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The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works?
January 17, 2024 Nature
There are dozens of theories of how the brain produces conscious experience, and a new type of study is testing some of them head-to-head.
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Can quantum hints in the brain revive a radical consciousness theory?
January 17, 2024 New Scientist
With anaesthetics and brain organoids, we are finally testing the idea that quantum effects explain consciousness -- and the early results suggest this long-derided idea may have been misconstrued
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Universal process that wires the brain is consistent across species
January 17, 2024 Live Science
A new modeling study helps confirm that key connections in the brain are formed in the same way across different animal species, likely including humans.
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News Update/Commentary
Machine learning reveals sources of heterogeneity among cells in our bodies
January 17, 2024 Science Daily
The findings of this research are expected to have far-reaching effects, such as improvement in the efficacy of chemotherapy treatments, or set a new paradigm in the study of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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Incompleteness Theorems Point to a Hidden Realm
January 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Leave no stone unturned in search for an explanation of consciousness
January 17, 2024 New Scientist
A solid theory of human consciousness eludes us, which is why seemingly fringe ideas such as those that rely on quantum effects in the brain are still worth pursuing
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More Fossils Show Stasis, Not Evolution
January 17, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Where’s the evolution? In these creatures, fossils show complex parts already working.
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In Prestigious Journal, Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction
January 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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No, the James Webb Space Telescope hasn’t found life out there -- at least not yet
January 16, 2024 ars technica
There is a robust debate ongoing in the scientific community.
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Cryo-microscopy reveals nano-sized copy machine implicated in origin of life
January 16, 2024 Science Daily
RNA is thought to have sparked the origin of life by self-copying. Researchers have now revealed the structure of an ‘RNA copy machine' through cryo-EM. This breakthrough sheds light on a primordial RNA world.
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Feeding mode of ancient vertebrate tested for first time
January 16, 2024 Science Daily
A feeding method of the extinct jawless heterostracans, among the oldest of vertebrates, has been examined and dismissed by scientists, using fresh techniques.
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Why Did Our Universe Begin?
January 16, 2024 YouTube
That the universe began seems astonishing. What brought it about? What forces were involved? How did the laws of nature generate the vast expanse of billions of galaxies of billions of stars and planets in the structures that we see today?
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Fighting Pseudoscience with Empathy? Try a Little Humility First ...
January 16, 2024 Mind Matters
The accusation of “pseudoscience,” under the current science regime, has often become little more than an elite-driven smear against inconvenient data
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News Update/Commentary
Pacific kelp forests are far older that we thought
January 16, 2024 Science Daily
32-million-year-old fossil holdfasts show kelp far predate animals we see in kelp forests today
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The Sense of Smell Seems Almost Magical
January 16, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Smell is far more complex than believed, new research shows
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Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized
January 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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How a forgotten physicist’s discovery broke the symmetry of the Universe
January 15, 2024 Nature
When Rosemary Brown identified a strange particle decay 75 years ago, it set events in motion that would rewrite the laws of physics.
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Was the Big Bang a white hole?
January 15, 2024 iai News
The timeless origin of the universe
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Does the Brain Constrain the Mind Instead of Creating It?
January 15, 2024 Mind Matters
There is no systematic, science-based reason today to think that’s not true and plenty of evidence suggests that it is
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New book ‘Eve' dispels myths about human evolution and details female body's role
January 15, 2024 YouTube
Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? A new book argues for a better understanding of our origins with critical implications for our present.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Non-avian dinosaur eggshell calcite can contain ancient, endogenous amino acids
January 15, 2024 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.365, p.1-20
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Do People Who Speak Different Languages Think Differently?
January 15, 2024 Mind Matters
For centuries, linguists found that an intriguing, attractive idea but there is no clear evidence for it
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Internet Pollution -- If You Tell a Lie Long Enough ...
January 15, 2024 Mind Matters
LLMs can generate falsehoods faster than humans can correct them
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Key moment in the evolution of life on Earth captured in fossils
January 15, 2024 EurekAlert!
Curtin-led research has for the first time precisely dated some of the oldest fossils of complex multicellular life in the world, helping to track a pivotal moment in the history of Earth when the seas began teeming with new lifeforms
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Big Bang Cosmology Still in Crisis
January 15, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The lumpiness problem keeps getting worse, and most of reality remains unknown to science.
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Evidence of Common Design in a Magnetic Compass
January 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
in bats and other animals
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Can Animals Evolve Fast Enough to Keep Up with Climate Change?
January 15, 2024 Hakai magazine
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Why scientists are mesmerized by the multiverse
January 15, 2024 Cosmic Log
The multiverse may be a cool (and convenient) concept for comic books and superhero movies, but why do scientists take it seriously?
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Why Science Points to God More Than Ever
January 15, 2024 Word on Fire
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Religion Is Still Evil
January 14, 2024 YouTube
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Can There Really Be an Ultimate Happiness Machine?
January 14, 2024 Mind Matters
Technology can do so much. Can it really provide an answer to the eternal human quest for happiness?
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A good journal breaks bad
January 14, 2024 Science-Based Medicine
The latest report from the American Academy of Pediatrics is filled with misinformation and missing key articles that support the well-researched conclusion that there is no legitimate evidence of negative health effects of glyphosate.
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Wild Hypothesis Suggests Insect Wings Arose from Gills
January 14, 2024 Science Alert
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Is Epicurus Smiling?
January 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Free Will: Essence and Nature
January 13, 2024 YouTube
Why is free will one of the hardest problems in philosophy? What are the core issues of free will and why do they seem to defy resolution? Most philosophers are pretty sure they have the answer -- but their answers all differ!
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New computer will mimic human brain -- and I'm kinda scared
January 13, 2024 YouTube
A lab in Australia is building a new supercomputer that will for the first time both physically resemble a human brain, and perform as many operations, about 228 trillion per second.
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Ancient DNA reveals first known case of sex-development disorder
January 12, 2024 Nature
Researchers identified six ancient humans with chromosomal conditions, including the earliest case of Turner syndrome.
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Is Consciousness an Illusion?
January 12, 2024 YouTube
Is consciousness something special in the universe, its own category, irreducible to physical laws, a carrier of meaning and purpose? Or is consciousness a mere artifact of the brain, a by-product of evolution, a superstition
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True Spiritual Awakening
January 12, 2024 YouTube
on Scripture Meditation & God's Voice
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God Is Spirit
January 12, 2024 YouTube
an important divine attribute in this second installment of the new animation series examining the attributes of God
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What Archaeology Reveals about the Historicity of the Exodus
January 12, 2024 YouTube
What the science of archeology reveal about the historicity of the exodus of Jews from Egypt. Is the exodus a myth? Or is there evidence it really occurred? This session took place at the 2023 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith
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Valley of lost cities found hidden in the Amazon
January 12, 2024 Independent (UK)
Cluster of lost cities at the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon rainforest is uncovered by archeologists
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A Darwinian Argument for a Global Government
January 12, 2024 Mind Matters
The evolutionary researchers worry that we have not evolved to be worthy of a global government and will face ecological ruin in consequence.
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News Update/Commentary
Study uncovers potential origins of life in ancient hot springs
January 12, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists found that by mixing hydrogen, bicarbonate, and iron-rich magnetite under conditions mimicking relatively mild hydrothermal vent results in the formation of a spectrum of organic molecules, most notably including fatty acids
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Evolution Doesn’t Explain Cowbirds and Other Brood Parasites
January 12, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Why do some creatures leave their young for others to raise?
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Update on Cambrian Bryozoans
January 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Tour-Cronin Debate: Does Charisma Carry the Day?
January 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Biologist Michael Denton Explores the Miracle of Man
January 11, 2024 YouTube
Renowned biologist discusses “the miracle of man," the topic of his recent book by the same name. This lecture was presented as part of the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith.
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Is Mathematics Eternal?
January 11, 2024 YouTube
Mathematics is like nothing else. The truths of math seem to be unrelated to anything else -- independent of human beings, independent of the universe. The sum of 2 + 3 = 5 would be true even if there were never any human beings!
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Deciphering the Hidden Meanings of Cave Art
January 11, 2024 Mind Matters
In many cases, there are more dots and lines than animals, which suggests some sort of early information system