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New theory of gravity solves accelerating universe
May 3, 2024 iai News
Massive Gravity and the end of dark energy
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A Wonderful Debate About “Junk DNA”
May 3, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Casey Luskin Versus Dan Stern Cardinale
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Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent
May 3, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan
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Protocells on early Earth may have been formed by squeezing geysers
May 3, 2024 New Scientist
Simulations of the crust of early Earth show that cycles of pressure caused by geysers or tidal forces could have generated cell-like structures and even very simple proteins
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Dark energy is tearing the Universe apart. What if the force is weakening?
May 3, 2024 Nature
The first set of results from a pioneering cosmic-mapping project hints that the repulsive force known as dark energy has changed over 11 billion years, which would alter ideas about how the Universe has evolved and what its future will be.
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Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion
May 3, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha
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Long ago, a lake on Mars might have been sprawling with microbes
May 3, 2024 space.com
Curiosity discovered manganese oxide in bedrock in a Martian region that may have been a shoreline billions of years ago.
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The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes
May 2, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Why have bacteria never evolved complex multicellularity? A new hypothesis suggests that it could come down to how prokaryotic genomes respond to a small population size.
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Reflections on punctuated equilibria
May 2, 2024 Paleobiology
It is a pleasure to be invited to contribute to the celebration of the publication of “punctuated equilibria” (“punk eek”) 50 years ago -- the canonical version I did with Steve Gould
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‘Orangutan, heal thyself’: First wild animal seen using medicinal plant
May 2, 2024 Nature
The Sumatran orangutan used a plant known to humans for its medicinal qualities.
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Genetic code of life is a developing story
May 2, 2024 Irish TImes
The near-universality of the DNA code is convincing evidence modern life traces back to a single ancestor
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Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness
May 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Being a Bat
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Can Consciousness be Non-Biological?
May 2, 2024 YouTube
If consciousness is 100% physical, we would have to conclude that the same kind of consciousness that we experience as humans can be generated by non-biological entities (eventually).
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Darwin meets Dickinson
May 2, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6695, p.516
The biologist and the poet shared deep sensibilities about the natural world
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Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first
May 2, 2024 CNN
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has been documented.
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Unravelling life’s origin: five key breakthroughs from the past five years
May 2, 2024 The Conversation
There is still so much we don’t understand about the origin of life on Earth.
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Orangutan treats wound with pain-relieving plant
May 2, 2024 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Researchers observe a wild orangutan applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild animal
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Webb telescope probably didn’t find life on an exoplanet -- yet
May 2, 2024 University of California, Riverside
Claims of biosignature gas detection were premature
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Face of Female Neanderthal Revealed
May 2, 2024 Real Clear Science
A new Netflix documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan
May 2, 2024 Scientific Reports, v.14
Although self-medication in non-human animals is often difficult to document systematically due to the difficulty of predicting its occurrence, there is widespread evidence of such behaviors
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Endosymbiosis Under the Microscope
May 2, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Do microbes get married and become one? Is this an example of evolution?
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Was a Key to Photosynthesis Evolution Discovered?
May 2, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness
May 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Being a Bat
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“Junk DNA” from Three Perspectives
May 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Some Key Quotes
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What can DNA tell us about the truth of the Bible?
May 1, 2024 YouTube
With what we now know about DNA, can we trust that the biblical creation account is true? Could all of humanity have really come from two people? Where did the various races and ethnicities come from? What were the Neanderthals?
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5 Things Science Cannot Explain (but Theism Can)
May 1, 2024 Crossway
The heart of scientism is the conviction that science can explain virtually everything. If there is not a valid scientific explanation for an event or state, then that is not properly an object of our knowledge.
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Was Alchemy Magic, Science, or Both?
May 1, 2024 Skeptical Inquirer
What if, rather than a bunch of mystical nonsense occupying an uncomfortable space between religion and science, alchemy deserves to be respected as having been a legitimate pursuit for knowledge
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Does Quantum Mechanics Imply Multiple Universes?
May 1, 2024 YouTube
Dive into the deepest quantum mystery: how do we transition from a haze of possibilities to the concrete reality we experience? Does the answer require a profusion of universes, each shaped by different quantum outcomes?
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A shocking beginning to star formation
May, 2024 Physics Today, v.77, n.5, p.36-42
The birth of stars is tightly entangled with interstellar shocks, which makes shocked regions a paradise for astrochemistry.
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The real butterfly effect and maggoty apples
May, 2024 Physics Today, v.77, n.5, p.30-35
Even though the Navier-Stokes equations are deterministic, it seems that you cannot make predictions beyond a fixed time horizon, no matter how small the initial uncertainty.
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Casey Luskin Versus Rutgers Biologist Dan Cardinale
May 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Debate: Thursday, May 2
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Here’s a List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA
May 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting)
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Another Call for a “New Synthesis”
May 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Do We Know Anything For Certain?
May 1, 2024 Scientific American
Some practical advice for how to sit, happily, joyfully, with uncertainty -- and in doing so, grow and learn from it.
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Odd bump on praying mantis chest is actually world’s weirdest tongue
May 1, 2024 New Scientist
A bristly bump on some mantises’ chests is a never-before-seen “gustifolium”, which may have evolved to help the insects with their highly specialised lifestyles
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Dawkins the New Cultural Christian
May 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Atheists who admit they fake it
May, 2024 Creation Ministries International
The impossibility of living authentically without God
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A Scientific Revolution Comparable with Copernicus’
April 30, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ancient crystals suggest early Earth had land and freshwater
April 30, 2024 Science
Hardy zircon minerals found in Australian rocks suggest conditions for life existed 4 billion years ago
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Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design
April 30, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
Part 2
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Multicellular Bacteria Evolve Defenses that Resemble the Immune System
April 30, 2024 The Scientist
Bacterial superorganisms must evolve defenses to fight off infections, and microbiologists found that they use a weapons cache coincidentally similar to that of the human immune system.
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A Case Study in Evolution or Adaptive Engineering?
April 30, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
Galápagos Finches
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Alien life is no joke
April 30, 2024 Aeon
Not long ago the search for extraterrestrials was considered laughable nonsense. Today, it’s serious and scientific
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Can the known particles and interactions explain consciousness?
April 30, 2024 Big Think
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers parse oddity of distantly related bats in Solomon Islands that appear identical
April 30, 2024 Science Daily
A study of body size in leaf-nosed bats of the Solomon Islands has revealed surprising genetic diversity among nearly indistinguishable species on different islands.
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Darwin’s Blunder Lives On
April 30, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A major journal publishes a paper claiming that natural selection is like human engineering
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Blog Post
The Enabling of Richard Dawkins
April 29, 2024
How the failure of Christian education has enabled Richard Dawkins' atheism -- and why even he now thinks society has gone too far in jettisoning Christianity
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Do Fungi Have Free-Will?
April 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Universe Existed Before The Big Bang
April 29, 2024 YouTube
Imagine if I told you that our universe has been around forever, even before the Big Bang. It might sound pretty wild, right? Well, hold onto your hats because renowned physicist Brian Cox is on board with this mind-bending idea.
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A new approach to dark matter could help us solve galactic anomalies
April 29, 2024 New Scientist
Cosmological puzzles are tempting astronomers to rethink our simple picture of the universe -- and ask whether dark matter is even stranger than we thought