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News Update/Commentary
Once called cellular debris, tiny bubbles may play key role in understanding, treating diseases
March 24, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers used roundworms to discover extracellular vesicles carry RNA-binding proteins
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News Update/Commentary
Popular male dolphins produce more offspring
March 24, 2022 Science Daily
The reproductive success of male dolphins is not determined by strength or age, but via social bonds with other males.
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Sounding off on evolution
March 24, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Did sound production and hearing evolve?
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News Update/Commentary
Do octopuses, squid and crabs have emotions?
March 24, 2022 Science Daily
Octopuses can solve complex puzzles and show a preference for different individuals, but whether they, and other animals and invertebrates, have emotions is being hotly debated and could shake up humans' moral decision-making
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News Update/Commentary
Mechanism that underlies local dopamine release in the brain
March 24, 2022 Science Daily
The research, conducted in mice, shows that another chemical messenger called acetylcholine can trigger the firing of dopamine neurons by binding to a part of these neurons not previously known to initiate firing.
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New Use for “Junk DNA”: Controlling Fear
March 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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So Why Aren’t the RNA OOL Researchers in the Running for the Nobel Prize?
March 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
OOL = Origin of Life
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What Can We Learn About the Universe from Just One Galaxy?
March 23, 2022 The New Yorker
In new research, begun by an undergraduate, William Blake’s phrase “to see a world in a grain of sand” is suddenly relevant to astrophysics.
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Why This Atheist Scientist Became a Believing Christian
March 23, 2022 YouTube
Dr. Sy Garte is a retired biochemist. For most of his life, he was an unbelieving atheist. In this interview, he details his journey from being an atheist scientist to a believing Christian.
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News Update/Commentary
How the gut communicates with the brain
March 23, 2022 Science Daily
New research has discovered how the enteric nervous system -- or ‘second brain' -- can communicate with both the brain and spinal cord, which up until now had remained a major mystery.
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Facts Cannot be Ignored When Considering the Origin of Life #3
March 23, 2022 Answers Research Journal, v.15, p.49-58
Necessity of Matching the Coding and the Decoding Systems
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Computer Prof: We Can't Give Machines Understanding of the World
March 23, 2022 Mind Matters
Not now, anyway. Melanie Mitchell of the Santa Fe Institute finds that ever larger computers are learning to sound more sophisticated but have no intrinsic knowledge
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Stan the T. rex found! World’s most expensive fossil finds home in a new museum
March 23, 2022 National Geographic
Mystery shrouded the dinosaur’s future after an anonymous buyer paid $31.8 million in 2020. Now Abu Dhabi confirms a new museum will house the prized skeleton.
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Facts Cannot Be Ignored When Considering the Origin of Life #2
March 23, 2022 Answers Research Journal
Challenges in Generating the First Gene-encoding Template DNA or RNA
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Modern animal life could have origins in delta
March 23, 2022 phys.org
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How language evolved: A new idea suggests it’s all just a game
March 23, 2022 New Scientist
Our mastery of language presents many mysteries, not least where grammar comes from and how children learn to speak so effortlessly. Now researchers argue that it all makes sense if you think of language as a game of charades
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News Update/Commentary
Discovery could pave way for new lung treatment
March 23, 2022 Science Daily
Study finds stimulation of new family of proteins prevents fluid from entering lung
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What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design?
March 23, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
and What Are Its Theistic Implications?
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For Beauty, Pleasure, and More, Intelligent Design Expects Non-Essential Genes
March 23, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Lukas Ruegger: Three Problems with Punctuated Equilibrium
March 23, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Key Groups of Cambrian Creatures Tolerated Stressful Shallow Water Environment
March 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Early Darwinists Had More Freedom To Stray from the Orthodoxy
March 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Sand Dollars and Sea Biscuits Emerged Earlier Than Thought
March 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Trust the Science!
March 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
instructive testimony from media efforts to squelch debate about the COVID panic
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Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Sent Extraordinary Amounts of Sulfur into the Stratosphere
March 23, 2022 SciTech Daily
The Impact of Extinction
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As Many Opinions as There Are Men?
March 22, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Maybe Black Holes Don’t Really Exist
March 22, 2022 Uncommon Descent
consider the possibilities
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New clues reveal the devastation the day the dinosaurs died
March 22, 2022 National Geographic
Unusual traces found in Texas show what happened when the Chicxulub asteroid vaporized a thick bed of rock, unleashing superheated gas that kicked off a calamitous period of climate changes.
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Understanding the Hindu View of Free Will and Evil
March 22, 2022 Mind Matters
Arjuna Gallagher points out that concepts of reincarnation and karma make both problems look very different in the Hindu tradition
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Traced: Human DNA’s Big Surprise
March 22, 2022 Answers in Genesis
Secrets of the New Rosetta Stone
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‘Junk DNA' could be key to controlling fear
March 22, 2022 phys.org
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Reptiles are the Real Bird Brains
March 22, 2022 The Scientist
A research group argues that a species’ number of neurons, rather than brain volume, should serve as indicator of cognitive capacity when studying brain evolution, but some experts voice doubts.
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How did bad things come about?
March 22, 2022 Creation Ministries International
The Creation Answers Book (8th ed. 2019), Chapter 6
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The rise of citational justice: how scholars are making references fairer
March 22, 2022 Nature
An emerging movement aims to push researchers to pay more heed to inequities in scholarly citations.
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News Update/Commentary
Early evolution of sea urchins
March 22, 2022 Science Daily
A genome-scale analysis of the evolutionary relationships and times of origin of sea urchins and their relatives has prompted a re-evaluation of their fossil record
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Scientists discover when beetles became prolific
March 22, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have found that beetles first roamed the world in the Carboniferous and later diversified alongside the earliest dinosaurs during the Triassic and Jurassic.
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Did University of Tokyo Researchers Explain the Origin of Life?
March 22, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Fact Check
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New Genealogical Network Dates Humanity Back 100,000 Years
March 22, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Evidence Based Medicine Running into Many of the Same Problems As Felled Earlier Reform Movements
March 22, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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What Do We Want with Mathematics Curriculum?
March 21, 2022 Mind Matters
If we are going to dedicate such a large portion of our children's lives to learning mathematics, we had better know why
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Extreme Convergences Strain Credibility
March 21, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The things one has to believe to maintain Darwinism should give reasonable people fits.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists determine structure of a DNA damage ‘first responder'
March 21, 2022 Science Daily
The results of this collaborative project overturn some conventional wisdom about how the DNA repair process works.
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News Update/Commentary
Ape ‘vocabularies' shaped by social mingling -- like in humans
March 21, 2022 Science Daily
Social mingling shapes and transforms the ‘vocabularies’ of apes, just like in humans
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The Rise of Theistic Darwinism
March 21, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Redwoods, Grasshoppers: New Designs in Well-Studied Species
March 21, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Are Science Reporters So Credulous?
March 21, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Are Science Reporters So Credulous?
March 21, 2022 Uncommon Descent
at last someone is asking
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What Philosopher Michael Polanyi Had To Say About Darwinian Evolution
March 21, 2022 Uncommon Descent
a friend reminds us
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Orangutans use slang to ‘show off their coolness’, study suggests
March 21, 2022 The Guardian
Primates come up with new ‘kiss-squeak’ alarm calls that spread quickly through communities, research says
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‘Predetermined': Mainstream scientists blame media, Big Tech for squelching COVID debate
March 21, 2022 Just the News
“On all of these issues we have no idea what the majority of scientists think," UCSF epidemiologist says. “We should have had hundreds or even thousands" of debates at this point in pandemic.