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Video
Is There Life Elsewhere in the Universe?
June 14, 2023 YouTube
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Scientists find organic molecules in galaxy 12 billion light years away
June 14, 2023 The Jerusalem Post
The organic molecules found in this distant galaxy are not signs of life. Found via NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, their discovery raises questions about star formation.
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Study claims Earth was created much faster than we thought
June 14, 2023 phys.org
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A ‘Soda Ocean’ on a Moon of Saturn Has All the Ingredients for Life
June 14, 2023 New York Times
Using data from the Cassini spacecraft, scientists discovered the presence of phosphates on icy Enceladus.
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Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance
June 14, 2023 The Guardian
Exclusive: Breakthrough could aid research into genetic disorders but raises serious ethical and legal issues
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The two roads to quantum gravity
June 14, 2023 Big Think
If the Universe started from a Big Bang, we need to revise the way we do physics near the beginning of time. The big question is how. Efforts to build a theory that brings forward quantum physics and the modern theory of gravity have so far failed.
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Prized dinosaur fossil returned to Brazil after controversy
June 14, 2023 Nature
The one-of-a-kind specimen will be housed at a museum in Santana do Cariri, near where it was found.
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Saturn's icy moon Enceladus harbors essential elements for life
June 14, 2023 Reuters
High concentrations of phosphorus, an essential element for all biological processes on Earth, have been detected in ice crystals spewed from the interior ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus, adding to its potential to harbor life
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Genome Maintenance Defies Evolution
June 14, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwinism cannot explain the multi-part systems required to maintain the DNA code
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Why Knockouts and Deletions Are Insufficient for Inferring Function
June 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
The Mystery of Cell “Vaults”
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Darwin: Why Women Are Inferior
June 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Ants have a specialized communication processing center not found in other social insects
June 14, 2023 Science Daily
Have you ever noticed an ant in your home, only to find that a week later the whole colony has moved in? The traps you set up catch only a few of these ants, but soon, the rest of the colony has mysteriously disappeared.
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News Update/Commentary
Plate tectonics not required for the emergence of life
June 14, 2023 Science Daily
The finding contradicts previous assumptions about the role of mobile plate tectonics in the development of life on Earth
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News Update/Commentary
Astronomers discover new link between dark matter and clumpiness of the universe
June 14, 2023 Science Daily
The implications of proving the existence of hard-to-detect axions extend beyond understanding dark matter and could address fundamental questions about the nature of the universe itself.
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New Clues About Origin of Complex Life Trace Roots to Common Ancestor
June 14, 2023 University of Texas, Austin
According to this latest study, all complex life forms (a.k.a. eukaryotes) trace their roots back to a common ancestor among a group of microbes called the Asgard archaea.
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Plate tectonics not required for the emergence of life
June 14, 2023 University of Rochester
The finding contradicts previous assumptions about the role of mobile plate tectonics in the development of life on Earth.
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News Update/Commentary
New method traces ancestry of hybrid plants and animals
June 13, 2023 Science Daily
Hybrid plants and animals have complicated genomes. A biologist has discovered a way to reveal their parent species.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists investigate the evolution of animal developmental mechanisms
June 13, 2023 Science Daily
New knowledge paints a vivid picture of how some of the earliest animals on earth progressed from egg to embryo to adult
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All We Need To Do To Give a Robot a Soul Is ... (Error 404)
June 13, 2023 Mind Matters
The author of Robot Souls argues that programmers have failed to put the “junk,” that is, the soul, into machines -- but that they could do so
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First hominin muscle reconstruction shows 3.2 million-year-old ‘Lucy' could stand as erect as we do
June 13, 2023 phys.org
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‘Embryo Models’ Challenge Legal, Ethical and Biological Concepts
June 13, 2023 Quanta Magazine
With embryolike constructs built entirely from stem cells, researchers can revolutionize our understanding of development. But how close to an embryo is too close?
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Bones, the ‘Cave of the Monkeys’ and 86,000 years of history
June 13, 2023 The Conversation
new evidence pushes back the timing of human arrival in Southeast Asia
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‘Breakthrough’ could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed
June 13, 2023 Science
Experiments suggest magnetic materials skewed early biomolecules
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News Update/Commentary
First illustration of the molecular machinery that makes cilia beat
June 13, 2023 Science Daily
The first image of the structures that power human cilia -- the tiny, hairlike projections that line our airways -- has now been produced and it could lead to much-needed treatments for people with rare cilial diseases.
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News Update/Commentary
Skipping evolution: Some kangaroos didn't hop
June 13, 2023 Science Daily
Extinct kangaroos used alternative methods to their famous hop according to comprehensive analysis.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Early presence of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia by 86–68 kyr at Tam Pà Ling, Northern Laos
June 13, 2023 Nature Communications, v.14
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Particle, wave, both or neither? The experiment that challenges all we know about reality
June 13, 2023 Nature
Thomas Young’s double-slit experiment originally served to prove that light is a wave -- but later quantum versions have made for a much fuzzier picture.
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Laos cave fossils prompt rethink of human migration map
June 13, 2023 Nature
A skull fragment and shin bone suggest that early modern humans might have passed through southeast Asia earlier than thought.
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Jonathan Wells Evaluates Darwinian Evolution in New Online Course
June 13, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Iterations of Immortality
June 13, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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What the huge young galaxies seen by JWST tell us about the universe
June 13, 2023 New Scientist
A few months ago, the James Webb Space Telescope spotted six early galaxies that were so large they threatened to break our best theory of how the cosmos evolved. Did they?
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Lawyer Hammered for Using ChatGPT
June 13, 2023 Mind Matters
Court record system proceeded to block access to sloppy lawyering and AI catastrophe
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Book
How to Survive History
June, 2023 Penguin Random House
How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes | See Also Amazon
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Billion-year-old rocks reveal traces of ancient life
June 12, 2023 CNN
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Look Out! The “Reptilian Brain" Is Still Here!
June 12, 2023 Mind Matters
Many psychology students are subjected to this day to an exploded pop neuroscience myth endorsed by celebrity scientist Carl Sagan
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Compasses, Clocks -- Intelligent Design in Time
June 12, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The case for why our Universe may be a giant neural network
June 12, 2023 Big Think
Neuroscientist and author explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
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A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus
June 12, 2023 Quanta Magazine
By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.
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Anatomy of a Scientific Scandal
June 12, 2023 City Journal (New York)
Under pressure, a journal once notable for its courage retracts a major paper on the social roots of gender-related distress -- all over a minor, inconsistently applied technicality.
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I Loved Studying Math. I Needed God to Show Me Why.
June 12, 2023 Christianity Today
At a moment of crisis, my drive to excel seemed increasingly pointless.
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Zebrafish produce sunscreen to protect their embryos from UV light
June 12, 2023 New Scientist
Zebrafish eggs contain a compound called gadusol that acts as a sunscreen to protect the developing embryos from the sun’s rays
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News Update/Commentary
Which came first: The reptile or the egg?
June 12, 2023 Science Daily
The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have borne live young, researchers have revealed.
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Does the Scientific Evidence Support Evolutionary Models of Human Origins?
June 12, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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50 Atheists Found Christ. This Researcher Found Out Why.
June 12, 2023 Christianity Today
Jana Harmon paints a detailed picture of the reasons skeptics come to faith.
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Cognitive Cells? A Newer Challenge to Neo-Darwinism
June 11, 2023 Mind Matters
The origin of self-referential cognition is unknown, say a trio of researchers who call it “biology’s most profound enigma”
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Video
The Science, Theology and Philosophy of Life
June 10, 2023 YouTube
a conversation about the origins of life from a Christian perspective
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Eastern philosophy says there is no “self.” Science agrees
June 9, 2023 Big Think
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself -- and there isn’t one.”
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Saturn’s Shiny Rings May Be Pretty Young
June 9, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The rings are fairly shiny despite being bombarded by dust, indicating that they haven’t been around for very long.
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Invasive fish spotted in Missouri can even be found on land
June 9, 2023 Kansas City Star
Kill it if you see one
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Fossil Sequences: Evidence for evolution or special creation? Part 4
June 9, 2023 YouTube
Ken Coulson uses lecture format to discuss the relationship between science and the Bible