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How to make peace with the weirdness of quantum mechanics
November 21, 2024 Big Think
Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.
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Evolutionists Do Not Understand Evolution
November 21, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Reporters and journal editors continue to misrepresent Darwinian evolution as a goal-oriented design process
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Do We Need Language to Think?
November 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
DNA repair: A look inside the cell's ‘repair café'
November 21, 2024 Science Daily
For the first time, the team has mapped the activity of repair proteins in individual human cells. The study demonstrates how these proteins collaborate in so-called ‘hubs' to repair DNA damage.
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Memories Are Not Stored Only in the Brain
November 21, 2024 Mind Matters
kidney and nerve tissue cells learn and make memories in ways similar to neurons
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Puzzling Fossils at an Unlikely Time
November 21, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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New Grand Canyon Discovery Could Rewrite Geology Textbooks
November 21, 2024 Sci Tech Daily
Collaborative research integrating innovative analytical techniques with traditional field geology, conducted in one of the world’s leading geologic laboratories, has provided fresh insights into the Cambrian explosion of life.
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From Data to Thoughts: Why Language Models Hallucinate
November 21, 2024 Mind Matters
The limits of today’s language models and paths to real cognition
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Loss of Earth’s old, wise, and large animals
November 21, 2024 Science, v.387, n.6729
more and more research suggests that in many species, older individuals actually contribute more than younger ones
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Experimentally measured assembly indices are required to determine the threshold for life
November 20, 2024 Journal of the Royal Society Interface, v.21, n.220
Assembly theory (AT) aims to distinguish living from non-living systems by explaining and quantifying selection and evolution. The theory proposes that the degree of assembly depends on the number of complex objects
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Evolutionist Artificial Cell Membrane Is a Cheap Fake
November 20, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A “membrane” concocted by evolutionists cannot meet the requirements for life
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Philosopher: Do Animals Have the Same Rights As Humans?
November 20, 2024 Mind Matters
It’s been illegal in the United States to sell dogs or cats as food since 2018. China also bans the practice. But trying to explain why it is wrong -- or why cruelty to animals is wrong -- based on animal rights concepts quickly runs into pitfalls.
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Post-COVID, Trust in Science Said To Be on the Rise
November 20, 2024 Mind Matters
Nature reports, somewhat cautiously, that trust in scientists in the US is “starting to recover,” after plunging during the pandemic
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Does Electromagnetism Contribute to Human Consciousness?
November 20, 2024 Mind Matters
While neuroscientists have long focused on spikes travelling throughout brain cells, “ephaptic” field effects may really be the primary mechanism for consciousness and cognition.
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Evolutionary innovation hints at ways to engineer efficient photosynthesis in crops
November 20, 2024 Nature
By comparing related plants, researchers have identified a cause of a switch in gene expression that enabled a more efficient form of photosynthesis to evolve -- paving the way for engineering crops that are more productive.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Fibular reduction and the evolution of theropod locomotion
November 20, 2024 Nature
Since Hampé’s classic developmental experiments in the mid-twentieth century, the reduced avian fibula has sparked sustained curiosity.
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The Evolution of Animal Butts
November 20, 2024 Real Clear Science
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Human Nature Is Our Problem
November 20, 2024 inquisitive magazine
We’re better together.
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The mystery of the secretly sexual lichens
November 20, 2024 EurekAlert!
The patches of lichen you’ve probably seen growing on tree trunks and park benches might be easy to overlook, but they’re actually some of the world’s strangest living things.
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Video
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist’s Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality
November 20, 2024 YouTube
What lies at the heart of physical science? What are the foundational ideas that inform and guide the enterprise? Is the concept of objective reality meaningful? If so, do our established physical theories usefully approximate it?
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Gene Expression Shifts as Shrews Shrink and Regrow Their Brains
November 20, 2024 The Scientist
Transcriptomic studies of the shrew’s remarkably plastic brain could provide new insights into neurodegenerative diseases.
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Could a Wooden Ark Survive the Flood?
November 20, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Ancient records indicate the feasibility of Noah’s ark
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Scientists uncover new textbook case of human-driven evolution
November 20, 2024 Anthropocene Magazine
They show that pace of evolutionary change can be fast -- and in some cases it can even be a sign of the resilience of nature.
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News Update/Commentary
Thanksgiving special: Dinosaur drumsticks and the story of the turkey trot
November 20, 2024 Science Daily
drumsticks ... is where fibular reduction among some dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago helped make it possible for peacocks to strut, penguins to waddle, and turkeys to trot
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Many physicists argue the universe is fine-tuned for life
November 20, 2024 The Conversation
our findings question this idea
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All Life on Earth Today Descended from a Single Cell. Meet LUCA.
November 20, 2024 Quanta Magazine
The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 billion years ago, a time long considered too harsh for life to flourish.
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Protein Designers Explore Sequence Space
November 20, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ancient human ancestor Lucy was not alone
November 20, 2024 MSN
she lived alongside at least 4 other proto-human species, emerging research suggests
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How Cells Habituate
November 19, 2024 Harvard Medical School
Surprising new study shows single-cell organisms exhibit this simple form of learning
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The pre-life puzzle: Tracing the rise of complexity in a lifeless world
November 19, 2024 Big Think
We need a “theory that explains the evolution of evolution,” argues theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker.
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The universe could vanish at any moment -- why hasn’t it?
November 19, 2024 New Scientist
A cataclysmic quantum fluctuation could wipe out everything at any moment. The fact that we’re still here is revealing hidden cosmic realities
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Dark Matter at Cosmic Dawn
November 19, 2024 Physics magazine
Low-frequency radio observations could allow researchers to distinguish among several dark matter models, thanks to dark matter’s influence on the early Universe.
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News Update/Commentary
Study challenges long-held theories on how migratory birds navigate
November 19, 2024 Science Daily
Research found that Eurasian reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) are using only the Earth's magnetic inclination and declination to determine their position and direction.
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Book
The Nephilim: Was There a Giant Problem in The Americas?
November, 2024 Genesis Apologetics
This book will answer your questions about giants in the Bible -- called the Nephilim. | See Also Amazon
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News Update/Commentary
New fossil reveals the evolution of flying reptiles
November 18, 2024 Science Daily
Complete specimen shows how the pterosaurs changed from early forms to the later giants
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We may have solved the mystery of what froze Earth's inner core
November 18, 2024 New Scientist
A supercomputer simulation of iron and carbon atoms in Earth’s inner core may explain how a molten ball at the centre of our planet froze solid
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The Plant That Can Mimic Other Plants
November 18, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is it really a sin if it’s hardwired in?
November 18, 2024 Nature
The neurological basis for ‘bad’ behaviour ... A captivating examination of the biology that underlies behaviours often considered immoral raises questions about the existence of free will.
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News Update/Commentary
Possible origins of dark matter in ‘Dark Big Bang' scenario
November 18, 2024 Science Daily
Recent research unlocks new clues that could radically change the world's understanding of the origin of dark matter.
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Paul, Todd, and The Lucy Skeleton Part 2!
November 18, 2024 YouTube
Why was Lucy such a big deal to evolutionists? Does she PROVE human evolution? After reviewing evidence of upright walking in Lucy, Todd presents a creationist interpretation of the Lucy skeleton and the circumstances of her burial.
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1 gene may explain 30 mysterious medical conditions
November 18, 2024 Live Science
While investigating a rare developmental disorder, researchers ended up discovering a spectrum of conditions that are all linked to one gene.
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Seeing the Case for Creation in Fruit Flies
November 18, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Tiny worm makes for big evolutionary discovery
November 18, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists have described ‘Uncus,' the oldest ecdysozoan and the first from the Precambrian period
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What Computers Can't Know: The Unknown Unknowns
November 18, 2024 Mind Matters
There are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. It’s the unknowns unknowns that get you. – Donald Rumsfeld
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500 Million Years of Evolution Simulated by AI
November 17, 2024 Geeky Gadgets
The Future of Proteins
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How to Accelerate Science
November 17, 2024 Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Overcoming the tyranny of the scientific method through epistemic anarchy
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A Theory of Biological Design: Bringing an Overdue Revolution
November 16, 2024 YouTube
Just as Flood geology is a contrasting and superior alternative theory to uniformitarianism to explain geology, we need for biology a theory of biological design (TOBD) that’s fully informed by the biblical narrative beginning with its basic assumptions
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First Pan-European Conference on Intelligent Design
November 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Postcard from Venice
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Bacteria Battled for Iron in Earth’s Early Oceans
November 15, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Billions of years ago, iron-oxidizing microbes may have competed for dissolved iron in the ocean, with some strains producing toxic gases that smothered their rivals.
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People can’t tell the difference between human and AI-generated poetry
November 15, 2024 The Conversation
Has the bell finally tolled for Shakespeare and Byron?