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Mind-Boggling Complexity in the Fruit Fly Transcriptome
The humble fruit fly that has been at the heart of genetic studies for nearly 100 years continues to amaze scientists and defy simplistic evolutionary predictions. A research team recently evaluated...
'Smoking Gun' Evidence of Inflation?
On March 17, a team of radio astronomers announced they discovered purportedly direct evidence for cosmic inflation—a critical component of the modern Big Bang model. To make this discovery, the...
IBM's Watson: Designed to Learn Like a Human
On March 5, 2014, the IBM supercomputer "Watson" became a pioneer virtual chef, inadvertently showcasing the remarkably superior hardware and software found between our ears.
This intelligent...
Ancient Lake Bed Merges with Biblical Clues
In northwestern India, annual monsoon rains fill lake Kotla Dahar, which then eventually dries as it receives virtually no precipitation for about half the year. But scientists recently found clues...
Reverse Engineering Reveals Ideal Propulsion Design
In a recent analysis of how dozens of species propel their bodies through air and water, a collaborative team found not only ideal design but also common design.1
To successfully propel...
Black Rocks Red-Flag Uniformitarian Flaws
Red flags traditionally act as warning signals. In this case of a surprising rock discovery in West Virginia the flag is black rather than red, but the results are the same. Geologist Callan Bentley...
Asteroid Medley Challenges Naturalistic Origins
Data from recent spacecraft flybys challenge the prevailing naturalistic perspective on asteroid origins. Secular astronomers assume that natural processes, rather than miracles, created the sun, Earth,...
Europe’s Oldest Human Footprints…Dated in .,.
News headlines worldwide recently reported Europe's oldest human footprint discovery at Happisburgh on England's east coast. How old are the tracks? It appears the media and research team answer...
Live Birth Fossil Exposes Evolutionary Enigma
Fossils sometimes capture brief, fleeting moments. Pterosaur footprints, raindrop craters, ripple marks, and half-swallowed fish adorn Earth's layers. And now researchers have discovered a baby...
March 2014
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New Genetic Findings Tackle the Toughest Evolutionary Q.,.
Which creature would you expect to be genetically closer to a common wombat—a cane rat or a kangaroo (Figure 1A)? What about a southern marsupial mole? Would you expect it to be more genetically...
Become a Creation Advocate
According to Dr. Henry M. Morris III, about 6,127 years have passed since creation. On page 93 of his new book, The Book of Beginnings, Volume Three, he explains:
Using the widely accepted secular...
How Old Is Our Planet?
The age of the earth is hotly debated among Christians today. This issue is not really whether God created Adam but whether our planet is as old as most secular scientists insist. The conflict is that...
Ancient Human DNA: Neandertals and Denisovans
Questions about ancient DNA (aDNA) abound—particularly ancient human DNA. Are the data real? Are they accurate? Are the newly published genomes of the Neandertals, Denisovans, and others being...
The Solar System: Neptune
The year was 1989. A small, unmanned space probe rapidly approached the mysterious and unexplored planet Neptune. Launched in 1977, the Voyager 2 spacecraft had already visited Jupiter, Saturn, and...
Amber Fossils Redefine 'Age of Reptiles'
Supposedly, dinosaurs lived during an “Age of Reptiles” when many of today’s creatures had not yet evolved. Museums and textbooks typically display fossil dinosaurs in isolation, and...
Rapidly Forming Oil Supports Flood Time Frame
My earlier Acts & Facts article “Oil, Fracking, and a Recent Global Flood” dealt with the origin of hydrocarbons and the oil generation process.1 This article will examine...
Catastrophic Deposition of Megabreccias
Sometimes sedimentary deposits contain large cobbles or boulders known as clasts, which were somehow transported to their present locations. Moving water is required to transport sand grains, and the...
Genesis Science Is Practical, Not Just Academic
“It doesn’t really matter, in the real world, what you believe about creation or evolution,” the college student glibly challenged me. “Whether the evolutionists are right or...
What Is the Origin of Life?
One roadblock secular science faces is the origin of anything…and everything. For example, how did the primeval Big Bang originate? Materialists do not know and rarely even speculate. In 1859,...
Sowing with Shepherds
Through our nationwide speaking ministry, ICR has seen firsthand the gradual exodus of young people from the Church. There are many explanations for this phenomenon, and researchers have written numerous...
Wooly Mammoth Mystery Finally Solved?
Researchers claim to potentially have solved the mystery of the wooly mammoth’s mass extinction.1 After drilling permafrost cores in Alaska, Canada, and northern Russia, a team led...
Human lincRNA Genes Contradict Evolution
Researchers from MIT and the University of Massachusetts Medical School recently characterized a group of genes in humans and other mammals that not only defies evolutionary models but vindicates the...
Genesis Camels: Biblical Error?
Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University recently radiocarbon-dated camel bones from digs at an ancient copper smelting camp in the Aravah Valley that runs along the Israeli-Jordanian border. Primarily...
DNA Proof That Neandertals Are Just Humans
The study of ancient DNA (aDNA) is currently all the rage in the field of genomics, with more and more researchers jumping into the fray. Despite the fact that many problems still plague the field,...
Speedy Glaciers Trample Multiple Ice-Age Theories
From satellite images, researchers have concluded that the Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier in Greenland has set a new speed record for glacial flow.1 The ice stream’s calculated average...
Could Space Dust Help Spark Life?
Physicists in California and Hawaii found evidence that solar wind performs curious chemistry on space dust to produce water, and they suggested that this discovery will help support a naturalistic...
Evolutionary Dogma, Not Science, Kicks Out Adam
Secular geneticists continue to claim that humans did not come from a literal Adam and Eve.1 But if clues in the human genome do not reject Adam from our ancestry, then why would scientists...
Evidence of Eternity in Our Hearts?
We tend to think that some core in each person will somehow, somewhere live forever. Sociologists have been attempting to track down the source of this belief but so far have not been able to separate...
Cuneiform Reed-Ark Story Doesn't Float
News emerged in 2010 that Irving Finkel, a cuneiform expert at the British Museum, had translated an ancient tablet describing Noah’s Ark as round and built of reeds.1 Now, Finkel is...
Nye vs. Ham Debate: No True Scotsman
A surprisingly large number of people—some three million—watched live online February 4 as debaters discussed the topic “Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern...
Fossil Skin Pigment Evolved Three Times?
Dark outlines of soft tissue often surround fossilized vertebrates. What chemicals make up this material? Paleontologists recently presented their analysis of original skin leftovers from three marine...
The Power of Love
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all...
February 2014
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Following Faithful Footsteps
During their growing-up years, I was often amused at how my younger children wanted to emulate the older ones. As a tiny toddler, my youngest daughter regularly tromped through the house in her older...
Most of Venus' History Is Missing?
Venus’ tortured surface begs for explanation, but scientists have a trying time reconstructing the planet’s past based on its mysterious features. Secular geologists anticipate that additional...
New Discoveries from 2,700 Species Comparisons
How would you answer the evolutionist who says that DNA comparisons demonstrate human-ape common ancestry? You might cite the results of Jeff Tomkins’ recent research which show that 900,000,000...
The Solar System: Uranus
For millennia, the science of astronomy was limited to observations that could be made with the unaided eye. That changed in the 1600s with the invention of the telescope. As telescopes grew in size...
Trilobites: Sudden Appearance and Rapid Burial
Trilobites are one of the most popular fossils for collectors and are found all over the world. The Ute Indians used one species as an amulet, and there is even a cave in France called the Grotte du...
Earth's Age: Science or Consensus?
Many scientifically trained Christians are urging the church to accept the doctrine of an old earth, saying that the arguments for a 4.6-billion-year-old earth are simply too numerous and convincing...
Counting Sheep Since Jacob's Day
Charles Darwin believed that selective breeding, the process he leadingly coined as “artificial selection,” illustrated how evolution in the wild could transform one animal kind into another....
Scripture and the Flood
Often in the pages of Acts & Facts we make reference to the great Flood of Noah’s day being global in extent and dynamic in intensity as opposed to being a mere local or tranquil event. There...
Fishy Science
Careful observations define empirical science. When “modern science” experts teach us about nature, we expect to learn about how our world works.
How does snow form and fall? How do...
The Vital Ministry of Teaching
The Great Commission, as it is known, is broader than many Christians realize. First of all, it involves Christians being sent into all the world. “As my Father hath sent me,” said Jesus...
Human and Chimp DNA--Nearly Identical?
For the past several decades, the standard mantra has been that humans are 98 percent genetically identical to chimpanzees. However, this claim is based on cherry-picked data and does not take into...
Don't Give...Sow!
I learned early on that my grandfather Dr. Henry M. Morris was a great man. Not just a good man, mind you, but a truly great and remarkable man, specially gifted by God to perform a vital work for the...
Spider Webs Attract Scientists' Attention
No, it’s not science fiction—it’s real. Spider webs use electricity to snare prey, and researchers recently discovered an added environmental benefit from these arachnids’ masterful...
Interest in Origins Stays Strong
Do Americans still care about where they came from? The results of two recent polls and a surge in interest in an upcoming creation vs. evolution debate suggest they do. This origins conversation has...
Do Foxes Have Magnetic Senses?
During winter, red foxes hunt snow-covered mice without even seeing their prey—but how? Certainly, hearing plays a crucial role, but researchers from the Czech Republic and Germany found that...
Elephant Shark Research Team Misses Creation Clues
When mainstream scientists search for clues about how and when the first bony-skeleton creature evolved from a non-bony creature, do they overlook evidence showing skeletons could never evolve from...
Gecko-Footed Robot Fit for Outer Space
Abigaille the robot can climb up smooth walls, but she leaves behind no residue, much like living geckos. Engineers at Simon Fraser University copied gecko design when they developed the robot’s...
Amber Flowers Challenge Dinosaur Depictions
Dinosaur dioramas don’t display flowers and grasses—supposedly because they had not yet evolved. But it takes only one piece of the right kind of evidence to disprove a whole paradigm. Amazing...
Mouse Study Shows 'Junk DNA' Is Actually Required
It was once believed that the regions in between the protein-coding genes of the genome were wastelands of alleged nonfunctional “junk DNA.” However, we now know that these previously misunderstood...
One-Hour Oil Production?
Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington State have pioneered a new technology that makes diesel fuel from algae—and their cutting-edge machine produces the...
Surprising Human Hand Bone Challenges Evolution
A hand bone found in northern Kenya surprised researchers when it surfaced in rock layers assigned a supposed age of about 1.4 million years, making it the oldest dated human bone but still “young”...
Blind Cavefish Shed Light on Creation
How do fish that can see make the switch to blind cavefish, and should that process really be called “evolution”? This transformation fascinates biologists. Picture the scene—a normal-looking...
Duons: Parallel Gene Code Defies Evolution
Researchers have just characterized a new, previously hidden genetic code embedded within the same sections of genes that code for proteins—utterly defying all naturalistic explanations for its...
Using ENCODE Data for Human-Chimp DNA Comparisons
In 2012, a variety of research papers associated with the ENCODE project (Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements) described how the human genome was pervasively copied—transcribed—into an amazing...
Be the One to Make a Difference
When new acquaintances ask me what I do and I tell them I’m the Communications Director for the Institute for Creation Research—ICR—I get a variety of responses. “And what exactly...
Both Hands
Those who built on the wall, and those who carried burdens, loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and with the other held a weapon. (Nehemiah 4:17)
There came a time...
January 2014
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The Solar System: Saturn
When people peer into a telescope and see Saturn for the first time, the typical response is “Wow!” All the other planets appear as simple disks with a few surface features, but Saturn’s...
Bloody Mosquito Pierces Standard Fossil Dating Procedure
by Brian Thomas, M.S., & Tim Clarey, Ph.D. *
A Blood-Filled Fossil
Researchers recently examined a spectacular mosquito fossil containing still-bloody remnants within its body. They dated...
The Red Record
by John D. Morris, Ph.D., with Bruce Malone *
Flood narratives abound in cultures around the world. Creation speaker and scientist Bruce Malone alerted me to one of these accounts in a...
Runaway Subduction and Deep Catastrophic Earthquakes
A magnitude 8.3 earthquake recently struck deep below the Sea of Okhotsk in the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone just south of the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula and 950 miles north of Japan. It ruptured...
An Evening at ICR: Reaching This Generation for Christ
When the Institute for Creation Research was founded in 1970, few organizations existed that focused on science and how it relates to Scripture. Back then, face-to-face presentations were the only practical...
The Truth Test
Truth and consequences go together—how we handle a test of truth produces a consequence. Think what it must have been like when Joseph of the Old Testament, disguised as an Egyptian leader, put...
Best of 2013 Creation News: Earth's Age
As in years past, 2013 presented some new and serious challenges to the entrenched dogma of a 4.6-billion-year-old Earth. The latest discoveries support Scripture’s eyewitness-verified presentation...
Best Creation News of 2013: Tissue Fossils
About a dozen reports from the last half-decade have described original-tissue fossils, and 2013 added its fair share of finds. Experiments show the biochemicals, cells, and tissues within these fossils...
Best Creation News of 2013: Human Origins
The popular notion that humans evolved from ape-like ancestors took several heavy hits this past year—both from secular and creation-friendly research—confirming that God created man in...
Best Creation News of 2013: Astronomy
This year science has challenged the popular idea that the universe developed all by itself over billions of years. Astronomical discoveries from 2013 confirm creation—starting with the moon and...
Digging Into a Fossil Outhouse
A group of paleontologists reported the discovery of concentrated fields of fossilized dung, called coprolite, in northwest Argentina.1 The closely-spaced dung piles are seen as evidence...
Butterfly Wings: Inspiration for Waterproof Clothing?
What is the best way to shed water? Researchers writing in the journal Nature recently published some amazing water-repelling results that mimic butterfly wings’ tiny scales.1 These...
Dinosaur Soft Tissue Preserved by Blood?
Researchers are now suggesting that iron embedded in blood proteins preserved the still-soft tissues, cells, and molecules discovered inside dinosaurs and other fossils after the creatures were buried...
Dinosaur Youngster Looks Like Dragon Figurines
Phil Currie, one of Canada's leading paleontologists, helped excavate a virtually complete skeleton of what is likely the youngest ceratopsian dinosaur ever found. Ceratopsians include the...
Which Came First--the Spear or its Thrower?
Scientists age-dated a cache of stone-tipped throwing spears unearthed from Ethiopia's Gademotta Formation at 280,000 years old. This find appears to pierce the conventional story of human evolution—a...
Apparent difficulties with a CMAS cosmic ray–wea.,.
DECEMBER 01, 2013
In Journal of Creation 27 (3): 93-97, December 2013
In recent years there has been considerable interest in theories that cosmic rays could influence weather and climate. The best-publicized mechanism...
Incomplete lineage sorting and other ‘rogue’ data f.,.
DECEMBER 01, 2013
by Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D., and Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.
In Journal of Creation 27 (3): 84-92, December 2013
The ‘tree of life’ (TOL) popularized by Darwin and used as the inferred...
December 2013
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CARE About Your Child's Creation Questions
“Did dinosaurs live on Earth with man? Did a flood really cover the entire earth? Are we a product of random accidents? Did humans evolve from apes? Is there life on other planets? How old is...
Unlocking the Mysteries of Genesis
Available for ordering now!
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory….But God has revealed [it] to us.
(1 Corinthians...
New Research Debunks Human Chromosome Fusion
Humans and great apes differ in chromosome numbers—humans have 46 while apes have 48. The difference is claimed to be due to the “end-to-end fusion” of two small, ape-like chromosomes...
The Solar System: Jupiter
The planet Jupiter is a wonderful example of the creativity of the Lord. It is remarkably different from the worlds we have examined previously in this Impact series. Jupiter does not possess a solid...
Fossil Coral 'Reefs' Among Rock Strata
In certain regions geologists find what appear to be fossilized coral reefs either buried in deep underground strata or exposed on the earth’s surface. If these reefs really took millions of years...
Pollen Fossils Warp Evolutionary Time
by Brian Thomas, M.S., & Tim Clarey, Ph.D. *
Another support beam has fallen from evolution’s explanatory framework as European scientists now report the discovery of flowering plant fossils...
Shark Origins: An Evolutionary Explanation
During a recent visit to Florida’s Clearwater Marine Aquarium, I peered into a tank containing a host of animals, including a sleek and formidable shark, and thought of evolutionist Theodosius...
Sticking Your Neck Out
In 1809, Jean Baptiste Lamarck speculated that the necks of giraffes could grow longer simply by reaching higher and that they could pass this trait on to their offspring.1 A half-century...
New ICR Research Associate: Vernon R. Cupps
Vernon R. Cupps believed that God created the universe and that Darwinian evolution was inconsistent with the Bible and science since he was young. But he didn’t give much consideration to...
Fulfilling the Genesis Mandate While Helping the Poor
Aquaculture expert Jon Steeves recently helped an African community establish a fish farm to supply local food needs—a wonderful example of biblical multitasking through obeying the Genesis mandate...
Was There an Ice Age?
Secular scientists believe there have been at least five major ice ages during Earth's history, and the most recent is thought to have begun about 2.6 million years ago. Within this Pleistocene...
Wise Giving: Pragmatic Opportunities This Christmas
Each Christmas I am reminded of God’s many blessings upon the ICR ministry. For over four decades He has faithfully supplied our needs through His people—even during the leanest of times...
Tibetan Cat Fossil: A Tall Tale?
An international research team claims to have found the world's oldest big cat fossil in Tibet, publishing their findings in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.1 Big cats include...
Delicate Balance in DNA Production
Scientists recently ran experiments to determine what happens when excess nucleotides are present during DNA replication.1 In normally functioning living things, each newly formed cell receives...
Questionable Dating of Bloody Mosquito Fossil
Researchers recently examined a spectacular mosquito fossil from the Kishenehn Formation, finding fresh blood—remnants of its last meal—still stored in its abdomen. They wrote, "The...
Secrets from the Most Distant Galaxy
An international team recently announced discovery of a new record for the most distant galaxy and claimed they were viewing this galaxy at "an epoch only 700 million years after the Big Bang."1...
Counting Earth's Age in Lightning Strikes
Scientists recently studied the Drakensberg Range in South Africa, discovering that lightning likely damages mountain surfaces far more often than previously thought. Lightning also generates fulgarites,...
New 'Human' Fossil Borders on Fraud
An international team of paleoanthropologists reported discovering the earliest human fossils found outside Africa at a dig in the country of Georgia.1 The team told Science that one specimen,...
Incredible Microprocessor Protein Acts as Genome Guardian
Researchers recently studied a highly sophisticated cellular machine that acts as a guard for the genome against harmful mutations and that evolution cannot explain.1
Humans have two...
Human-like Fossil Menagerie Stuns Scientists
by Brian Thomas, M.S., & Frank Sherwin, M.A. *
An international team of scientists made a stunning and controversial discovery from an archaeological site in Dmanisi, a small town in the country...
Did Sea Slugs Evolve to Steal Genes?
Solar-powered sea slugs (sacoglossan molluscs) feed on filamentous algae, a water plant, to capture photosynthetic organelles called chloroplasts and use them for solar energy. Considered kleptoplastic...
Newfound Nitrogen Harmony Saves Tropical Forest Trees
New research shows that tropical forests quickly recover after clear-cutting by using clever mechanisms to locate sufficient levels of nitrogen that they need to thrive.
Publishing in the journal...
November 2013
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Creative Ways to Share the Creation Message
"And this canyon was carved by the Colorado River over six million years.” The tour guide, seemingly oblivious to the majestic Grand Canyon surroundings, droned on about her assumptions concerning...
Reaching the Millennials: A Crucial Connection
Over 40 years ago when ICR’s founder, Dr. Henry Morris, worked with Dr. Tim LaHaye to start Christian Heritage College (now San Diego Christian College), the baby boomers were the trailing-edge...
Report on the 2013 International Conference on Creationism
In August, 354 creation scientists and supporters from nine different countries attended the 2013 International Conference on Creationism (ICC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dozens of authors presented...
The Solar System: Mars
Although Venus has been called Earth’s sister due to the similar size of these two worlds, the planet that appears most earthlike at its surface is undoubtedly Mars. A solid, rocky world, Mars...
Tyrannosaurus rex: Scavenger or Predator?
Tyrannosaurus rex looms in recent history as likely the most famous dinosaur that ever lived. The Jurassic Park movies pumped new life into its image as a savage predator. But how much of this is Hollywood...
Ute Pass Fault: Sand Injectites and Rapid Deformation F.,.
In last month’s edition of Acts & Facts, I mentioned studies that Dr. Steve Austin and I presented in a technical paper demonstrating that the deformations in sedimentary strata at two sites...
Colonel James Irwin: Creationist Astronaut
James Benson Irwin (March 17, 1930–August 8, 1991), an American astronaut and scientist, was lunar module pilot for Apollo 15 on the fourth human lunar landing and was the eighth person to walk...
Optimization in Creation
It seems that the clearer the evidence is for creation, the more creative and crazy the stories rejecting it become. Specific examples of structures that God optimized—those He perfected—for...
Explaining Organismal Complexity with Non-Coding DNA
Scientists have wondered why the number of protein-coding genes in an organism doesn’t strongly correlate with its “apparent” complexity. The emerging answer to this question is contained...
Does 'Y-Chromosome Adam' Refute Genesis?
Secular geneticists believe that modern humans can trace their male genetic ancestry back to one man and their female genetic ancestry back to one woman.1 Two new studies suggest that female...
Sowing vs. Foraging
If you are like me, each day’s mail—both at home and at the office—brings a good number of urgent appeals for donations. These are roughly divided among political, religious, and charitable...
British Pre-Roman Roads Lead to Genesis
Archaeologists uncovered the remains of a well-maintained and well-built British road beneath an ancient Roman road in 2011. This evidence contrasts what modern texts teach about primitive-pagan peoples...
Impact Theory of Moon's Origin Fails
Secular scientists used to regard the planetary collision theory as a triumph in explaining several of the moon's specific arrangements. But newfound facts severely debilitate this lunar impact...
Bloody Mosquito Fossil Supports Recent Creation
Scientists recently found blood remnants in a mosquito fossil trapped in a supposed 46-million-year-old rock.1 Could blood really last that long?
Publishing in the Proceedings of the...
Sun Paradox Challenges Old Earth Theory
Scientists previously uncovered fossil algae in Archean rocks—evidence of life in a period that evolutionists date from 3.0 to 3.5 billion years ago.1 At that supposed time, the sun...
Recent Earthquake Spawns New Island
A recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake in south-central Pakistan killed over 260 people and displaced thousands more. It also spawned a new island in the Arabian Sea hundreds of miles from the earthquake's...
Was Toxic Protein Once Good?
A new study published in the journal Nature showed that the Photorhabdus bacteria's protein toxin, the "ABC toxin," is precisely engineered to deliver a protein payload into neighboring...
Global Warming Halts, Arctic Ice Multiplies
Fox News recently reported, "Arctic sea ice up 60 percent in 2013," publishing dramatic before and after satellite images of Earth's Arctic region.1 How could ice increase if...
Alleged Human Chromosome 2 "Fusion Site" Encodes an Act.,.
OCTOBER 16, 2013
In Answers Research Journal 6 (2013): 367-375
A major argument supposedly supporting human evolution from a common ancestor with chimpanzees is the “chromosome 2 fusion model” in which...
'smORFs': Functional Little Genome Gems Confront Evolution
Until recently, thousands of tiny, potential protein-coding regions in the genome called "small open reading frames" or "smORFs" have been difficult to identify. They are now getting...
Flower Fossils 100,000,000 Years Out of Place?
European scientists have now discovered flowering plant fossils in rock layers supposedly 100,000,000 years older than expected.1 This new finding challenges conventional evolutionary assumptions...
Circular Intronic RNAs Defy Junk DNA Dogma
A completely new category of circular RNAs has been discovered, adding another layer of amazing complexity to human genetics. These circular RNAs are formed from the intron regions inside a gene that...
Study Fails to Prove Flight Feathers Evolved
A recently discovered Microraptor fossil reveals an odd-looking bird with two front wings and feathers on its back legs, giving it the appearance of having "four wings." The startling fossil...
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