 2023 Frontiers in Science
sparking innovation in biomedicine and public health
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All Living Cells Could Have the Molecular Machinery for a ‘Sixth Sense'
February 25, 2023 Science Alert
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Why You Can’t Predict the Future of Religion
February 25, 2023 New York Times
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Insect bite marks show first fossil evidence for plants' leaves folding up at night
February 24, 2023 Science Daily
Some plants show ‘sleep movements,' folding or raising their leaves each night before opening them again the next day. Now, researchers offer convincing evidence for these nightly movements in fossil plants that lived more than 250 million years ago.
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On the Christian Origins of Science
February 24, 2023 YouTube
In his recent Daily Wire documentary, “Logos & Literacy," Dr. Jordan Peterson visits the Museum of the Bible and discusses the impact of the Bible on literacy, universities, and science.
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Marvelling at the mystery of consciousness through a scientific lens
February 24, 2023 Nature
Neuroscientist and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness describes the multidisciplinary appeal of his research.
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Is There Ambiguity in Creation?
February 24, 2023 Answers in Genesis
The idea that God created a young earth that looked old has insurmountable problems.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Macromolecular organic matter in samples of the asteroid (162173) Ryugu
February 24, 2023 Science, v.379, n.6634
Organic compounds in asteroids and comets contain information about the early history of the Solar System. They could also have delivered organic material to early Earth.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Soluble organic molecules in samples of the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
February 24, 2023 Science v.379, n.6634
Surface material from the near-Earth carbonaceous (C-type) asteroid (162173) Ryugu was collected and brought to Earth by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
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Why aren't animals as smart as humans?
February 24, 2023 Science Norway
“Fire may have made human brains larger," researcher says.
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5 times scientists thought they may have discovered aliens
February 24, 2023 Business Insider
Extraterrestrial life could exist, but mysterious objects in the sky aren't evidence of aliens. ... Scientists have thought they were close to discovering alien life a few times -- none of it via UFOs.
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Could reinterpreting our data eliminate dark energy?
February 24, 2023 Big Think
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?"
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolution of enzyme functionality in the flavin-containing monooxygenases
February 24, 2023 Nature Communications
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News Update/Commentary
How birds got their wings
February 24, 2023 Science Daily
The origin of a structure in bird wings essential to flight has been found in dinosaurs
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New Model of Chirality Untestable
February 24, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s one of the biggest mysteries for evolutionary biologists: the origin of handedness in biomolecules. A new solution is all hat and no cattle.
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Scientists Discover a “New” Fourth (Meningeal) Membrane Surrounding the Brain
February 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Conference to Explore Cosmic Mind and Divine Action
February 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Our Brains “Control” How Sick We Get?
February 24, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Imagination makes us human
February 23, 2023 The Conversation
this unique ability to envision what doesn’t exist has a long evolutionary history
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An asteroid in the laboratory
February 23, 2023 Science, v.379, n.6634, p.782-783
Small asteroids are leftover material from the formation of the Solar System, so samples of them could provide information on processes that occurred during that early period.
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Global impact and selectivity of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction among sharks, skates, and rays
February 23, 2023 Science, v.379, n.6634, p.802-806
We know that the end-Cretaceous extinction event drove ecological change and species turnover in terrestrial systems, but we know less about how this event may have altered marine systems.
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Dark energy could lead to a second (and third, and fourth) Big Bang
February 23, 2023 Live Science
Scientists have proposed a way that the universe could stop expanding, ending in a 'Big Crunch' that resets space and time as we know it.
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Earliest Fossil Brain Is Still a Brain
February 23, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Finally, Scientists Uncover the Genetic Basis of Fingerprints
February 23, 2023 The Scientist
Much like with a zebra’s stripes or a leopard’s spots, Turing patterns explain how the distinctive patterns of human fingerprints form, a study finds.
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First look at Ryugu asteroid sample reveals it is organic-rich
February 23, 2023 phys.org
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String theory is dead
February 23, 2023 iai News
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Big dino, little dino: how T. rex’s relatives changed their size
February 23, 2023 Nature
‘Impressive’ fossil analysis reveals why some dinosaurs were massive but their cousins were tiny.
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Discovery of massive early galaxies defies prior understanding of the universe
February 23, 2023 Science Daily
Six massive galaxies discovered in the early universe are upending what scientists previously understood about the origins of galaxies in the universe.
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Evolution of dinosaur body size through different developmental mechanisms
February 23, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists puzzling over how such wildly different dinosaur sizes evolved recently found -- to their surprise -- that smaller and larger theropod dinosaurs like these didn't necessarily get that way merely by growing slower or faster.
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Single gene causes sea anemone's stinging cell to lose its sting
February 23, 2023 Science Daily
When scientists disabled a single regulatory gene in a species of sea anemone, a stinging cell that shoots a venomous miniature harpoon for hunting and self-defense shifted to shoot a sticky thread that entangles prey instead, according to a new study.
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Nobody Can Explain Early Galaxies
February 23, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Mature galaxies right near the beginning -- this repeated theme has secular theorists at wit’s end
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Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I
February 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
An Engineering Marvel
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The DNA Code Takes My Breath Away; Here’s Why
February 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Arrows Found in 54,000 Year-Old Cave
February 23, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Why “Junk DNA” Sequences Are Not Deleted
February 23, 2023 Uncommon Descent
Because Evolution, We Are Told, “Rejects Them”
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Developmental strategies underlying gigantism and miniaturization in non-avialan theropod dinosaurs
February 23, 2023 Science, v.379, n.6634, p.811-814
Over evolutionary history, many different taxa have evolved very large body sizes. The general consensus has been that an animal grows to a large size based on an increase in growth rate.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The endocast from Dana Aoule North (DAN5/P1)
February 22, 2023 American Journal of Biological Anthropology
A 1.5 million year-old human braincase from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia
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The Webb Telescope Spots Six Galaxies That Shouldn't Exist
February 22, 2023 Time
Early galaxies, so the rule goes, were pipsqueaks. Or at least that’s what the rule used to be.
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Animals' ‘sixth sense' is more widespread than previously thought
February 22, 2023 phys.org