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More than 275 million never-before-seen gene variants uncovered in US population
February 19, 2024 Live Science
The newly uncovered gene variants were identified as part of an analysis of the DNA of more than 400,000 people in the U.S. who agreed to participate in the All of Us Research Program.
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Blog Post
Is the Schrödinger Equation True?
February 19, 2024
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We must put an end to scientism
February 19, 2024 iai News
Reviving humanist explanations
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New evidence finally reveals how male and female brains really differ
February 19, 2024 New Scientist
Research is cutting through historical discrimination and gender politics to get to the truth about differences between the brains of men and women
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How newly discovered brain cells have made us rethink the human mind
February 19, 2024 New Scientist
Strange new types of cells keep coming to light in the human brain. By the latest count, there are more than 3300, and we don’t even know what most of them do
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The Copernican System & the Bible
February 19, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Happy Birthday, Nicolaus Copernicus!
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Flood Solves Land and Marine Mixing Near the Andes
February 19, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Not Funny: The Evolution of Humor
February 19, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If humor is just an evolutionary behavioral artifact, why laugh?
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In Darwin’s Bluff, Robert Shedinger Rightly Forgoes the Hagiographic Tradition
February 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Sophisticated Precision in Fruit Fly Sensory Systems
February 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mummified animals Napoleon's scientists brought back from Egypt sparked a pre-Darwinian debate about evolution
February 19, 2024 Business Insider
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A Physicist Tries To Avoid the Fact of Design in Our Universe ...
February 18, 2024 Mind Matters
Physicist Alexander Vilenkin of Tufts University argues, against apparent fine-tuning, that our universe’s cosmological constant should have a special value like zero, but doesn’t
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A Philosopher Explains: How the Soul Relates to the Body
February 18, 2024 Mind Matters
James Madden explains a philosophical approach to the soul called hylomorphism which, he argues, can benefit neuroscience
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On Biology and Politics
February 18, 2024 Quillette
Why the Left must take human evolution seriously.
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Vilenkin: A Physicist in Flight from Intelligent Design
February 18, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies
February 18, 2024 Public Understanding of Science
Benevolence beliefs
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Go with your gut: the science and psychology behind our sense of intuition
February 17, 2024 The Guardian
From deciding where to have lunch to choosing to walk away from a danger you haven’t even identified yet, intuition plays a part in all our lives
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What If We Lost the Power To Think Abstractly?
February 16, 2024 Mind Matters
Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges depicts a character whose total recall prevents him from using abstractions, though he recognizes their existence
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“Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint for Life”
February 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Denis Noble in Nature
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The Vindhyan Controversy and Debunking Alleged Ediacaran and Cambrian Fossils
February 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Move over, CRISPR: RNA-editing therapies pick up steam
February 16, 2024 Nature
Two RNA-editing therapies for genetic diseases have in the past few months gained approval for clinical trials, raising hopes for safer treatments.
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Political correctness now a bullying tactic aimed at stifling legitimate debate
February 15, 2024 The Irish TImes
Science explains how the natural world works. PC views, however, are more aspirational, setting out how the world should be, according to their adherents
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When Censorship Parades Itself As a Science ...
February 15, 2024 Mind Matters
A House Subcommittee discovered that the National Science Foundation -- which is supposed to support science and engineering -- is readying censorship tools
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Eco-evolutionary emergence of macroecological scaling in plankton communities
February 15, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6684, p.777-782
The size of an individual is a product of physiological constraints such as area-to-volume ratio relationships or the fractal scaling of circulatory systems. Scaling patterns throughout ecosystems are well documented
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It’s a fake: Mysterious 280 million-year-old fossil is mostly just black paint
February 15, 2024 ars technica
The long bones of the hind limbs appear to be genuine. The rest? Not so much.
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Elements: Extraterrestrial Organic Matter
February 15, 2024 Geochemical Society
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient retroviruses played a key role in the evolution of vertebrate brains
February 15, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers report that ancient viruses may be to thank for myelin -- and, by extension, our large, complex brains.
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In the quantum world, the future causes the past
February 15, 2024 iai News
How Bell’s Paradox is solved by Retrocausality
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Who Should You Trust?
February 15, 2024 Skeptic
Why Appeals to Scientific Consensus Are Often Uncompelling
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A Science Sleuth Accuses a Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist of Research Misconduct
February 15, 2024 The Scientist
Researchers await the outcome of an ongoing investigation into dozens of instances of alleged image problems spanning 29 publications over a period of 23 years.
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T. rex Out of Nowhere
February 15, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin
February 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Intelligently Designed Evolution? Sorry, Wrong Universe
February 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Creation, Evolution, and Catholicism
February 15, 2024 Crisis Magazine
Man has always wondered about where we have come from and how we were created. Religions have given various answers, and in recent centuries so has science. How does a Catholic evaluate these claims in light of our faith?
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Information, Coding, and Biological Function: The Dynamics of Life
February 14, 2024 Artificial Life
In the mid-20th century, two new scientific disciplines emerged forcefully: molecular biology and information-communication theory.
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X-ray survey bolsters prevailing theory of universe’s expansion
February 14, 2024 Science
eROSITA telescope shows galaxies’ “clumpiness” matches predicted effect of dark energy, dark matter
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Mysterious Pattern in a Cave Is Oldest Rock Art Found in Patagonia
February 14, 2024 New York Times
About 8,200 years ago, in one of the last places settled by humans, prehistoric peoples began painting comblike designs as the climate shifted.
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Our human ancestors often ate each other, and for surprising reasons
February 14, 2024 New Scientist
Fossil evidence shows that humans have been practising cannibalism for a million years. Now, archaeologists are discovering that some of the time they did it to honour their dead
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The existence of a new kind of magnetism has been confirmed
February 14, 2024 New Scientist
Altermagnets, theorised to exist but never before seen, have been measured for the first time and they could help us make new types of magnetic computers
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Hall of Mirrors: The Many Ways Consciousness Baffles Researchers
February 14, 2024 Mind Matters
Does consciousness have a seat at the table? Wait a minute. Isn’t consciousness the table? Or is it?
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Largest post-pandemic survey finds trust in scientists is high
February 14, 2024 Nature
Study of more than 70,000 people suggests that trust levels vary among countries and are linked to political orientation.
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Rampant Fraud in Science Grows
February 14, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The epidemic of fraud in science hits an all-time high
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Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”
February 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rescuing Chance for Darwinism
February 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mendel’s randomness
February 13, 2024 University College London
from allowing complex life to facilitating causal inference
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Updates to the Second Law from Quantum Thermodynamics
February 13, 2024 Foundations of Physics @ Harvard
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Are non-protein coding RNAs junk or treasure?
February 13, 2024 BioEssays
An attempt to explain and reconcile opposing viewpoints of whether the human genome is mostly transcribed into non-functional or functional RNAs
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Video
The incredible shrinking human genome
February 13, 2024 YouTube
The nature of the genome has consistently surprised people, but mostly because they applied Darwinian concepts to it. Instead, the genome is a wonderful testimony to the engineering prowess of God, who built something unexpected.
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Geologic evidence that volcanic lightning promotes life on Earth
February 13, 2024 Physics Today
Large quantities of fixed nitrogen found in ash and pyroclastic deposits confirm suspicions about a likely source of life’s earliest building blocks.
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Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
February 13, 2024 YouTube
Explore evolution -- its scope and depth. How did life on Earth come to be as it is, and how did humans come to be as we are? What are the deep principles driving evolution? What are evolution’s challenges and open questions?