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Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?
June 19, 2024 New Scientist
The New Horizons mission to Pluto, now zooming out of the Kuiper belt, has made a discovery that could upend what we know about where the solar system ends
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A Secular Gay Agnostic Talks with Stephen Meyer
June 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Physics of Consciousness
June 18, 2024 YouTube
How to explain our inner awareness that is at once most common and most mysterious? Traditional explanations focus at the level of neuron and neuronal circuits in the brain. But little real progress has motivated some to look much deeper
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How glacier algae are challenging the way we think about evolution
June 18, 2024 The Conversation
People often underestimate tiny beings. But microscopic algal cells not only evolved to thrive in one of the most extreme habitats on Earth -- glaciers -- but are also shaping them.
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Two Cheers for ‘Intelligent Design’
June 18, 2024 Compact Magazine.
In April, when Tucker Carlson stirred up controversy by announcing that he didn’t believe in evolution, it felt like a nostalgic throwback to the politics of my high-school years.
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Ant What She Used to Be
June 18, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwinians are masters at twisting evidence of stasis into tales of ancient evolution
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Worldviews and dinosaurs
June 18, 2024 Creation Ministries International
Titans of the Earth, Sea, and Air -- chapter 1
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Origin of Life: Recycling and Repair
June 18, 2024 YouTube
How do our cells prevent information degradation in our DNA? This video reviews the highly complex error-correction mechanisms in cells that help maintain the information in our DNA so life can survive.
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An Astonishing Life-Friendly Coincidence
June 18, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
The Properties of the Nonmetal Atoms
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Divergent evolution of the human heart: What we can learn from our evolutionary cousins
June 18, 2024 Springer Nature
A comparative ultrasound study, assessing cardiac form and function across all great apes, suggests humans evolved away from a trabeculated myocardium common to all other apes, towards a comparatively smoother left ventricular wall | See Also Nature
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DNA Repair and the Origin of Life
June 18, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Here’s the Problem
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Chemists invoke bizarre Maxwell's demon on the largest scale yet
June 18, 2024 New Scientist
A 19th-century thought experiment that was once thought to defy the laws of thermodynamics has now been realised to make molecules accumulate on one side of a U-bend
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Scientists make breakthrough in causes behind one of the most significant climate catastrophes
June 17, 2024 University of Exeter
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How China’s Moon mission could reveal the origins of life on Earth
June 17, 2024 Big Think
The Moon is the most likely place for evidence from the dawn of life on Earth to be preserved in cold storage.
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Y chromosome is evolving faster than the X, primate study reveals
June 17, 2024 Live Science
The male Y chromosome in humans is evolving faster than the X. Scientists have now discovered the same trend in six species of primate.
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What is intelligent life?
June 17, 2024 Aeon
Our human minds hold us back from truly understanding the many brilliant ways that other creatures solve their problems
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Florida Fossil Shows Porcupines Have Always Been Porcupines
June 17, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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On Fine-Tuning, Responding to an Atheist YouTuber
June 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Origins of cumulative culture in human evolution
June 17, 2024 Science Daily
Our culture and technology today are the result of thousands of years of accumulated and remixed cultural knowledge
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How quickly did life recover from the end-Permian mass extinction?
June 17, 2024 Sciworthy
Paleontologists described exceptionally well-preserved fossils of a complex marine ecosystem that developed within 1 million years of a major mass extinction event.
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Erosion Shows the Earth is Young
June 17, 2024 YouTube
“Solid" ground under our feet is gradually slipping away as the oceans of the world relentlessly erode the coastlines. It might surprise you to discover just how fast that's happening! In this episode, special guest Monte Fleming explains the evidence
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A scientific case for an Earth alive
June 17, 2024 Sequencer magazine
“Becoming Earth" author Ferris Jabr on his new book and how life emerged as an extension of the planet’s surface. | See Also Amazon
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The Human Brain's Complexity Verges on the Brink of Chaos
June 16, 2024 Science Alert
The human brain is said to be the most complex object in the known Universe. Its 89 billion neurons each have around 7,000 connections on average
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Modern human DNA contains bits from all over the Neanderthal genome
June 16, 2024 The Conversation
-- except the Y chromosome. What happened?
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What We Knew About the Woodpecker
June 16, 2024 Answers in Genesis
As we study God’s world, new scientific discoveries sometimes change what we thought we knew. Can we still explain these changes with our understanding of God’s design?
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Are animals conscious?
June 15, 2024 BBC
How new research is changing minds
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Shortly after the Big Bang, conditions were perfect for life.
June 15, 2024 Salon
The ingredients and conditions for life could have emerged billions of years ago. Are aliens eons older than Earth?
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Evolutionary Theorists Stymied by the Human Mind
June 14, 2024 Mind Matters
No one actually knows how our ancestors began to think like humans
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JWST spotted an incredible number of supernovae in the early universe
June 14, 2024 New Scientist
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have increased the number of known supernovae in the early universe by a factor of 10 and found the most distant one ever confirmed
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John Walton's rendering of “bara" (create) in Genesis 1
June 14, 2024 YouTube
the ancient Israelites borrowed bits and pieces from the ANE and composed their own creation myths
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Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again
June 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom
June 14, 2024 The Quarterly Journal of Economics
The Lasting Effects of Science Education
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From Code to Creature
June 14, 2024 The Scientist
A happenstance collaboration between biologists and roboticists led to the birth of a strange creation: living machines derived from frog stem cells.
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This Flower Could Be Defined as Intelligent
June 14, 2024 Science Alert
Even without a central nervous system, some life on planet Earth can behave in arguably intelligent ways. Plants are not often thought of as cognizant beings, but perhaps that's our own brain-y bias at play.
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The Brainstem Fine-Tunes Inflammation Throughout the Body
June 14, 2024 Quanta Magazine
The evolutionarily ancient part of the brain that controls breathing and heart rate also regulates the immune system -- a discovery about the brain-body axis made by experts on taste.
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News Update/Commentary
The genetic ‘switches' of bone growth
June 14, 2024 Science Daily
In mammals, only 3% of the genome consists of coding genes, but genes do not function alone. They are controlled by other sequences in the genome, called enhancers,
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News Update/Commentary
Tiny New Zealand bird delivers a lesson in birdsong evolution
June 14, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists are rethinking how and when vocal learning evolved in birds
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Study on architecture of heart offers new understanding of human evolution
June 14, 2024 Science Daily
An international research team has uncovered a new insight into human evolution by comparing humans' hearts with those of other great apes.
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Is the Universe finite or infinite?
June 14, 2024 Big Think
The Universe’s history, from cosmic inflation to the Big Bang to the present, is known. But whether it’s infinite or not is still a mystery.
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Biology is Not (Significantly) Lineage Specific
June 13, 2024 Darwin's God
This video series analyzes the false predictions of evolutionary theory.
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Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass
June 13, 2024 Science Alert
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Great Oxidation Myth Creates Absurdities
June 13, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A falsified zombie scenario known as the GOE is not a solution to evolutionary problems. It is a problem itself.
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Researchers: Chatbots Generally Flunk Simple Logic Test
June 13, 2024 Mind Matters
From Futurism we learn “when asked to show their work, the AIs would detail bizarre and erroneous lines of ‘thinking' that made no sense”
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Paleoartists -- Artists for Dinosaurs -- Confront Generative AI
June 13, 2024 Mind Matters
Generative AI cannot yet combine science-level accuracy and sensitivity to artistic issues but it is starting to have an impact anyway.
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Consciousness Wars: Researcher Tries Negotiating a Truce
June 13, 2024 Mind Matters
Witch hunts against leading theories are bad for a discipline’s reputation; Johan Storm thinks that all the prominent theories of consciousness are a little bit right
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Webb Telescope Discovers Another Record-Breaking Galaxy
June 13, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Darwin’s Science and Storytelling
June 13, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Must the Universe Contain Consciousness?
June 13, 2024 YouTube
Our universe seems fine-tuned for life, with the constants of physical laws having to be within tight boundaries. Does this mean that the universe has a goal of consciousness? Is there a directedness of the universe toward consciousness?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Interactions between immune cell types facilitate the evolution of immune traits
June 12, 2024 Nature, v.632, p.350-356
An essential prerequisite for evolution by natural selection is variation among individuals in traits that affect fitness. The ability of a system to produce selectable variation, known as evolvability, thus markedly affects the rate of evolution.
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A Big Whack That Made the Moon May Have Also Created Continents That Move
June 12, 2024 New York Times
Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the heat to set off plate tectonics.