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Passing the Turing Test Is No Guarantee of True AI
November 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Geoglyphs and Natural Features Test Dembski’s Design Inference
November 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
ahead of new book edition
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Carbon Dating Reveals the Timing of Puerto Rican Cave Art
November 9, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
New dates from cave art pigment add to evidence that Indigenous Puerto Ricans inhabited the island for millennia.
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Genesis, Creation, and Biology: A Discussion with Todd Wood
November 9, 2023 YouTube
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Milky Way-like galaxy found in the early universe
November 9, 2023 University of California, Riverside
Research team, including a UC Riverside astronomer, made the discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope
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Many physicists assume we must live in a multiverse
November 9, 2023 The Conversation
but their basic maths may be wrong
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News Update/Commentary
Bacteria-virus arms race provides rare window into rapid and complex evolution
November 9, 2023 Science Daily
Intricate ecological networks emerge from simple beginnings that feature repeating patterns of evolutionary development
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News Update/Commentary
Barnacle bends shape to fend off warm-water sea snails on the move
November 9, 2023 Science Daily
Research shows changing predator-prey dynamics as sea temperatures rise
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News Update/Commentary
Desert birds lay larger eggs when they have more helpers
November 9, 2023 Science Daily
Desert birds lay larger eggs when they have more helpers to feed their chicks, new research shows.
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Ray Kurzweil Predicts: The “Singularity” by 2045
November 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Exopsychology, the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
November 8, 2023 Psychology Today
Looking outside ourselves could give fresh insights inside ourselves.
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Eating meat may not have ‘made us human,' contrary to popular theory
November 8, 2023 Live Science
Meat-eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists.
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Brain and body are more intertwined than we knew
November 8, 2023 Nature
A host of disorders once thought to be nothing to do with the brain are, in fact, tightly coupled to nervous-system activity.
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These incredible images are the first from dark-energy telescope Euclid
November 8, 2023 Nature
A spiral galaxy and the Horsehead Nebula are among the first pictures released by ESA’s Universe-mapping observatory.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
An evolutionary continuum from nucleated dwarf galaxies to star clusters
November 8, 2023 Nature, v.623, p.296-300
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Ultra-compact oddities are galaxies stripped of stars
November 8, 2023 Nature
Observations have shown that some dwarf galaxies lose their stars through interactions with more massive galaxies. The dense nuclei that remain are ultra-compact dwarf galaxies, the origin of which has long been a subject of debate.
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News Update/Commentary
How animals get their stripes and spots
November 8, 2023 Science Daily
New research helps explain how sharp patterns form on zebras, leopards, tropical fish and other creatures. Their findings could inform the development of new high-tech materials and drugs.
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A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins
November 8, 2023 New Scientist
The enduring mystery of dark matter has led some physicists to propose that it was forged in a distinct moment of cosmic creation, potentially transforming our view of the early universe
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Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA
November 8, 2023 Nature
Highly edited strain survives and replicates despite containing 7.5 artificial chromosomes.
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Christian Chemist Trounces 10 Leading OoL Researchers
November 8, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
James Tour’s easy challenge to origin-of-life leaders is a total victory against chemical evolution
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Where Did the Floodwaters Go?
November 8, 2023 New Creation
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists one step closer to unravelling the fundamental building blocks of life
November 8, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have engineered a chromosome entirely from scratch that will contribute to the production of the world's first synthetic yeast.
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Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Place in the Evolutionary Tree?
November 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Origin of Life Challenge
November 7, 2023 YouTube
Results + Huge announcement
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Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Way Into a Tidy Evolutionary Tree?
November 7, 2023 Mind Matters
New finds in genetics and neuroscience both shed light and deepen the puzzle of the almost “alien" species
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News Update/Commentary
Genome sequencing reveals why songbirds are larger in colder climates
November 7, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have unlocked the genetic basis underlying the remarkable variation in body size observed in song sparrows, one of North America's most familiar and beloved songbirds.
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Enceladus has All the Raw Materials for Life
November 7, 2023 Universe Today
Saturn's moon Enceladus isn't just bright and beautiful. It has an ocean under all that ice that has chemicals necessary for life.
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New microfossils suggest earlier rise in complex life
November 7, 2023 Pennsylvania State University
Window to the past
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News Update/Commentary
Previous genetic association studies involving people with European ancestry may be inaccurate
November 7, 2023 Science Daily
Failing to account for mixed genetic lineages could lead to inaccuracies
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Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist
November 7, 2023 Nature
This is the third high-profile retraction for Ranga Dias. Researchers worry the controversy is damaging the field’s reputation.
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Your Nose Smells in Stereo
November 7, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientific understanding of olfactory information content reaching the brain has just doubled
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Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually?
November 7, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not
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Evolutionists predict a super bottleneck. Reality tells us we'd all be dead.
November 7, 2023 YouTube
A new paper claims that the pre-human population went through an extremely small and extremely long population bottleneck. Starting about one million years ago, the population was reduced to at most 1,280 “breeding individuals"
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Robert Sapolsky is Wrong
November 6, 2023 Quillette
A new book about free will fails to offer an original argument or make a convincing case.
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How to keep wildcats wild: ancient DNA offers fresh insights
November 6, 2023 Nature
Ancient-genomics studies are boosting efforts to save Scotland’s endangered ‘Highland tigers’ -- and keep them separate from domestic cats.
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Giant black hole is one of the earliest ever seen -- with clues for how these weird objects form
November 6, 2023 Nature
Data from the James Webb and Chandra space telescopes reveal a massive object in a galaxy that formed less than half a billion years after the Big Bang.
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The mind-body problem is ruining our health
November 6, 2023 iai News
Medicine’s Cartesian struggles
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The Moon Is Even Older Than Scientists Thought
November 6, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
How did the Moon form and how old is it? The most precise dating yet of Earth’s largest satellite found that it is much older than previously thought.
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Crabs evolved to live away from the ocean up to 17 different times
November 6, 2023 New Scientist
Unlike most other animal groups that left the sea behind, crabs have done it many times throughout their evolutionary history -- and some crab lineages have even reversed course back to the ocean
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How big is science’s fake-paper problem?
November 6, 2023 Nature
An unpublished analysis suggests that there are hundreds of thousands of bogus ‘paper-mill’ articles lurking in the literature.
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Speciation Is Not Evolution
November 6, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Clearing up the misconceptions between species and biblical kinds
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Salty Sweat in a Desert Plant
November 6, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Deep Time Leads to Absurd Conclusion
November 6, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The circularity of assuming Darwinism and deep time slams headlong against logic
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Is Intelligent Design Compatible with Evolutionary Theory?
November 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
A Theologian Weighs In
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The Superior Programming that Makes Plants Look Smart
November 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Frogs were Florida's first-known vertebrates from the Caribbean
November 6, 2023 Science Daily
A new fossil study shows that frogs from the genus Eleutherodactylus are geologically the oldest Caribbean vertebrates to be found in Florida. They made the journey 20 million years ago, when much of Florida was still underwater.
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“Why I Went to WAR with Stephen Hawking!” Leonard Susskind
November 5, 2023 YouTube
What's really going on in a black hole? Why are there so many theories of everything? Did Leonard Susskind, one of the fathers of string theory, ever feel like an impostor? And why did he fight with Stephen Hawking?
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Blog Post
Free Will and the Sapolsky Paradox
November 5, 2023
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A Guide to the James Webb Telescope's View of the Universe
November 5, 2023 New York Times
The James Webb telescope is a giant leap in the history of stargazing.
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Can Evolution Create Free Will? A Neurologist Says Yes
November 5, 2023 Mind Matters
Could the impersonal natural force of evolution shape hierarchies in the human cerebral cortex so that we have the free will that it does not itself have?