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Evolving “Backward”
January 20, 2023 Sci Tech Daily
Discovery Overturns More Than a Century of Knowledge About the Origin of Modern Birds
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Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds
January 20, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Reports that the James Webb Space Telescope killed the reigning cosmological model turn out to have been exaggerated. But astronomers still have much to learn from distant galaxies glimpsed by Webb.
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Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia
January 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Earth's oldest known environmental clean-up was 400 million years ago
January 19, 2023 phys.org
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Marine biology: The genes that made whales gigantic
January 19, 2023 EurekAlert!
The molecular evolution of genes previously associated with large sizes reveals possible pathways to cetacean gigantism
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News Update/Commentary
Squirrels that gamble win big when it comes to evolutionary fitness
January 19, 2023 Science Daily
Imagine overhearing the Powerball lottery winning numbers, but you didn't know when those numbers would be called -- just that at some point in the next 10 years or so, they would be.
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News Update/Commentary
Study reveals key aspect of the finely tuned regulation of gene expression
January 19, 2023 Science Daily
A team of researchers unveils a novel, key aspect of enhancer-mediated regulation of gene expression and proposes a mechanism that explains the tight connection between gene enhancers and promoters.
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Science won’t ever make philosophy or religion obsolete
January 19, 2023 Big Think
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
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Up to 74% of planets in the ‘habitable zone’ may not be good for life
January 19, 2023 New Scientist
Many planets that have the right temperatures for liquid water on their surfaces used to be too hot or too cold, which may affect their ability to host life now
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Turning back time with epigenetic clocks
January 19, 2023 Nature
If biological ageing can be slowed, halted or rewound, are the machine-learning algorithms the best way to measure it? Some experts are unconvinced.
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New Brain Research Supports Free Will
January 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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On the Miracles of Physiological Design
January 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica
January 18, 2023 phys.org
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Unusual dinosaur fossil discovery made in India
January 18, 2023 CNN
Paleontologists working in central India have made a rare discovery -- a fossilized dinosaur hatchery with 92 nests and 256 eggs belonging to colonies of giant plant-eating titanosaurs.
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Cause for excessive folding of gyri in human cerebral cortex
January 18, 2023 Science Daily
Brain's characteristic wrinkled surface is generally an indicator of higher cognitive function, but too much folding can produce the opposite effect
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I Wrote a Viral Screed Against Peer Review
January 18, 2023 Slate
I Got Some Emails
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PhD training is no longer fit for purpose -- it needs reform now
January 18, 2023 Nature
If researchers are to meet society’s expectations, their training and mentoring must escape the nineteenth century.
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Multimillion-dollar trade in paper authorships alarms publishers
January 18, 2023 Nature
Journals have begun retracting publications with suspicious links to sites trading in author positions.
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Finding from Recent Brain Research Supports Free Will
January 18, 2023 Mind Matters
Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important
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News Update/Commentary
Inner ear has a need for speed
January 18, 2023 Science Daily
New study uncovers how a unique, fast synapse keeps us from falling
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ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove
January 18, 2023 Nature
At least four articles credit the AI tool as a co-author, as publishers scramble to regulate its use.
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Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation
January 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwinian Scientists Produced the Holocaust
January 18, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How Scientists and University Professors Produced the Holocaust: The Shadow of the Professor Change Laura Tan Case
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Genesis: no room for theistic evolution
January 17, 2023 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: In the Beginning: Listening to Genesis 1 and 2 by Cornelis Van Dam (March 2021) | See Also Amazon
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New Book: For Kepler, Science Did Not Point to Atheism
January 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Dr. James Tour: How Did Life Come into Being?
January 17, 2023 YouTube
A conversation between Dr. James Tour and Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas on the topic "How Did Life Come into Being?"
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How the periodic table survived a war to secure chemistry’s future
January 17, 2023 Nature
A century ago, the discovery of hafnium confirmed the validity of the periodic table -- but only thanks to scientists who stood up for evidence at a time of global turmoil.
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11 Reasons Most Biologists Accept Evolutionary Theory in Spite of the Evidence
January 17, 2023 Wintery Knight
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Physicist: Life After Death Is Incompatible with Physics
January 17, 2023 Mind Matters
In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay for Scientific American on why -- from a science perspective -- our minds must be extinguished at death
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Berkeley to change biology courses into social-justice courses
January 17, 2023 Why Evolution Is True
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Fire the Useless Darwinists
January 17, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Science will gain more respect if it terminates the Darwinians. They could serve society better as truck drivers or laundry workers.
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What Happened to All of Science’s Big Breakthroughs?
January 17, 2023 New York Times
A new study finds a steady drop since 1945 in disruptive feats as a share of the world’s booming enterprise in scientific and technological advancement.
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Tour MINES Data on Origin of Life Claims
January 16, 2023 YouTube
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Squid and human brains develop the same way despite diverging 500 million years ago
January 16, 2023 Live Science
It seems that the blueprint for complex brain development remains the same, despite 500 million years of divergent evolution.
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Journals publish disproportionate number of papers by their editors
January 16, 2023 New Scientist
An analysis of more than 1000 science journals published over 38 years suggests that 12 per cent of journal editors publish a fifth of their own research
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Trilobites used trident-like horns to fight over mates like stags
January 16, 2023 New Scientist
Three-pronged weapons on the heads of Walliserops fossils suggest that animals first duelled in sexual combat at least 400 million years ago
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Playing with Personhood
January 16, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Denying creation dehumanizes people
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The OOL Tease: NASA’s Ponzi Scheme
January 16, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If you buy into NASA’s perennial search for the origin of life, you’ll lose it all. There’s no collateral.
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Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism
January 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity
January 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Old Wine in New Bottles
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A Comprehensive Guide to Proteomics
January 16, 2023 The Scientist
Deconstructing concepts, approaches, and data analysis in proteomics workflows.
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New Paper Claims Evolutionary Biology Is ‘Ableist’
January 16, 2023 Daily Wire
Here’s how it misrepresented the data
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Join the Conversation about Faith and Science
January 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Meyer, Murray, Holland
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Was the Tyrannosaur As Smart As a Monkey? Assessing a New Claim
January 15, 2023 Mind Matters
One researcher argues that, based on bird studies, the huge predators may have had many more brain cells than we have supposed
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Ideology stomps all over chemistry in a new paper
January 15, 2023 Why Evolution Is True
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Does evolution ever go backward?
January 15, 2023 Live Science
In regressive evolution, organisms lose complex features and can appear to evolve “in reverse." But evolution doesn't retrace its steps, experts said.
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Doubts about design and the resurrection
January 14, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Wesley Smith Asks, Is Your Body “Engineered”?
January 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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There’s a museum in Japan that honors rocks which resemble human faces
January 13, 2023 ZME Science
Among them, you'll find ET or even Jesus.
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Dads older than mums since dawn of humanity
January 13, 2023 Nature
Scientists used modern human DNA to estimate when new generations were born over 250,000 years -- and the age of parents at conception.