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News Update/Commentary
How bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics
May 11, 2023 Science Daily
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem of global significance. The rise of resistant ‘superbugs' threatens our ability to use antimicrobials like antibiotics to treat and prevent the spread of infections caused by microorganisms.
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Human adaptation to diverse biomes over the past 3 million years
May 11, 2023 Science, v.380, n.6645, p.604-608
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A macroevolutionary pathway to megaherbivory
May 11, 2023 Science, v.380, n.6645, p.616-618
After the extinction of large dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous, many mammals underwent a rapid increase in size. Several hypotheses for this change have been put forward
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Why not scientism?
May 11, 2023 Aeon
Science is not the only form of knowledge but it is the best, being the most successful epistemic enterprise in history
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Darwin’s Dirty Secret Lives On
May 11, 2023 Christianity Today
A recent book on evolutionary theory fails to reckon with the social side of natural selection.
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Historian Agrees: Darwin and Eugenics Led to the Holocaust
May 11, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Historians are finally coming clean about how Darwinism birthed eugenics which spawned the Holocaust
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How fast is the Universe really expanding?
May 11, 2023 The Conversation
Multiple views of an exploding star raise new questions
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News Update/Commentary
Nature favors creatures in largest and smallest sizes
May 10, 2023 Science Daily
Life comes in all shapes and sizes, but some sizes are more popular than others
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News Update/Commentary
A journey to the origins of multicellular life
May 10, 2023 Science Daily
Long-term experimental evolution in the lab
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News Update/Commentary
Crops evolved by swapping genetic modules between cells
May 10, 2023 Science Daily
Comparing individual cells across corn, sorghum, and millet reveals evolutionary differences among these important cereal crops
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News Update/Commentary
African rhinos share retroviruses not found in Asian rhinos or other related species
May 10, 2023 Science Daily
Rhinoceros are found in Africa and Asia. Until recently, evidence suggested that throughout their evolutionary history, gamma-retroviruses such as Murine leukemia virus had not colonized their genomes, unlike most other mammalian orders.
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40 Years Ago: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning
May 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope
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Video
Has Humanity Forgotten God?
May 10, 2023 YouTube
2023 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith
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The Obstetrics Dilemma
May 10, 2023 Reasons to Believe
and the Design of the Human Birthing Process
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Stephen Hawking and I created his final theory of the cosmos
May 10, 2023 The Conversation
here’s what it reveals about the origins of time and life
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This new genome map tries to capture all human genetic variation
May 10, 2023 MIT Technology Review
It’s called a pangenome, and it could explain the DNA that makes each of us unique.
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What is the human pangenome and why do we need it?
May 10, 2023 New Scientist
A sequence for the human genome was first published in 2001, but this original reference doesn't reflect the full genetic diversity of humanity -- something a new “pangenome" attempts to solve
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How we could discover quantum gravity without rebuilding space-time
May 10, 2023 New Scientist
In the search for a theory that unites general relativity and quantum physics, many have tried to rethink space-time. But what if space-time emerges naturally, like a hologram?
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Emergence: The mysterious concept that holds the key to consciousness
May 10, 2023 New Scientist
A better understanding of emergent phenomena like the wetness of water, where the properties of a system can't be explained by those of its constituent parts, could unravel some big mysteries
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Why symmetry is so fundamental to our understanding of the universe
May 10, 2023 New Scientist
The symmetries of matter are deeper and stranger than they first appear, and they have driven many of the biggest breakthroughs in particle physics. But have we exhausted their usefulness?
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Why the mind-body connection is vital to understanding consciousness
May 10, 2023 New Scientist
The key to solving the hard problem of consciousness could lie in the body not the brain, with our gut and heart being key players in building our conscious experience
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First human ‘pangenome’ aims to catalogue genetic diversity
May 10, 2023 Nature
Researchers release draft results from an ongoing effort to capture the entirety of human genetic variation.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A draft human pangenome reference
May 10, 2023 Nature, v.617, p.312-324
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Peer-reviewed Paper
De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity
May 10, 2023 Nature
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Patient M: The man who started seeing the world backwards after being shot in the head
May 10, 2023 El País
A study returns to the case of a soldier injured during the Spanish Civil War who inspired doctor Justo Gonzalo’s theory of the human brain
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Why the origins of life remain a mystery -- and how we will crack it
May 10, 2023 New Scientist
To explain how life on Earth began, the big challenge is to identify the molecules and processes that enable non-living chemical systems to become more complex
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Why virtual particles don’t exist but do explain reality -- for now
May 10, 2023 New Scientist
So-called virtual particles aren't particles at all. Some argue that they are merely mathematical figments, and that we need to find a better way to understand particle interactions
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Peer-reviewed Paper
De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity
May 10, 2023 Nature, v.617, p.747-754
While early multicellular lineages necessarily started out as relatively simple groups of cells, little is known about how they became Darwinian entities capable of sustained multicellular evolution.
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Geoscientists Unearth New Insights Into Life’s Evolution 800 Million Years Ago
May 9, 2023 SciTech Daily
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The 4 Major Moons of Uranus May Have Underground Oceans -- and Possibly Life Inside
May 9, 2023 Popular Mechanics
What else could be down there?
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News Update/Commentary
Earth's first animals had particular taste in real estate
May 9, 2023 Science Daily
Study shows first evidence of Ediacaran-Period habitat selection
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The Brains of Modern Dog Breeds Are Larger Than Those of Ancient Breeds
May 9, 2023 Elte Institute of Biology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common
May 9, 2023 Science
But new tools show promise in tackling growing symptom of academia’s “publish or perish” culture
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Scientists discover secret ‘symmetries' that protect Earth from the chaos of space
May 9, 2023 Live Science
A new analysis of chaos in the solar system reveals how planetary collisions are avoided over billions of years.
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Memories may be stored in the membranes of your neurons
May 9, 2023 The Conversation
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Apparent meteorite crashes through roof of New Jersey home and damages floor
May 9, 2023 CBS News
“It was warm"
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The Darwin Wall Still Stands; but for How Long?
May 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Live Courses on Science and Christianity
May 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Coming Soon to DiscoveryU
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Webb Telescope Finds a Star Cloaked in 3 Rings of Ruined Worlds
May 8, 2023 New York Times
Astronomers have gained a new understanding of the chaos that wreathes the bright star Fomalhaut with the help of the powerful space observatory.
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News Update/Commentary
Nose shape gene inherited from Neanderthals
May 8, 2023 Science Daily
Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study.
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News Update/Commentary
An unprecedented view of gene regulation
May 8, 2023 Science Daily
Engineers' new technique analyzes the 3D organization of the genome at a resolution 100 times higher than before
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolutionary trends and goal directedness
May 8, 2023 Synthese, v.201
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The evolution of maximum terrestrial body mass in sauropod dinosaurs
May 8, 2023 Current Biology, v.33, n.9, p.R349-$350
The long-necked dinosaurs, sauropods, are famous for their extreme body sizes, evolving body masses several times greater than the next-heaviest terrestrial animals, elephant-like and rhinoceros- like mammals and ‘duck-billed’ dinosaurs.
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A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation
May 8, 2023 Quanta Magazine
A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly and potentially split species.
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Why “super-Earth” exoplanets are a scientific catastrophe
May 8, 2023 Big Think
They're the most common type of exoplanet known today, and many astronomers have called them "super-habitable." None of that is true.
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“Prehistoric'' Reptile Designed to Swim
May 8, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Elucidating the mysteries of enzyme evolution at the macromolecular level
May 8, 2023 Science Daily
Research team investigates links between molecular structure, function, and dynamics in enzymes
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Rethink Science
May 8, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If scientists knew as much as they think they do, they wouldn’t be rethinking so many things so often.
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On Origin of Life, “Stated Clearly” Has Clearly Misled Viewers
May 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Chance Event 1 Million Years Ago Changed Human Brains Forever
May 7, 2023 Science Alert
Like treasured recipes passed down from generation to generation, there are just some regions of DNA that evolution doesn't dare tweak.