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Could microbes feed astronauts on Mars?
April 8, 2024 Sci Worthy
Scientists found that photosynthesizing microbes grown on a synthetic mixture of Martian dust and astronaut pee could supplement a healthy diet.
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Alien life is no joke
April 30, 2024 Aeon
Not long ago the search for extraterrestrials was considered laughable nonsense. Today, it’s serious and scientific
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T. rex not as smart as previously claimed
April 29, 2024 University of Bristol
Dinosaurs were as smart as reptiles but not as intelligent as monkeys, as former research suggests.
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Geologists discover rocks with the oldest evidence yet of Earth’s magnetic field
April 24, 2024 EurekAlert!
The 3.7 billion-year-old rocks may extend the magnetic field’s age by 200 million years.
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Can the known particles and interactions explain consciousness?
April 30, 2024 Big Think
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers parse oddity of distantly related bats in Solomon Islands that appear identical
April 30, 2024 Science Daily
A study of body size in leaf-nosed bats of the Solomon Islands has revealed surprising genetic diversity among nearly indistinguishable species on different islands.
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Odd bump on praying mantis chest is actually world’s weirdest tongue
May 1, 2024 New Scientist
A bristly bump on some mantises’ chests is a never-before-seen “gustifolium”, which may have evolved to help the insects with their highly specialised lifestyles
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Darwin’s Blunder Lives On
April 30, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A major journal publishes a paper claiming that natural selection is like human engineering
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A new approach to dark matter could help us solve galactic anomalies
April 29, 2024 New Scientist
Cosmological puzzles are tempting astronomers to rethink our simple picture of the universe -- and ask whether dark matter is even stranger than we thought
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Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design
April 30, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
Part 2
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Multicellular Bacteria Evolve Defenses that Resemble the Immune System
April 30, 2024 The Scientist
Bacterial superorganisms must evolve defenses to fight off infections, and microbiologists found that they use a weapons cache coincidentally similar to that of the human immune system.
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A Case Study in Evolution or Adaptive Engineering?
April 30, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
Galápagos Finches
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Calling It Evolution When It’s Not
April 29, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists’ favorite word gets dragged into situations that don’t involve speciation
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Blog Post
The Enabling of Richard Dawkins
April 29, 2024
How the failure of Christian education has enabled Richard Dawkins' atheism -- and why even he now thinks society has gone too far in jettisoning Christianity
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The Universe’s Topology May Not Be Simple
April 26, 2024 Physics Magazine, v.17
Most models for the overall shape and geometry of the Universe -- including some exotic ones -- are compatible with the latest cosmic observations.
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Do Fungi Have Free-Will?
April 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Another Fish Story That Is True
April 27, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
You’ll be amazed at the power of a salmon’s homing instinct in this new short video
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The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang
April 28, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Two lifeforms merge into one organism for first time in a billion years
April 26, 2024 Independent (UK)
‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say
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What is a presumed sign of life doing on a dead comet?
April 26, 2024 Science
Touted as a “biosignature” on an alien planet, dimethyl sulfide also seems to arise in banal ways
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Gaiasignatures: A new way to search for alien life
April 25, 2024 Big Think
"I hope we take a mindset where we are willing to look for weird life in weird places."
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5 extraordinary ideas about the mind and what it means to be conscious
April 26, 2024 New Scientist
To celebrate the launch of our new event series in the US, kicking off with a masterclass on the brain and consciousness, we have unlocked five incredible long reads
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Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!
April 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Three Dubious New Fossil Insect Orders from Cretaceous Burmese Amber
April 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Video
Did the Universe Begin?
April 26, 2024 YouTube
Some scientists claim that the universe did not have a beginning. Yet the universe is expanding, and so run the movie in reverse and there seems to be a beginning. What stakes are riding on whether the universe had a beginning?
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With Hybrid Brains, These Mice Smell Like a Rat
April 25, 2024 Columbia University Irving Medical Center
If mice ever wonder what it’s like to experience the world as a rat, some are now able to live that dream, at least when it comes to the sense of smell.
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How the unlikely friendship of Pauli and Jung led to the discovery of CPT symmetry
April 19, 2024 Nature Reviews Physics
In 1931, the psychoanalyst Carl Jung took on an unusual patient, the brilliant young physicist, Wolfgang Pauli. Arthur I. Miller tells the story of their friendship, how they impacted each other’s work, and reflects on creativity.
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News Update/Commentary
Why can't robots outrun animals?
April 24, 2024 Science Daily
Robotics engineers have worked for decades to create a robot that can run as well as an animal. And yet, it remains the case that many animals are capable of feats that would be impossible for robots that exist today.
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News Update/Commentary
Discovering cancers of epigenetic origin without DNA mutation
April 24, 2024 Science Daily
A research team has discovered that cancer can be caused entirely by epigenetic changes that contribute to how gene expression is regulated, and partly explain why, despite an identical genome, an individual develops very different cells
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News Update/Commentary
Frog species evolved rapidly in response to road salts
April 23, 2024 Science Daily
Wood frogs have evolved increased salt tolerance over 25 years
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists unveil genetics behind development of gliding
April 24, 2024 Science Daily
A key gene helps explain how the ability to glide has emerged over-and-over during marsupial evolution
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SETI Scientist Says Announcement of Alien Life Could Be Imminent
April 25, 2024 The Byte
The James Webb Telescope is going to be the one that does it, too.
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Marsupials in Australia -- an act of God?
April, 2023 Journal of Creation, v.37, n.1, p.3-6
How did Australia come to be inhabited by about 140 species of marsupial mammals and a couple of species of monotremes, but no placental terrestrial mammals
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‘Shut up and calculate’: how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality
April 25, 2024 Nature
By suppressing questions they considered too ‘philosophical’, post-war physicists created an unquestioning orthodoxy that influences science to this day.
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A Closer Look at Natural Law
April 25, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
In my last post on the science of purpose, I pointed out that modern science took its inspiration from a belief that the universe was governed by immutable laws of nature emanating from the mind of God.
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7 Scientific Reasons why Darwinian Evolution is a Myth
April 23, 2024 YouTube
In this video we are joined by Dr. Marco Fasoli who holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge. Using science, he exposes many of the flaws in Darwin's theory of evolution.
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This Bird Is Evolving Right in Front of Us
April 16, 2024 YouTube
Florida’s snail kites
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What Is Consciousness?
April 25, 2024 YouTube
Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers.
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Understanding John Walton's Cosmic Temple
April 24, 2024 YouTube
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Philosophy of Biological Information
April 25, 2024 YouTube
What is information in biology? information is essential for analyzing data and testing hypotheses. But what is information in evolution, population genetics, levels of selection, and molecular genetics? Is computational biology transformational?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The genetics of niche-specific behavioral tendencies in an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes
April 25, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6694, p.470-475
Lake Tanganyika contains one of the most impressive adaptive radiations, with about 250 species of cichlid occupying a variety of niches. Much research has focused on understanding the drivers of this and other adaptive radiations.
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Oldest ever ice offers glimpse of Earth before the ice ages
April 22, 2024 Science
Climate snapshots suggest carbon dioxide levels were surprisingly modest during ancient warm period
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A gene mutation turned these fish into intrepid explorers
April 25, 2024 Science
That behavioral change could explain the remarkable diversity of cichlid fish in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika
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Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”
April 24, 2024 Legal Insurrection
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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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Peer-reviewed Paper
Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits
April 17, 2024 Nature, v.628, p.811-817
Hybridization allows adaptations to be shared among lineages and may trigger the evolution of new species. However, convincing examples of homoploid hybrid speciation remain rare
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Galaxy found napping in the primordial Universe
April 24, 2024 Nature
Observations have revealed a galaxy that stopped forming stars earlier than expected. This discovery offers clues about when the first galaxies emerged and sheds light on how stars formed when the Universe was in its infancy.
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Ancient DNA traces family lines and political shifts in the Avar empire
April 24, 2024 Nature
Genetic pedigrees spanning nine generations uncover the social organization of a nomadic empire that dominated much of central and eastern Europe from the sixth to the early ninth century.
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Book
How volcanoes shaped our planet -- and why we need to be ready for the next big eruption
April 22, 2024 Nature
The world should learn from past disasters and prepare for the effects of future, inevitable volcanic catastrophes, a wide-reaching book teaches us. | See Also Amazon
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First glowing animals lit up the oceans half a billion years ago
April 24, 2024 Nature
Family tree of ‘octocorals’ pushes origin of bioluminescence back to 540 million years ago, when the first animal species developed eyes.