An artistic rendition of the first-ever Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) achieved using molecules. Researchers in the Will Lab at Columbia University created the first-ever BEC made from molecules, which was cooled to just 5 nanoKelvin, or about 459.66 degrees Fahrenheit, and stable for a …
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Whether or not Saint Mary Magdalene was a notorious sinner—and she most likely was not—she was one of the women who traveled with Jesus and the Apostles, and was present at the cross. She also was the one chosen to bring the good news of the resurrection to the Apostles.
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Unwilling to take no for an answer, Saint Apollinaris was exiled from Ravenna several times, but he always returned trying to preach the good news to the people. He finally died of a beating he received in a suburb of Ravenna.
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Tornado simulation of a 1977 supercell thunderstorm and the high-intensity tornado it spawned. The simulation captured the tornado’s vortex structure with wind speeds of 260 miles-per-hour, classified as an F5 on the Fujita tornado intensity scale.
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This blog post rounds up some favorite newspaper titles we’ve come across in working with the collections.
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A white-edged tree frog (Boana albomarginata). Researchers discovered that frogs have maintained a surprising diversity of nonvisual, light-sensing proteins over evolutionary time which play a role in a variety of biological functions.
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According to a recent article, “Gender reveals are a testament to how society is squeezing children into one of two predetermined gender boxes before they are even born.”
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A reading from the Book of Hosea Hos 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22
Thus says the LORD: I will allure her; I will lead her into the desert and…
The 32 Telsa superconducting magnet at the NSF National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) in Tallahassee, Florida is the world’s strongest all-superconducting magnet. It’s built with all-superconducting materials and leverages two different types of superconductors to achieve its whopping …
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Blessed Jutta of Thuringia, a noble woman with children, became a widow at a young age. She used her means to provide for the children, but once they were grown, she disposed of her wealth, became a Secular Franciscan, and lived a life of austerity.
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An artist’s rendering depicting Nanuqsaurus, a Tyrannosauridae theropod (background standing), and the skull of a Pachyrhinosaurus (foreground), a Centrosaurinae ceratopsid, two dinosaur species that were included in a study that showed the evolution of diverse body sizes in …
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An artist’s rendering depicting Nanuqsaurus, a Tyrannosauridae theropod (background standing), and the skull of a Pachyrhinosaurus (foreground), a Centrosaurinae ceratopsid, two dinosaur species that were included in a study that showed the evolution of diverse body sizes in …
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According to reports, a recent manuscript found details Jesus performing miracles as a child. How should Christians think about this find?
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Satan has always attacked children—he hates the “seed of the woman” and has always sought to steal, kill, and destroy the most vulnerable.
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A student measures a fossilized skull from the skeleton of a North American porcupine. A team of researchers that included graduate and undergraduate students determined that the 2 million-year-old skeleton belonged to an extinct species of North American porcupine that can likely trace its …
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Many people think that it’s perfectly acceptable to allow for the abortion of disabled children in the womb simply because of their disability.
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An Augustinian monk who was inspired by the martyrdom of Franciscan missionaries, Saint Anthony of Padua joined the Franciscans hoping to be a missionary. But God had other plans for him. He became one of the outstanding philosopher/theologians of the Order.
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Maps showing cod and beavers in an 18th-century atlas project imperial power and economic might.
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What will the weather be like in the year 2070? Well, apparently we can know that, according to an Australian-produced app called My Climate View.
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A reading from the Acts of the Apostles ACTS 11:21B-26; 13:1-3
In those days a great number who believed turned to the Lord. The news about them…
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A computed tomography scan of a Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum) covered in bony armor studs. This scan, one of over 15,000 digitized scans created for the openVertabrate (oVert) project, will help scientists track the evolution of similar armor plating in a wide range of fish, …
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Published in 1978, Paul Avrich’s “An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre” was the first substantial biography of Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912), an influential member of the American labor movement at the turn of the 20th century. Donated to the Library of Congress in 1986, the biography refers to de Cleyre as “one of the most interesting if neglected figures in the history of American radicalism.”
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Has a new study on Psittacosaurus really proven that so-called feathered dinosaurs had both reptile and birdlike skin?
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A collage of some of the more than 15,000 computed tomography scanned animal specimens digitized for the openVertabrate (oVert) project, a six-year collaboration of 18 institutions to create 3D reconstructions of vertebrate specimens and make them freely available online.
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In an interview on what George Barna sees as the biggest threats to our churches, he said “We’ve reached a time of Christian invisibility.” What does that mean?
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Physicists discovered that isolating five ultrathin flakes of graphite, stacked in a specific order, allows the electrons moving around inside the material to talk with each other, a process known as electron correlation (pictured here). The resulting material can then be tuned to exhibit important …
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Are our cities, roadways, waterways, and more driving “a new kind of evolution” across animal species?
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Researchers found a fossilized brittle star “frozen in time” during the brief period between splitting and full regrowth of its missing body half.
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The evolutionary model is not clear about when flowering plants arrived on earth. Evolutionists remain unsure when the angiosperms emerged.
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Saint Cristóbal Magallanes and Companions, 21 diocesan priests and three laymen, belonged to the Cristero movement during the 20th-century persecution of the Church in Mexico. Martyred over a number of years in eight Mexican states, they were beatified and canonized together.
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In this artistic rendering, a slice of the 3D map of galaxies collected in the first year of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey appears in a rainbow of color above the NSF Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, on which DESI is mounted. Earth is at the tip of the map, with the …
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It was announced that the Boy Scouts of America is changing its name to Scouting America in a move to “be more welcoming of the entire scouting community.”
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In this image, the clear wafer at the center of the confocal microscope is a diamond plate with atomic-sized flaws. Green, orange and red lasers excite these flaws to manipulate and measure them, which allows for measuring small magnetic fields at nanometer length scales.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is in the news again because it keeps finding things about galaxies that astronomers and astrophysicists did not expect.
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A recent news item looked at IVF, abortion, and eugenics in connection with the recent Alabama Supreme Court case.
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Colorado law is all too happy to let medical staff prescribe the “abortion pill” (RU-486) to their patients, but it’s not so willing to allow for reversal.
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A recent article made the bold claim that feathers are one of evolution’s greatest inventions. But what proof did they offer?
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A reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 16:1-10
Paul reached also Derbe and Lystra where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a…
This is a guest post by Lena Denis, reference librarian in the Geography and Map Division. Growing up in a Brazilian-American household, I’ve long appreciated the delicious versatility of the Atlantic cod, scientific name Gadus morhua, known to the Portuguese-speaking world as bacalhau in its preferred salted and dried form. It was only when I …
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A recent news article sported the bold claim that evolution in action was recently observed in island bats.
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Praise God for parents and organizations in Queensland for coming together and actually keeping their children’s “safety” and “wellbeing” in mind.
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