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Astrophysicist: “We Do Not Yet Know How, Where, or Why Life First Appeared”
January 31, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago
January 31, 2024 Science Advances, v.10, n.5
Evidence for the manufacture and use of fiber technology such as rope and twine is rare in the Paleolithic, despite the widely held view that such artifacts were in regular use during the Pleistocene.
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Scientists Attempt an Honest Look at Why We Trust Science Less
January 30, 2024 Mind Matters
Contemplating the depressing results of a recent Pew survey, a molecular biologist and a statistician take aim at growing corruption in science
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Moss project takes step toward first artificial plant genome
January 30, 2024 Science
Chinese team makes partially synthetic version of spreading earthmoss chromosome, aiming to harness plant for industry
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The Seeming Impossibility of Life
January 30, 2024 Universe Today
The number of near misses, false starts, and legitimate disasters that have befallen our species since the day we took our first upright steps all those generations ago is too large to count
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists pinpoint growth of brain's cerebellum as key to evolution of bird flight
January 30, 2024 Science Daily
Evolutionary biologists report they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons along with studies of dinosaur fossils to help answer an enduring question in biology: How did the brains of birds evolve to enable them to fly?
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Viewpoint: Whitewash
January 30, 2024 Genetic Literacy Project
How four obstructionist journals and their academic enablers are corrupting reporting on the science of chemicals and crop biotechnology
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A bold new take on quantum theory could reveal how reality emerges
January 30, 2024 New Scientist
At the smallest scales, everything is made out of a cloud of quantum possibilities. A new idea attempts to explain how our everyday world comes from this, using the laws of thermodynamics
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The journey to understand previously unknown microbial genes
January 30, 2024 Nature
The analysis of DNA sequences sheds light on microbial biology, but it is difficult to assess the function of genes that have little or no similarity to characterized genes. Here, scientists discuss this challenge from genomic and microbial perspectives.
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Dembski and Ruse Look Back on 20 Years of Debate
January 30, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
and a Special Anniversary
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The Poverty of the Stimulus
January 30, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Artificial General Intelligence
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Dembski: Does the Squawk Around AI Sound Like the Tower of Babel?
January 30, 2024 Mind Matters
Well then, maybe that’s just what it is, he argues, in a new series of short essays
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News Update/Commentary
‘Genomic time machine' reveals secrets of our DNA
January 30, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers reveal a novel method to uncover bits of our genetic blueprint that come from ancient genetic parasites, offering fresh insights into human evolution and health.
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The improbable origins of life on Earth
January 29, 2024 phys.org
We do not yet know how, where, or why life first appeared on our planet. Part of the difficulty is that "life" has no strict, universally agreed-upon definition.
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Strange virus-like replicators discovered in the human gut
January 29, 2024 New Scientist
A previously unknown type of replicating agent named “obelisks” has been found in genomic data from stool samples -- but we know little about what these entities do
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‘Wildly weird’ RNA bits discovered infesting the microbes in our guts
January 29, 2024 Nature
Rod-shaped structures named ‘obelisks’ are even smaller than viruses but can still transmit instructions to cells.
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Intelligent Design’s Reverse Chameleon-ism
January 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
From Political Scientist John West
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Ronald Reagan’s Deeply Personal Argument for Intelligent Design
January 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science does not describe reality
January 29, 2024 iai News
The limits and benefits of explanation
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Were Neanderthals Religious?
January 29, 2024 Psychology Today
Archaeological evidence for Neanderthal proto-religiosity continues to mount.
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Why is trust in scientific research at an all time low?
January 29, 2024 Genetic Literacy Project
An aphorism called the “Einstein Effect” holds that, “People find nonsense credible if they think a scientist said it.” We agree, and it’s a major concern as trust in science is near an all-time low.
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Leading Neuroscientist Wavers on Physical View of Consciousness
January 29, 2024 Mind Matters
On Closer to Truth, Christof Koch said last month, “Consciousness cannot be explained only within the framework of space and time and energy, but we need to postulate something additional”
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The AI revolution
January 29, 2024 Creation Ministries International
What does it mean for you?
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Blog Post
Plagiarism and Data Falsification as Performance Enhancers in Higher Education
January 29, 2024
Academic Steroids
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'Obelisks': Entirely New Class of Life Has Been Found in the Human Digestive System
January 29, 2024 Science Alert
These mysterious bits of genetic material have no detectable sequences or even structural similarities known to any other biological agents.
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News Update/Commentary
Cosmic building blocks of life discovered through the electron microscope
January 29, 2024 Science Daily
A team of researchers has examined the so-called Winchcombe meteorite and demonstrated the existence in it of nitrogen compounds such as amino acids and heterocyclic hydrocarbons
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News Update/Commentary
Old area in the brain turns out to be more important than expected
January 29, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered that a brain area preserved through evolution, called the superior colliculus, is more crucial for vision than we thought.
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News Update/Commentary
How did humans learn to walk? New evolutionary study offers an earful
January 29, 2024 Science Daily
The inner ear of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape reveals clues about the evolution of human movement
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers map genome for cats, dolphins, birds, and dozens of other animals
January 29, 2024 Science Daily
Data will have ‘huge implications' for understanding human health and evolution
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How to Debunk Darwinian Bunk
January 29, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
These scientists don’t even understand their own theory. They personify evolution!
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Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait, what?
January 29, 2024 YouTube
I was rather surprised when I recently learned that the British science communicator and ex-particle physicist Brian Cox supposedly debunked the Big Bang with a creation story, no less than in a BBC documentary. I had a look at the clip
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The Improbable Origins of Life on Earth
January 28, 2024 Universe Today
We do not yet know how, where, or why life first appeared on our planet. Part of the difficulty is that “life” has no strict, universally agreed-upon definition.
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The Cancel Culture Mob Comes for the Evolutionary Biologists
January 28, 2024 Mind Matters
Science is as dependent on the concept of public truth as the great religions are. In an age when private truth is rapidly gaining in power, it is just as vulnerable as religion.
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Dark matter is not “bunk science"
January 28, 2024 YouTube
But I still don't believe it exists
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Explore Inside a Migrating Salmon’s Nostril
January 28, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Awesome circuitry is animated in Illustra Media’s latest short film
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The Creation Exceeding the Creator
January 28, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Artificial General Intelligence
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From a small town in Wales, a scientific sleuth has shaken Dana-Farber
January 27, 2024 Stat news
and elevated the issue of research integrity
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Science Wager: Extraterrestrials Will Be Spotted Within 15 Years
January 27, 2024 Mind Matters
An astrobiologist had made the bet with a planetary scientist, after they whittled down ET theories to two possibilities: They’re hiding or they’re not out there
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Five Trends That Help Us Make Sense of Space Science Today
January 27, 2024 Mind Matters
multiverse; searching for life elsewhere; extraterrestrial life appears scarce; fine-tuning of Earth; grave problems with current cosmology
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‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
January 26, 2024 Science
Analysis of sequence databases reveals novel circular RNA genomes belonging to “obelisks”
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Are Researchers Taking Mystical Experiences More Seriously Now?
January 26, 2024 Mind Matters
Scientists are beginning to view altered states of consciousness -- including mystical experiences, meditative states, and near-death experiences -- with interest. That is, they are studying them, not just trying to explain them away.
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Bacteria Have Memories? Well, That's What Some Researchers Found ...
January 26, 2024 Mind Matters
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have found that bacteria can store and pass on memories of past actions -- such as creating infections in humans -- for about four to seven generations
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Changing fitness effects of mutations through long-term bacterial evolution
January 26, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6681
The benefits and costs of mutations that undergo natural selection can change depending on genetic interactions with subsequent mutations.
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Soda Lakes: The Missing Link in the Origin of Life?
January 26, 2024 Sci Tech Daily
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Scientists propose an updated time scale scheme of the Earth's moon
January 26, 2024 phys.org
The moon's evolutionary history is divided into three distinct phases based on the temporal interplay of exogenic and endogenic processes in altering the moon.
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Why Animals Don't Really Have Anything Much To Say
January 26, 2024 Mind Matters
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Are Humans Fundamentally Different from AI?
January 26, 2024 Medium
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The Science Journals That Will Publish Anything
January 26, 2024 McGill University
Predatory journals are real but how we talk about them can be misguided
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Early Life Was Radically Different Than Today
January 26, 2024 Universe Today
All modern life shares a robust, hardy, efficient system of intertwined chemicals that propagate themselves. This system must have emerged from a simpler, less efficient, more delicate one.
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Darwinian Storytelling Dumbs Down Media
January 26, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How silly can does an evolutionary story have to get before reporters revolt?