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Dodging the Main Issue in the Cambrian Explosion
January 31, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science Writing Tries to Smash Human Exceptionalism
January 31, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science vs. Fiction in Big Bang Cosmology
January 31, 2025 YouTube
discussing the major problems with the big bang. How much of our cosmology is fiction? Should we abandon the big bang? Are there insurmountable problems with our current model of cosmology?
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‘Obsolete' muscle that wiggles ears actually activates while listening
January 31, 2025 New Scientist
A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are trying hard to listen
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Beyond the Physical: Exploring the Nature of the Mind
January 31, 2025 Mind Matters
A recent podcast panel challenged the prevailing materialist assumptions about the mind and explored better accounts of the richness of human consciousness
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Is the universe fine-tuned for life?
January 31, 2025 YouTube
This debate at Durham University was funded by the panpsychism and panentheism three year project that Philip Goff and Andre Buchareth run, which is currently funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
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This Mountain Is Now a “Person” with “Rights”
January 30, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
and Even “Responsibilities”
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The Bible, Intelligent Design, and the Rise of Modern Science
January 30, 2025 Discovery Science
the impact of the Bible and the idea of intelligent design on the rise of modern science
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The Copernican Principle: the foundation of ALL of cosmology
January 30, 2025 YouTube
The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not in a special place in the Universe. Us humans are not privileged observers, we’re seeing the same Universe as everyone else
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The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way Forward
January 30, 2025 Real Clear Journals
Scientific journals have had enormous positive impact on the development of science, but in some ways, they are now hampering rather than enhancing open scientific discourse.
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Wild Baboons Flunk the Mirror Self-Awareness Test
January 30, 2025 Mind Matters
while the baboons noticed and responded to a laser mark shone on their arms, legs and hands, they did not react when they saw, via their mirror reflection, the laser on their faces and ears
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Logic is nothing without metaphysics
January 30, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Hegel and the birth of logic from being
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep
January 30, 2025 Science, v.387, n.6733, p.492-497
Sheep have provided key resources for human society through their domestication, most iconically wool for making textiles; however, the origins of sheep are still not entirely clear.
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Hallucinating Darwinians Are a Disgrace to Science
January 30, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists keep making up silly stories. Time to say, “You’re fired!”
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The Metaphysics of Irreducible Complexity
January 30, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Antarctic Ice Core
January 30, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
Good News for Creationists
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NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients
January 29, 2025 NASA
Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that are key to life, as well as a history of saltwater that could have served as “broth” for these compounds to interact and combine
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Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists
January 29, 2025 The Conversation
and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
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Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life
January 29, 2025 Nature
Bennu gives researchers clues about how the chemicals that make up life arose, how a maize monoculture might have supported a mysterious civilization and why the new AI model DeepSeek R1 has sent shockwaves around the world.
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Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
January 29, 2025 Nature
Samples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life -- but with a twist.
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How flight helped bats become invincible to viruses
January 29, 2025 Nature
The mammals carry immune adaptations that emerged when their ancestors took to the skies.
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Experiment with 37 dimensions shows how strange quantum physics can be
January 29, 2025 New Scientist
A search for particles’ most paradoxical quantum states led researchers to construct a 37-dimensional experiment
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Life’s Building Blocks Found in Bennu Samples
January 29, 2025 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The discovery of amino acids, abundant ammonia, and the bases of DNA and RNA on asteroid Bennu suggest that materials essential to life might be widespread throughout the solar system.
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Exposing the Censorship Crisis Gripping Academia
January 29, 2025 YouTube
From Censorship in the Sciences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives conference at the University of Southern California, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Bacterial sensor evolved by decreasing complexity
January 29, 2025 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Many bacterial receptors contain multimodular sensing domains indicative of complex sensory processes.
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This look at animal consciousness is a moral workout -- in the best way
January 29, 2025 New Scientist
Some animals -- and even machines -- may turn out to be conscious. Must we wait for scientific certainty before sharing our rights, asks The Moral Circle
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Cell Transport Carriers Traverse Hostile Territory
January 29, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Hardly a month goes by without new research revealing another wonder in cells.
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News Update/Commentary
Landmark genetic study: Fresh shoots of hope on the tree of life
January 29, 2025 Science Daily
Conservationists find positive glimmers amid general decline in genetic diversity
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News Update/Commentary
A less ‘clumpy,' more complex universe?
January 29, 2025 Science Daily
New research has combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe's evolutionary history and found hints that it may be less clumpy at certain points than previously thought.
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Here’s the Other Common Objection to Intelligent Design
January 29, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Answered
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The Subtle Ways That Science Writing Erases Human Exceptionalism
January 29, 2025 Mind Matters
Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Emergence of opposing arrows of time in open quantum systems
January 29, 2025 Scientific Reports, v.15
Deriving an arrow of time from time-reversal symmetric microscopic dynamics is a fundamental open problem in many areas of physics
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Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature
January 29, 2025 The Conversation
fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
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Ancient human genomes offer clues about the earliest migrations out of Africa
January 28, 2025 Nature
Analyses of 45,000-year-old bones from Europe allow scientists to pin down when modern humans interbred with Neanderthals, shedding light on the histories of populations with no present-day descendants.
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Did giant ice age beasts carve these vast caves in South America?
January 28, 2025 Nature
Researchers are investigating who -- or what -- cut ancient tunnels in sandstone in Brazil and nearby nations.
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A new kind of hidden black hole may explain the mystery of dark energy
January 28, 2025 New Scientist
Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail -- and could solve the mystery of dark energy
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Scientists Finally Get a Good Look at a Disintegrating Exoplanet
January 28, 2025 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The James Webb Space Telescope offers astronomers a rare glimpse into the chemical composition of a rocky planet’s interior—and the results are “very surprising.”
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News Update/Commentary
Moon is not as ‘geologically dead' as previously thought
January 28, 2025 Science Daily
Scientists developed advanced dating methods to track geological changes on the far side of the moon and found evidence of relatively recent activity.
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Reality Is in the Eye of the Beholder
January 28, 2025 MIT Press Reader
Our perception of reality is a subjective lived experience, a virtual construct shaped by our senses, biology, and personal history.
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How Well Could Earth Life Survive on Exoplanets
January 28, 2025 Universe Today
Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of diamond, and another may rain molten iron. However, not all exoplanets are this extreme.
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In praise of subspecies
January 28, 2025 Aeon
To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities
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Evolution and Consciousness
January 28, 2025 YouTube
What can evolution reveal about the developmental history of thinking and feeling? How did cognition and emotion (affect) co-develop over evolutionary time?
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At Nature: Genetic Profiling Firm 23andMe Nearing Extinction?
January 28, 2025 Mind Matters
Over the past few years, the firm has faced mounting challenges, including financial losses and a huge data breach, although this did not involve DNA data. In September, most of the company’s board resigned
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Can Pterosaurs Be Darwinized?
January 28, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Magical Thinking
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What Lies Beyond Death?
January 28, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
A Physicist’s Take
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Habitable planets could have formed at the dawn of the universe
January 27, 2025 New Scientist
Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest supernovae
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Ceres: Building Blocks of Life Delivered from Space
January 27, 2025 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior.
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Scientists Found Evidence of a Megaflood that Shaped Earth’s Geologic History
January 27, 2025 Yahoo! News
Around 5.3 million years ago, the eastern and western Mediterranean basins were suddenly refilled during an event known as the Zanclean megaflood.
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Time's arrow is not an illusion
January 27, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Hegel and the reality of time
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News Update/Commentary
Hear ye! Hear ye! Researchers uncover new complexities in human hearing
January 27, 2025 Science Daily
Physicists have discovered important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, and discerns a stunning range of sound frequencies in between.