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Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain -- here's how they move
April 16, 2024 New Scientist
Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhythmically along the seabed without a central nervous system
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How did life on Earth begin? Cracks may have been the key.
April 16, 2024 Washington Post
In a groundbreaking experiment in the early 1950s, a scientist tried to re-create the conditions of early Earth in a test tube.
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News Update/Commentary
Seed ferns: Plants experimented with complex leaf vein networks 201 million years ago
April 16, 2024 Science Daily
Flowering plant-type leaf veins died out and re-evolved several times in the course of the Earth's history
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A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy
April 16, 2024 New Scientist
A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever spotted, and its strange companion star could help explain how it got so huge
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National Geographic’s Article Misses the Boat
April 16, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Is the account of the Ark of Noah plausible?
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Intact Dinosaur Molecules Found
April 16, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A skeptic’s own lab proves that amino acids came from the original dinosaur
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New Study Reveals Secrets of Honey Bee Waggle Dance
April 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ernst Haeckel: Evolutionary Huckster
April 16, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
The Creation Podcast: Episode 71
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Isaac Newton: Laws of motion from the law of God
April 15, 2024 YouTube
on the Scientific Revolution
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Is There Existence Outside of Time?
April 15, 2024 YouTube
Is it possible to exist outside of time? Are we just static objects, or do we have to continually reassemble ourselves in order to exist? This is a question that will have to be answered if we are ever to understand the origins of life.
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How logic alone may prove that time doesn’t exist
April 15, 2024 The Conversation
Einstein’s theory of relativity, for example, suggests the universe is a static, four-dimensional block that contains all of space and time simultaneously -- with no special “now”.
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Building a Scientific Narrative
April 15, 2024 The Scientist
A strong narrative is as integral a part of science writing as it is for any other form of communication.
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Did Warm-Bloodedness Pave the Path to Sentience?
April 15, 2024 MIT Press Reader
An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”
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The mistake at the heart of the physics of time
April 15, 2024 iai News
Why is time so weird?
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Conference;
Challenging the standard cosmological model
April 15, 2024
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Extreme genome scrambling in marine planktonic Oikopleura dioica cryptic species
April 15, 2024 Genome Research
Genome structural variations within species are rare. How selective constraints preserve gene order and chromosome structure is a central question in evolutionary biology that remains unsolved.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Microbial Diversity and Open Questions about the Deep Tree of Life
April 15, 2024 Genome Biology and Evolution, v.16, n.4
the transformative impact and inherent limitations of metagenomics and single-cell genomics on our understanding of microbial diversity and their integration into the Tree of Life
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Could JWST solve cosmology’s big mystery? Physicists debate Universe-expansion data
April 15, 2024 Nature
Results from the telescope could help to end a long-standing disagreement over the rate of cosmic expansion. But scientists say more measurements are needed.
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Bees Master Complex Tasks Through Social Interaction
April 15, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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The sounds of science -- a symphony for many instruments and voices
April 15, 2024 Physica Scripta, v.99
Despite its amazing quantitative successes and contributions to revolutionary technologies, physics currently faces many unsolved mysteries
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Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals
April 15, 2024 New Scientist
One species of nematode worm turns into a kin-devouring nightmare if it grows up in a crowded environment with a poor diet
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We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology
April 15, 2024 New Scientist
Mounting evidence suggests our galaxy sits at the centre of an expanse of nothingness 2 billion light years wide. If so, we may have to rethink our understanding of the universe
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution's recipe book
April 15, 2024 Science Daily
How ‘copy paste' errors cooked up the animal kingdom
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Ignorance of Evolutionary Theory as a “Superpower”
April 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Gould’s Panda Argument Is a Problem for Atheistic and Agnostic Views
April 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
April 14, 2024 The Guardian
Meeting at London’s Royal Society will scrutinise basic model first formulated in 1922 that universe is a vast, even expanse with no notable features
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Does Brain Science Eliminate Free Will?
April 14, 2024 YouTube
Who’s the boss, me or my brain? Brain data does not favor free will. In the famous Libet experiment, my brain makes decisions prior to my conscious sense of making that decision -- brain activity precedes personal awareness.
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Archaeology Related to the Judges -- Othniel, Ehud and Deborah
April 14, 2024 YouTube
a 350-year archaeological and historical journey through the book of Judges with Dr. Scott Stripling. The Judges era was a time of foreign subjugation, moral decay, and idolatry.
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Harvard Professor Claims UFOs Could Travel to Earth Via ‘Alternate Dimensions'
April 12, 2024 Red State
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First fractal molecule in nature recently discovered by accident
April 12, 2024 earth.com
a microbial enzyme that spontaneously assembles into a pattern known as the Sierpinski triangle
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Hemichordate Body Plan and Lifecycle Goes Back to the Cambrian Explosion
April 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Europa’s Ocean Might Lack the Ingredients for Life
April 12, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The lack of volcanism and tectonic activity on Europa’s seafloor might hinder the moon’s potential to host living organisms.
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Brightest gamma ray burst of all time emerged from collapsing star
April 12, 2024 Science
JWST spies an expected supernova but a puzzling lack of heavy elements
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“Lived Experience” Is Science’s Blind Spot
April 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mind, Matter, and Intelligent Design
April 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human family’s newest species
April 12, 2024 New Scientist
Five years ago, a fossil found in the Philippines was determined to be from a new species of hominin called Homo luzonensis. Since then, we’ve learned a bit more about the newest member of the human family
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Expelled!
April 12, 2024 Skeptic
Kevin Miller offers a solution to the science-religion conflict while exposing the truth behind Ben Stein’s anti-evolution film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, on which he worked
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News Update/Commentary
How seaweed became multicellular
April 12, 2024 Science Daily
many multicellular-enabling genes had viral origins. This study is the first to investigate macroalgal evolution through the lens of genomics.
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Why the Cosmos?
April 11, 2024 YouTube
The search for meaning and purpose is humanity’s never-ending quest. Some say that ‘how’ questions belong to the realm of science, but ‘why’ questions do not. Yet extraordinary scientific discoveries offer radical powers of explanation.
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Can We Explain Cosmos and Consciousness?
April 11, 2024 YouTube
The existence of both cosmos and consciousness, each in its own way, constitute deep problems, perhaps grand mysteries beyond human knowing. Some claim that the two mysteries can only be solved in parallel, together, not in series, alone.
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Arno Allan Penzias (1933-2024)
April 11, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6692, p.162
Radio astronomer who discovered the Big Bang’s echo
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Teach philosophy of science
April 11, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6692, p.141
Much is being made about the erosion of public trust in science.
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Neanderthals were more ‘human’ than we think
April 11, 2024 Cosmos Magazine
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Was God a Bacterium?
April 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mastering Data Falsification: New Course Using Design Inference to Effectively Falsify Data
April 11, 2024 substack
Data falsification, if exposed, can destroy your academic career. This new course shows how to use the design inference to cover your tracks when falsifying data.
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The Tail of Man’s Supposed Ancestors
April 11, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae
April 11, 2024 New Scientist
A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to algal cells -- an event so rare that there are only three other known cases
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Exciting times for evolutionary biology
April 11, 2024 Nature Ecology & Evolution, v.8, p.593-594
Evolutionary biologists should be proud of recent progress in their broad field. We highlight some developments in fundamental questions and the applied use of evolution.
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Flood Expert Gives 5 Evidences for a Global Flood
April 10, 2024 YouTube
Join fluvial geomorphologist, Ron Neller, for a fascinating discussion of just some of the evidence that, over a 30-year period, eventually led him to conclude that there has, indeed, been a global flood on Earth -- as the Bible describes.
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Language doesn’t perfectly describe consciousness. Can math?
April 10, 2024 Vox
Even the most poetic words can’t capture the full richness of our minds. So scientists are turning to numbers.