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Finally, Scientists Uncover the Genetic Basis of Fingerprints
February 23, 2023 The Scientist
Much like with a zebra’s stripes or a leopard’s spots, Turing patterns explain how the distinctive patterns of human fingerprints form, a study finds.
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Animals' ‘sixth sense' is more widespread than previously thought
February 22, 2023 phys.org
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There is Only Entropy
February 21, 2023 Skeptic
Unifying the Narrative of Science
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First look at Ryugu asteroid sample reveals it is organic-rich
February 23, 2023 phys.org
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The Carbon Canyon Fold, Eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona
February 22, 2023 Answers Research Journal
sandstone beds look as though they were bent smoothly while they were still unlithified and soft. Such a conclusion is preposterous if there were ~450 million years between deposition
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Could reinterpreting our data eliminate dark energy?
February 24, 2023 Big Think
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?"
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There is no evidence for a Universe before the Big Bang
February 22, 2023 Big Think
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we've seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven't.
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ChatGPT answers physics questions like a confused C student
February 21, 2023 Big Think
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
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Psychedelic experience isn’t just brain chemistry
February 17, 2023 iai News
Not just a lightshow
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String theory is dead
February 23, 2023 iai News
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Big dino, little dino: how T. rex’s relatives changed their size
February 23, 2023 Nature
‘Impressive’ fossil analysis reveals why some dinosaurs were massive but their cousins were tiny.
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Europe’s first humans hunted with bows and arrows
February 22, 2023 Nature
A cave site in France holds hundreds of tiny stone points, alongside remains thought to belong to Homo sapiens.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolution of enzyme functionality in the flavin-containing monooxygenases
February 24, 2023 Nature Communications
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Mars rover sensors may not be sensitive enough to find signs of life
February 21, 2023 New Scientist
While testing Mars rover sensors in the Atacama desert, researchers inadvertently found a variety of unclassifiable microorganisms called “the dark biome”
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The amazing ways electricity in your body shapes you and your health
February 22, 2023 New Scientist
Your cells crackle with electric signals that guide embryonic development and heal wounds. If we can learn to tweak this “bioelectric code”, we might be able to prevent cancer and even grow new limbs
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News Update/Commentary
Infants outperform AI in ‘commonsense psychology'
February 21, 2023 Science Daily
New study shows how infants are more adept at spotting motivations that drive human behavior
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Understanding human intentions will be the next big breakthrough in AI
February 14, 2023 New Scientist
With the recent news that the ChatGPT AI can pass a theory of mind test, how far away are we from an artificial intelligence that fully understands the goals and beliefs of others?
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News Update/Commentary
Discovery of massive early galaxies defies prior understanding of the universe
February 23, 2023 Science Daily
Six massive galaxies discovered in the early universe are upending what scientists previously understood about the origins of galaxies in the universe.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists make stunning discovery, find new protein activity in telomeres
February 20, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers made the stunning discovery that telomeres contain genetic information to produce two small proteins, one of which they found is elevated in some human cancer cells, as well as cells from patients suffering from telomere-related defects.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of dinosaur body size through different developmental mechanisms
February 23, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists puzzling over how such wildly different dinosaur sizes evolved recently found -- to their surprise -- that smaller and larger theropod dinosaurs like these didn't necessarily get that way merely by growing slower or faster.
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News Update/Commentary
Gene variations for immune and metabolic conditions have persisted in humans for more than 700,000 years
February 21, 2023 Science Daily
Genetic study of modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans points to the importance of ‘balancing selection' in evolution
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News Update/Commentary
Single gene causes sea anemone's stinging cell to lose its sting
February 23, 2023 Science Daily
When scientists disabled a single regulatory gene in a species of sea anemone, a stinging cell that shoots a venomous miniature harpoon for hunting and self-defense shifted to shoot a sticky thread that entangles prey instead, according to a new study.
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News Update/Commentary
How birds got their wings
February 24, 2023 Science Daily
The origin of a structure in bird wings essential to flight has been found in dinosaurs
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More Fossils Contradict Evolutionary Tales
February 21, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How many more anomalies will it take to overturn the Darwin empire with its assumption of gradual evolutionary progress?
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News Update/Commentary
A new model offers an explanation for the huge variety of sizes of DNA in nature
February 22, 2023 Science Daily
Why is ‘junk DNA' not deleted from the original genome over millions of years of evolution?
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Nobody Can Explain Early Galaxies
February 23, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Mature galaxies right near the beginning -- this repeated theme has secular theorists at wit’s end
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Zombie Science: Vestigial Organs Are Back!
February 22, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The vestigial organ claim: The belief that will not die -- evolutionists attempt to resurrect it again!
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New Model of Chirality Untestable
February 24, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s one of the biggest mysteries for evolutionary biologists: the origin of handedness in biomolecules. A new solution is all hat and no cattle.
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Jim Tour Unmasks Inaccurate Commentary on the Origin of Life
February 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
and Steve Benner’s Double Standard
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Yeast Gives Evidence of “Genes-in-Waiting”
February 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I
February 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
An Engineering Marvel
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Meet the Ghostly Organisms that Rescue the Planet
February 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists Discover a “New” Fourth (Meningeal) Membrane Surrounding the Brain
February 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Conference to Explore Cosmic Mind and Divine Action
February 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The DNA Code Takes My Breath Away; Here’s Why
February 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Arrows Found in 54,000 Year-Old Cave
February 23, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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The Cruel Legacy of Social Darwinism in Nigeria
February 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Our Brains “Control” How Sick We Get?
February 24, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Everybody Believes in Intelligent Design Where Money Is Concerned
February 21, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Why “Junk DNA” Sequences Are Not Deleted
February 23, 2023 Uncommon Descent
Because Evolution, We Are Told, “Rejects Them”
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How Did Microproteins Appear from Nowhere?
February 21, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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11 Archaeological Finds for the Gospels
February 20, 2023 YouTube
Titus Kennedy's top 10 archaeological discoveries and his response to one challenge against the reliability of the Gospels. From the discovery of the Herod Coins to the Temple Building in John 2, we talk about many artifacts and findings
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Intelligent Design: What it is and Why it Matters to Our Worldview and Culture
January 24, 2023 YouTube
Friday session of the Southland seminar -- God's Sovereign Plan Through His Creation
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Baraminology: An Introduction
February 17, 2023 YouTube
Host Emory Moynagh reads Kurt Wise's 1990 paper on baraminology and comments on it.
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Signature in the Cell
January 24, 2023 YouTube
Charles Darwin and the Mystery of How Life Began
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Return of the God Hypothesis
January 23, 2023 YouTube
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Book
Darwin Comes to Africa: Social Darwinism and British Imperialism in Northern Nigeria
February, 2023 Discovery Institute
Charles Darwin fathered not just a scientific theory, but a toxic social ideology that fueled racist colonial policies in Africa. In this sobering book, an African scholar traces the insidious impact of Darwinian ideas on British imperial policies | See Also Amazon
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Origin of Chirality in the Molecules of Life
October 20, 2022 ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
the origin of enantiomeric selectivity is analyzed from the viewpoint of the “RNA World” model, based on the autocatalytic turnover of glyceraldehyde as a precursor for simple sugars, and in particular ribose, as promoted by the formose reaction
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How your brain decides what to think
February 20, 2023 The Conversation
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How Earth’s molecules got their “handedness”
February 20, 2023 Ohio State University
Researchers propose new mechanism for early chemical evolution