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Archaea Sport Structures that Shuttle Genes Among Microbes
November 16, 2022 The Scientist
Researchers find so-called integrons, previously known only in bacteria, in their distantly related microbial relatives.
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Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design
November 16, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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How different the world would look if Neanderthals had prevailed
November 16, 2022 The Conversation
In evolutionary terms, the human population has rocketed in seconds. The news that it has now reached 8 billion seems inexplicable when you think about our history.
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What Happens When Science Mags Go Woke?
November 16, 2022 Mind Matters
When fashion mags go woke, no one cares. Some girls want to wear rags on their heads, well… But science mags?
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Theology and Evolution
November 16, 2022 St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
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Pressure to publish is ‘fuelling illegal practices in palaeontology’
November 16, 2022 Nature
More safeguards and stronger journal policies are needed to curb the problem, say authors of analysis on publication trends.
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Earth Can Regulate Its Own Temperature Over Millennia
November 16, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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A new particle won't solve dark matter
November 16, 2022 iai News
Dark matter may be information itself
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Ancient hominins cooked fish
November 15, 2022 Core Academy of Science
I can't tell you how long I've been hoping that we'd find something like this. A research team from Israel this week published their findings on the cooking of fish at a site they estimate is 780,000 years old.
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What Happens If a Star Explodes Near the Earth?
November 15, 2022 YouTube
People have witnessed supernovae for millennia, but what threat do they pose to life on Earth?
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Does physical reality objectively exist?
November 15, 2022 Big Think
We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
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Leprosy Bacterium Rejuvenates Armadillos’ Livers
November 15, 2022 The Scientist
Mycobacterium leprae appeared to reprogram the animals’ livers to a state partially resembling early development, resulting in healthy organ growth.
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MicroRNAs Can Boost Gene Expression
November 15, 2022 The Scientist
The tiny strings of RNA promote translation of a protein implicated in cancer, a hint they could regulate gene expression in more ways than previously thought.
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Returning to a Young Moon
November 15, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
On the eve of the Artemis launch, questions about the age and formation of the moon have resurfaced
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Twelve “Shocking” Discoveries for Evolution
November 15, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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How the Multiverse Ruins Science…and Storytelling
November 15, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Meyer and Klavan
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Ancient Retroviruses Make Up 8% of Human Genome
November 15, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Welsh “weird wonder” fossils add piece to puzzle of arthropod evolution
November 15, 2022 Harvard University
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News Update/Commentary
Footprints claimed as evidence of ice age humans in North America need better dating
November 15, 2022 Science Daily
The preserved footprints found in New Mexico's Lake Otero Basin would upend scientific understanding of how, and when, humans first arrived in North America, if they are accurately dated. A new study brings the age claim into question.
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Could AI Ever Pass the Van Gogh Test?
November 14, 2022 Mind Matters
Van Gogh was crazy but he was talented and AI can be neither
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Cool leaf! Study records chimp showing off object in human-like way
November 14, 2022 The Guardian
Adult ape sharing information and just wanted mother to look at foliage with no motive otherwise, scientists say
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This Concerning Theory May Explain Why We Haven't Found Evidence of Intelligent Alien Life
November 14, 2022 The Debrief
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Jacques Ellul and the Idols of Transhumanism
November 14, 2022 Religion & Liberty, v.35, n.4
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The Eye -- It Easily Evolved (If You Don’t Look Closely)
November 14, 2022 Answers in Genesis
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How to Think About Relativity
November 14, 2022 Quanta Magazine
Albert Einstein’s ideas about space-time aren’t exactly intuitive, and they aren’t exactly Einstein’s, either.
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News Update/Commentary
Brain area thought to impart consciousness, behaves instead like an Internet router
November 14, 2022 Science Daily
The brain's claustrum, receives, amplifies, and broadcasts an ‘Internet network' required to complete complex cognitive tasks
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Fossilized Fish Teeth Could Be Earliest Evidence of Cooking
November 14, 2022 The Scientist
Study authors say the teeth, dated around 780,000 years old, push back the date humans are known to have engaged in cooking by more than 600,000 years.
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers solve hundred-year-old botanical mystery that was key to the spread of plant life on land
November 14, 2022 Science Daily
A new study has discovered how early plants emerged from their watery habitats to grow on land through changes to their vascular systems.
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Roger Penrose: “Consciousness must be beyond computable physics"
November 14, 2022 New Scientist
The mathematician shares his latest theories on quantum consciousness, the structure of the universe and how to communicate with civilisations from other cosmological aeons
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Why Epigenetics Contradicts Evolutionary Theory
November 14, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Early humans may have cooked fish in ovens 780,000 years ago
November 14, 2022 New Scientist
The remains of fish teeth at an archaeological site in Israel appear to have been cooked with controlled heat rather than directly exposed to fire
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The rise of scientific racism in palaeoanthropology
November 14, 2022 Nature
A forensic anthropologist unmasks insidious interpretations of fossil finds.
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A newly created artificial photosynthesis system is 10 times more effective than existing systems
November 14, 2022 Interesting Engineering
The team demonstrated how the artificial system works at the molecular level, which has not been accomplished before.
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Is Information the Future of Medicine and Biology?
November 12, 2022 Mind Matters
University of Washington’s Georg Seelig wants to “design molecules” and “write genetic information”
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Footprints in the Scams of Time
November 12, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists nearly triple the age of human footprints, revealing the effrontery in their slimy dating schemes.
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Evolution’s Circular Web of Self-Referencing Literature
November 11, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Complex Wing Folding of Earwigs
November 11, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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News Update/Commentary
What makes mice -- but not rats -- fat? Suppressing neuromedin U, study finds
November 11, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers investigate how a gene affects feeding functions differently in mice and rats
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Chemists Create an ‘Artificial Photosynthesis’ System Ten Times More Efficient Than Existing Systems
November 11, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Life After Death Receives Boost from New Research Study
November 10, 2022 Mind Matters
The world of Science! certainly isn’t turning out as some have hoped
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The Multiverse Is a “Gateway Drug"
November 10, 2022 Mind Matters
It’s a gateway drug to other crazy ideas, like the belief we live in a simulation
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Scientists Found a Way to Defeat a ‘Near-Superhuman' Go-Playing AI
November 10, 2022 Motherboard (Tech by Vice)
Researchers developed a rival adversarial AI to trick the fearsome KataGo model into losing games.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Renewing Linnaean taxonomy
November 10, 2022 Biological Reviews
a proposal to restructure the highest levels of the Natural System
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Scientific American goes defensive
November 10, 2022 Why Evolution Is True
tries to pretend that every social justice screed is a “science story”
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Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions
November 10, 2022 New Scientist
Many species of tree-living ants cultivate plants that grow on trees either for food or shelter, but there is a debate over whether the practice should be considered agriculture
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How reality is shaped by the speed of light
November 10, 2022 Big Think
You are trapped in time. You never live in the world as it is but only as you experience it as it was.
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There Is No Settled “Theory of Evolution”
November 10, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Neuroscientist: Near-Death Experiences Are “Utterly Incompatible” with Materialism
November 10, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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More Unnatural Naturalism, and More Confusion from Naturalists
November 10, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Relevance of Intelligent Design to Science and Society
November 10, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
A Primer