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Top Medical Journal Goes After…Capitalism
December 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
This Is Science?
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Large Language Models Are Still Smoke and Mirrors
December 15, 2023 Mind Matters
Incapable of understanding, LLMs are good at giving bloated answers.
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Science DOESN'T Explain What You Think It Does
December 15, 2023 YouTube
Lennox presents a compelling case for creationism and adeptly critiques the limitations of the theory of evolution while simultaneously clarifying his position on the age of the Earth, claiming he is NOT a young earth creationist
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient DNA reveals how a chicken virus evolved to become more deadly
December 15, 2023 Science Daily
An international team of scientists led by geneticists and disease biologists has used ancient DNA to trace the evolution of Marek's Disease Virus (MDV).
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News Update/Commentary
Can you change a chicken into a frog, a fish or a chameleon?
December 15, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have developed a theoretical framework that can reproduce and predict the patterns associated with gastrulation in a chicken embryo.
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Cosmology Could Be Fundamentally Flawed
December 15, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Citizens should know about mistaken predictions in science
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Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery
December 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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It’s Intelligent Design, Not Darwinism, that Drives Scientific Progress
December 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning
December 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is There Anything Non-physical About the Mind?
December 14, 2023 YouTube
Can consciousness be explained by only physical activities of the physical world? Because if not, if there is anything else required to explain consciousness in addition to the physical brain, then consciousness would defeat a materialistic worldview.
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If Science Doesn't Support Dualism -- Well, It Should
December 14, 2023 Mind Matters
At Big Think, Kmele Foster interviews five figures in consciousness studies. Not one is a dualist but a listener may come away with a new appreciation for dualism
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Psychology Researchers: AI Showed Imitation, Not Innovation
December 14, 2023 Mind Matters
Testing children and adults against chatbots, the researchers found that the chatbots could match things up but struggled to solve problems on their own
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient chicken remains reveal the origins of virulence in Marek’s disease virus
December 14, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6676, p.1276-1281
Researchers studied ancient DNA from chickens to reveal the evolutionary history of this once mild disease
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Consciousness does not require a self
December 14, 2023 iai News
The self is a prediction of the brain
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Do Ancient Fish Point to Shoulder Evolution?
December 14, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Human Evolution Story Constantly Rethought
December 14, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Nothing we were taught is true. Everything is up for revision.
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The drivers of massive star evolution
December 14, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6676, p.1240-1241
An elusive population of stripped binary stars is finally revealed
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For Advent, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe
December 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Humans and Fungi: In Wish, Disney Goes to War on Human Exceptionalism
December 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Return (Yet Again) of the Humanzee
December 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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AI and the Chinese Room Argument
December 13, 2023 Mind Matters
We still haven't cracked the mystery of human intelligence.
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The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution
December 13, 2023 New Scientist
In 2023, archaeologists found evidence of architecture and art beginning earlier than we thought, and uncovered data that rewrites our ideas of how much power women had in ancient societies
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Human intelligence: how cognitive circuitry, rather than brain size, drove its evolution
December 13, 2023 The Conversation
It’s one of the great paradoxes of evolution. Humans have demonstrated that having large brains are key to our evolutionary success, and yet such brains are extremely rare in other animals.
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News Update/Commentary
Using next-gen CRISPR tool, scientists create unprecedented molecular map of human immune response
December 13, 2023 Science Daily
scientists have created an intricate map of how the immune system functions, examining the detailed molecular structures governing human T cells using the next-generation CRISPR tool known as base editing.
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News Update/Commentary
Cell types in the eye have ancient evolutionary origins
December 13, 2023 Science Daily
Though vertebrates vary widely in the number of retinal cell types, most seem to have a common origin
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists unveil complete cell map of a whole mammalian brain
December 13, 2023 Science Daily
Atlas characterizes over 32 million cells across the mouse brain
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New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond
December 13, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversity, with many thousands of subtly different types of cells in the human brain alone.
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2023 was the year that artificial intelligence went mainstream
December 13, 2023 New Scientist
From ChatGPT to Gemini, this year was dominated by large language models and other AIs becoming everyday tools used by millions of people
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Rampant Speculation Rules Science Media
December 13, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Science reporters routinely speculate about things they can’t possibly know
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Ten people (and one non-human) who helped shape science in 2023
December 13, 2023 Nature
An AI pioneer, an architect of India’s Moon mission and the world’s first global heat officer are some of the people behind this year’s big stories.
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Are tiny black holes hiding within giant stars?
December 13, 2023 Science
Phenomenon could account for universe’s mysterious dark matter
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News Update/Commentary
Enzymes can't tell artificial DNA from the real thing
December 13, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers are exploring how to add letters to the genetic alphabet to make never-before-seen proteins
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Sleeping and Waking -- A Designer’s Gift
December 13, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Quorum Sensing: A Clever Trick by Microbes
December 13, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin falsified yet again
December 12, 2023 YouTube
Darwinian processes are found to be grossly inadequate to generate a new protein protein binding site, much less are they adequate for explaining the staggering integrated complexity now being revealed for the protein interactome network.
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Why Does the Proposal for Chimp-Human Hybrids Keep Coming Back?
December 12, 2023 Mind Matters
From David Barash’s perspective, the humanzee’s suffering is rendered worthwhile precisely because it enables the denigration of other human beings
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The 1st life in the universe could have formed seconds after the Big Bang
December 12, 2023 Live Science
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On Questioning the Design of Evolution
December 12, 2023 academia.edu
a new account of the compatibility of evolution and design arguments
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The future of AI: The 5 possible scenarios, from utopia to extinction
December 12, 2023 New Scientist
How will the rise of artificial intelligence ultimately pan out for society? We sketch the most likely outcomes, including a world where AIs solve all our problems and another in which they wipe us out
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Strange alien worlds suggest Earth could survive the death of the sun
December 12, 2023 New Scientist
We thought there was no chance our world could survive the fiery death of the sun in another 5 billion years. Now sightings of strange “orphan planets" might force us to rewrite the story
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The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science
December 12, 2023 New Scientist
Some 550 years ago, a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro set out to create a world map. Rather than myth and religion, it was based on solid evidence for the first time
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What the Ottomans did for science -- and science did for the Ottomans
December 12, 2023 Nature, v.624, p.248-250
A hundred years after the birth of modern Turkey, a monumental research project is uncovering the untold story of science and technology during six centuries of the Ottoman Empire.
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More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 -- a new record
December 12, 2023 Nature
The number of articles being retracted rose sharply this year. Integrity experts say that this is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024
December 12, 2023 New Scientist
A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain
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Why are there no flightless bats? We're closing in on an answer
December 12, 2023 New Scientist
A careful look at the few bats that can walk on the ground -- including the common vampire bat -- is helping us understand why evolution has yet to produce a flightless bat
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News Update/Commentary
Migratory bats can detect Earth's magnetic field
December 12, 2023 Science Daily
Study indicates that these animals, like birds, are sensitive to the angle of magnetic inclination
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How Researchers Smuggle Design into Their Theories
December 12, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Cronin-Tour at Harvard
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Sleep -- Designed for Our Good
December 12, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Stone Age Pioneers: Homo erectus’ High-Altitude Life 2 Million Years Ago
December 11, 2023 Sci Tech Daily
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Asteroid pieces brought to Earth may offer clue to life’s origin
December 11, 2023 Washington Post
Before Earth had biology, it had chemistry. How the one followed from the other -- how a bunch of boring molecules transformed themselves into this special thing we call life -- is arguably the greatest unknown in science.