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1000 Dogs Tested on Standardized Dog IQ Test. What Was Found?
January 12, 2023 Mind Matters
There were no breed differences for short-term memory or logical reasoning but some differences in how much they needed to interact with humans when problem-solving
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Frog Stripe Evolution?
January 12, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Probability and Number Theory Collide -- in a Moment
January 12, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians are taking ideas developed to study random numbers and applying them to a broad range of categories.
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News Update/Commentary
Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds
January 12, 2023 Science Daily
Tissint, which crash landed in Morocco more than 11 years ago, is one of only five Martian meteorites that have been observed as they fell to Earth
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Svante Pääbo: ‘It’s maybe time to rethink our idea of Neanderthals’
January 12, 2023 The Guardian
The Swedish geneticist on winning the Nobel prize, his laureate father and early man’s sensitive side
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News Update/Commentary
Why older fathers pass on more genetic mutations to their offspring
January 12, 2023 Science Daily
It's not just the number of mutations that matters. It's the failure to fix them too.
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How the Scriptures affirm a literal and historical six-day creation
January 12, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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News Update/Commentary
Gut bacteria affect brain health, mouse study shows
January 12, 2023 Science Daily
Findings suggest new approach to treating Alzheimer's, other neurodegenerative diseases
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Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists
January 12, 2023 Nature
Researchers cannot always differentiate between AI-generated and original abstracts.
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Hummingbirds and Humans Evolved by Mistake
January 12, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
To believe these evolutionary tales, one must accept that genetic mistakes created our beloved backyard acrobats and our own brains
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Epigenetic Manipulations Can Accelerate or Reverse Aging in Mice
January 12, 2023 The Scientist
Repairing damaged DNA appears to drive aging by causing the loss of epigenetic information, but restoring that information reverses such effects, a study finds.
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News Update/Commentary
How crocs can go hours without air: Crocodilian hemoglobin
January 12, 2023 Science Daily
Experiments on ancient proteins find mutations more numerous, nuanced than once thought
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists solve the mystery of why OGT enzyme is critical for cell survival
January 12, 2023 Science Daily
New findings open door to better understanding cancers and many other diseases
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Is the End of Science Near?
January 12, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Debunking interface theory: why Hoffman’s skepticism (really) is self-defeating
January 11, 2023 Synthese
Cognitive scientists have recently advanced an evolutionary debunking argument aimed at our perceptual beliefs in ordinary objects, based on the Interface Theory of Perception
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Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds
January 11, 2023 Carnegie Science
Tissint, which crash landed in Morocco more than 11 years ago, is one of only five Martian meteorites that have been observed as they fell to Earth.
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Gloomy News from a Nature Article: Is the End of Science Near?
January 11, 2023 Mind Matters
A study in the premier science journal notes the long term falling off of truly original findings, as opposed to endless citations of others’ findings
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Tenure No Longer Protects Creationist Professors
January 11, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Professor Change Laura Tan expelled: A new book about a new case
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News Update/Commentary
Origins of the building blocks of life
January 11, 2023 Science Daily
A new study posits that interstellar cloud conditions may have played a significant role on the presence of key building blocks of life in the solar system.
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Scientists study life origins by simulating a cosmic evolution
January 11, 2023 Science Daily
Because of amino acids' relationship to living things scientists are eager to understand the origins of these molecules. Amino acids may have helped spawn life on Earth after being delivered here about 4 billion years ago by pieces of asteroids.
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390-Million-Year-Old Seawater Pockets Uncovered
January 11, 2023 Sci Tech Daily
a new chapter in climate science
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Thinking Biblically About Transhumanist Technologies
January 11, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Examining biotechnology -- from medical therapies to radical modifications
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Peer-reviewed Paper
An electric molecular motor
January 11, 2023 Nature, v.613, p.280-286
Macroscopic electric motors continue to have a large impact on almost every aspect of modern society. Consequently, the effort towards developing molecular motors that can be driven by electricity could not be more timely.
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Remnants of Ancient Life review: Explore the palaeobiology revolution
January 11, 2023 New Scientist
Dale Greenwalt's book is a gripping look at palaeobiology, a field achieving incredible insights into ancient life on Earth
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Monkeys, Not Humans, Likely Made Ancient Brazilian Tools
January 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Appreciating the Irreducibly Complex Design of Salmon Osmoregulation
January 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Jupiter’s Moon Europa Could Contain Sea Life from a Comet Strike
January 10, 2023 Forbes
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Does God Exist?
January 10, 2023 YouTube
Ever since the Enlightenment, the knowing, urbane, sophisticated answer has been, “Of course not.” Now a historian, a scientist, and a journalist talk it over and reveal new threads in the debate around science and theism.
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Is ChatGPT Solely a Neural Network? I Tested That ...
January 10, 2023 Mind Matters
Changing the random number test to a “computer easy, human hard" test requires simply that we ask ChatGPT to reverse the random number. It couldn't.
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Carl Sagan was wrong: ordinary evidence is enough
January 10, 2023 iai News
Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence?
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Some dinos may have been as brainy as modern primates, controversial study argues
January 10, 2023 Science
Experts welcome new neuron-density data, but say findings are premature
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A green comet will appear in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years
January 10, 2023 CNN
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They Lied to Us? (Humans & Chimps: Part 1)
January 10, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
The Creation Podcast: Episode 40
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How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test
January 10, 2023 Tablet magazine
For America’s new clerisy, scientific debate is a danger to be suppressed
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A theory of theories
January 10, 2023 CERN Courier
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Logic underpins knowledge -- but what if logic itself is flawed?
January 10, 2023 New Scientist
We use logic to build facts into systems of thought, but paradoxes force us to question what we think we know. And it could be worse, because logic may not be sufficient to comprehend reality
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How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?
January 10, 2023 New Scientist
If we can’t measure something, we can’t know its true nature. This fundamental limitation hampers our understanding of the quantum world -- but it doesn't preclude scientific thinking
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Why maths, our best tool to describe the universe, may be fallible
January 10, 2023 New Scientist
Our laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics. But maths itself is only as dependable as the axioms it is built on, and we have to assume those axioms are true
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Programmer: Deep Learning Can't Give Us Computers That Think
January 10, 2023 Mind Matters
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) -- computers that think like humans -- would need to be able to generalize, which he says Deep Learning doesn’t do
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Humans Still Have the Genes for a Full Coat of Fur, Scientists Discover
January 10, 2023 Science Alert
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Brain Waste Disposal System Discovered
January 10, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s not often that a new part of the brain is found. This one keeps our cerebrospinal fluid clean and disease-free.
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How Could We Detect Life Inside Enceladus?
January 9, 2023 Universe Today
Scientists recently determined that a certain strain of Earth bacteria could thrive under conditions found on Enceladus.
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Pope Benedict on Intelligent Design and the Dangers of Darwinian Materialism
January 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Do Cave Paintings from 20,000 Years Ago Show Symbolic Writing?
January 9, 2023 Mind Matters
In an article in the Cambridge Archeological Journal, researchers say they’ve deciphered the dots and Y’s among the animal paintings
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Gene Sharing Is Not Evolution
January 9, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Microbes in the ocean share genes in tiny bubbles, but where did the genes come from?
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Will an Engineering Paradigm Supplant Darwinism?
January 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Tour UNMASKS Double-Standards & Inaccurate Commentary
January 9, 2023 YouTube
We begin this episode by questioning whether autocatalytic cycles magically wash away origin-of-life constraints, such as low yields, enantiomeric excess, and chirality.
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Has Science Disproved the Existence of God?
January 9, 2023 North American Mission Board
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NASA unveils initial plan for multibillion-dollar telescope to find life on alien worlds
January 9, 2023 Science
Habitable Worlds Observatory would be designed for robotic servicing
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News Update/Commentary
Wide diversity of galaxies in the early universe
January 9, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists use CEERS Survey to examine the structure and morphology of 850 high-redshift galaxies