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Brightest gamma ray burst of all time emerged from collapsing star
April 12, 2024 Science
JWST spies an expected supernova but a puzzling lack of heavy elements
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“Lived Experience” Is Science’s Blind Spot
April 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mind, Matter, and Intelligent Design
April 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human family’s newest species
April 12, 2024 New Scientist
Five years ago, a fossil found in the Philippines was determined to be from a new species of hominin called Homo luzonensis. Since then, we’ve learned a bit more about the newest member of the human family
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Expelled!
April 12, 2024 Skeptic
Kevin Miller offers a solution to the science-religion conflict while exposing the truth behind Ben Stein’s anti-evolution film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, on which he worked
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News Update/Commentary
How seaweed became multicellular
April 12, 2024 Science Daily
many multicellular-enabling genes had viral origins. This study is the first to investigate macroalgal evolution through the lens of genomics.
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Why the Cosmos?
April 11, 2024 YouTube
The search for meaning and purpose is humanity’s never-ending quest. Some say that ‘how’ questions belong to the realm of science, but ‘why’ questions do not. Yet extraordinary scientific discoveries offer radical powers of explanation.
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Can We Explain Cosmos and Consciousness?
April 11, 2024 YouTube
The existence of both cosmos and consciousness, each in its own way, constitute deep problems, perhaps grand mysteries beyond human knowing. Some claim that the two mysteries can only be solved in parallel, together, not in series, alone.
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Arno Allan Penzias (1933-2024)
April 11, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6692, p.162
Radio astronomer who discovered the Big Bang’s echo
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Teach philosophy of science
April 11, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6692, p.141
Much is being made about the erosion of public trust in science.
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Neanderthals were more ‘human’ than we think
April 11, 2024 Cosmos Magazine
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Was God a Bacterium?
April 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mastering Data Falsification: New Course Using Design Inference to Effectively Falsify Data
April 11, 2024 substack
Data falsification, if exposed, can destroy your academic career. This new course shows how to use the design inference to cover your tracks when falsifying data.
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The Tail of Man’s Supposed Ancestors
April 11, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae
April 11, 2024 New Scientist
A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to algal cells -- an event so rare that there are only three other known cases
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Exciting times for evolutionary biology
April 11, 2024 Nature Ecology & Evolution, v.8, p.593-594
Evolutionary biologists should be proud of recent progress in their broad field. We highlight some developments in fundamental questions and the applied use of evolution.
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Flood Expert Gives 5 Evidences for a Global Flood
April 10, 2024 YouTube
Join fluvial geomorphologist, Ron Neller, for a fascinating discussion of just some of the evidence that, over a 30-year period, eventually led him to conclude that there has, indeed, been a global flood on Earth -- as the Bible describes.
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Language doesn’t perfectly describe consciousness. Can math?
April 10, 2024 Vox
Even the most poetic words can’t capture the full richness of our minds. So scientists are turning to numbers.
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Synergies All the Way Down
April 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The evolving attitudes of Gen X toward evolution
April 10, 2024 Science Daily
As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged.
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3D mouth of an ancient jawless fish suggests they were filter-feeders, not scavengers or hunters
April 10, 2024 Science Daily
Experts have used CT scanning techniques to build up the first 3D pictures of these creatures to answer questions about feeding in early vertebrates without jaws in the early Devonian epoch around 400 million years ago.
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To Understand the Meaning of a Solar Eclipse
April 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Emergence of fractal geometries in the evolution of a metabolic enzyme
April 10, 2024 Nature, v.628, p.894-900
Fractals are patterns that are self-similar across multiple length-scales. Macroscopic fractals are common in nature; however, so far, molecular assembly into fractals is restricted to synthetic systems.
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Everything Must Go review: A fascinating guide to the apocalypse
April 10, 2024 New Scientist
From the Book of Revelation to extinction fiction, we just love end times. A new guide by Dorian Lynskey is full of gems | See Also Pan Macmillan
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Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing randomness
April 10, 2024 New Scientist
Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 Turing award for his work on understanding how randomness can shape and improve computer algorithms
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How AI mathematicians might finally deliver human-level reasoning
April 10, 2024 New Scientist
Artificial intelligence is taking on some of the hardest problems in pure maths, arguably demonstrating sophisticated reasoning and creativity -- and a big step forward for AI
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Randomness in computation wins computer-science ‘Nobel’
April 10, 2024 Nature
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson is known for clarifying the role of randomness in algorithms, and for studying their complexity.
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Frans de Waal (1948–2024), primatologist who questioned the uniqueness of human minds
April 10, 2024 Nature
Researcher and prolific science communicator who laid bare the social lives of apes.
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What Exists?
April 9, 2024 YouTube
Lots of things exist. But what is so absolutely fundamental in that it cannot be further reduced into anything more fundamental, but other things that exist can be reduced to it? The challenge is to discern the minimum number of basic categories
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Could our first alien contact be with intelligent spiders?
April 9, 2024 Big Think
Aliens are often portrayed in popular culture as humanoid. But in reality, intelligent extraterrestrials might take far stranger forms.
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Intelligent Design Beyond Physics
April 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
How Would a Designer Interact with the Universe?
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The multiverse could be much, much bigger than we ever imagined
April 9, 2024 New Scientist
A new way of interpreting the elusive mathematics of quantum mechanics could fundamentally change our understanding of reality
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Natural Selection, Scarcity and Evil
April 9, 2024 Scientia et Fides
Reflections on the Fittingness of Evolution as a Divine Instrument of Creation
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High-Precision Map of the Universe Defies Conventional Cosmology
April 9, 2024 Physics Magazine
Analysis of the most precise three-dimensional map of the Universe delivers hints of a tension with the standard model of cosmology.
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Flowers may be more ancient than dinosaurs
April 9, 2024 The Conversation
but scientists can’t agree on when they evolved
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Bridging Ideological divides
April 9, 2024 Scientia et Fides, v.12, n.1, p.189-213
Why Christians Still Disagree About Evolution and What We Should Do About It
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One of the biggest mysteries of cosmology may finally be solved
April 9, 2024 New Scientist
The expansion rate of the universe, measured by the Hubble constant, has been one of the most controversial numbers in cosmology for years, and we seem at last to be close to nailing it down
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The Mind-Bending Secrets of DNA
April 8, 2024 YouTube
The Ultimate Code
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Did Our Universe Have a Beginning?
April 8, 2024 YouTube
Everything in the universe has a beginning, but how can the universe as a whole have a beginning? Does the cosmos come with a start date? Does a universal commencement make sense? What would it possibly mean?
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C.S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design
April 8, 2024 YouTube
West is editor of The Magician's Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society and co-editor of The C.S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia
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A “Monumental” Breakthrough in Understanding Life’s Origin?
April 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fact Check
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Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design?
April 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The War on 2 + 2 = 4
April 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Toothed whale echolocation organs evolved from jaw muscles
April 8, 2024 Science Daily
Genetic analysis finds evidence suggesting that acoustic fat bodies in the heads of toothed whales were once the muscles and bone marrow of the jaw.
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News Update/Commentary
How the moon turned itself inside out
April 8, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists combined computer simulations and spacecraft data to solve a long-standing mystery surrounding the moon's ‘lopsided' geology
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News Update/Commentary
How plants adjust their photosynthesis to changing light
April 8, 2024 Science Daily
Light supplies the energy plants need to build up biomass. A research team is researching how plants adapt their photosynthesis to changing light.
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Mediterranean marine worm has developed enormous eyes
April 8, 2024 Science Daily
The advanced vision of such a primitive creature helps to finally settle an epic debate about the evolution of eyes.
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The Sun and Moon -- Designed for Eclipses
April 8, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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When Day Meets Night -- A Total Success!
April 8, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
The skies cleared above North Texas on Monday, April 8, for a spectacular view of the 2024 Great American Solar Eclipse.
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C. S. Lewis on Natural Selection’s Power, or Lack of It
April 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today