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Flowers ‘giving up’ on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate, say scientists
December 19, 2023 The Guardian
French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than 20 to 30 years ago in ‘startling’ act of evolution
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Ever Want to Curl Into a Ball? Here’s How Trilobites Did It.
December 19, 2023 New York Times
Fossils collected more than 150 years ago show that the techniques some creatures use for defensive curling have not changed in millions of years.
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What was the Turing test actually about?
December 19, 2023 Nature
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Research prizes are opaque and rife with bias -- it’s time to shake them up
December 19, 2023 Nature
Awards should be standard-bearers for transparent, robust research that is inclusive, equitable and trustworthy. But that is not what they are right now.
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Giant space rock made Earth's ocean boil but also helped early life
December 19, 2023 Washington Post
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Book
Black holes, love and poetry -- an artistic exploration of intimacy and adventure
December 19, 2023 Nature
A book by physicist Kip Thorne and artist Lia Halloran explores the mysteries of space through poetry and paintings. | See Also Amazon
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From Einstein to AI: how 100 years have shaped science
December 19, 2023 Nature
Looking back a century reveals how much the research landscape has changed -- and how unclear the consequences of scientific innovation can be.
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Forbidden Worlds? Theory Clashes with Observation
December 19, 2023 Centauri Dreams
several recent discoveries that challenge planet formation theory. We can bet that the more we probe the Milky Way, the more we’ll find anomalies that challenge our preconceptions.
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Why String Theory Requires Extra Dimensions
December 19, 2023 Universe Today
String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force.
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Does quantum theory imply the entire Universe is preordained?
December 19, 2023 Nature
The popular idea that quantum physics implies everything is random and nothing is certain might be as far from the truth as it could possibly be.
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News Update/Commentary
Can we decode the language of our primate cousins?
December 19, 2023 Science Daily
how the human brain has evolved to process the vocal emissions of some of our closest cousins more efficiently
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Enceladus Has Cyanide; Evolutionists Imagine Life
December 19, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary hype over potential life at Saturn’s tiny moon goes into overdrive with discovery of deadly poison
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Ten Biomechanical Animal Joints Enable Extreme Performance
December 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Paper Digest
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The Year in Biology
December 19, 2023 Quanta Magazine
In a year packed with fascinating discoveries, biologists pushed the limits of synthetic life, probed how organisms keep time, and refined theories about consciousness and emotional health.
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News Update/Commentary
More parallel ‘traffic' observed in human brains than in other animals
December 18, 2023 Science Daily
In a study comparing human brain communication networks with those of macaques and mice, researchers found that only human brains transmitted information via multiple parallel pathways, yielding new insights into evolution.
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Chimps remember the faces of old friends and family for decades
December 18, 2023 Science
Recognition ability rivals all other animals, including humans
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How Will AI Change Science?
December 18, 2023 YouTube
Will AI bring us closer to the truth or further away from it? Is it changing the way we do science? And will it eventually replace teachers and professors?
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The Holographic Secret of Black Holes
December 18, 2023 Universe Today
In the 1980’s physicist Jacob Bekenstein was able to calculate exactly how much a black hole grew. If you add a single bit of information to a black hole, its surface area increases by exactly one Planck unit.
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Apes Remember Friends They Haven't Seen for Decades
December 18, 2023 Johns Hopkins University
Study finds the longest lasting non-human social memories ever documented
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic atlas detailing early stages of zebrafish development
December 18, 2023 Science Daily
Zebrafish are a powerful model for studying embryonic progression in vertebrates
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Homo naledi Didn’t Behave Like Humans
December 18, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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The Darwinist Genocide in Tasmania
December 18, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Extinction of the Tasmanians: another example of the fruits of Darwinism
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Cancelling the Human Mind
December 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Experts Weigh In
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The molecular clock keeps evolutionary time
December 17, 2023 YouTube
This video series analyzes the false predictions of evolutionary theory.
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Aristotle's Argument for God
December 17, 2023 YouTube
Feser is the author of “Five Proofs of the Existence of God", and in this episode speaks about one of these: the Aristotelean argument from motion.
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Researchers Reveal “Ancient Genetic Parasite” Implicated in Human Diseases
December 17, 2023 Sci Tech Daily
Dark Genome Discovery
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Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities
December 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Will It Extend to Origins Science?
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Hidden lagoon network with living fossils
December 16, 2023 CNN
A high plateau in northwestern Argentina has salt lagoons with living giant stromatolites, layered rocks created by microbes that represent the earliest fossil evidence for life on Earth.
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Environmentalism Worships a Demanding and Jealous Goddess, Mother Earth
December 16, 2023 Answers in Genesis
The Goddess of the Technocrat Overlords
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Top Medical Journal Goes After…Capitalism
December 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
This Is Science?
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Large Language Models Are Still Smoke and Mirrors
December 15, 2023 Mind Matters
Incapable of understanding, LLMs are good at giving bloated answers.
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Science DOESN'T Explain What You Think It Does
December 15, 2023 YouTube
Lennox presents a compelling case for creationism and adeptly critiques the limitations of the theory of evolution while simultaneously clarifying his position on the age of the Earth, claiming he is NOT a young earth creationist
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient DNA reveals how a chicken virus evolved to become more deadly
December 15, 2023 Science Daily
An international team of scientists led by geneticists and disease biologists has used ancient DNA to trace the evolution of Marek's Disease Virus (MDV).
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News Update/Commentary
Can you change a chicken into a frog, a fish or a chameleon?
December 15, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have developed a theoretical framework that can reproduce and predict the patterns associated with gastrulation in a chicken embryo.
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Cosmology Could Be Fundamentally Flawed
December 15, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Citizens should know about mistaken predictions in science
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Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery
December 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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It’s Intelligent Design, Not Darwinism, that Drives Scientific Progress
December 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning
December 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is There Anything Non-physical About the Mind?
December 14, 2023 YouTube
Can consciousness be explained by only physical activities of the physical world? Because if not, if there is anything else required to explain consciousness in addition to the physical brain, then consciousness would defeat a materialistic worldview.
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If Science Doesn't Support Dualism -- Well, It Should
December 14, 2023 Mind Matters
At Big Think, Kmele Foster interviews five figures in consciousness studies. Not one is a dualist but a listener may come away with a new appreciation for dualism
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Psychology Researchers: AI Showed Imitation, Not Innovation
December 14, 2023 Mind Matters
Testing children and adults against chatbots, the researchers found that the chatbots could match things up but struggled to solve problems on their own
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient chicken remains reveal the origins of virulence in Marek’s disease virus
December 14, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6676, p.1276-1281
Researchers studied ancient DNA from chickens to reveal the evolutionary history of this once mild disease
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Consciousness does not require a self
December 14, 2023 iai News
The self is a prediction of the brain
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Do Ancient Fish Point to Shoulder Evolution?
December 14, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Human Evolution Story Constantly Rethought
December 14, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Nothing we were taught is true. Everything is up for revision.
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The drivers of massive star evolution
December 14, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6676, p.1240-1241
An elusive population of stripped binary stars is finally revealed
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For Advent, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe
December 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Humans and Fungi: In Wish, Disney Goes to War on Human Exceptionalism
December 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Return (Yet Again) of the Humanzee
December 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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AI and the Chinese Room Argument
December 13, 2023 Mind Matters
We still haven't cracked the mystery of human intelligence.