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The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur
August 23, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Builders of massive ancient monument understood the science behind their work
August 23, 2024 Science
Researchers say 6000-year-old Iberian Peninsula megalith required sophisticated knowledge of physics, geometry, and geology
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Ancient equine genomes reveal dawn of horse domestication
August 23, 2024 Nature
The findings counter the idea that horses accompanied and mobilized the mass migration of humans from the Eurasian steppes about 5,000 years ago.
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Stone Age builders had engineering savvy, finds study of 6,000-year-old monument
August 23, 2024 Nature
A survey of the Dolmen of Menga suggests that the stone tomb’s Neolithic builders had an understanding of science.
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Salamander-Like Tetrapod Didn’t Live in the Cold
August 22, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Scientific consensus needs dissent
August 22, 2024 iai News
we should not equate expert opinion with certainty. While expertise is a valuable guide to decision-making, experts can be prone to human error too. Laypeople can, and should, critically evaluate how expert consensus is reached.
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Do you need religion to be a moral person?
August 22, 2024 Big Think
Religion is a product of, and not a source of, our evolutionary moral dispositions.
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News Update/Commentary
Colorful traits in primates ease tensions between groups
August 22, 2024 Science Daily
the males of species with overlapping home ranges often display vibrant colors or elaborate features, traits that may help reduce intergroup aggression by enabling quick assessments of potential rivals
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Mitochondria Are Flinging Their DNA into Our Brain Cells
August 22, 2024 Columbia University Irving Medical Center
As direct descendants of ancient bacteria, mitochondria have always been a little alien. Now a study shows that mitochondria are possibly even stranger than we thought.
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Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution
August 22, 2024 MIT Technology Review
CRISPR will get easier and easier to administer. What does that mean for the future of our species?
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Time and the universe are on an infinite loop
August 22, 2024 iai News
Conformal cyclic cosmology and Nietzsche's eternal return
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Weird Evolution Stories
August 22, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Who needs facts when you can just imagine anything and Big Science will publish it?
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Scholars Association Embraces Academic Boycotts
August 22, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Intellectual Freedom Will Be the Victim
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Michael Egnor: The Neuroscience Evidence for Free Will
August 22, 2024 Mind Matters
You ask a hundred neuroscientists about Libet's work and 95% will say he disproved free will, when he did exactly the opposite
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News Update/Commentary
How baleen whales have adapted over the past 50 million years
August 22, 2024 Science Daily
The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped scientists deep dive ‘into the blue' to fathom the ‘triumph' of baleen whale evolution.
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These Fossils Are Found All Over, but What Made Them Was a Mystery
August 22, 2024 New York Times
Scientists in Brazil identified marine worms that made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites.
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The 1890s Were a Much Better Time to Be an Atheist
August 22, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Jay Richards
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Did Floating Forests Exist in the Pre-Flood World?
August 21, 2024 YouTube
Journey back to the dawn of creation and discover one of the most extraordinary environments God crafted -- a vast floating forest teeming with bizarre plants and creatures.
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India’s pioneering mission bolsters idea that Moon’s surface was molten
August 21, 2024 Nature
First-ever analysis of soil from around the Moon’s south pole was performed using data from the Chandrayaan-3 mission.
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Largest genomic tree of life of flowering plants to date includes almost 8,000 genera
August 21, 2024 Nature
A tree of life based on genes from across the nuclear genome and containing nearly 60% of all angiosperm genera unveils the complex evolutionary history of flowering plants. This tree both corroborates and challenges existing knowledge on angiosperms | See Also peer-reviewed article
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News Update/Commentary
Next time you beat a virus, thank your microbial ancestors
August 21, 2024 Science Daily
Two of our key defenses against viruses have persisted for billions of years, arising before complex life
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News Update/Commentary
Life from a drop of rain: New research suggests rainwater helped form the first protocell walls
August 21, 2024 Science Daily
A Nobel-winning biologist, two engineering schools, and a vial of Houston rainwater cast new light on the origin of life on Earth
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How Long Have Arches Been Around?
August 21, 2024 Answers in Genesis
The recent collapse of many arches is a problem for evolution.
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“Life does not exist”: The deceptively tricky task of defining life
August 21, 2024 Big Think
“What modern science has taught us is that life is not a property of matter.”
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The paradoxes at the heart of reality
August 21, 2024 iai News
an interview with Graham Priest | Philosopher and logician at CUNY. A key defender of dialetheism, the view that there are true contradictions.
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From Symphony to Structure: Listening to Proteins Fold
August 21, 2024 The Scientist
By assigning sounds to the dynamic bonds within proteins, scientists gathered new insights on protein folding.
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Neanderthals R Us
August 21, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Research shows that one formerly leading missing link is now a recent member of the human family
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Fine-Tuning Is the Solution to the Mystery of the Constants
August 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Under a Frozen Army Base, He Found Incredible Fossils
August 21, 2024 New York Times
In a new book, geologist Paul Bierman recounts the moment he found astonishing evidence that Greenland’s ice sheet had melted in the ancient past.
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Why NASA is sending a probe to Europa -- and what it’s looking for
August 21, 2024 New Scientist
Past observations have indicated that the icy moon of Jupiter has a vast subsurface ocean. Launching in October, NASA’s Europa Clipper will go there in search of evidence that it could support life
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Turin Shroud Study Claims Controversial Cloth Does Date to Time of Jesus
August 21, 2024 Newsweek
In a study published in the journal Heritage, the authors conducted dating work on a sample from the Shroud, coming to the conclusion that it may be a 2,000-year-old relic.
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We now know that life began on Earth much earlier than we thought
August 21, 2024 New Scientist
A big rethink of our planet’s early years adds to growing fossil, chemical and DNA evidence that Earth was only a few hundred million years old when life began
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What Did Splitting Human Brains in Half Tell Us About the Mind?
August 21, 2024 Mind Matters
How did split brain study subjects compare things when no part of their brains saw both things?
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News Update/Commentary
Beetle that pushes dung with the help of 100 billion stars unlocks the key to better navigation systems in drones and satellites
August 21, 2024 Science Daily
An insect species that evolved 130 million years ago is the inspiration for a new research study to improve navigation systems in drones, robots, and orbiting satellites.
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Why billions of crabs vanished around Alaska
August 21, 2024 CNN
scientists have more evidence to explain
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The Most Earth-Like Planet Is Still … Mars
August 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Looking forward to the August 27 release of the new and expanded edition of The Privileged Planet, philosopher Jay Richards had a great conversation on Uncommon Knowledge with host Peter Robinson and cosmologists Luke Barnes and Brian Keating.
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Lee Spetner’s Nonrandom Evolutionary Hypothesis
August 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Are We Alone? Fine-Tuning the Universe
August 20, 2024 YouTube
Our guests delve into the probabilities and challenges of finding extraterrestrial life, considering the vastness of the cosmos and the fine-tuning necessary for life to exist.
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The Dark Energy Delusion
August 20, 2024 YouTube
theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham explores the mysteries of gravity and the universe's accelerated expansion. She discusses Einstein's theory of general relativity and questions conventional views
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Scientists Seeking Life on Mars Heard a Signal That Hinted at the Future
August 20, 2024 New York Times
In 1924, a radio receiver built for the battlefields of World War I tested the idea that humans were not alone in the solar system, heralding a century of searches for extraterrestrial life.
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A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input.
August 20, 2024 The Conversation
Here’s why that’s a problem
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Reconstructing Early Microbial Life
August 20, 2024 Annual Review of Microbiology, v.78
For more than 3.5 billion years, life experienced dramatic environmental extremes on Earth. These include shifts from oxygen-less to overoxygenated atmospheres and cycling between hothouse conditions and global glaciations.
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The Woman Who Broke Gravity
August 20, 2024 YouTube
de Rham is a prominent theoretical physicist and a professor at Imperial College London, renowned for her pioneering research in modifying gravity theories
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UCLA Research Psychiatrist Makes the Case for Mind-Body Dualism
August 20, 2024 Wintery Knight
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The creation information barrier
August 20, 2024 Creation Ministries International
An unbreachable gap between chemicals and living things
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Humpbacks are among animals who manufacture and wield tools
August 20, 2024 EurekAlert!
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What the unique shape of the human heart tells us about our evolution
August 20, 2024 The Conversation
Despite such vast biological diversity, it was believed until recently that the structure and function of the heart across mammals was the same. But research from my colleagues and I reveals that the human heart is an outlier
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover new code governing gene activity
August 20, 2024 Science Daily
The research could reshape scientists' understanding of gene regulation and how genetic variations may influence gene expression in development or disease.
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil hotspots in Africa obscure a more complete picture of human evolution
August 20, 2024 Science Daily
A new study shows how the mismatch between where fossils are preserved and where humans likely lived may influence our understanding of early human evolution.
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Poison or Blessing? It Depends
August 20, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What are called poisons or toxins can be beneficial in small amounts, depending on the substance.