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Are Neanderthals and Homo sapiens the same species?
December 11, 2024 Live Science
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A new species of flying reptiles reshuffles the timeline of pterosaur evolution
December 11, 2024 EurekAlert!
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The AI revolution is running out of data. What can researchers do?
December 11, 2024 Nature
AI developers are rapidly picking the Internet clean to train large language models such as those behind ChatGPT. Here’s how they are trying to get around the problem.
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The wild physics that could actually be used to build a time machine
December 11, 2024 New Scientist
From warp drives to quantum tricks, here are five ways that physicists have figured out how to theoretically travel back in time
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Scientists Get to the Heart of Blood Formation
December 11, 2024 The Scientist
Researchers tweak heart-forming organoids to produce blood cells, in a process that mimics embryonic development.
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Paranthropus Not a Missing Link
December 11, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Paranthropus (formerly Zinjanthropus) is no longer considered a missing link. It was an extinct ape.
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News Update/Commentary
The distinct nerve wiring of human memory
December 11, 2024 Science Daily
Biologists team up with neurosurgeons to unravel the human brain's specificities
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News Update/Commentary
Intelligence requires the whole brain
December 11, 2024 Science Daily
A team of neuroscientists investigates communication pathways in the brain and predicts intelligence. A new study approach uses machine learning to improve our conceptual understanding of intelligence.
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News Update/Commentary
The maternal microbiome during pregnancy impacts offspring's stem cells in mice
December 11, 2024 Science Daily
Treating pregnant mice with a common gut microbe resulted in offspring that had more active stem cells in both the brain and intestinal tract. As a result, the offspring were less anxious and recovered quicker from colitis
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Biological diversity is not just the result of genes
December 11, 2024 Science Daily
A study reveals how mechanics, linked to tissue growth, help generate the diversity of biological structures
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You are what you eat...and so are your grandkids?
December 11, 2024 Science Daily
A new animal study found that a protein-deficient diet in one generation created related health risks -- lower birth-weight, smaller kidneys -- in offspring that lasted four generations.
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News Update/Commentary
New research unlocks jaw-dropping evolution of lizards and snakes
December 11, 2024 Science Daily
A groundbreaking study has shed light on how lizards and snakes -- the most diverse group of land vertebrates -- have evolved remarkably varied jaw shapes, driving their extraordinary ecological success.
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A New Scholarly Book Trying to Debunk Myths about Charles Darwin and His Theory
December 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
December 10, 2024 Overcoming Bias
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Ancient DNA data hold insights into past organisms and ecosystems -- handle them with more care
December 10, 2024 Nature
DNA recovered from ancient remains is transforming our understanding of organisms and ecosystems from tens, thousands and even millions of years ago -- but the growing volume of data must be better preserved.
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Game-changing archaeology from the past 5 years -- and what’s to come
December 10, 2024 New Scientist
Leading archaeologists share the biggest recent advances in our understanding of human evolution, and their hopes for the exciting finds the next five years may have in store
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If Life Swiftly Creates Complex Information, Nature Isn't Random
December 10, 2024 Mind Matters
It is true that there are some fossils from before the main event of 530–525 Mya, but they are far from sufficient to explain the astounding variety of forms that emerged during the Cambrian.
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Darwin Defense De-Balonied
December 10, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Some reporters are saying Darwinism is not all bad. Wrong. Here’s why.
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What should we do if AI becomes conscious? These scientists say it’s time for a plan
December 10, 2024 Nature
Researchers call on technology companies to test their systems for consciousness and create AI welfare policies.
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Can There Be Evidence for Free Will?
December 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Deism and the Afterlife
December 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Cosmologist Paul Davies Outlines His Views
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Biological agency: a concept without a research program
December 10, 2024 Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Biological agency is understood as the capacity for goal-directed, self-determining activity -- a capacity that is present in all organisms irrespective of their complexity and whether or not they have a nervous system.
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Ancient ‘land bridge' that connected Siberia to US wasn't what it seems
December 10, 2024 Live Science
The boggy landscape of the Bering land bridge may have allowed some ice age animals to cross easily, while others stayed in Asia.
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Latest James Webb data hints at new physics in Universe’s expansion
December 9, 2024 ars technica
These latest findings further support the Hubble Space Telescope's prior expansion rate measurements.
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Have We Achieved General AI
December 9, 2024
As I predicted the controversy over whether or not we have achieved general AI will likely exist for a long time before there is a consensus that we have.
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Has the Universe Been Designed to Support Life?
December 9, 2024 Universe Today
Now We Have a Way to Test it!
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‘Missing link' between brain and body inflammatory signals identified in the skull
December 9, 2024 Science Daily
New research provides valuable insights into the brain-body immune connection identifying key communication hubs in the dural sinuses and skull bone marrow at the back of the head.
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How fast is the Universe expanding?
December 9, 2024 Nature
This astronomer took cosmology closer to an answer. Wendy Freedman is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
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The Deniable Darwin: in Cambridge, UK, August 2024
December 9, 2024 YouTube
mathematician, writer, and thinker David Berlinski about his life and provocative work, especially his sophisticated challenges to modern Darwinism
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Heart Cockle Shells: Another Amazing Case for Creation
December 9, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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The ancient board games we finally know how to play -- thanks to AI
December 9, 2024 New Scientist
Many ancient board games have been discovered, but there are no rulebooks so we don't know how to play them. Now AI is bringing these games back to life by working out likely rules
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Science Writer Wonders If There Can Be Evidence for Free Will
December 9, 2024 Mind Matters
Horgan thinks that “proofs” of free will seem as dubious as denials but there is actually considerable neuroscience evidence
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Study breaks the silence on how fish and lizards regenerate hearing
December 9, 2024 Science Daily
A new study has identified key gene regulators that enable some deafened animals -- including fish and lizards -- to naturally regenerate their hearing.
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Universe expansion study confirms challenge to cosmic theory
December 9, 2024 Science Daily
The findings support Hubble's expansion rate measurements
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This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud
December 9, 2024 Nature
Anna Abalkina is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
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Improve Science Education by Ditching Darwin
December 9, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Educational reform is in the air. A good start would be to eliminate Darwin’s dangerous idea and replace it with something better
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Natural Selection: The God that Failed
December 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Non-Evolution of the Wet Dog Shake
December 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Does the Fossil Record Match Darwinist Predictions or Design Predictions?
December 8, 2024 Wintery Knight
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This ‘Dark Energy' Formula Could Reshape the Search for Alien Life
December 8, 2024 Science Alert
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Oxford Word of the Year: Brain Rot
December 8, 2024 Mind Matters
The flood of online content deteriorates our mental and intellectual states
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Cosmologist Paul Davies: Does the Soul Have an Afterlife?
December 8, 2024 Mind Matters
Davies argues that we’re not at the center of the attention of a God who is specifically concerned with us and his existence has no implications for the soul
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Researchers Are Stalled in Understanding the Origin of Human Language
December 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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2-million-year-old DNA reveals surprising Arctic ecosystem
December 7, 2024 PBS
The oldest DNA ever retrieved, preserved in sediments in northern Greenland, reveals that Arctic and temperate species once commingled in an ecosystem unlike anything that exists today.
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Scientists, Not Mystics, See in Earthworms a “Profound Mystery"
December 7, 2024 Mind Matters
There is so much information in nature for whose origin we cannot account that a chance origin seems unlikely.
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Who (or What) First Used Tools?
December 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Meteorite Sheds Light on the Moon’s Impact History
December 6, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Analysis has revealed the South Pole-Aitken basin is significantly older than other impact basins on the Moon, a finding that has implications for the evolution of the early solar system.
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A Hunt for Clues to the Origins of the Eukaryotic Immune System
December 6, 2024 The Scientist
Homologous defense proteins in archaea and eukaryotes point to these early prokaryotes' role in the immune system of modern complex organisms.
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Mathematicians have discovered a mind-blowing new kind of infinity
December 6, 2024 New Scientist
It may sound strange, but mathematicians have created an entire ladder of infinities, each larger than the next. Now a new kind of infinity threatens to upset that order, and perhaps redefine the structure of the mathematical universe
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Tech Writer Accuses AI Skeptics of Offering “Phony Comfort"
December 6, 2024 Mind Matters
Improvements in large language models (chatbots) are becoming less significant all the time, rather than more.