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‘Supergene’ wreaks havoc in a genome
July 6, 2022 University of Rochester
Rochester biologists used population genomics to study a selfish ‘supergene’ that skews genetic inheritance.
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Michio Kaku's Embarrassing Stance on UFOs
July 6, 2022 Real Clear Science
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Phyla of Tiny Filter Feeders Find a New Spot on the Tree of Life
July 6, 2022 The Scientist
A new study using fairly complete genetic datasets of two phyla of small suspension feeders (Ectoprocta and Entoprocta) reopens the debate on the phylogenetic relationships between them and other animals.
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The simulation hypothesis is a dangerous illusion
July 6, 2022 Big Think
The simulation hypothesis states that we are living in a simulation created by a technologically advanced species. If we are living in a simulation, so are our simulators. Only the First Simulator -- namely, “God" -- has any agency.
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Miracle of Man: The Problem of Phosphorus
July 6, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Horizontal Gene Transfer Happens More Often Than Anyone Thought
July 5, 2022 The Scientist
DNA passed to and from all kinds of organisms, even across kingdoms, has helped shape the tree of life, to a large and undisputed degree in microbes and also unexpectedly in multicellular fungi, plants, and animals.
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Do Mutations Provide New Genetic Information?
July 5, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The source of new genetic information is still a large thorn in the side of evolutionary theory. Has it been finally settled?
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Speciation of Bears, Birds, and Bacteria is not Evolution
July 5, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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God’s Design: Strategic Routing of the RLN
July 5, 2022 Answers in Genesis
The recurrent laryngeal nerve’s detour serves an important designed function
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Darwinists’ Delusion: Closing Thoughts on Jason Rosenhouse
July 5, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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For AI to Be Creative, Here’s What It Would Take
July 5, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Machines with Minds? The Lovelace Test vs. the Turing Test
July 5, 2022 Mind Matters
The answers computer programs give sometimes surprise me too -- but they always result from their programming
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Mars Rovers Will Need to Dig Deeper If They Want to Find Evidence of Life
July 5, 2022 Universe Today
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Pufferfish Don’t Need Functional Stomach, Inflate Instead
July 5, 2022 The Scientist
The fish use their stomach to swell up to three times their size. Is this why they can’t use the organ to digest proteins?
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4. How Almost Any Number Can Encode the Library of Congress
July 5, 2022 Mind Matters
That’s a weird, counterintuitive -- but quite real -- consequence of the concept of infinity in math
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Evolutionary biologists are ever adapting to progress in science
July 5, 2022 The Guardian
Many discoveries since the modern synthesis have been incorporated into evolutionary biology without substantially changing its major tenets
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10 surprising facts about the Big Bang Theory
July 5, 2022 Big Think
It's the origin of our entire observable Universe, but it's still not the very beginning of everything.
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The Woolly Mammoth
July 4, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Study explores coevolution of mammals and their lice
July 4, 2022 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Peter Higgs: the man behind the God particle
July 4, 2022 Nature
A friend’s close look at a reclusive physicist and his community.
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Particle physics isn’t going to die -- even if the LHC finds no new particles
July 4, 2022 Nature
On the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, it’s worth emphasizing that there’s a lot more to particle physics than particle hunting.
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Happy birthday, Higgs boson! What we do and don’t know about the particle
July 4, 2022 Nature
Physicists are celebrating ten years since the Higgs boson’s discovery. But many of its properties remain mysterious.
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers use AI to detect new family of genes in gut bacteria
July 4, 2022 Science Daily
Novel discovery by molecular biologists could help fight GI infections
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News Update/Commentary
Connectivity of language areas unique in the human brain
July 4, 2022 Science Daily
Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how our brain evolved into a language-ready brain. Compared to chimpanzee brains, the pattern of connections of language areas in our brain has expanded more than previously thought.
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Can We Eliminate the Idea of Function from the Study of Life?
July 3, 2022 Mind Matters
The question is, can biology journals take away what they did not give, without harming their own enterprise?
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Why Free Will Is Philosophically and Scientifically Sound
July 3, 2022 Mind Matters
As Michael Egnor points out in a recent podcast, it has been nearly a century since determinism was toppled in physics
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3. In Infinity, Lines and Squares Have an Equal Number of Points
July 3, 2022 Mind Matters
We can demonstrate this fact with a simple diagram
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Explosion of life on Earth linked to heavy metal act at planet’s centre
July 3, 2022 The Guardian
Formation of solid iron core 550m years ago restored magnetic field and protected surface
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Could We Ever Recover Dinosaur DNA?
July 3, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Another Paper on the Uses of Junk DNA
July 2, 2022 Uncommon Descent
which means something else for Dan Graur to be grumpy about
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Not functional yet a difference maker: junk DNA as a case study
July 2, 2022 Biology & Philosophy, v.37
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Dr. Strange: Can the Multiverse Really Work As a Plot Device?
July 2, 2022 Mind Matters
That’s a question Disney's Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness begs us to ask -- but the screenwriters’ answer might be disturbing
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Where We Stand Today with Jurassic Park
July 2, 2022 Mind Matters
There have been a number of unexpected finds of dinosaurs besides bones; some paleontologists dig hopefully
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2. Infinity Illustrates That the Universe Has a Beginning
July 2, 2022 Mind Matters
The logical consequences of a literally infinite past are absurd, as a simple illustration will show
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Our (rejected) letters to the Guardian about evolution (and other stuff)
July 2, 2022 Why Evolution Is True
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1. Why Infinity Does Not Exist in Reality
July 1, 2022 Mind Matters
A few examples will show the absurd results that come from assuming that infinity exists in the world around us as it does in math
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Carbon may not be the only basis for life. We need to look harder
July 1, 2022 Big Think
On Earth, carbon can form millions of compounds, while silicon is largely stuck inside rocks. But elsewhere, silicon could form the basis of life.
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How the Sea Cucumber Defends Itself . . . From Itself
July 1, 2022 The Scientist
The marine animals have evolved a unique molecular pathway enabling them to use toxins to fight off invaders without poisoning themselves in the process.
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Dinosaurs’ ability to survive icy cold helped them dominate the planet
July 1, 2022 New Scientist
Being already adapted to polar climes could have enabled dinosaurs to survive cold winters in the end-Triassic extinction event when most other animals died out
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Giant pandas give bamboo two thumbs up
July 1, 2022 Cosmos Magazine
And have been doing so for six million years.
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Biology's Uncertainty Principle
July 1, 2022 iai News
What is a stem cell depends on context
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5 of the best books on human evolution
July 1, 2022 BBC Science Focus
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News Update/Commentary
How placentas evolved in mammals
July 1, 2022 Science Daily
Research delves into the origins of pregnancy, pointing to an invasive placenta in the last common ancestor of eutherian mammals
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News Update/Commentary
Hidden in genetics: The evolutionary relationships of two groups of ancient invertebrates revealed
July 1, 2022 Science Daily
Using high quality molecular data, researchers have re-investigated a long-standing question about the position of two phyla of small aquatic invertebrates -- Kamptozoa and Bryozoa -- on the evolutionary tree.
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Evolutionists Admit Their Field’s Failures
July 1, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Donate Darwinism for a Tax Credit?
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Fossil Friday: Turtles All the Way Down
July 1, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Four Things Physicists Still Wonder About the Higgs Boson
July 1, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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More on Self-Replicating Machines
July 1, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Crushed, Zapped, Boiled, Baked and More
July 1, 2022 Carnegie Science
nature used 57 recipes to create Earth’s 10,500+ “mineral kinds”
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Naturalness after the Higgs
July 1, 2022 CERN Courier