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We tested Einstein’s theory of gravity on the scale of the universe
November 10, 2022 The Conversation
here’s what we found
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How Magnetism Could Help Explain Earth’s Formation
November 10, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Darwinism Is Fracturing; Darwinist Celebrates
November 10, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here’s how to celebrate a fractured theory and forestall a scientific revolution: look happy and excited.
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New Study Finds Our Ancient Relatives Were Not So Simple After All
November 10, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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To Avoid a Cosmic Beginning, Physicist Paul Steinhardt Goes to Extraordinary Lengths
November 10, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Synapsids and the evolution of mammals, a different view
November 9, 2022 YouTube
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Archaeologists Discover 4,300-Foot-Long Tunnel Under Ancient Egyptian Temple
November 9, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers have been digging near the Taposiris Magna Temple in hopes of finding Cleopatra’s long-lost tomb
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Darwinism Led to Scientific Racism
November 9, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Science is a half century behind: the world’s leading science journal, Nature, finally admits that Darwinist “science” was a major cause of racism
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Is human intelligence an evolutionary dead end?
November 9, 2022 Genetic Literacy Project
The German Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was, by all accounts, a miserable human being. He famously sought meaning through suffering, which he experienced in ample amounts throughout his life.
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Neuroscientists look deep into the eyes of the octopus
November 9, 2022 Science Daily
By studying the visual system of an octopus, researchers hope to understand how its brain organization compares to that of humans and other vertebrates. Their results could provide insight into the evolution of visual systems across species.
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The study of evolution is fracturing -- and that may be a good thing
November 9, 2022 The Conversation
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Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions
November 9, 2022 Indiana University
Geologists in the U.S. and U.K. find parallels between ancient, global-scale extinction events and modern threats to Earth’s oceans
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A miniature universe shows particles may emerge out of empty space
November 9, 2022 New Scientist
A first-of-its-kind experiment simulating the cosmos with ultracold potassium atoms suggests that in a curved, expanding universe pairs of particles pop up out of empty space
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Sentience review: Inside a controversial new idea about consciousness
November 9, 2022 New Scientist
We are still struggling to account for consciousness. A new hypothesis by psychologist Nicholas Humphrey challenges the basis of the discussion and argues sentience isn't what we think
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Duck! Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other
November 9, 2022 Nature
Cephalopods living unusually close together have been filmed throwing shells, algae and silt -- sometimes at another octopus.
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Sounds of the stars: how scientists are listening in on space
November 9, 2022 Nature
In astronomy, the use of sound instead of light is breaking down barriers to participation and providing insight into the Universe.
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Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?
November 8, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Earth’s First Known Mass Extinction Event Starved Life of Oxygen
November 8, 2022 Universe Today
Life during the Ediacaran Period faced a mass extinction, and it was Earth’s first one.
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Students: Free Speech Should Sometimes Result in Death Penalty
November 8, 2022 Mind Matters
An open mind is apparently no longer valued at universities, the way it used to be
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How's the University of Austin Coming? It's Actually Happening
November 8, 2022 Mind Matters
The “intellectual freedom” university continues to take shape in a world of “death to free speech”
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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance
November 8, 2022 New Scientist
Flowerless gymnosperms, such as conifer and ginkgo, ruled the Jurassic world before their flowering rivals, the angiosperms, became dominant. What caused the fall of one and the rise of the other?
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Slo-mo camera reveals why springtails land perfectly every time
November, 2022 New Scientist
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Epigenetics Directs Genetics -- And That’s a Problem for Darwinism
November 8, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ancient ocean on Mars confirmed?
November 8, 2022 Earth Sky
A new study has found evidence for the shoreline that the researchers say once existed in the northern hemisphere.
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How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations
November 8, 2022 Quanta Magazine
Supergenes that lock inherited traits together are widespread in nature. Recent work shows that their blend of genetic benefits and risks for species can be complex.
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When “Darwin’s Bulldog” thought he discovered “primordial slime”
November 8, 2022 Big Think
Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.
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Scientists reveal an unexpected gene in transparent worms
November 8, 2022 Science Daily
Human homolog in C. elegans opens new window on diseases such as ALS and Alzheimer's
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Differences between brains of primates are small but significant, study shows
November 8, 2022 Science Daily
While the physical differences between humans and non-human primates are quite distinct, a new study reveals their brains may be remarkably similar. And yet, the smallest changes may make big differences in developmental and psychiatric disorders.
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Galactic archaeologists trace the evolution of the Milky Way
November 8, 2022 Physics Today
Improved methods of estimating the ages of stars, combined with new precision position and velocity data, are yielding insights into the major events that shaped our galaxy billions of years ago.
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Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered -- on a head-lice comb
November 8, 2022 The Guardian
Timeless fret over hygiene picked out on engraved Bronze age comb from ancient kingdom of Judah
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The Long and Winding Road to Eukaryotic Cells
November 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life After Death?
November 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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‘Iceman’ discovery wasn’t a freak event. More frozen mummies may await
November 7, 2022 Science
Assumptions about how weather, climate, and glacial ice conspired to preserve 5100-year-old Ötzi were wrong, researchers argue
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Did a Chaotic Climate Drive Human Evolution?
November 7, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A new 620,000-year climate record from East Africa reveals dramatic swings between wet and dry conditions that may have influenced human evolution.
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Earth's oldest stromatolites and the search for life on Mars
November 7, 2022 Science Daily
The earliest traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often been subjected to advanced alteration
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Why Don't Robots Have Rights? A Lawyer's Response
November 7, 2022 Mind Matters
Robots are hardware and software packages that lack a nature or any abilities outside of whatever their designers imagine
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The secret to the skillful skydiving of wingless springtails
November 7, 2022 Science Daily
How a tiny hexapod survives predators
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Geobiologists shine new light on Earth's first known mass extinction event 550 million years ago
November 7, 2022 Science Daily
Work shows a major loss of diversity during the Ediacaran Period, which lasted from 635 million to 540 million years ago
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Geobiologists shine new light on Earth's first known mass extinction event 550 million years ago
November 7, 2022 phys.org
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The Huxley Conspiracy to Sell Darwinism
November 7, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwinism may not have taken over the world but for a dynasty of ethically-challenged salesmen: the Huxley family.
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To Avoid a Cosmic Beginning, Physicist Paul Steinhardt Goes to Extraordinary Lengths
November 7, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Evolving Mammals?
November 7, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Huxley: the family that championed evolution
November 7, 2022 Nature
A multigenerational biography illuminates a dynasty’s vexed influence on science and society.
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A Catalog of Earth’s Minerals Will Inform Models of Life’s History and Extraterrestrial Life
November 6, 2022 Astrobiology
Nature has used 21 different ways to create pyrite (aka Fool’s Gold) -- the mineral world’s champion of diverse origins. Pyrite forms at high temperature and low, with and without water, with the help of microbes and in harsh environments
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As Conscious Observers, Do We Help Create Our World?
November 6, 2022 Mind Matters
That’s the big question in quantum mechanics, as science communicator Elizabeth Fernandez explains
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Two Computer Doomsday Scenarios: How Likely Are They?
November 6, 2022 Mind Matters
One features a computer superintelligence beyond human comprehension and the other features a computer that destroys the world for an algorithmic reward
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Endangered Devils Hole pupfish is one of the most inbred animals known
November 6, 2022 Science Daily
Inbreeding has caused at least 15 gene deletions, and homogenized its genome
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Genesis 5 and 11 (Part Three) -- The Authority of Biblical Chronology
November 6, 2022 YouTube
We will be discussing the syntax of Genesis 5 and 11, and the numerical divergences in the MT, LXX, and SP.
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Neuroscience and Human Identity: Are We Just Our Brains?
November 5, 2022 YouTube
What exactly are human beings? Are we advanced apes? Are we machines? Are we souls confined to a body? Questions of core human identity are central to many contemporary discussions. One often expressed view is that human beings are their brains.
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The forgotten history of radiometric dating
November 4, 2022 Physics Today
A leading technique used by geologists to precisely determine the age of ancient rocks wouldn’t work without synthetic isotopes that are a legacy of the Manhattan Project.