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Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough
March 29, 2023 Time
We Need to Shut it All Down
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News Update/Commentary
How whale shark rhodopsin evolved to see, in the deep blue sea
March 29, 2023 Science Daily
A group of researchers discovered that the rhodopsin of whale sharks has changed to efficiently detect blue light, which penetrates deep-sea water easily. The amino acid substitutions aid in detecting the low levels of light in the deep-sea.
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Our attempts to kill cockroaches forced them to evolve new sex moves
March 29, 2023 New Scientist
Some male cockroaches have adapted their mating strategy to succeed with females that have developed a distaste for the sugar used in both poisonous baits and gifts from males
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Batty Hypothesis Supposes Powered Flight Is Glorified Gliding
March 29, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What good is an unpowered wing? Will it start flapping? Evolution makes it happen, say 13 Darwinists.
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Just-Right RNA Structure Points to Intentional Design
March 29, 2023 Reasons to Believe
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The death of open access mega-journals?
March 29, 2023 phys.org
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Translation of “Jumping Genes” Creates Cancer Therapy Targets
March 29, 2023 The Scientist
Researchers find many tumor-specific antigens form when cancer genes and transposable elements link up.
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Presence review: A lively look at why we experience ghostly presences
March 29, 2023 New Scientist
Many people feel an uncanny “presence" when no one is there. Ben Alderson-Day explores why this is, in a lively and comprehensive book
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A Brief History of Science from the Ancient Greeks through the Middle Ages
March 29, 2023 Answers Research Journal
The Philosophy of Science. 2
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Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa
March 29, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin’s Top 10 Arguments Against His Own Theory
March 29, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Extinction of steam locomotives derails assumptions about biological evolution
March 28, 2023 Science Daily
for a paleontologist, the replacement of steam-powered trains with diesel and electric engines, as well as cars and trucks, might be a model of how some species in the fossil record died out
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I Gave ChatGPT an IQ Test
March 28, 2023 Scientific American
The chatbot was the ideal test taker -- it exhibited no trace of test anxiety, poor concentration or lack of effort. And what about that IQ score?
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‘The self” doesn’t exist. Instead, you constantly shape multiple selves
March 28, 2023 Big Think
We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again.
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6 ‘facts' about human evolution that are wrong
March 28, 2023 Business Insider
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Michael D. Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis and Scientism
March 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Earliest galaxies challenge ideas about star birth in infant universe
March 28, 2023 Science
Discoveries by giant new space telescope JWST are getting too big for theorists to ignore
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The most powerful space explosion ever seen keeps baffling astronomers
March 28, 2023 New Scientist
A gamma ray burst observed in 2022 was brighter than any explosion ever spotted before, and follow-up observations are threatening to break our understanding of how these blasts work
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Illustra Media Showcases the Wood Wide Web
March 28, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The ways that plants communicate through underground fungal networks is illustrated in a dazzling new short film
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“Pointless Bones”? Nathan Lents Bites at Stuart Burgess’s Ankle
March 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Shining Light on Science Education’s Dark Age
March 27, 2023 Real Clear Energy
The science teachers’ bureaucracy is driving climate education into an unquestioning adherence to unscientific methodology.
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JWST gets best view yet of planet in hotly pursued star system
March 27, 2023 Nature
Telescope didn’t spot an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1b, but has kicked off a new era in understanding planetary evolution.
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Cell Organelles that Defy Evolution: The Lysosome
March 27, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
New research proves that the lysosome system is much more complex than previously believed
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Glass beads on moon’s surface may hold billions of tonnes of water
March 27, 2023 The Guardian
Finding from lunar soil samples is important breakthrough for hopes of building bases on the moon
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Water is trapped in glass beads on the moon’s surface
March 27, 2023 CNN
lunar samples show
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The hunt for black holes older than the universe itself
March 27, 2023 New Scientist
Primordial black holes older than the big bang could rewrite cosmology by providing evidence for a previous universe. It's a wild idea, but some physicists think we've got a chance of finding them
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News Update/Commentary
Earth's first plants likely to have been branched
March 27, 2023 Science Daily
A new discovery changes ideas about the origin of branching in plants.
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A Power Grid in Muscle Cells Has Profound Design Implications
March 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientific Paper Argues Antarctic Icefish “Designed to Utilize Hemoglobinless Blood”
March 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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C. S. Lewis, Scientism, and the Restoration of Man
March 25, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Michael D. Aeschliman
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Questions for Christians and Other Religious Believers
March 25, 2023 Skeptic
Why Oliver Cromwell was right to beseech you to think it possible you may be mistaken
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Dams at risk: ‘Mother of all floods’ to get bigger as climate warms
March 25, 2023 Cosmos Magazine
Climate change can have implications for structures that were created decades ago -- like Australian dams.
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CERN measurement casts doubt on shocking W boson result
March 25, 2023 New Scientist
A 2022 measurement of the mass of the W boson threatened to upend particle physics as we know it, but new results from CERN indicate the standard model was right all along
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Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago
March 25, 2023 New Scientist
Snail shell fragments found in a cave in South Africa appear to have been heated, providing the earliest evidence for humans eating snails
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RNA base in asteroid samples suggests origins of life on Earth
March 25, 2023 phys.org
The black particles from an asteroid some 300 million kilometers away look unremarkable, like pieces of charcoal, but they hold a component of life itself.
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Video
“Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AI
March 25, 2023 YouTube
Geoffrey Hinton is considered a godfather of artificial intelligence, having championed machine learning decades before it became mainstream.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Virtual excavation and analysis of the early Neanderthal cranium from Altamura (Italy)
March 24, 2023 Communications Biology
Complete Neanderthal skeletons are almost unique findings. A very well-preserved specimen of this kind was discovered in 1993 in the deepest recesses of a karstic system near the town of Altamura in Southern Italy.
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The Brain Science of Tiny Birds with Amazing Memories
March 24, 2023 Duke University
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The six numbers that define the entire Universe
March 24, 2023 BBC, Science Focus
our model of the Universe relies on just six parameters
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There’s a ‘ChatGPT’ for biology
March 24, 2023 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
What could go wrong?
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Your native language may shape the wiring of your brain
March 24, 2023 Live Science
The connections between different regions of the brain responsible for language processing depend on which language you grew up with.
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Journal Nature Would Rather Lose Public Trust than Stop Politicizing Science
March 24, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Stung by research that showed decline in trust because of political endorsements, Nature remains unrepentant and stubborn
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The Abrupt Origin of Winged Insects
March 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Answers Claims of “Bad Design” of the Human Foot/Ankle
March 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
What is wrong with current physics
March 23, 2023 YouTube
Sabine Hossenfelder, Bjørn Ekeberg, Roger Penrose, Donald Hoffman, Peter Woit, Becky Parker, Marika Taylor and Eric Weinstein
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News Update/Commentary
Eye color genes are critical for retinal health
March 23, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have investigated how four Drosophila genes, known to control eye color, are essential for health of retinal tissue
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How daisies make deceptive petals that look like female flies
March 23, 2023 New Scientist
South African daisies co-opt the genes they usually use to grow root hairs and transport iron to create petals that resemble female flies -- enticing males to land and pollinate the plant
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The evolution of white-tailed jackrabbit camouflage in response to past and future seasonal climates
March 23, 2023 Science, v.379, n.6638, p.1238-1242
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Much Ado About Ryugu
March 23, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Uracil, a molecule found in RNA, has been reported in an asteroid. From media hype, one would think they discovered life in outer space.
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Giant Ants Buried in Receding Flood Rocks
March 23, 2023 Institute for Creation Research