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New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Dependency Graph Model
August 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
from Winston Ewert
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How a cup of water can unlock the secrets of our universe
August 23, 2023 phys.org
there is a range in which fundamental constants can vary, allowing for the viscosity needed for life processes to occur within and between living cells
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News Update/Commentary
Biologist gets the scoop on squash bug poop
August 23, 2023 Science Daily
A discovery about how a common insect acquires a microbe that is essential for its growth may help in the control of an agricultural pest.
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News Update/Commentary
Natural selection can slow evolution, maintain similarities across generations
August 23, 2023 Science Daily
New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The researchers worked with a plant called wild radish and its stamens, or pollen-producing parts
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News Update/Commentary
Noncoding DNA explains a majority of the heritability of dairy cattle traits, like milk production and fertility
August 23, 2023 Science Daily
Regulatory genes -- genes that control how other genes are used -- are responsible for 69% of the heritability of dairy cattle traits such as milk production and fertility, according to a new study. This contribution is 44% more than expected
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Researchers Fully Sequence the Y Chromosome for the First Time
August 23, 2023 National Institute of Standards and Technology
What was once the final frontier of the human genome -- the Y chromosome -- has just been mapped out in its entirety.
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Quantum physics reveals the unity of the universe
August 23, 2023 iai News
Reviving ancient philosophies
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Is there life on Mars? What a cave on Earth can teach us
August 23, 2023 Nature
Seventeen-year-old Zahra Ronizi jump-started her dream of becoming an astronaut and going to Mars by joining a simulated mission in a Spanish cave as a crew biologist.
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Why Do We Get Sick?
August 23, 2023 Areo magazine
The New Science of Evolutionary Medicine
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The Left and Right Brain Both Want Pop Science Media to Chill
August 22, 2023 Mind Matters
Neuroscience is not an especially rewarding field for the pursuit of dogma
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Michael Behe Unravels the Mystery of Biological Information
August 22, 2023 YouTube
In “Information: The Foundation of Life,” Behe unravels the mystery of how information drives the development and operation of our cells, our teeth, our bones, and much more.
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Human Embryos Have a Mysterious Yolk Sac
August 22, 2023 Science Alert
and we finally know why
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Europe spent €600 million to recreate the human brain in a computer. How did it go?
August 22, 2023 Nature
The Human Brain Project wraps up in September after a decade. Nature examines its achievements and its troubled past.
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Book
Evolution “On Purpose": Teleonomy in Living Systems
August, 2023 MIT Press
A unique exploration of teleonomy -- also known as “evolved purposiveness” -- as a major influence in evolution by a broad range of specialists in biology and the philosophy of science. | See Also Amazon
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Geological Evidences for a Young Earth -- Pt 2
August 22, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
Host Lauren and Dr. Tim Clarey discuss this important topic on episode 55 of The Creation Podcast!
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The Human Mind Is Wired for Music
August 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
How Did That Come About?
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Michael Behe Unravels the Mystery of Biological Information -- And the Marvel of Bones
August 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
New on YouTube
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The best science fiction movies about dinosaurs, by a palaeontologist
August 22, 2023 New Scientist
From Walking with Dinosaurs to King Kong, palaeontologist David Hone chooses his favourite science fiction films about dinosaurs -- and reveals which Jurassic Park made the cut
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Specialized T Cells Patrol Human Cornea
August 22, 2023 The Scientist
A new imaging technique puts the immune system of the eye in perspective, challenging a long-held status quo.
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“Eugenicons”? Call Them What They Are
August 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Social Darwinists
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Telling stories about unseen ancestors
August 21, 2023 Current Biology, v.33, n.16
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The phenotype-genotype reference map
August 21, 2023 The American Journal of Human Genetics
Improving biobank data science through replication
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A New AI Tool Predicts Gene Expression in a Single Cell
August 21, 2023 The Scientist
An artificial intelligence tool, scGPT, can identify cell types, predict the effects of disrupting genes, and pinpoint which genes interact with each other.
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Noise Cancellation: A Remarkable Design Solution in Biology
August 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The evolutionary history of bees in time and space
August 21, 2023 Current Biology, v.33, n.16, p.3409-3422
| See Also Phylogenetic trees reveal bee history
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Hummingbird Wings Featured in New Short Video
August 20, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Illustra’s short film “Wings of Wonder” shares more about our favorite birds.
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A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible
August 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning
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The Big Bang: Last Summer, Doubt Suddenly Exploded. Why?
August 19, 2023 Mind Matters
Why did a story that cast doubt on the Big Bang quickly go viral about a year ago? An experimental physicist offers some thoughts
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When Science Writers Say Things We Hardly Expected ...
August 19, 2023 Mind Matters
Some science writers are monotonous boosters for Answers from Science but the better ones challenge themselves, and thus challenge us too
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Can Information Be Separated from Intelligence? Part 3
August 18, 2023 Mind Matters
Theoretical biologist Barbieri’s practical dilemma is that a popular, dominant idea like “life is just chemistry” need not be proved, only insisted on
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Black hole ‘seeds' discovered in the early universe for 1st time ever
August 18, 2023 Live Science
The puzzle of how supermassive black holes grew so large just after the Big Bang could soon be solved.
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What is an embryo? Scientists say definition needs to change
August 18, 2023 Nature
Lab-grown structures with the potential to develop into fetuses should be defined -- and regulated -- as embryos, some researchers say.
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Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils
August 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Pre–Younger Dryas megafaunal extirpation at Rancho La Brea linked to fire-driven state shift
August 18, 2023 Science, v.381, n.6659
It is well known that many large vertebrate species went extinct during the late Pleistocene in most regions of the world. What caused these extinctions remains debated, although both climate change and human impacts have been implicated.
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The Biggest Question Mark in Astronomy? You’re Looking at It.
August 18, 2023 New York Times
Close scrutiny of a recent image from the Webb Space Telescope revealed some questionable punctuation.
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The modern sea spider had started to diversify by the Jurassic
August 17, 2023 University of Bristol
An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their kind.
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How consciousness may rely on brain cells acting collectively
August 17, 2023 The Conversation
new psychedelics research on rats
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People are freaking out over a question mark seen in space
August 17, 2023 National Public Radio
Scientists can explain
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Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection Exposed by Washington Post
August 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Does Left Brain-Only Thinking Impoverish Our Mental World? How?
August 17, 2023 Mind Matters
A discussion of the left brain vs the right brain that avoids pop science can set us thinking, as psychiatrist McGilchrist and neurologist Dirckx show
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Does Deep Social Change Underlie the War on Math?
August 17, 2023 Mind Matters
Why is the universal language of science sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege?
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Battling information bias
August 17, 2023 Science, v. 381, n.6659, p.739
Do not wait for society to reject scientific disinformation, tout the truth now
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Uncovering Death by Fire
August 17, 2023 Science
Wildfires, intensified by climate change and perhaps human activity, may have doomed Southern California’s big mammals 13,000 years ago
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News Update/Commentary
The modern sea spider had started to diversify by the Jurassic
August 17, 2023 Science Daily
An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their kind.
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The Oldest Known Jellyfish
August 17, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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How Scientists Can Reconnect With the Public
August 17, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
View academia like a member of the public would: what a concept
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For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer
August 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation
August 16, 2023 Quanta Magazine
For a half century, mathematicians have tried to define the exact circumstances under which a black hole is destined to exist. A new proof shows how a cube can help answer the question.
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Ötzi the Iceman has a new look: balding and dark-skinned
August 16, 2023 Nature
Improved DNA analysis updates thinking on alpine mummy’s skin colour, ancestry and more.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
New reptile shows dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved among diverse precursors
August 16, 2023 Nature, v.620, p.589-594