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The immortal jellyfish

The immortal jellyfish

When this jellyfish starts to grow old—it just makes itself young again. And again.
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25 Nov, 2024
Molecular and morphological analysis predicts four bat baramins

Molecular and morphological analysis predicts four bat baramins

What do genetics and morphology reveal about how many created kinds of bats there originally were?
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15 Nov, 2024
'Plague-resisting' gene comes with a downside.

'Plague-resisting' gene comes with a downside.

This ‘beneficial mutation’ is also linked to auto-immune diseases.
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10 Nov, 2024
Critiquing attempts to unite the three domains of life

Critiquing attempts to unite the three domains of life

Finding a universal common ancestor for the three domains of life has proven very difficult for evolutionists.
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08 Nov, 2024
Can we place the sons of Noah on the Y chromosome tree

Can we place the sons of Noah on the Y chromosome tree

Noah was Y Chromosome Adam, but placing the Patriarchs on the Y tree is difficult when many alternate hypotheses exist
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29 Oct, 2024
Geneticist Evolution Impossible

Geneticist Evolution Impossible

John Sanford, inventor of gene gun, says genetic entropy makes evolution impossible
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24 Oct, 2024
Sickle-cell anemia does not prove evolution!

Sickle-cell anemia does not prove evolution!

sickle-cell anaemia results from a mutation that breaks hemoglobin, but that can be an advantage in resisting malaria.
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19 Oct, 2024
Toes of the tokay

Toes of the tokay

Tokay gecko toes and feet utilize van der Walls forces in setae and spatula to walk on vertical surfaces.
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14 Oct, 2024
Natural selection in the real world

Natural selection in the real world

A long-term study on the water flea, Daphnia pulex, contradicts thousands of papers on natural selection that ignored environmental variation.
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10 Oct, 2024
DNA from the last woolly mammoths

DNA from the last woolly mammoths

A woolly mammoth population went through a bottleneck of eight, the same as people on the Ark, without mutational meltdown
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08 Oct, 2024
Design of bacterial flagella: part 1

Design of bacterial flagella: part 1

Recent research has shown that bacterial flagella are even more sophisticated and fine-tuned then previously thought.
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13 Sep, 2024
The Mystery of the Frozen Octopus

The Mystery of the Frozen Octopus

New research about the Antarctic octopus has provided answers that may explain how this creature survives in extreme waters.
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05 Sep, 2024
Life is in the blood

Life is in the blood

Blood is the highly sophisticated transport system that allows communication and coordination between different parts of the human body
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05 Sep, 2024
Synthetic life by Venter?

Synthetic life by Venter?

Did Venter make a truly synthetic new life form? What does it prove about chemical evolution or abiogenesis?
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03 Sep, 2024
Ecosystem in NE Greenland supports biblical Ice Age

Ecosystem in NE Greenland supports biblical Ice Age

The post-Flood ice age explains how northeastern Greenland could have supported a climate not affected by permafrost.
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23 Aug, 2024
Genetic convergence between humans and octopuses

Genetic convergence between humans and octopuses

Parallel mechanisms of LINE retrotransposition for inducing variationin the brains of humans and octopuses undermines common ancestry.
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26 Jul, 2024