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Maintaining NK Cells’ Killer Instincts
August 9, 2024 The Scientist
A protein in natural killer cells keeps them from turning into more docile counterparts.
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How “Junk” DNA Got Its Function
August 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Evolutionary Tales Fail to Convince
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The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects
August 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Programmer: Chatbots Are a Dead End. Time for a New Contest!
August 8, 2024 Mind Matters
François Chollet is offering $1.1m in prize money for the next step on the road to computers that think like people
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Study Finds LUCA Required 2,600 Genes
August 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
“That Is a Lot of Evolution”
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Oxford Mathematician Destroys Atheism in Less Than 15 Minutes
August 8, 2024 YouTube
John Lennox very easily dismantles atheism with pure logic
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Some Unintended Consequences of Atheist (and Theist) Discourse
August 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Biology Needs a Fresh Look -- But Is It Afraid of What It'll Find?
August 8, 2024 Mind Matters
A science writer’s musings make clear that intelligent design is the only reasonable explanation for the human genome’s ordered complexity
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Bacteria Encode Hidden Genes Outside Their Genome -- Do We?
August 8, 2024 Columbia University
Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes seemed like an open book.
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From Vikings to Beethoven: what your DNA says about your ancient relatives
August 7, 2024 Nature
Scientists are using consumer-genomics databases to link living people to ancestors from the recent and not-so-recent past. But the meaning of these connections isn’t always clear.
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How Women Survive Breastfeeding
August 7, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Breastfeeding should break down mothers’ bones but it doesn’t. Why not?
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Defending Our Literature Survey on Function for Junk DNA
August 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is This a Paradigm Shift?
August 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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T. rex relative found in Thailand: why local researchers are excited
August 7, 2024 Nature
Scientists hope the discovery will inspire more palaeontologists from southeast Asia to explore the region’s fossil history.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Natural selection requires no teleology in addition to heritable variation in fitness
August 7, 2024 Biology and Philosophy, v.39
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Okay, I Was Wrong -- I Think Casey Luskin Is Just Lying
August 7, 2024 YouTube
Based on a recent Evolution News article, I now agree with everyone who said Dr. Casey Luskin from Discovery Institute is just lying.
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News Update/Commentary
How ribosomes in our cells enable protein folding
August 7, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists discovered a role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in cells.
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Expanding the Genetic Alphabet
August 7, 2024 The Scientist
Synthetic biologists repurposed rarely used codons to install novel amino acids into proteins and expand the capabilities of protein engineering.
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NASA Thinks We're Closer Than Ever to Discovering Evidence of Life on Mars
August 6, 2024 The Debrief
Here are three reasons why
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Sea Creature Revealed to Have So Much DNA It Can Hardly Be Called a Species
August 6, 2024 Newsweek
An unassuming starfish species found around the world has a shocking amount of DNA hidden inside its cells.
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Huge cosmological mystery could be solved by wormholes
August 6, 2024 Live Science
The universe is expanding at an ever accelerating rate -- and tiny wormholes that bore through the fabric of space-time might be to blame, a new study proposes.
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Tiny arm bone belonged to smallest ancient human ever found
August 6, 2024 Nature
Fossil humerus offers clues about the rapid evolution of remote-island ‘hobbit’ species Homo floresiensis.
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Scientists Find Arm Bone of Ancient ‘Hobbit’ Human
August 6, 2024 New York Times
New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said.
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Hobbit hominins from Indonesia may have had even smaller ancestors
August 6, 2024 New Scientist
An arm bone from an ancient human that lived 700,000 years ago on the island of Flores is the smallest ever found from an adult hominin, adding a new piece to the puzzle of Homo floresiensis
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“Plant Philosophy" Denigrates Human Uniqueness
August 6, 2024 Mind Matters
Much contemporary advocacy is obsessed with deconstructing human exceptionalism
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The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth
August 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Supreme Elegance
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“Plant Philosophy” Sounds Like a Joke
August 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
It Isn’t
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Face It, Darwinian Theory Is Itself Racist
August 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
West, Metaxas
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Richard Dawkins Explains What Genes Reveal About the Past
August 6, 2024 YouTube
Dawkins explains how the body, behavior, and genes of every living creature can be read as a “book of the dead" -- an archive of the worlds of its ancestors.
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A Torrential Rainstorm Washed Over a Dig Site -- and Revealed a 233-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur
August 5, 2024 Popular Mechanics
Paleontologists raced against time and weather to protect a crucial piece of history.
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Did an ancient human relative really bury its dead?
August 5, 2024 Science
Critics challenge explosive claim about Homo naledi, with implications for both human evolution and new models of scientific publishing
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Fossils show Greenland was once ice-free -- and could be again
August 5, 2024 New Scientist
Ancient plants, seeds and insects preserved beneath Greenland’s ice sheet reveal that it once melted completely, raising concerns about sea level rise if it happens again
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News Update/Commentary
Cracking the code of life: new AI model learns DNA's hidden language
August 5, 2024 Science Daily
With GROVER, a new large language model trained on human DNA, researchers could now attempt to decode the complex information hidden in our genome.
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Institutional Distrust on the Rise Due to Overt Political Bias
August 5, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
As with other institutions, people are getting wise to the biases of Big Science
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Where James Tour and Stephen Meyer Disagree
August 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
“Beyond Evolution”
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Disease-Associated “Junk” DNA Is Evidence of Function
August 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Earthquakes May Have Amplified the Destruction of Pompeii
August 5, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A new analysis of skeletons and collapsed walls indicates that seismic activity compounded the historic catastrophe wrought by Mount Vesuvius.
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News Update/Commentary
Astronomers uncover risks to planets that could host life
August 5, 2024 Science Daily
A groundbreaking study has revealed that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry far-ultraviolet (far-UV) radiation levels much higher than previously believed.
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News Update/Commentary
Study analyzes potato-pathogen ‘arms race' after Irish famine
August 5, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers reveal more about the tit-for-tat evolutionary changes occurring in both potato plants and the pathogen that caused the 1840s Irish potato famine.
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Beyond Evolution: Unraveling the Origins of Life
August 5, 2024 YouTube
In this wide-ranging conversation, Meyer and Tour contrast biological evolution with the more complex challenge of chemical evolution, where modern science still struggles to explain how nonliving chemicals could give rise to life.
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How Did We Get Here?
August 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
New Book by Richard Weikart Tracks Rise of the Culture of Death
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The Real Dirt on Homo naledi
August 4, 2024 YouTube
A look at geochemical methods and best practices as it relates to the claims that Homo naledi buried their dead.
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What were the first animals to have sex?
August 4, 2024 Live Science
Animals have been reproducing sexually for hundreds of millions of years, but not always like we do it.
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Is the Bible Telling the Truth? Proving a Historical Adam & Young Earth
August 3, 2024 YouTube
Marcus Ross, a PhD scientist, has just created, a robust, scientific, and modern defense of Young-Earth Creationism.
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Sabine realises climate models have a nasty secret. But slightly misses the point.
August 3, 2024 YouTube
Sabine Hossenfelder did an excellent video on the short-comings of climate models, but she doesn't quite appreciate that the problem is far deeper than just a dodgy graph that almost looks like it was designed to obscure the model shortcomings.
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LLMs are a dead end to AGI, says François Chollet
August 3, 2024 Freethink
His $1 million ARC Prize competition is designed to put us on the right path. ... LLM = large language models, AGI = artificial general intelligence
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“Speech” Using Only the Power of Thought May Soon Be a Reality, New Research Reveals
August 3, 2024 The Debrief
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A Question of Time: Why AI Will Never Be Conscious
August 3, 2024 Psychology Today
A computer with AI cannot replicate the dynamics of a conscious brain.
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Popular YouTube Science Educator Professes “Emotional” Response to “Amazing” Flagellum
August 3, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Programmer: AI Could Certainly Become Conscious
August 3, 2024 Mind Matters
From Casper Wilstrup's perspective, we can't demonstrate that anything is NOT conscious so creating conscious AI is simply a matter of using the scientific method