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How Supersymmetry Saved String Theory
December 23, 2023 Universe Today
String theory, like most revolutions, had humble origins. It started in the 1960’s as an attempt to understand the strong nuclear force. Quantum field theory wasn’t seeming to cut it, and so physicists were eager for something new.
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Unexpected cosmic clumping could disprove our best understanding of the universe
December 23, 2023 Live Science
The tension, centered around a value for cosmic lumpiness known as S8, could join the Hubble tension in dethroning our best picture of how the universe evolved.
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Are Neanderthals and Homo sapiens the same species?
December 23, 2023 Live Science
Scientists have been vollying the question back and forth for more than a century.
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Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning -- and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope
December 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
No. 10 Story of 2023
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers study a million galaxies to find out how the universe began
December 22, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have analyzed more than one million galaxies to explore primordial fluctuations that seeded the formation of the structure of the entire universe.
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Herds and Shepherds in Cosmology
December 22, 2023 science2.0
There are reasonable grounds for thinking that the total truth about the origin and evolution of the Universe is beyond our reach. Nonetheless, there is widespread propaganda claiming that absolute truth about the Universe has already been obtained
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A Shift to Open Landscapes May Have Changed Human Language Ever After
December 22, 2023 Science Alert
A Miocene-era shift from dense forests to open plains may have caused ancient hominids to move from vowel-based to consonant-based calls
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Is the Four-Legged Snake Tetrapodophis a Missing Link or Not?
December 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Co-Option and Protein Homology Don’t Explain the Evolution of the Flagellum
December 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Google Overreach
December 22, 2023
a long Twitter/X post about Google repackaging blogger Nate Hake’s content and thereby making it unnecessary to visit his blog, thus undercutting his business.
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3D preservation of trilobite soft tissues sheds light on convergent evolution of defensive enrollment
December 21, 2023 Science Daily
The study reveals the soft undersides of enrolled trilobites and the evolutionary mechanism that allows arthropods to enroll their bodies for protection from predators and adverse environmental conditions.
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News Update/Commentary
Discovery: Plants use ‘Trojan horse' to fight mold invasions
December 21, 2023 Science Daily
Plant RNA defense systems hidden in unassuming ‘bubbles'
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An Outstanding Year for Intelligent Design
December 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why the Universe Might be a Hologram
December 21, 2023 Universe Today
A quarter century ago, physicist Juan Maldacena proposed the AdS/CFT correspondence, an intriguing holographic connection between gravity in a three-dimensional universe and quantum physics on the universe’s two-dimensional boundary.
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Poisonous gas wave may have snuffed out half of all sea life in Earth's 1st mass extinction
December 21, 2023 Live Science
About 510 million years ago, a deadly combination of low oxygen and surging hydrogen sulfide may have been what decimated 45% of all ocean life.
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News Update/Commentary
Cells of the future: A key to reprogramming cell identities
December 21, 2023 Science Daily
The dynamic journey of DNA replication timing and its impact on cellular plasticity
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News Update/Commentary
A trillion scents, one nose
December 21, 2023 Science Daily
Smell's sensory magic emerges from intricate developmental mechanism that tailors each of nose's sensory cells
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Insects already had a variety of defense strategies in the Cretaceous
December 21, 2023 Science Daily
Analyses of amber show that insect larvae were already using a wide variety of tactics to protect themselves from predators 100 million years ago.
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10 of the most mystifying open questions in science
December 21, 2023 Big Think
From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.
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AI consciousness: scientists say we urgently need answers
December 21, 2023 Nature
Researchers call for more funding to study the boundary between conscious and unconscious systems.
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Big Questions in Free Will
December 21, 2023 YouTube
Free will seems obvious, simple, common; but it’s subtle, profound, maddening. Free will probes the deep nature of human existence. But big questions have big problems. How to make progress?
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Mt. Ebal Curse Tablet Defeated?
December 21, 2023 YouTube
Has the “curse tablet" discovery at Mt. Ebal been proven false? Scott Stripling offers his first public response as to why he still believes the tablet is genuine.
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Genetic insight on ice sheet history
December 21, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6677, p.1356-1357
Octopus DNA reveals timing of the most recent collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
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Does It Take a PR Agency To Make Neanderthals Human?
December 21, 2023 Mind Matters
It’s interesting to watch how science writing on Neanderthals has changed over the years
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To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future
December 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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What Caused the Cambrian Explosion?
December 21, 2023 YouTube
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An Alternative to the Academic Wasteland
December 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Stepping in It
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Mainstream Media Discover “Nature Rights”
December 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Einstein was wrong about quantum mechanics
December 20, 2023 iai News
Embracing spooky action at a distance
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The laws of physics were broken in 2023 -- by sperm
December 20, 2023 New Scientist
New Scientist's most popular story of the year was about the discovery that sperm break Isaac Newton's third law of motion
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Human Evolution Dates Are Unreliable
December 20, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Leading nature museum admits flaws in all dates for human ancestors
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The Year in Computer Science
December 20, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Artificial intelligence learned how to generate text and art better than ever before, while computer scientists developed algorithms that solved long-standing problems.
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The Christmas Star -- A Sign of Design
December 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Flowers ‘giving up’ on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate, say scientists
December 19, 2023 The Guardian
French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than 20 to 30 years ago in ‘startling’ act of evolution
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Ever Want to Curl Into a Ball? Here’s How Trilobites Did It.
December 19, 2023 New York Times
Fossils collected more than 150 years ago show that the techniques some creatures use for defensive curling have not changed in millions of years.
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What was the Turing test actually about?
December 19, 2023 Nature
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Research prizes are opaque and rife with bias -- it’s time to shake them up
December 19, 2023 Nature
Awards should be standard-bearers for transparent, robust research that is inclusive, equitable and trustworthy. But that is not what they are right now.
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Giant space rock made Earth's ocean boil but also helped early life
December 19, 2023 Washington Post
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Black holes, love and poetry -- an artistic exploration of intimacy and adventure
December 19, 2023 Nature
A book by physicist Kip Thorne and artist Lia Halloran explores the mysteries of space through poetry and paintings. | See Also Amazon
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From Einstein to AI: how 100 years have shaped science
December 19, 2023 Nature
Looking back a century reveals how much the research landscape has changed -- and how unclear the consequences of scientific innovation can be.
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Forbidden Worlds? Theory Clashes with Observation
December 19, 2023 Centauri Dreams
several recent discoveries that challenge planet formation theory. We can bet that the more we probe the Milky Way, the more we’ll find anomalies that challenge our preconceptions.
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Why String Theory Requires Extra Dimensions
December 19, 2023 Universe Today
String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force.
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Does quantum theory imply the entire Universe is preordained?
December 19, 2023 Nature
The popular idea that quantum physics implies everything is random and nothing is certain might be as far from the truth as it could possibly be.
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Can we decode the language of our primate cousins?
December 19, 2023 Science Daily
how the human brain has evolved to process the vocal emissions of some of our closest cousins more efficiently
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Enceladus Has Cyanide; Evolutionists Imagine Life
December 19, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary hype over potential life at Saturn’s tiny moon goes into overdrive with discovery of deadly poison
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Ten Biomechanical Animal Joints Enable Extreme Performance
December 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Paper Digest
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The Year in Biology
December 19, 2023 Quanta Magazine
In a year packed with fascinating discoveries, biologists pushed the limits of synthetic life, probed how organisms keep time, and refined theories about consciousness and emotional health.
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More parallel ‘traffic' observed in human brains than in other animals
December 18, 2023 Science Daily
In a study comparing human brain communication networks with those of macaques and mice, researchers found that only human brains transmitted information via multiple parallel pathways, yielding new insights into evolution.
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Chimps remember the faces of old friends and family for decades
December 18, 2023 Science
Recognition ability rivals all other animals, including humans
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How Will AI Change Science?
December 18, 2023 YouTube
Will AI bring us closer to the truth or further away from it? Is it changing the way we do science? And will it eventually replace teachers and professors?