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‘Bit of panic’: Astronomers forced to rethink early Webb telescope findings
September 28, 2022 Nature
Revised instrument calibrations are bedevilling work on the distant Universe.
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How Nature contributed to science’s discriminatory legacy
September 28, 2022 Nature
We want to acknowledge -- and learn from -- our history.
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Evidence of dinosaur-killing asteroid impact found on the moon
September 28, 2022 space.com
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News Update/Commentary
Dead fish breathes new life into the evolutionary origin of fins and limbs
September 28, 2022 Science Daily
A trove of fossils in China, unearthed in rock dating back some 436 million years, have revealed for the first time that the mysterious galeaspids, a jawless freshwater fish, possessed paired fins.
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The oldest complete jawed vertebrates from the early Silurian of China
September 28, 2022 Nature, v.609, p.954-958
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Tune In to Channel Kir2.1
September 28, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A molecular machine with exquisite sensitivity has been shown in atomic detail for the first time.
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Origin of Life: Saved by Time?
September 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Separating Fact from Fiction about Artificial Intelligence
September 27, 2022 YouTube
Robert J. Marks addresses the fact and fiction of AI -- what AI is and isn't, whether humans will ever be able to upload themselves into a computer, what humans do that AI won't be able to replicate, and why many predictions about AI are wrong, .
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Armored worm reveals the ancestry of three major animal groups
September 27, 2022 Science Daily
A well-preserved fossilized worm dating from 518 million years ago resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animals
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Rebecca Wragg Sykes on the objects that reveal the Neanderthal mind
September 27, 2022 New Scientist
Cognitive archaeologist says we can learn something about the minds of Neanderthals by studying the stuff they left behind, from painted shells to stalagmite circles. We might even find hints about why they went extinct
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Not Found: Human Ancestor X
September 27, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
After 150 years, evolutionists have still not found Ancestor X. Some scientists openly admit this fact.
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Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell
September 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Former Particle Physicist Absolutely Annihilates the Field of Particle Physics
September 27, 2022 Futurism / The Byte
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China’s Mars rover finds hints of catastrophic floods
September 27, 2022 Nature
Radar images reveal clues to the history of a largely unexplored region.
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On the Deficiency of Alternative Models to Big Bang Cosmology
September 27, 2022 Uncommon Descent
theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder
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Portugal's mysterious ‘birthing stones'
September 27, 2022 BBC
In northern Portugal, a geological phenomenon has baffled scientists for decades: the rare Pedras Parideiras, or “Birthing Stones", which appear to miraculously spawn baby rocks.
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When Harvard psychologists declared war on Sigmund Freud, Freud won
September 27, 2022 Big Think
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.
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The fundamental problem with gravity and quantum physics
September 27, 2022 Big Think
We have two descriptions of the Universe that work perfectly well: General Relativity and quantum physics. Too bad they don't work together.
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Seawater could have provided phosphorous required for emerging life
September 27, 2022 University of Cambridge
The problem of how phosphorus became a universal ingredient for life on Earth may have been solved by researchers who have recreated primordial seawater containing the element in the lab.
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Making Art Is Uniquely Human
September 26, 2022 Mind Matters
While the architects of AI “art" tools like to think their technology can replace human creativity, the artistic impulse is uniquely human
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‘Something is seriously wrong’: Room-temperature superconductivity study retracted
September 26, 2022 Science
After doubts grew, blockbuster Nature paper is withdrawn over objections of study team
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Game-changing new theory upends what we know about how charged macromolecules self-assemble
September 26, 2022 Science Daily
Long ignored, dipole-dipole interactions give life its shape
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Key phases of human evolution coincide with flickers in eastern Africa's climate
September 26, 2022 Science Daily
Interdisciplinary research in southern Ethiopia enabled the deciphering of eastern Africa's climatic heartbeat and shows how key phases of climate change influenced human evolution, dispersal and innovation.
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The neural cartography of smell
September 26, 2022 Science Daily
The experience of every odor derives from precise brain circuitry that researchers now are revealing in unprecedented detail
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New study shows transmission of epigenetic memory across multiple generations
September 26, 2022 Science Daily
Changing the epigenetic marks on chromosomes leads to altered gene expression in offspring and in grandoffspring, demonstrating ‘transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.'
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New understanding of the inner world of lysosomes
September 26, 2022 Science Daily
Scientists have pinpointed a protein in lysosomes that is involved in recycling a crucial fatty component of cell membranes to keep cells healthy.
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On the Deficiency of Alternative Models to Big Bang Cosmology
September 26, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder
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Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules
September 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Life Can Thrive Around Even the Smallest Stars
September 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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No one in physics dares say so, but the race to invent new particles is pointless
September 26, 2022 The Guardian
In private, many physicists admit they do not believe the particles they are paid to search for exist -- they do it because their colleagues are doing it
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Reality Check: Can Bionic Hands Really Compete with Nature?
September 26, 2022 Mind Matters
A geographer born without a left forearm offers an honest assessment of the “bionic hand” arms race
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Major Rethink of Magma Dogma
September 26, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How fast does it take to fill a big magma chamber? Millions of years? No. Just a few months, actually.
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Young Earth Evidence
September 25, 2022 YouTube
we sit down with Young Earth Creationist and Paleontologist Dr. Marcus Ross to discuss the geological and scientific evidence for a young Earth
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Webb Telescope Builders “Are Questioning Previous Science"
September 25, 2022 Mind Matters
In an interview at Futurism, Webb astronomer Garth Illingworth shares how the new findings are shaking up what we think we know about the universe
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Can Panpsychism Save Naturalism from Itself?
September 25, 2022 Mind Matters
Panpsychism can be seen as an effort to save naturalism by acknowledging the reality of the mind while insisting that the mind is wholly natural
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Life can Thrive Around Even the Smallest Stars
September 25, 2022 Universe Today
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Philosopher Tries to Defend the Big Science Consensus
September 25, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A philosophy of science professor says we should believe what Big Science says. Are his reasons sound?
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Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules
September 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Water in asteroid dust offers clues to life on Earth
September 25, 2022 phys.org
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The brain undergoes a great “rewiring” after age 40
September 24, 2022 Big Think
The aging brain is networked differently.
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Oh, Not This Again: “AI Will Rise Up and Destroy Mankind"
September 24, 2022 Mind Matters
The advances of AI raise a number of issues, yes. But the intelligences behind these advances are not artificial at all
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News from the Search for Extraterrestrial Life 6
September 24, 2022 Mind Matters
China has found evidence for an ancient ocean on Mars and an international research teams reports that the number of dried-up lakes is higher than thought
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Abiogenesis: the Carter argument reconsidered
September 23, 2022 International Journal of Astrobiology
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By Losing Genes, Life Often Evolved More Complexity
September 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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One Way Human Vision Is Better Than a Machine's
September 23, 2022 Mind Matters
The problem machine vision has with understanding what things *should* look like creates risks for traffic video safety systems, researchers say
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Machine Uses Live Hawk Moth Antenna for Smell Detection
September 23, 2022 Mind Matters
Human-created sensors are not sensitive, fast, or discerning enough to identify and process smells in the danger zones for which the Smellicopter was designed
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Infinity: the question cosmology can't answer
September 23, 2022 iai News
The mind-boggling mystery of infinity
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“Extreme Inequality” Entrenched in Academic Hiring: Study
September 23, 2022 The Scientist
The United States gets roughly an eighth of its tenure-track professors from just five institutions, according to an analysis of nearly 300,000 faculty.
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Dippy Darwin Doodles
September 23, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Don’t take evolutionary stories so seriously. They’re intended to be funny.
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News Update/Commentary
Uncovering the skin's secrets: Studies show how skin forms differently across the body
September 23, 2022 Science Daily
Research finds skin location and type determine risk of disease such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis