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News Update/Commentary
Dry days trigger leaves to send a surprising growth signal telling roots to keep growing
June 26, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered a new molecular signaling pathway, triggered when leaves are exposed to low humidity, that ensures plant roots keep growing towards water.
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Did our human ancestors eat each other? Carved-up bone offers clues
June 26, 2023 Nature
A fossilized hominin leg shows gashes that were probably made by stone tools.
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Megalodon may have been warm-blooded unlike most other sharks
June 26, 2023 New Scientist
Evidence is mounting that megalodon could have been warm-blooded, unlike most modern sharks, hinting at how it grew to be so big and also why it went extinct
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Big Science: Enemy of Democracy
June 26, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The Big Science Cartel embraces every globalist, leftist, socialist agenda. Beware.
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Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella
June 26, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Our Human Relatives Butchered and Ate Each Other 1.45 Million Years Ago
June 26, 2023 Smithsonian Magazine
Telltale marks on a bone from an early human’s leg could be the earliest evidence of cannibalism
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‘Adversarial’ search for neural basis of consciousness yields first results
June 25, 2023 Science
Two rival theories about the basis of perception went head-to-head in neuroscience experiments, but advocates of “losing” idea aren’t conceding yet
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Free Will: What Are the Real Reasons to Believe in It?
June 25, 2023 Mind Matters
Some say that free will might be a useful delusion but neuroscience provides sound reasons to believe that it is real.
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Blog Post
Are insects sentient?
June 25, 2023 Why Evolution Is True
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Some Babies Are Born with ‘Tails', But Not for the Reason You Might Think
June 25, 2023 Science Alert
It might sound like a tall tale, but in very rare cases, humans can be born with boneless rear-end appendages, sometimes up to 18 centimeters long.
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Probing the Wreck of the Unsinkable Enlightenment
June 25, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Shades of Titanic
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Decades-long bet on consciousness ends -- and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0
June 24, 2023 Nature
Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues.
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Video
Human Immune System -- How it works!
June 23, 2023 YouTube
In this animation, we will explain the human immune system with high-quality graphics never seen before. The phagocytosis of macrophages, the formation of T cells in the thymus, and the microbiome of the skin are explained.
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Dehumanization, animalization
June 23, 2023 phys.org
Inside the terrible world of Swiss human zoos
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New genomic mechanisms of fish survival in the extreme cold revealed
June 23, 2023 phys.org
The work, published in Nature Communications, enables the study of how these fish survive in the subzero Southern ocean, and sheds light on the evolutionary history of these iconic animals.
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Radical New Theory Gives a Very Different Perspective on What Life Is
June 23, 2023 Science Alert
Biologists usually define ‘life' as an entity that reproduces, responds to its environment, metabolizes chemicals, consumes energy, and grows. Under this model, ‘life' is a binary state; something is either alive or not.
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Evolutionary Trees Tangle with the Data
June 23, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary trees based on genetics conflict with those based on morphology and anatomy
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To Be or Not to Be Homo
June 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Irreducible Complexity
June 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Answering Farina on Behe’s Work
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Earliest Comb Jellies Wore Armor
June 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
“Remarkable,” Say Researchers
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Blood Viscosity and Freezing Temperatures
June 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
A Titanic Problem
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How AI can distort human beliefs
June 22, 2023 Science, v.380, n.6651
Models can convey biases and false information to users
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News Update/Commentary
Gloss is less effective camouflage in beetles compared to matte
June 22, 2023 Science Daily
Heliconius butterflies' brains grew as they adopted novel foraging behaviors, scientists have found.
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Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity
June 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
The War on Men: Nancy Pearcey Interview
June 22, 2023 YouTube
In today’s episode, Becket chats with bestselling author Professor Nancy Pearcey on her fascinating new book, "The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes."
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News Update/Commentary
Glass sponge genome furnishes insights into evolution of biomineralization
June 22, 2023 Science Daily
The genome of a glass sponge species suggests that silica skeletons evolved independently in several groups of sponges.
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AI is not intelligent
June 22, 2023 iai News
AI should not be called AI
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Genomes of fungi and relatives reveal delayed loss of ancestral gene families and evolution of key fungal traits
June 22, 2023 Nature Ecology & Evolution
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DNA Can Fold into Complex Shapes to Execute New Functions
June 21, 2023 Weill Cornell Medicine
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95% of the Universe is a total mystery
June 21, 2023 Big Think
In many ways, we are still novices playing with toy models seeking to understand the stars.
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The multiverse is cosmology’s unreachable frontier
June 21, 2023 Big Think
The multiverse pushes beyond the limits of the scientific method. From our vantage point in the Universe, we cannot know if it's real.
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“Essential for Life" Amino Acid Found in Interstellar Space, Increasing Chances Extraterrestrial Life Is Common
June 21, 2023 The Debrief
One of the amino acids deemed “essential for life,” tryptophan’s presence in a gas cloud where stars and planets are born, offers a tantalizing hint that life on other planets of the Milky Way Galaxy may be even more common than previously thought.
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How a Scientific Fraud Reinvented Himself
June 21, 2023 New York Times
Cloning Scientist Hwang Woo-suk Gets a Second Chance
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The Secret in the Spots on Monarch Butterflies’ Wings
June 21, 2023 New York Times
The wings of monarchs that survive a 2,000-mile-long migration tend to be spottier, suggesting that feature may aid the insects’ ability to fly.
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Brain noise doesn't explain consciousness
June 21, 2023 iai News
A psychedelic experience isn’t akin to TV static
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Chimpanzees can prepare for alternative futures
June 21, 2023 New Scientist
Our closest relatives, chimpanzees, seem able to think ahead and prepare for two possible futures -- the only animal apart from humans known to do so
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Neanderthal cave engravings identified as oldest known, more than 57,000 years old
June 21, 2023 phys.org
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A Brief History of Science from the Scientific Revolution to Modern Physics
June 21, 2023 Answers Research Journal
The Philosophy of Science 4
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Redundancy in the Genetic Code Serves an Engineering Purpose
June 21, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s not wasteful to keep multiple copies of genes in the genome, a test of redundancy shows
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Information and Life’s Origin
June 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
A Retrospective View
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AI Is an Existential Threat to Itself
June 21, 2023 The Atlantic
Generative-AI programs may eventually consume material that was created by other machines -- with disastrous consequences.
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Information and Life’s Origin
June 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
A Retrospective View
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Modern horses have lost their additional toes, scientists confirm
June 20, 2023 EurekAlert!
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How the Brain Protects Itself from Blood-Borne Threats
June 20, 2023 Quanta Magazine
To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is built into the brain’s blood vessels.
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Did physicists get the idea of “fundamental” wrong?
June 20, 2023 Big Think
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That's not the full story.
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Tiny spinning robots sorted themselves into this beautiful pattern
June 20, 2023 Nature
The microbots help to explain how order arises in a disordered system -- image of the week.
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How scientists are hacking the genetic code to give proteins new powers
June 20, 2023 Nature
By modifying the blueprint of life, researchers are endowing proteins with chemistries they’ve never had before.
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Scientists discover new embryonic cell type that self-destructs to protect the developing embryo
June 20, 2023 phys.org
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News Update/Commentary
The speed of life: A zoo of cells to study developmental time
June 20, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have used an unprecedented stem cell zoo to compare six different mammalian species and their developmental time.
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News Update/Commentary
Focus on function helps identify the changes that made us human
June 20, 2023 Science Daily
Research sheds light on human evolution, and demonstrates an approach for identifying significant differences in how genes are used between closely-related species.