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Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research
January 27, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code
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News Update/Commentary
How tiny algae shaped the evolution of giant clams
January 27, 2025 Science Daily
New research reveals how resident algae altered the genome of these fabled sea creatures, allowing them to access more nutrients.
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$10 Million, Just Lying Around
January 27, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Origin of Life Challenge
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Dark Proteome Information Content Skyrockets
January 27, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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How a boy from the Bronx unearthed the workings of the Universe
January 27, 2025 Nature, v.637, p.1041-1043
Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg’s posthumously published memoir details a swashbuckling life in physics.
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Planetary Perturbations May Strengthen Gaia
January 27, 2025 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Large-scale disruptions to life may ultimately increase ecological complexity over geologic timescales, though the risk of extinction always looms.
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Mile-wide volcano could erupt off US West Coast this year
January 27, 2025 The London Standard
Axial Seamount lies around 480km off the coast of Oregon
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‘An unusual find’: 66m-year-old animal vomit discovered in Denmark
January 27, 2025 The Guardian
Experts say vomit, probably from a fish, is made up of sea lilies and is an important contribution to reconstructing past ecosystems
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Scientists Examining Consciousness
January 27, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Here’s the Problem
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The brain holds no exclusive rights on how to create intelligence
January 27, 2025 The Transmitter
Many of the recent developments underlying the explosive success of artificial intelligence have diverged from using neuroscience as a source of inspiration -- and the trend is likely to continue.
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Is AI eroding our critical thinking abilities?
January 27, 2025 Big Think
“Ultimately, the choice rests with each individual: whether to take the convenient route of allowing AI to handle our critical thinking, or to preserve this essential cognitive process for ourselves.”
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AI Reveals Huge Naturalistic Flaws in Origin of Life Studies
January 26, 2025 YouTube
Otangelo Grasso shares insights from his trilogy, X-Ray of Life, which outlines thousands of problems naturalistic models face in explaining life’s beginnings.
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Where did dinosaurs come from?
January 26, 2025 Earth.com
Scientists say they figured it out
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Children of Light: Earth, Light and Intelligent Life
January 26, 2025 YouTube
The visible spectrum is only a tiny part of the electromagnetic spectrum. This tiny band is fundamental for the existence of intelligent life on the Earth.
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AI and the Destructive Lies of the Tool Trope
January 26, 2025 Mind Matters
You've heard this, right? “Technology isn’t good or bad; it’s a tool, it’s just how you use it that matters.” False.
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AI Specialist Explains Why AI Can't Replicate Human Experience
January 26, 2025 Mind Matters
A profound recent experience crystallized the difference for him between brain and machine
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News Update/Commentary
How Camellias evolved with the formation of the Japanese archipelago?
January 26, 2025 Science Daily
Japan Sea element plants are generally thought to have evolved from closely related species on the Pacific side. However, a new study revealed that their origins trace back to when the Japanese archipelago separated from the continent.
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Elephant Personhood -- Nixed Again
January 26, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Puzzling fossils unearthed in China may rewrite the human story
January 25, 2025 CNN
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Teaching Evolution Has a Bright Future in the U.S.
January 24, 2025 Scientific American
A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unifying principle of the biological sciences in the U.S.’s classrooms
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Chemical laws
January 24, 2025 Aeon
Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe
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The Fine-Tuning Argument Debunked in 12 Minutes
January 24, 2025 YouTube
In this video, the best argument for the existence of God from a cosmological standpoint is presented and discussed.
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Scientists Wrestling with Human Consciousness Are in for the Win
January 24, 2025 Mind Matters
Yet they can’t win because what they are doing amounts to a form of shadow boxing
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How mites have survived for millions of years
January 24, 2025 EurekAlert!
Evolution without sex
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The universe is unknowable from within it
January 24, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Is this my spacetime or yours?
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How a popular model of cosmic life and intelligence got it wrong
January 24, 2025 Big Think
Life might be more common across the Universe than the “Hard Steps Model” suggests.
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New evidence pushes back arrival of early hominins in Europe
January 24, 2025 Science Daily
Research reveals new evidence of early hominin activity in Europe, suggesting that hominins were present on the continent far earlier than previously thought.
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The Multiverse Has a Measure Problem
January 24, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Recurring Design Logic in Gene Regulation
January 24, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Solving the evolutionary puzzle of polyploidy
January 23, 2025 Science Daily
New research explores how polyploidy slows gradual evolution yet accelerates innovation
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New tool enables phylogenomic analyses of entire genomes
January 23, 2025 Science Daily
This approach can be used to study relationships between different species across geological time scales. This new approach is poised to unlock discoveries regarding how evolution has shaped present-day genomes
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Giant sloths lived alongside humans in South America for millennia
January 23, 2025 New Scientist
South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived thousands of years longer than we thought, challenging the idea that they were hunted to extinction by humans
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New twist in mystery of dinosaurs’ origin
January 23, 2025 University College London
The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers.
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Neanderthals' blood type may help explain their demise
January 23, 2025 Live Science
Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems.
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Our outer ears may have come from ancient fish gills
January 23, 2025 Live Science
Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of gene-editing experiments.
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Hello, Stuart Kauffman
January 23, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Kauffman is one of the more interesting participants in the debates about the nature of life, since he takes seriously the perplexing theoretical details needed to explain self-replicating, purpose-driven systems.
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Philosophy of Biological Information
January 23, 2025 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?
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Fact Check: Did Physicists Really “Quash" the Multiverse Idea?
January 23, 2025 YouTube
A group of physicists has claimed that a key motivation for the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is unnecessary. They seem to think that the many worlds interpretation is necessary for conservation laws to be fulfilled.
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Leaf and Stick Insect Variation
January 23, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Crying Astronomers Admit Failure
January 23, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Unexpected findings have knocked out experts’ hubris. Are they down for the count?
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How Some Trees Evolved to Birth Live Young
January 22, 2025 California Academy of Sciences
For mangroves, dropping babies in the dirt can be a big advantage.
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Daniel Dennett: The Final Prophet?
January 22, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Evolution vs. Faith
January 22, 2025 YouTube
about the incredible potential of graphene and its real-world uses. They explore how science and faith intersect, debate evolution, and discuss consciousness and morality.
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Mass testing of mutant enzymes involved in photosynthesis
January 22, 2025 Nature
A screen of a comprehensive library of rubisco variants (each with a different single-amino-acid mutation), expressed in engineered bacteria, identifies several mutations that improve the enzyme’s affinity for carbon dioxide.
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A map of parental-DNA exchanges charts course for studies of human evolution
January 22, 2025 Nature
Human genetic diversity and evolution rely on new mutations and exchange of DNA between chromosomes during the generation of sex cells, in a process called recombination.
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Some researchers ‘dope' their data
January 22, 2025 Science norway
A look back at the cheating scandals of 2024
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Many Roads Lead to... the embryo
January 22, 2025 Science Daily
Evolution had many optimal outcomes to choose from
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Scientists Confirm The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast
January 22, 2025 Science Alert
Scientists have confirmed the space around us appears to be growing faster than physics can explain, based off precise measurements of a galaxy cluster over 300 million light-years away.
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Why Do Humans Have Long Scalp Hair?
January 22, 2025 The Scientist
Humans are the only mammals with long hair on their heads. Scientists look into what drives this unique feature.
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Silent Space Negates Abiogenesis
January 22, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Although scientists widely believe life exists elsewhere in the universe, no valid evidence supports this belief