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Untangling entanglement
June 29, 2023 Aeon
Why does the quantum world behave in that strange, spooky way? Here’s our simple, four-step explanation (no magic needed)
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Not teaching evolution is an injustice
June 29, 2023 Science, v.380, n.6652
Since April, India has been roiled by controversy around the excision of several topics, including evolution and the periodic table, from school textbooks (up to grade 10) by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
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Why we should not be afraid of AI
June 29, 2023 Tech Talks
This is an unusual article about AI. We will not talk about the intricacies of machine learning or the structure of neural networks. Instead, as a doctor, I will tell you about you and the real reason of your future death.
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The hallucination of consciousness
June 29, 2023 iai News
Is consciousness in the brain?
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Microbiome (and virome)
June 29, 2023 Creation Ministries International
God’s good created bacteria (and viruses) inside us
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Is math real? The answer has major practical and philosophical implications
June 29, 2023 Big Think
Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?
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Solving the Mysterious Appearances of Duck-billed Dinosaurs
June 29, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Sponges and their microbiome: Interacting for millions of years
June 29, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers demonstrate that sponges react to changes in their microbiome with extensive modifications in gene regulation.
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How the motion of DNA controls gene activity
June 29, 2023 Science Daily
Despite being densely packed to fit into the nucleus, chromosomes storing our genetic information are always in motion. This allows specific regions to come into contact and thereby activate a gene.
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News Update/Commentary
Virus-like transposons wage war on the species barrier
June 29, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have known for decades that genes can be transferred from one species to another, both in animals and plants. However, the mechanism of how such an unlikely event occurs remained unknown.
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Cambrian Explosion Crisis Worsens
June 29, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If evolutionary ancestors of complex animals had existed, they would have been preserved. They weren’t there.
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ScienceAlert Vindicates My Findings About Human “Tails”
June 29, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
They are NOT an evolutionary atavism
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Sociogenomics: The intricate science of how genetics influences sociology
June 29, 2023 Science Daily
Studying how genes influence human behavior is an enormously complicated undertaking. Socio-genomicists are harnessing massive banks of genetic data and complex data science analysis techniques to better understand the link.
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On the Relationship between Design and Evolution
June 28, 2023 Religions, v.14, n.7
A longstanding question in science and religion is whether standard evolutionary models are compatible with the claim that the world was designed.
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Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple behavioral science studies
June 28, 2023 The College Fix
Shockwaves are moving throughout the behavioral science community after distinguished Professor Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School was recently accused of falsifying data in multiple studies.
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Faith-based beliefs are inescapable in science
June 28, 2023 Big Think
We should acknowledge that there are faith-based myths running deep in science's canon.
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Cuttlefish camouflage: More than meets the eye
June 28, 2023 Science Daily
High resolution video coupled with artificial intelligence reveals that camouflaging in cuttlefish is more complex than previously thought
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Evolutionists Fudge Evidence to Glorify Darwin
June 28, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The flimsiest evidence gets co-opted for use in daily celebrations of King Charley
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Astronomers used dead stars to detect a new form of ripple in space-time
June 28, 2023 Popular Science
Longer gravitational waves from colliding black holes could help explain why galaxies grow and change.
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Ancient-DNA researcher fired for ‘serious misconduct’ lands new role
June 28, 2023 Nature
Former co-workers have expressed shock that Charles Sturt University in southeastern Australia has appointed Alan Cooper to its faculty.
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Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Darwin Devolves
June 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Long Necks in Sauropod Dinosaurs
June 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
By Neo-Darwinism or Intelligent Design?
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What Is Agency? A View from Science Studies and Cybernetics
June 28, 2023 Biological Theory
The first part of this essay relates a minimal and primordial concept of agency to be found in science and technology studies to an overall ontology of liveliness.
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Megalodon matters: Some ‘warm' facts about ancient sea beast come to surface
June 28, 2023 Geo News
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Something Was Messing with Earth’s Axis. The Answer Has to Do with Us.
June 28, 2023 New York Times
Scientists knew the planet’s centerline could move. But it took a sharp turn sometime around the start of the 2000s.
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What Is the Essence of Iridescence? Ask a Hummingbird
June 28, 2023 All About Birds (Cornell Lab)
Microscopic secrets hidden away in hummingbird feathers manipulate light to give these tiny birds -- the most colorful birds on Earth -- the power to dazzle on command.
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“What Is a Man?”
June 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
New book out today from Nancy Pearcey
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Bees make decisions better and faster than we do ...
June 27, 2023 MacQuarie University
for the things that matter to them
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Perspectives on scientific error
June 27, 2023 Royal Society Open Science
Theoretical arguments and empirical investigations indicate that a high proportion of published findings do not replicate and are likely false.
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The myth of mirrored twins
June 27, 2023 Aeon
What do the lives of twins tell us about heritability, selfhood and the age-old debate between nature and nurture?
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In defence of string theory
June 27, 2023 iai News
String theory explains quantum gravity
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Humans' ancestors survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs
June 27, 2023 Science Daily
A Cretaceous origin for placental mammals, the group that includes humans, dogs and bats, has been revealed by in-depth analysis of the fossil record, showing they co-existed with dinosaurs for a short time before the dinosaurs went extinct.
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Researchers reveal how cells rewrite their fate
June 27, 2023 Science Daily
Findings can lead to new strategies to accelerate or manipulate the molecular mechanisms involved to target cancer
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New study sheds light on the evolution of animals
June 27, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have been mystified as to why animals are missing in much of the fossil record. Researchers have now developed a new method to determine if animals really were absent, or if they were present but too fragile to be preserved.
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A jaw-dropping conundrum: Why do mammals have a stiff lower jaw?
June 27, 2023 Science Daily
Unlike other vertebrates, mammals have just one lower jawbone
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How honey bees make fast and accurate decisions
June 27, 2023 eLife
Honey bee ecology demands they make both rapid and accurate assessments of which flowers are most likely to offer them nectar or pollen.
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We might have accidentally killed the only life we ever found on Mars nearly 50 years ago
June 27, 2023 Big Think
In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.
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Could the expanding Universe truly be a mirage?
June 27, 2023 Big Think
A cute mathematical trick can “rescale" the Universe so that it isn't actually expanding. But can that “trick" survive all our cosmic tests?
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The Brain Is Not Conscious
June 27, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Consciousness uses the brain, but the brain’s physical matter cannot explain reason.
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Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: The Edge of Evolution
June 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Gifted Microbes Elevate the Case for Intelligent Design to the Entire Biosphere
June 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Groundbreaking bacterial discovery
June 26, 2023 Science Daily
A team of researchers discover viruses impact the genetic coding of purple (PSB) and green (GSB) sulfur bacteria.
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50-million-year-old katydid fossil reveals muscles, digestive tract, glands and a testicle
June 26, 2023 Science Daily
50 million years ago in what is now northwestern Colorado, a katydid died, sank to the bottom of a lake and was quickly buried in fine sediments, where it remained until its compressed fossil was recovered in recent years.
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The Philosopher Wins: There's No Consciousness Spot in the Brain
June 26, 2023 Mind Matters
After a 25-year search, dualist philosopher David Chalmers won the bet with neuroscientist Christof Koch
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Clever DNA tricks
June 26, 2023 knowable magazine
As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.
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Stem cells: the hype and the dangerous reality
June 26, 2023 iai News
Why stem cells are overhyped
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Coming up at the International Conference on Creationism
June 26, 2023 Core Academy of Science
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Humans’ Evolutionary Relatives Butchered One Another 1.45 Million Years Ago
June 26, 2023 Smithsonian Magazine
Cut marks on a fossil leg bone belonging to a relative of modern humans were made by stone tools and could be evidence of cannibalism
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Insects Pollinated Earth’s Earliest Flowering Plants
June 26, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Ancient marine reptile fossil, publish ground-breaking evolutionary insight
June 26, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers who have unlocked new evolutionary information following the discovery of a 94-million-year-old mosasaur in the gray shale badlands of the National Park Service Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah.