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The extraordinary consequences of Einstein’s universe
January 9, 2023 iai News
Relativity shatters our experience of time
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The reproducibility issues that haunt health-care AI
January 9, 2023 Nature
Health-care systems are rolling out artificial-intelligence tools for diagnosis and monitoring. But how reliable are the models?
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Urban lizards have gene mutations that help them adapt to city life
January 9, 2023 New Scientist
Anole lizards living in three cities in Puerto Rico have mutations in genes linked to immune function, limb and skin development, which may help them thrive alongside humans
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A Physicist Rejects the Idea That We Live in a Sim Universe
January 8, 2023 Mind Matters
At IAI News, Marcelo Gleiser worries that the claim that we are simulated beings with no free will reduces our ability to tackle the problems humanity faces
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Nobelist Roger Penrose Talks About His Impossible Triangle
January 8, 2023 Mind Matters
At Closer to Truth, the mathematical physicist explains to Robert Lawrence Kuhn how he understands the relationship between mathematics, the mind, and the physical world
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Scientific American continues its departure from science and descent into illiberal politics
January 8, 2023 Why Evolution Is True
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Oceans Mitigate Global Warming
January 7, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
New findings show that our ocean, and the unique molecule -- water -- are designed to ameliorate climate catastrophes
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Settled Science and the Politics of Knowledge
January 6, 2023 The American Mind
Climate catastrophe keeps getting delayed, yet our doom remains imminent.
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News Update/Commentary
Organelles grow in random bursts
January 6, 2023 Science Daily
By demonstrating that organelle sizes obey a universal scaling relationship that scientists can predict theoretically, a new framework suggests that organelles grow in random bursts from a limiting pool of building blocks.
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Humans' big-brain genes may have come from ‘junk DNA'
January 6, 2023 Live Science
“De novo" genes may have paved the way for humans' big brains.
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The case for dark matter has strengthened
January 6, 2023 Big Think
Though a single measurement is not enough to definitively decide the debate, this is a major win for dark matter proponents.
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Darwinism Friday Follies
January 6, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here’s another collection of groaners by Darwinians worshiping King Charley
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Animals Tune Behavior by Lunar Cycle; but How?
January 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Can a Chatbot Tell Jokes. Yes, If They Are Stale
January 6, 2023 Mind Matters
As chatbots sort through the vast mass of online information for appropriate responses to questions, jokes were bound to come up
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Golden Moles and the Abrupt Origin of Afrosoricida
January 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Michael Shermer on Watching ‘Scientific American’ Go Woke
January 6, 2023 YouTube
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to book author and Skeptic editor Michael Shermer about why scientific media, professional organizations, and academic departments are increasingly succumbing to progressive ideological fads.
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New Evidence for the Shroud of Turin
January 6, 2023 YouTube
Jesus and the Shroud of Turin, and why it's authentic and what that means.
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Ideological criticism of science takes root in universities
January 5, 2023 The Irish Times
Decolonisation of this systematic study is just one example of ways institutions of learning now genuflect to sociopolitical ideologies
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News Update/Commentary
How evolution works
January 5, 2023 Science Daily
What genetic changes are responsible for the evolution of phenotypic traits? This question is not always easy to answer. A newly developed method now makes the search much easier.
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Newly Discovered Anatomy Shields and Monitors Brain
January 5, 2023 University of Rochester Medical Center
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Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery
January 5, 2023 BBC
A London furniture conservator has been credited with a crucial discovery that has helped understand why Ice Age hunter-gatherers drew cave paintings.
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Paleontologist Accused of Making Up Data on Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact
January 5, 2023 Gizmodo
A researcher claims that Robert DePalma published a faulty study in order to get ahead of her own work on the Tanis fossil site.
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James Webb Telescope Reveals Milky Way-like Galaxies in Young Universe
January 5, 2023 University of Texas, Austin
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JWST Finds Mature Galaxy in Young Universe
January 5, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
“We are dropping everything else” shouts an astrophysicist upon first look at a mature barred spiral in the early universe.
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Human and Neanderthal brains have a surprising ‘youthful’ quality in common, new research finds
January 5, 2023 The Conversation
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Another Eternal Cosmology Model Shot Down by the BGV Theorem
January 5, 2023 Wintery Knight
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We've just discovered a new part of the brain's waste disposal system
January 5, 2023 New Scientist
A thin layer of tissue called the subarachnoid lymphatic-like membrane, or SLYM, keeps fresh cerebrospinal fluid separate from fluid containing waste from brain cells
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Minimal Complexity Problem in Prey Detection by the Sand Scorpion
January 5, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA
January 5, 2023 Science
Researchers discover how DNA sequences must mutate to free their RNA to make proteins
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The Evolution of Dr. Ann Gauger
January 5, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book
Strong evidence that the New Testament is true
January 5, 2023 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: Can We Trust the Gospels? by Peter J. Williams (Crossway, 2018) | See Also Amazon
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Bird Beaks: Modern and Ancient
January 5, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Humans Walk Weird. Scientists May Finally Know Why
January 4, 2023 Wired
Humanity’s peculiar gait has long confounded engineers and biomechanists -- but it might be one of nature’s clever tricks.
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The uncertain art of reconstructing history
January 4, 2023 Physics Today
For historians, interpreting what is left unsaid in a letter can be as important as understanding the words on the page itself.
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News Update/Commentary
The interior design of our cells
January 4, 2023 Science Daily
Database of 200,000 cell images yields new mathematical framework to understand our cellular building blocks ... Scientists have just debuted a new way to see how cells organize themselves
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Here today, gone tomorrow: How humans lost their body hair
January 4, 2023 Science Daily
a first-of-its-kind comparison of genetic codes from 62 animals is beginning to tell the story of how people -- and other mammals -- lost their locks
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Our language is inadequate to describe quantum reality
January 4, 2023 Big Think
The quantum world -- and its inherent uncertainty -- defies our ability to describe it in words.
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s first expedition ended in flames
January 4, 2023 Nature
Born 200 years ago, the evolutionary biologist experienced many setbacks during his career -- none more severe than when he headed home with his precious collections from Brazil.
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Escaping Darwin’s shadow: how Alfred Russel Wallace inspires Indigenous researchers
January 4, 2023 Nature
Wallace, who independently discovered the theory of evolution, relied on local knowledge to craft his seminal work on species ranges in the Amazon. Now, the region’s Indigenous scientists have taken charge of their research using cross-cultural tools.
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Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing
January 4, 2023 New Scientist
Stone Age people in Europe appear to have recorded the reproductive habits of animals with markings on cave paintings, hinting at the early origins of writing
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Brain Scientist: Consciousness Didn't Evolve It Creates Evolution
January 4, 2023 Mind Matters
With a tremor in his voice, Donald Hoffman tells Robert Lawrence Kuhn that even the Big Bang must be understood in a universe where consciousness is fundamental
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Students Depend on ChatGPT for Final Exams
January 4, 2023 Mind Matters
The new bot will only get better from here, but it won’t help students become better thinkers
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Diatoms and the Mystery of Morphogenesis
January 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers reveal an added layer of nuance in our sense of smell
January 4, 2023 Science Daily
The delicate fragrance of jasmine is a delight to the senses. But take a whiff of the concentrated essential oil, and the pleasant aroma becomes almost cloying. Indeed, part of the flower's smell comes from a prominent component of fecal odor.
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‘Jumping genes' help fungus kill salamanders
January 4, 2023 Science Daily
A fungus that infects salamanders contains multiple copies of the same ‘jumping genes', scientists have discovered.
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‘Disruptive’ science has declined -- and no one knows why
January 4, 2023 Nature
The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the last half-century.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time
January 4, 2023 Nature
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Reality is not a simulation and why it matters
January 4, 2023 iai News
Simulations all the way down
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Humans Are Still Evolving Thanks to Microgenes
January 4, 2023 The Scientist
A study sheds light on the tiny genes that have evolved in human genomes since we split from our mammalian ancestors.
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Inside Ancient Asteroids, Gamma Rays Made Building Blocks of Life
January 4, 2023 Quanta Magazine
A new radiation-based mechanism adds to the ways that amino acids could have been made in space and brought to the young Earth.