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Rooting out scientific misconduct
January 11, 2024 Science v.383, n.6679, p.131
Scientific misconduct is an issue rife with controversy, from its forms and definitions to the policies that guide how allegations are handled.
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An unprecedented supramolecular structure brings new complexities to life
January 11, 2024 Chemistry World
The transcription factor FOXP3’s interactions with DNA present more evidence of the importance of disorder
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How to Strip Useless Darwinese from Science Articles
January 11, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s a bad habit that adds nothing. Time to acid-wash the Darwinese from science and get back to empirical rigor.
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Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard
January 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Another War of Words
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Freethought Matters
January 11, 2024 YouTube
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Biologist Explores the Miracle of Man
January 11, 2024 YouTube
This lecture was presented as part of the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith.
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The Amyloid Hypothesis: Rewriting Life’s Origin Story
January 11, 2024 Sci Tech Daily
The question of how living organisms emerged from non-living matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in science. Despite numerous theories, a conclusive explanation remains elusive.
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News Update/Commentary
Even the oldest eukaryote fossils show dazzling diversity and complexity
January 11, 2024 Science Daily
The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia's Northern Territory; it'll set again in another 19 hours. The only hint of life is some scum in a few puddles and ponds. And among it lives a diverse microbial community of our ancient ancestors.
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Oldest known fossilized skin is 21 million years older than previous examples
January 11, 2024 Science Daily
It's the oldest example of preserved epidermis, the outermost layer of skin in terrestrial reptiles, birds, and mammals, which was an important evolutionary adaptation in the transition to life on land.
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This is the oldest fossilized reptile skin ever found -- it pre-dates the dinosaurs
January 11, 2024 Nature
Permian-period petroleum helped to preserve minute scraps of pebbly hide that probably belonged to a lizard-like creature.
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New Origin Story for Tyrannosaurus Rex Suggested by Fossil
January 11, 2024 New York Times
Researchers say the species they named Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis predated the dinosaur era’s great predator.
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Even the oldest eukaryote fossils show dazzling diversity and complexity
January 11, 2024 University of California, Santa Barbara
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Anti-Hate Group Exposes “Science Educator” Professor Dave
January 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Canary Mission
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You may have a higher risk of MS and other diseases if you’re descended from these ancient people
January 10, 2024 Science
“Tour de force” ancient DNA study ties disease risk, physical traits in modern Europeans to Bronze Age herders
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The Evolution of Bats’ Super Immunity
January 10, 2024 The Scientist
Researchers generated complete genomes of two important bat species and explored their immune- and cancer-related genes.
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Why huge ape Gigantopithecus went extinct up to 295,000 years ago
January 10, 2024 New Scientist
The mysterious giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki died out up to 295,000 years ago, after failing to adapt to a changing climate and the food variability that went with it
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Ancient DNA reveals origins of multiple sclerosis in Europe
January 10, 2024 Nature
A huge cache of ancient genomes spanning tens of thousands of years reveals the roots of traits in modern Europeans.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark
January 10, 2024 Nature, v.625, p.329-337
we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from 100 skeletons spanning 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Denmark and integrated these with proxies for diet, mobility and vegetation cover
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Why did the world’s biggest ape go extinct?
January 10, 2024 Nature
The 300-kilogram primate couldn’t adapt when a changing environment forced a dietary shift.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki
January 10, 2024 Nature
The largest ever primate and one of the largest of the southeast Asian megafauna persisted in China from about 2.0 million years until the late middle Pleistocene when it became extinct.
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Observing mammalian cerebellum development through an evolutionary lens
January 10, 2024 Nature
Tracking the gene-expression profiles of individual cerebellar cells during development in humans, mice and opossums revealed evolutionarily conserved as well as species-specific cellular and molecular features.
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The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery -- it’s empathy
January 10, 2024 ars technica
Evidence shows that shoving data in peoples’ faces doesn’t work to change minds.
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Systems Biology Cracks Life’s Engineered Intricacies
January 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
A Report from CELS
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Discovering the Real Adam and Eve!
January 10, 2024 YouTube
This presentation is about affirming both the reality and the biblical importance of Adam and Eve. Christians are split between the liberal camp, who tend to brush off Adam and Eve and the biblical camp who takes Adam and Eve seriously,
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AI Will Disrupt Everything -- But Forget the Robot Apocalypse!
January 10, 2024 Mind Matters
It will be a slow, steady, measured disruption, like the one the printing press created
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Engineers Follow Inspiring Creatures
January 10, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
From tiny to mighty, living creatures inspire human technology
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New research sheds light on an old fossil solving an evolutionary mystery
January 10, 2024 Science Daily
Picrodontids -- an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs -- are not primates as previously believed.
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Study on lamprey embryos sheds light on the evolutionary origin of vertebrate head
January 10, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists study developing lamprey embryos to clarify the origin of vertebrate head, paving the way to a better understanding of ancestral vertebrates
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Scientists discover water's existence in building blocks of solar system
January 10, 2024 WION
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Scientists discover mysterious ‘islands’ in seas of Saturn’s moon are actually organic matter
January 9, 2024 Independent (UK)
Researchers previously thought these were phantom islands caused by waves
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Mysterious radio burst came from group of galaxies in distant universe
January 9, 2024 New Scientist
The Hubble Space Telescope has pinpointed the origin of the most distant known fast radio burst, which hit our planet in 2022
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A Biochemist Begins To Sense the Limits of Materialism
January 9, 2024 Mind Matters
William Reville seems both confident and uncertain at the same time that science can crack the problem of consciousness
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The Hidden Figure Behind Neo-Darwinism -- Hugo de Vries
January 9, 2024 Answers in Genesis
An examination of occult Marxist indoctrination in our schools
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Evolution’s Chicken and Egg Problem -- Explained
January 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price
January 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?
January 9, 2024 YouTube
For the brain and mind to be the same thing, mind must be entirely the output of brain. This means the mind must be the brain -- literally, identically. If so, then the physical world is likely all that exists.
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“There’s no evidence for aliens!”
January 9, 2024 YouTube
In this clip, she walks us through the science and the speculations around aliens. But it's not just about little green men or sci-fi movies -- she's digging deep into what finding alien life really means for us and our understanding of life itself.
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Evolutionary feedback from the environment shapes mechanisms that generate genome variation
January 9, 2024 The Journal of Physiology
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News Update/Commentary
Largest diversity study of ‘magic mushrooms' investigates the evolution of psychoactive psilocybin production
January 9, 2024 Science Daily
Psilocybe arose much earlier than previously thought -- about 65 million years ago. The analysis revealed two distinct gene patterns, suggesting two independent acquisitions of psilocybin in its evolutionary history.
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Meteorite Analysis Shows Earth's Building Blocks Contained Water
January 9, 2024 Cal Tech
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New research on microbes expands the known limits for life on Earth and beyond
January 9, 2024 Stanford News
Stanford study on microbes in extremely salty water suggests life may survive conditions previously thought to be uninhabitable. The research widens the possibilities for where life may be found throughout our solar system
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Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul
January 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Cognitive paradoxes and brain design
January 8, 2024 Journal of Multiscale Neuroscience, v.3, n.1, p.36-52
It is generally agreed amongst philosophers and neuroscientists that the main obstacle between the science of the brain and the conscious nature of the mind is rooted in an objective-subjective dichotomy.
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How we remember the dead by their digital afterlives
January 8, 2024 Nature
REVIEW: The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality by Timothy Recuber (NYU Press, 2023) | See Also Amazon
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How I fuse Western science with Traditional Knowledge
January 8, 2024 Nature
Indigenous Canadian ecologist Jennifer Grenz abandons colonial restoration dogma to reshape land systems according to community needs.
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The Theory of Evolution in the context of the divine revelations
January 8, 2024 Australasian Muslim Times
the Darwin Theory was considered as an offence on human dignity by scholars of the monotheistic religions. As a counter-reaction the monotheistic religions developed an antagonistic approach to anything that represented any notion of “evolution”
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Chaos theory and the end of physics
January 8, 2024 iai News
How disorder could unify our theories
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The UFO Movement Sees Otherworldly Growth
January 8, 2024 Wall Street Journal
Believers come out of the shadows after congressional hearings; ‘we’re not the people with the tinfoil hats anymore’
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Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging
January 8, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Biologists discovered that mitochondria in different tissues talk to each other to repair injured cells. When their signal fails, the biological clock starts winding down.
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How did the bushpig cross the strait?
January 8, 2024 Science Daily
A great puzzle in African mammal biogeography solved by genomics