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Estimating the extinction risk from climate change
March 26, 2024 Physics Today
Marine life faces evolutionary pressures from multiple intersecting fronts, according to a combination of paleontology observations and paleoclimate simulations.
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The cell is not a factory
March 26, 2024 Aeon
Scientific narratives project social hierarchies onto nature. That’s why we need better metaphors to describe cellular life
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Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints
March 26, 2024 New Scientist
A unique site in Brazil features rock carvings closely associated with dinosaur tracks, suggesting prehistoric people saw the footprints as meaningful
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Rethink of Genetics Supports ID over Darwinism
March 26, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Out with junk DNA. Out with the Central Dogma. Make way for design thinking.
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The End of the Eclipse
March 26, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Scientists are studying how the Earth-Moon distance has changed over time, and what effect that change might have had on our planet. Future changes will extinguish total solar eclipses entirely.
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The MYTH of Junk DNA
March 26, 2024 YouTube
Is the idea of junk DNA one of the biggest mistakes in science in our lifetime? Only about 1% of our DNA codes for proteins, so what is the other 99% doing?
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A Reckoning for Darwinism as “Junk DNA” Flops
March 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Nautilus dismisses the importance of genes
March 26, 2024 Why Evolution Is True
in an abysmal article
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Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”
March 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Huge crater in India hints at major meteorite impact 4000 years ago
March 26, 2024 New Scientist
The Luna structure, a 1.8-kilometre-wide depression in north-west India, may have been caused by the largest meteorite to strike Earth in the past 50,000 years
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The Small Self and the Vast Universe
March 26, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Eclipses and the Science of Awe
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The End of Species
March 25, 2024 nautil.us
Why it’s time for new ways of naming life.
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Bees use antennae to decode hive mates' dances in the dark
March 25, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered how honeybees can decipher dances by their hive mates that relay directions to food.
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The unexpected reasons why human childhood is extraordinarily long
March 25, 2024 New Scientist
Why childhood is so protracted has long been mysterious, now a spate of archaeological discoveries suggest an intriguing explanation
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Is Evolution’s “Third Way” Natural?
March 25, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
And Are We Allowed to Reference It?
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How did the Big Bang get its name? Here’s the real story
March 25, 2024 Nature
Astronomer Fred Hoyle supposedly coined the catchy term to ridicule the theory of the Universe’s origins -- 75 years on, it’s time to set the record straight.
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Darwin Was a Loser Before He Was Recast as a Legend
March 25, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The Myth was not the man. A new book shows this in Darwin’s own words.
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Moroccan Dinosaurs in Marine Rocks, Too
March 25, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Is There Any Evidence That Our Universe Is One of Many?
March 24, 2024 Mind Matters
Philosopher Nancey Murphy recently confessed that she had to adjust her thinking based on the idea that multiverse theory “had progressed.” But has it?
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Is the Multiverse Scientific Fact or Mere Fancy?
March 24, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Fine-tuning Seems Designed
March 23, 2024 YouTube
Because the laws of physics would have to be so carefully calibrated to enable stars and planets to form and life to emerge, it would seem to require some kind of design. But there are other explanations.
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Research uncovers a rare resin fossil find: A spider that aspires to be an ant
March 22, 2024 Science Daily
Spiders that disguise themselves as ants live in many locations around the globe but until now most had been able to avoid detection from fossil researchers as well as predators.
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Natural recycling at the origin of life
March 22, 2024 Science Daily
A new study shows how the chemical properties of RNA molecules could have facilitated the emergence of complex life
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‘Best view ever’: observatory will map Big Bang’s afterglow in new detail
March 22, 2024 Nature
The Simons Observatory will search for signs of gravitational waves that originated from the Big Bang.
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Largest recorded solar storm was even bigger than we thought
March 22, 2024 New Scientist
Rediscovered magnetic recordings reveal just how extreme the largest recorded solar storm in history, the Carrington event in 1859, really was, highlighting the danger such storms could present to us nowadays
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Lee Cronin & Assembly Theory | Nick Lane and the politics of science
March 22, 2024 YouTube
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Why is life left-handed? We might finally know
March 22, 2024 YouTube
Scientists have been trying to figure out why organic molecules have the particular orientation they do -- so-called “handedness”. It seems like one of those questions that we'll never answer, but to my surprise recently there's been some progress
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How Evolution Matters To Our Health
March 22, 2024 Skeptic
a practicing physician explores how we evolved to be healthy
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Dogs can understand the meaning of nouns
March 22, 2024 The Guardian
Study confirms our canine companions can grasp more than simple commands -- or at least for items they care about
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A Journey Into the Brain
March 22, 2024 The Scientist
With the help of directed evolution, scientists inch closer to developing viral vectors that can cross the human blood-brain barrier to deliver gene therapy.
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Signs of life would be detectable in single ice grain emitted from extraterrestrial moons
March 22, 2024 Science Daily
if life similar to that on Earth exists on Saturn or Jupiter, this life should be detectable by instruments launching in the fall
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Stone Huts, Homo habilis, and Gutsick Gibbon
March 22, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Did the Universe Begin?
March 21, 2024 YouTube
Some scientists claim that the universe did not have a beginning. Some theologians contend that the universe did not need a beginning. Yet the universe is expanding, and so run the movie in reverse and there seems to be a beginning.
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Heavy Element Quandary in Stars Worsened by New Nuclear Data
March 21, 2024 Physics Magazine
A widening gap between the cerium-140 abundance predicted by theories and that measured in observations of certain stars indicates a potential need for updated models of element formation.
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Scientists just discovered a new way cells control their genes -- it's called ‘backtracking'
March 21, 2024 Live Science
Scientists have discovered that, when a DNA-reading enzyme moves backwards along a gene, it may do so to help control when the gene is turned on.
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How logic and reasoning can fail as scientific tools
March 21, 2024 Big Think
In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum' shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.
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Origin of Bird Flight: Pick Your Miracles
March 21, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
(1) Powered flight arose only once; (2) No! it arose many times!
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Plant Receptors Are Designed to Control Immunity and Development
March 21, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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A Philosopher Investigates Near-Death Experiences
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Demonstrate Legitimacy of Assembly Theory
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
James Tour Offers Three-Year Challenge to Lee Cronin
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Rays were more diverse 150 million years ago than previously thought
March 21, 2024 Science Daily
New fossil ray species discovered in Bavarica, Germany: Aellopobatis bavarica from the Late Jurassic
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How butterflies choose mates: Gene controls preferences
March 21, 2024 Science Daily
scientists identified a gene that is directly linked to evolutionary changes in a visually guided behavior
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‘Britain’s Pompeii’ reveals Bronze Age village frozen in time
March 20, 2024 CNN
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How to wrap your head around the most mind-bending theories of reality
March 20, 2024 New Scientist
From the many worlds interpretation to panpsychism, theories of reality often sound absurd. Here’s how you can figure out which ones to take seriously
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Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals life in ancient England
March 20, 2024 New Scientist
A settlement in the east of England burned down in a fire 3000 years ago, falling into a muddy waterway that preserved everything inside the houses including tools, fabric, cooking pots and more
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Planet-eating stars hint at hidden chaos in the Milky Way
March 20, 2024 Nature
A handful of middle-aged stars seem to have gobbled up a planet, challenging assumptions about the stability of such systems.
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Anti-Human Intelligence
March 20, 2024 Law & Liberty
We are rushing heedlessly into a world in which thinking men become ever more like insects.
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Mathematician wins 2024 Abel prize for making sense of randomness
March 20, 2024 New Scientist
Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize for his work researching probability theory and the extremes of randomness
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Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible
March 20, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today