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Why string theory has been unfairly maligned -- and how to test it
February 12, 2024 New Scientist
String theory is widely considered beyond empirical investigation. But we could conceivably test it thanks to ancient particles called moduli, which might appear in astronomical observations, says theorist Joseph Conlon
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News Update/Commentary
The hidden rule for flight feathers -- and how it could reveal which dinosaurs could fly
February 12, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists examined hundreds of birds in museum collections and discovered a suite of feather characteristics that all flying birds have in common.
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Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences
February 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists Slowed Down Light by 10,000 Times in an Experiment
February 11, 2024 Science Alert
Scientists have previously established that light can be slowed down in certain scenarios, and a new study demonstrates a method for achieving it that promises to be one of the most useful approaches yet.
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Belief in the Soul Is Found in Every Time and Place
February 11, 2024 Mind Matters
Substance dualism holds clearly that the soul and the body are two different types of entities
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Are the New Atheists Losing Their “Cool" Quotient?
February 11, 2024 Mind Matters
And taking Darwinism with them? A look at what’s happened in the last two decades would seem to suggest that
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Contents of Charles Darwin’s entire personal library revealed for first time
February 11, 2024 The Guardian
300-page catalogue details thousands of books, journals, pamphlets and articles in naturalist’s library
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Top Five Questions on the Origin of Language
February 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
-- Answered!
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Fragments of Asteroid with Mystery Origin Are Found Outside Berlin
February 10, 2024 New York Times
Astronomers tracked the entry of a small space rock into Earth’s atmosphere, and then meteorite hunters made an unexpected discovery.
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All Aboard the James Tour Damage Control Train!
February 9, 2024 YouTube
James was not happy with how badly he was humiliated by his intellectual superiors at Harvard, so he is back at it with some damage control!
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Exploring God’s Intelligent Design of Viruses
February 9, 2024 YouTube
Reasons to Believe -- While we will never understand God’s complete purpose with the introduction of viruses into our world, it is apparent that God is at work through the spread of viruses throughout all living things.
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Hominins may have left Africa 700,000 years earlier than we thought
February 9, 2024 New Scientist
Our hominin ancestors originated in Africa and the consensus is that they didn't leave there until about 1.8 million years ago, but stone tools found in Jordan challenge the idea
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News Update/Commentary
Surprisingly vibrant color of 12-million-year-old snail shells
February 9, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers provide world's first evidence of intact polyene pigments in fossils
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Deep Fakes and Propaganda for Artificial General Intelligence
February 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Chronospecies, a Sinking Ship
February 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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New evidence changes key ideas about Earth’s climate history
February 9, 2024 University of Waikato, New Zealand
The research debunks the idea that Earth’s surface (across land and sea) has experienced really hot temperatures over the last two billion years.
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Exceptionally well preserved fossil bed discovered in south of France
February 9, 2024 National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
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JWST Sees More Galaxies than Expected
February 9, 2024 Physics, v.17
The new JWST observatory is revealing far more bright galaxies in the early Universe than anyone predicted, and astrophysicists have more than one explanation for the puzzle.
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Our Privileged Planet, 20 Years On
February 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Dallas Conference, February 17
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Destroy the AI Idol Before It Destroys Us
February 8, 2024 Mind Matters
Design theorist points to the way that chess adapted to computers to become better than ever as a way forward in the age of AI
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Another Saturn Moon Hired for Astrobiology
February 8, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Liquid water under Mimas? Impossible. But if it is there, could life be far behind?
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Origin of Language: Still a Mystery, Despite All We Know Now
February 8, 2024 Mind Matters
We aren’t even sure which is the world’s oldest spoken language, though Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese have impressively long histories
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Escarpment evolution drives the diversification of the Madagascar flora
February 8, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6683, p.653-658
Madagascar is a hotspot of biodiversity and unique species, both because of its long isolation from the mainland and its high rates of speciation.
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Teach Indigenous knowledge alongside science
February 8, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6683, p.592-594
Evidence supports the teaching of Indigenous knowledge alongside sciences in the classroom
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A Prehistoric Tool Discovery May Have Just Rewritten Human History
February 8, 2024 Motherboard (Tech by Vice)
New research suggests a sudden “revolution" in human history that allowed our species to thrive and spread was a longer and more complex process.
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Astrophysicist Explains the Problem with Naturalistic Origin of Life
February 8, 2024 Wintery Knight
There’s an interesting article posted at Universe Today by Dr. Paul M. Sutter. Although he does accept unguided evolution after the origin of life, he doesn’t think that naturalism can account for the origin of life.
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Scientists debunk role of ‘junk cells' in fight against malaria
February 8, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown ability of a group of immune system cells, known as Atypical B cells (ABCs), to fight infectious diseases such as malaria.
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News Update/Commentary
Faulty DNA disposal system causes inflammation
February 8, 2024 Science Daily
endosomes responsible for disposing of dysfunctional mitochondrial DNA were leaking mitochondrial DNA into the cell and prompting the inflammatory immune response
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The Exquisite Design of Egg Cells
February 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Darwinian Dilemma: The Paradox of Reproduction
February 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Could Human Consciousness Be a Recent Historical Development?
February 7, 2024 Mind Matters
Julian Jaynes’s bicameral mind theory, popular in the 1970s, stated that until about 3000 years ago, humans were not really conscious
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String theory nonsense makes comeback
February 7, 2024 YouTube
I got a lot of questions last week about an article in Quanta Magazine about Dark Dimensions. it's about an idea motivated by string theory that combines large extra dimensions with dark matter.
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The Strongest Neuroscience Arguments in the Free Will Debate
February 7, 2024 Psychology Today
Can we choose the experiences that shape us, or are those choices determined?
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Winged Darwin: Pterosaur Diversity, But No Ancestor
February 7, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A lizard could not just take off like a bird. Flight specs are required!
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Human Origins and the Beginning of Art
February 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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What Is the Essence of Life?
February 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything
February 7, 2024 New Scientist
Physicists’ search for a theory that explains all reality in one framework appeared to have stalled. But now they are reinvigorating the hunt by exploring a wild landscape of abstract geometry
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Fake research papers flagged by analysing authorship trends
February 7, 2024 Nature
A new approach to detecting fraudulent paper-mill studies focuses on patterns of co-authors rather than manuscript text.
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News Update/Commentary
How the brain's internal compass guides the body
February 7, 2024 Science Daily
A study in fruit flies reveals how the brain's compass and steering regions make course corrections
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That’s No Moon; It’s an Ocean World
February 7, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
If Saturn’s cratered moon Mimas has liquid water beneath its surface, ocean worlds might be far more common in the solar system than we thought.
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When Is Transhumanism a Form of Technobigotry?
February 6, 2024 Mind Matters
In his further essays in the current series, he explains why AI cannot avoid collapse without the input of novel information from humans
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A Thoughtful Reader's Reaction to Next Gen AI Hype
February 6, 2024 Mind Matters
Recent hype at Wired Magazine about new personal assistant technology garnered a -- perhaps unexpected -- reaction
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Thinking Back to the Very Beginnings of Art
February 6, 2024 Mind Matters
It just appears, from great antiquity, and we really don’t know why. All we know is that animals don’t do it
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News Update/Commentary
Pinpointing changes to our genetic instructions that disrupt development
February 6, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers find a vulnerability within our genomes that can cause developmental defects such as extra fingers and heart disorders
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Researchers discover key to molecular mystery of how plants respond to changing conditions
February 6, 2024 Science Daily
Research offers a new understanding of coordinated cellular response in plants
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The biggest questions about the Universe’s beginning
February 6, 2024 Big Think
The Universe didn't begin with a bang, but with an inflationary “whoosh" that came before. Here are the biggest questions that still remain.
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Novelty Activates a Long Noncoding RNA for Spatial Learning in Mice
February 6, 2024 The Scientist
Genes activated in new environments include those used during development.
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Homo habilis ‘Handy Man’ Getting Fired
February 6, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
More evolutionists admit major problems exist with this fossil and its interpretation
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Where Do All the Species Come From?
February 6, 2024 Answers in Genesis
What is speciation, and do creationists think it happens?
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The Oracle Problem
February 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Artificial General Intelligence