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A first look at rocks from the lunar farside create a volcanic mystery
November 15, 2024 Science News
Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission are just 2.8 billion years old
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Do Animals Have the Same Rights As Humans?
November 15, 2024 Skeptic
Recently, a law banning the consumption of dog meat was passed by the National Assembly of Korea. One of the main goals of domestic animal rights activists and dog lovers has been accomplished.
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Splitting the Hard Problem of Consciousness in Two
November 15, 2024 Psychology Today
The hard problem really consists of two very different problems.
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Scientists recreate mouse from gene older than animal life
November 15, 2024 Queen Mary University of London
New research sheds light on evolutionary origins of stem cells with groundbreaking experiment to create mouse using ancient genetic tools
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Richard Dawkins & Origin of Life Research!
November 15, 2024 YouTube
the current state of research in the search for life’s origin on our planet
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Transition metals in alkaline Lost City vent fluids are sufficient for early-life metabolisms
November 15, 2024 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.385, p.61-73
Despite the importance of alkaline seafloor hydrothermal vents in broadening our understanding of deep-sea hydrothermal ecosystems, little is known about the mobility and concentrations of micronutrient transition metals
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How human brains got so big: our cells learned to handle the stress that comes with size
November 15, 2024 Nature
Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating neurological disorders.
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Did NASA's Viking landers accidentally kill life on Mars? Why one scientist thinks so
November 15, 2024 space.com
"We’re ultimately looking to discover life, and to do so, we have to think outside the box."
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How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans
November 15, 2024 New Scientist
It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the scientists who have studied her say that this fossil gave us a misleading image of the nature of her species
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A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved
November 15, 2024 New Scientist
A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch -- now we know how this baffling evolutionary quirk came about
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At Nature: What Is So Special About the Human Brain?
November 15, 2024 Mind Matters
None of the features identified by neuroscientists explain why humans think about things that other animal life forms don't
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New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved
November 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Should Science Define Christian Doctrines?
November 14, 2024 The Gospel Coalition
REVIEW: Defending Sin by Hans Madueme (Baker Academic, May 2024) | See Also Amazon
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The History of Quantum Theory with Harvard Physicist
November 14, 2024 YouTube
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A voyage to victory
November 14, 2024 Science, v.386, n.6723, p.734
Players help Darwin discover new species and develop scientific theories in a fast-paced board game
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Learning the language of DNA
November 14, 2024 Science, v.386, n.6723, p.729-730
A genomic foundation model broadly enables sequence modeling, prediction, and design
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Amazing Defense Systems
November 14, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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How Human Egg Cells Last Decades
November 14, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The fact that human eggs last for over 40 years baffles scientists. New research has found out how they do it
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News Update/Commentary
Scientific thought on emotions in animals
November 14, 2024 Science Daily
How do animal behavior researchers feel about the feelings of animals? A new survey helps to answer that question.
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News Update/Commentary
A long childhood is the prelude to the evolution of a large brain
November 14, 2024 Science Daily
The secrets of fossil teeth revealed by the synchrotron
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Why Would Smarter Dogs Have Smaller Brains?
November 14, 2024 Mind Matters
while working dogs may have more complex abilities compared with other breeds, they’re organized into a more compact space in the brain. This differs from what’s seen in evolutionary history in wild mammals
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Appreciating the Fruit Fly Brain
November 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Design, Engineering, Specified Complexity
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Origin of Life: Fatal Flaws of Chemical Evolution
November 13, 2024 YouTube
Evolutionary dogma states that life arose coming from non-living chemicals. However, the more we learn about the complexity of even a ‘simple’ cell, the harder this is to accept.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Dental evidence for extended growth in early Homo from Dmanisi
November 13, 2024 Nature, v.635, p.906-911
Human life history is characterized by an extended period of immaturity during which there is a disjunction between cerebral and somatic growth rates
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Estimating the odds for intelligent life in the multiverse
November 13, 2024 Earth Sky
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On the Origin of Life: How the First Cell Membranes Came to Exist
November 13, 2024 University of California, San Diego
New research provides a possible explanation on the development of early Earth protocells
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Scientists propose “DNA of the universe” is gap in Einstein’s hunt for unified physics theory
November 13, 2024 salon
Physicists say they detected a double helix in the fabric of spacetime
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Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence
November 13, 2024 University of Cambridge
A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.
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Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains
November 13, 2024 New Scientist
Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, thanks to a remarkably well-preserved fossil
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Fossilized bird skull from 80 million years ago clarifies early avian evolution
November 13, 2024 Nature
Key aspects of early bird evolution have been difficult to resolve, owing to a lack of suitably preserved fossilized remains. A fossilized skull of a bird that lived during the age of the dinosaurs helps to fill a gap in the evolutionary history of birds
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Smarter dogs have smaller brains, surprising study reveals
November 13, 2024 Live Science
A study looking at the brain size of different breeds relative to their skulls reveals that big brains doesn't mean smarter dogs.
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Two essential questions about life in the Universe
November 13, 2024 Big Think
How did life on Earth begin? Is there life on other worlds? An answer to either question will reflect heavily on the other.
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AI-Assisted Genome Studies Are Riddled with Errors
November 13, 2024 The Scientist
Researchers used artificial intelligence in large genomics studies to fill in gaps in patient information and improve predictions, but new research uncovers false positives and misleading correlations.
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The Cosmos Teems with Complex Organic Molecules
November 13, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials.
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To truly understand non-human grief, we need to think like the animals
November 13, 2024 New Scientist
Evidence that animals mourn the death of loved ones is growing, but we should be wary of letting our biases cloud this topic
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Migratory birds can use Earth's magnetic field like a GPS
November 13, 2024 New Scientist
Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field -- they can also calculate their coordinates on a mental map
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Turning Evolution into a Law of Nature
November 13, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
No, minerals and stars do not evolve by natural selection
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News Update/Commentary
Three galactic ‘red monsters' in the early Universe
November 13, 2024 Science Daily
The results indicate that the formation of stars in the early Universe was far more efficient than previously thought, challenging existing galaxy formation models.
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Why Human Intelligence Thrives Where Machines Fail
November 13, 2024 Mind Matters
We're worried about AI and trust. We should be worried about something deeper
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An Online Search Engine for Identifying Orfan Genes
November 13, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
ORFanID
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How to Make a Mammal in Nine Evolutionary Steps
November 12, 2024 Smithsonian Magazine
From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other animals
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Astronomers’ theory of galaxy formation may be upended
November 12, 2024 Case Western Reserve University
The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming the popular hypothesis
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A Minimal-Facts Case for Genesis
November 12, 2024 The Stream
For Christians with a high view of Scripture, few debates within the Church are as contentious as how to interpret the creation accounts in Genesis.
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Biblical Faith Seeks Scientific Understanding
November 12, 2024 The Gospel Coalition
I’m sure you know someone who’s agonized over the Bible and evolution or heliocentrism or, of course, Jesus Christ’s resurrection.
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The Key to Unlocking Noah's Flood in the Rocks
November 12, 2024 YouTube
As young-earth creationists, it is important to differentiate rock layers and fossils formed during the Flood from those before or after. John Whitmore discusses ways young-earth geologists correlate different geologic formations with particular eras
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A new life on Mars? Expect toxic dust, bad vibes and insects for lunch
November 12, 2024 New Scientist
You might have heard about plans to establish a self‑sustaining city on Mars. Here’s what life would really be like on the Red Planet
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News Update/Commentary
A formula for life?
November 12, 2024 Science Daily
New model calculates chances of intelligent beings in our Universe and beyond
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News Update/Commentary
Astronomers' theory of how galaxies formed may be upended
November 12, 2024 Science Daily
The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming the popular hypothesis
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Another Warning That the AI Bubble Is Near Bursting ...
November 12, 2024 Mind Matters
The AI bubble created, in part, by Large Language Models (LLMs) or chatbots is nearing its peak
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Imaginary Evolution in Real Time
November 12, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists claim to be watching evolution in action. Their claims, instead, demonstrate inaction.