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Horrifying parasitic worm snatches its host's genes to control its mind
October 19, 2023 Live Science
Horsehair worms flood their hosts' minds with proteins made from copied chunks of their own genomes.
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Why are bed bugs so difficult to deal with?
October 19, 2023 BBC
Bed bugs around the world are developing resistance to insecticides, and infestations are making headlines. How do we deal with them?
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil adds vital piece to bat evolution puzzle
October 19, 2023 Science Daily
Bats may have lived in caves and used soundwaves to navigate much earlier than first thought.
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Can Moths Sense Earth's Magnetic Field?
October 19, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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White Supremacists Adore Darwin
October 19, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Shocking quotes from white supremacists reveal genocidal intentions based on Darwin’s worldview
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I’m Baffled by Lee Cronin, and I’m Not Alone
October 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The feasibility of artificial consciousness through the lens of neuroscience
October 18, 2023 Trends in Neurosciences
Large language models (LLMs) can produce text that leaves the impression that one may be interacting with a conscious agent.
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After Death -- A Riveting Glimpse of the Hereafter
October 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomes
October 18, 2023 Université de Genève
By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, a UNIGE team has traced the history of migrations between Sapiens and Neanderthals.
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News Update/Commentary
Genome at the chromosome level decoded
October 18, 2023 Science Daily
Scientific milestone provides deeper insights into the evolution and biology of Octopus vulgaris
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News Update/Commentary
Study elucidates evolution of mosquitoes and their hosts
October 18, 2023 Science Daily
Study creates a mosquito family tree to better understand disease transmission and host choice.
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Why free will doesn't exist
October 18, 2023 New Scientist
It's hard to let go of the idea that free will exists, but neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky says that society starts to look very different once you do
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Darwin’s Airplane Made Itself
October 18, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Article on insect flight ignores requirements and grants superpowers to evolution
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Disentangling ID from Creationism
October 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Words for Wednesday!
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Video
The Illusion of Free Will
October 18, 2023 YouTube
His book discusses the neurobiology behind the illusion of free will, and he effectively demolished claims of numerous philosophers, including Dennett and others, that some magic occurs between the level of neurons and the level of the full brain
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Mega penguins: These are the largest penguins to have ever lived
October 18, 2023 New Scientist
No penguin alive today can compare with some of the extinct giants that once roamed the planet, including Kumimanu fordycei, Petradyptes stonehousei and Palaeeudyptes klekowskii
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When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together
October 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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More perfect than we imagined: A physicist’s view of life
October 17, 2023 YouTube
Some phenomena are accessible only in sophisticated laboratories, but some are things we see (literally) everyday, such as the fact that the sky gets dark at night. Among the most striking phenomena is the emergence of life from inanimate matter.
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We don't have free will
October 17, 2023 MSN
Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes
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Can selection tie evolution more closely to physics?
October 17, 2023 ars technica
New papers claim to link evolution to other physics, but neither really succeeds.
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Conscious Experience May Occur Near Time of Birth
October 17, 2023 Mind Matters
Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development
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News Update/Commentary
New study reveals similarities between chimpanzee and human language development
October 17, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists examining the evolutionary roots of language say they've discovered chimp vocal development is not far off from humans.
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News Update/Commentary
Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self
October 17, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers found that this came at the cost of being hybridized with another orchid species adapted to being pollinated by the wasp. The finding showcases how plants in ecological relationships adapt to changing circumstances.
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Reproducibility Debunked as a Myth
October 17, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Human choice about what data to focus on biases results, says major study
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Book
The Best Argument for God
October, 2023 Sophia Institute Press
Flynn clearly identifies what is at stake and then provides you with cogent, accessible, yet potent defenses to counter those arguments that atheists routinely make to justify their claim that there is no God. | See Also Amazon
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Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design
October 16, 2023
but also a moral one
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Psychology: When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together ...
October 16, 2023 Mind Matters
When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes
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Peer-reviewed Paper
On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems
October 16, 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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The Secret to Unlocking One of the Universe’s Greatest Mysteries
October 16, 2023 New York Times
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Scientists and philosophers identify nature's missing evolutionary law
October 16, 2023 phys.org
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Youthful Mercury: Still Cooling and Shrinking
October 16, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Forecasting the future of artificial intelligence with machine learning-based link prediction in an exponentially growing knowledge network
October 16, 2023 Nature Machine Intelligence
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Scientists and philosophers identify nature's missing evolutionary law
October 16, 2023 phys.org
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Seven wonders of the Milky Way: An astronomer’s guide to the galaxy
October 16, 2023 New Scientist
Join us on an exhilarating tour of the Milky Way’s most spectacular sights -- from a monstrous black hole and a river of dark matter to a diamond planet, primordial stars and a cosmic hall of mirrors
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Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson
October 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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How the Venus Flytrap Captures Its Prey
October 16, 2023 The Scientist
Scientists used CRISPR-Cas9 for the first time in a carnivorous plant to prove the role of two ion channels in closing the Venus flytrap’s trap.
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News Update/Commentary
Extinct ape gets a facelift, 12 million years later
October 16, 2023 Science Daily
New study reconstructs the face of Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a key fossil in the story of great ape and human evolution
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Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs
October 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
Can a Chatbot Be Aware That It’s Not Aware?
October 15, 2023
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Neanderthals Were As Intelligent as Homo sapiens
October 15, 2023 Sci Tech Daily
20-Year Study Reveals
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Does the Evidence for Our Universe's Fine-Tuning Mean Anything?
October 14, 2023 Mind Matters
Why is a divine Mind not “scientific” if the evidence points in that direction?
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The Human Mind Has No History
October 14, 2023 Mind Matters
There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history
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The Skinny on Detecting Life with the JWST
October 13, 2023 Physics Magazine
Using data from the spaceborne JWST, researchers can infer the contents of exoplanet atmospheres -- with potential implications for the habitability of these worlds.
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Ancient human species settled African highlands 2 million years ago
October 13, 2023 Cosmos Magazine
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Will the assembly theory imbroglio do anything for evolution?
October 13, 2023 Chemistry World
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Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design
October 13, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Scientists begin building AI for scientific discovery using tech behind ChatGPT
October 13, 2023 University of Cambridge
An international team of scientists, including from the University of Cambridge, have launched a new research collaboration that will leverage the same technology behind ChatGPT to build an AI-powered tool for scientific discovery.
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NASA’s Psyche mission is on its way to this huge metal asteroid
October 13, 2023 Nature
The space rock -- possibly the exposed core of a planet that didn’t finish forming -- could reveal details about the Solar System’s origins.
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NASA launches spacecraft to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid
October 13, 2023 Science
Is the asteroid Psyche the core of a destroyed protoplanet -- or something stranger?
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Video
Exploring Feathered Dinosaurs
October 13, 2023 YouTube
Creationists are polarized about dinosaurs found with fossilized feathers. Two trained paleontologists will hopefully bring some resolution to the creationist community.