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Genome Reveals Clues to Giraffes’ “Blatantly Strange” Body Shape
March 19, 2021 The Scientist
The physiological demands of that long neck get support from a gene involved in strengthening bones and blood vessels, researchers find after inserting the sequence in mice.
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News Update/Commentary
How do birds breathe better? Researchers' discovery will throw you for a loop
March 19, 2021 Science Daily
New findings offer potential to enhance flow engineering
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Joshua Swamidass and the Cancellation of Christian Colleges
March 19, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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OOLers Have Abandoned Reason
March 19, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Why are we here? Stuff happens, origin-of-life researchers agree. It might have been lightning.
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Remember Space Junk ‘Oumuamua?
March 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
A Conventional Explanation Is Now Offered: Nitrogen Ice from Pluto
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New Form of Human DNA Found
March 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
A Four-Stranded Knot
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Effectively Canceling Christian Colleges
March 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Michael Egnor Reflects on Joshua Swamidass’s Proposal
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Sperm whales have a surprisingly deep -- and useful -- culture
March 19, 2021 Popular Science
Whalers and researchers alike have found that these mammals are excellent at learning from each other.
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Long-Dormant Volcano in Iceland Awakens in Fiery Eruption
March 19, 2021 Gizmodo
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When our evolutionary ancestors first crawled onto land, their brains only half-filled their skulls
March 19, 2021 The Conversation
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Horses may recognise themselves in a mirror, hinting at self-awareness
March 19, 2021 New Scientist
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Lab-Grown Mouse Embryos Form Limbs and Organs
March 19, 2021 The Scientist
The embryos completed one-third of their total gestation outside of a uterus.
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Latest Data Show Bees Are Still Thriving at an Alarming Rate
March 18, 2021 science2.0
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Early-Life Stress Exerts Long-Lasting Effects Via Epigenome
March 18, 2021 The Scientist
In mice, epigenetic marks made on histones during infancy influence depression-like behavior during adulthood. A drug that reverses the genomic tags appears to undo the damage.
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News Update/Commentary
How a single cell gives rise to the 37 trillion cells in an average adult
March 18, 2021 Science Daily
One of great mysteries of human biology is how a single cell can give rise to the 37 trillion cells contained in the average body, each with its own specialized role. Researchers have devised a way to recreate the earliest stages of cellular development
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Bill Dembski at the Dallas Science and Faith Conference
March 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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A Centrist Medium Measures Wikipedia’s Bias
March 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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First Organism To Breathe Oxygen Appeared 3.1 Billion Years Ago
March 18, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Pop-culture Evolutionism
March 18, 2021 Creation Ministries International
The ship’s rudder is locked
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Trap-Jaw Ants Pose Trick Question
March 18, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Ant study handles trick question: Form or Function: Which came first?
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Why Extraterrestrial Life May Not Seem Entirely Alien
March 18, 2021 Quanta Magazine
The zoologist Arik Kershenbaum argues that because some evolutionary challenges are truly universal, life throughout the cosmos may share certain features.
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A Flea Circus of Small Animal Acrobats
March 18, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Death enables complexity in chemical evolution
March 17, 2021 Science Daily
How to beat Spiegelman's monster
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Conference;
GENESIS apologetics
March 17, 2021 Answers in Genesis
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Is Computing with DNA the Wave of the Future?
March 17, 2021 Mind Matters
We are running out of conventional space to store information and life forms’ DNA stores it much more efficiently
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Watch: Some (but Far from All) of the Raves for Meyer’s God Hypothesis
March 17, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Intelligent Design and the Restoration of Story
March 17, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why does DNA spontaneously mutate?
March 17, 2021 Live Science
Quantum physics might explain
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Strange microbe “breathes” nitrates using a mitochondria-like symbiont
March 17, 2021 ars technica
A relatively recent symbiosis is reminiscent of the ‘powerhouse of the cell.’
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Agnatha All Along? Changing the Evolutionary Narrative of Vertebrate Origins
March 17, 2021 Nature -- Ecology & Evolution
Who's been messing up everything? It's been the Agnatha all along
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Lab-grown structures mimic human embryo's earliest stage yet
March 17, 2021 Nature
The experiments use human cells to imitate the blastocyst phase -- offering a crucial window into human development.
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Human Immune System Does Not “Recognize” Deep Sea Microbes
March 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Lightening Strikes, Not Just Comets, Played a Vital Role in Origin of Life
March 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Hard Math Can Be Entertaining -- with the Right Musical Score!
March 16, 2021 Mind Matters
Gregory Chaitin discusses with Robert J. Marks the fun side of solving hard math problems, some of which come with million-dollar prizes
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Searching for the multiverse
March 16, 2021 iai news
Fine-tuning and the future of cosmology
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Ancient Lightning May Have Sparked Life on Earth
March 16, 2021 Smithsonian Magazine
More than a billion strikes a year likely provided an essential element for organisms
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Scientists plan to drop the 14-day embryo rule, a key limit on stem cell research
March 16, 2021 MIT Technology Review
As technology for manipulating embryonic life accelerates, researchers want to get rid of their biggest stop sign.
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Recent Plants Found Under Greenland Ice
March 16, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Plant materials in an ice core cannot be a million years old. They look like they were buried in the recent past.
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News Update/Commentary
Lightning strikes played a vital role in life's origins on Earth
March 16, 2021 Science Daily
Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge on Earth. This shows that life could develop on Earth-like planets through the same mechanism at any time if atmospheric conditions are right.
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News Update/Commentary
Sharing shears: Conserved protein segment activates molecular DNA scissors for DNA repair
March 16, 2021 Science Daily
Scientists have uncovered mechanisms underlying the activation of the MRN complex -- the cell's DNA scissors.
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The Latest Darwinian Obfuscation: “Unnecessary Complexity”
March 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Larry Krauss at Quillette on Woke Science
March 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Epigenetics: What Dad Does Comes Out in Offspring, Researchers Report
March 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How Nature Avoids Collapse
March 16, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish
March 16, 2021 New Scientist
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We're All Becoming Platonists Now --- And That's Not Good
March 16, 2021 Word on Fire
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When the Aliens Arrive, What Will They Look Like?
March 16, 2021 dnyuz.com
A zoologist has answers
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Dead Sea scroll fragments and ‘world's oldest basket' found in desert cave
March 16, 2021 The Guardian
Six-millennia-old skeleton of child also unearthed during dig in Judean Desert by Israeli archeologists
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A tour of deep time brings comfort in hard times
March 16, 2021 Nature
A whirlwind geological journey in which the past meets the present and the future.
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Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself
March 16, 2021 Imperial College London
Researchers find that the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis, changing how we think life evolved on Earth.