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Apes have the same willingness to share food as small children
May 3, 2023 New Scientist
In lab experiments, chimpanzees and bonobos share peanuts and grapes with other apes who shared food first, doing so at about the same rate as 4-year-old children
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Do we live in a hologram? Why physics is still mesmerised by this idea
May 3, 2023 New Scientist
The holographic universe theory still grips physicists 25 years since it was first published. Here’s what it is all about
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The Hard Problem With Evolutionary Consciousness Theories
May 3, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new proposal to solve the hard problem of consciousness misses the real problem: evolutionary materialism.
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Tuning in to epigenetic cross-talk
May 3, 2023 Nature Methods, v.20, p.634-638
Chemical modifications to DNA, histones and RNA make changes happen. Scientists are exploring ways to track these modifications and how they interact.
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Ancient DNA from a 25,000-year-old pendant reveals intriguing details about its wearer
May 3, 2023 CNN
Traces of ancient DNA contained in old bones have spilled fascinating secrets about the past.
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A Stormy, Active Sun May Have Kickstarted Life on Earth
May 2, 2023 NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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News Update/Commentary
‘Golden' fossils reveal origins of exceptional preservation
May 2, 2023 Science Daily
understanding how fossils which are among the world's best-preserved specimens of sea life from the Early Jurassic came to form in the first place, and the role that oxygen in the environment had in their formation
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James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor around alien planet. But where did it come from?
May 2, 2023 space.com
If confirmed, the presence of an atmosphere would be a breakthrough for exoplanet research.
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A Stormy, Active Sun May Have Kickstarted Life on Earth
May 2, 2023 NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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Christians Differing on Creation Issues with Charity
May 2, 2023 Reasons to Believe
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil find in California shakes up the natural history of cycad plants
May 2, 2023 Science Daily
a new analysis of an 80-million-year-old permineralized pollen cone found in the Campanian Holz Shale formation located in California offers a more accurate cycad natural history -- one where the plants diversified during the Cretaceous.
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462 million-year-old fossilized eyes and brains uncovered in ‘secret' Welsh fossil site
May 2, 2023 Live Science
Wales' new “Castle Bank" fossil site could be among the world's most important deposits.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists present evidence for a billion-years arms race between viruses and their hosts
May 2, 2023 Science Daily
Findings add to our understanding of the deep evolutionary history of the highly diverse Bamfordvirae kingdom of viruses
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Strange but true: the expanding Universe doesn’t conserve energy
May 2, 2023 Big Think
The conservation of energy is one of the most fundamental laws governing our reality. But in the expanding Universe, that's just not true.
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Solving the mystery of time
May 2, 2023 iai News
Time, the final frontier of mind
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Scary ‘Emergent' AI Abilities Are Just a ‘Mirage' Produced by Researchers
May 2, 2023 Motherboard (Tech by Vice)
“There's no giant leap of capability" -- Stanford researchers
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‘Remarkable’ AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable
May 2, 2023 Nature
Software from Baidu Research yields jabs for COVID that have greater shelf stability and that trigger a larger antibody response in mice than conventionally designed shots.
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Mind-reading machines are here: is it time to worry?
May 2, 2023 Nature
Neuroethicists are split on whether a study that uses brain scans and AI to decode imagined speech poses a threat to mental privacy.
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People Can Do Puzzles -- and Why That Matters
May 2, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Book Puts Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Genes” in the ICU
May 2, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mathematicians Visualize Evolution in Algorithms
May 2, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Molecules just want to come together and become living cooperators, say these university eggheads
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The Six Moons Most Likely to Host Life in Our Solar System
May, 2023 Scientific American
Vast quantities of liquid water may exist on moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, making life possible there, too
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The Return of Paganism
May, 2023 Commentary
The spiritual crisis afflicting contemporary America has ancient and enduring roots -- and so does the cure
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Rise of Ayurveda: A Dangerous Trend to Decolonize the Scientific Method
May, 2023 Skeptical Inquirer, v.47, n.3
Medical Pseudoscience around the World
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Synthetic Morphology Lets Scientists Create New Life-Forms
May 1, 2023 Scientific American
The emerging field of synthetic morphology bends boundaries between natural and artificial life
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5 Ways to Detect Text Written by ChatGPT and Other AI Tools
May 1, 2023 PC Magazine
The best way to figure out if an artificial intelligence wrote something may be to ask AI. We test AI-detection services with text written by ChatGPT and text written by a human: Here are the results.
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Scientists Unveil AI That Can Turn Thoughts Into Written Text
May 1, 2023 Daily Wire
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How close are we to reading minds?
May 1, 2023 The Conversation
A new study decodes language and meaning from brain scans
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News Update/Commentary
New mechanisms regulating plant response to temperature
May 1, 2023 Science Daily
Discovery of a new protein complex helps scientists understand how plants interpret changes in temperature over time
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Darwinians Struggle with Dinosaur Soft Tissue
May 1, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
They admit it exists, but can only make up stories to explain how it could last tens of millions of years.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The first dinosaurs in China
May, 2023 Gondwana Research, v.117, p.261-273
Dating Late Triassic footprint fossils from the Sichuan Basin
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A New Jellyfish
May 1, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Long Story Short Debunks Another Tall Tale of Self-Replication
May 1, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Free Will, Souls, and the Problem of Evil
April 30, 2023 YouTube
Richard Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and author of a number of books on the philosophy of religion, the soul, and Christianity, amongst other subjects.
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The puzzle of Neanderthal aesthetics
April 30, 2023 BBC
Surprising new insights into the minds of this extinct human species suggest they may have been far more cultured than their outdated brutish reputation once suggested. But getting into the minds of a long-dead species is no easy task.
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Cratonavis zhui: A Dinosaur-like Bird?
April 29, 2023 Answers in Genesis
What should we think about yet another alleged link between dinosaurs and birds?
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A violent theory explains why most people are right-handed
April 29, 2023 Big Think
Left-handed humans were likelier to get stabbed in the heart.
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Jordan Peterson Blasts Academia after Paper Defending Merit Rejected for ‘Hurtfulness’
April 28, 2023 Daily Wire
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Peer-reviewed Paper
In Defense of Merit in Science
April 28, 2023 Journal of Controversial Ideas, v.3, n.1
Merit is a central pillar of liberal epistemology, humanism, and democracy. The scientific enterprise, built on merit, has proven effective in generating scientific and technological advances, reducing suffering, narrowing social gaps,
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Is Adam a Myth?
April 28, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
Creation.Live Podcast: Episode 12
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The Exodus Pharaoh Explained!
April 28, 2023 YouTube
Who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus? There are various theories. However, by examining the evidence found in the Bible, it is surprisingly clear to establish just who the Exodus Pharaoh was.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
How New Ideas Diffuse in Science
April 28, 2023 American Sociological Review, v.88, n.3, p.522-561
This article focuses on concepts as reflections of ideas, and we identify the combined influence that social factors and internal intellectual structures have on ideational diffusion.
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Exoplanets May Support Life in the Terminator Zone
April 28, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A new study finds that the intersection between a searing dayside and a freezing nightside could be habitable.
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The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous
April 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Remembering Dr. John Morris
April 28, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Scientists in India protest move to drop Darwinian evolution from textbooks
April 28, 2023 Science
Decision marks troubling rejection of science, critics say
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Why Mathematics and Literature Point to Intelligent Design
April 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
God, Time, and Creation Once More
April 28, 2023 Talbot School of Theology Faculty Blog
'Is the Cause of the Universe God? Troubles with Craig's Theory of God's Relationship to Time in the Kalam Cosmological Argument.' ... One of the paper's arguments seeks to point out that the notion of a timeless cause of time is self-contradictory:
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Evolutionists Hold Mammal Party
April 28, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists collate hundreds of mammal genomes to display the explanatory power of Darwin trees, but are some important questions being begged?
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News Update/Commentary
Information ‘deleted' from the human genome may be what made us human
April 27, 2023 Science Daily
What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind as what has been added during our evolutionary history