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How Earth’s Magnetic Field Bounced Back Just As Complex Life Was Emerging
September 19, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists have calculated how many ants are on Earth
September 19, 2022 Washington Post
A new estimate for the sheer number of ants on Earth comes to an “unimaginable” sum, one researcher said
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Impact Crater off the African Coast May Be Linked to Chicxulub
September 19, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The underwater crater, spotted serendipitously in commercial observations of seafloor sediments, is believed to have formed at roughly the same time as the famous Cretaceous-Paleogene impact event.
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Why Philosopher Quentin Smith Saw Belief in God As Unscientific
September 18, 2022 Mind Matters
Reader Laszlo Bencze looks at his list of reasons for thinking so and offers some thoughtful comments
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Philosopher: “Universe Fine-Tuned for Life" Is Just Folk Belief!
September 18, 2022 Mind Matters
Do physicists claim that the universe is fine-tuned for life only when writing for a popular audience -- and not in their professional work?
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The Power of a Cosmic Perspective
September 18, 2022 J News (UK)
The idea that the sun, moon, planets and stars affect us personally is called astrology, and it goes way back.
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Is this Shroud the Burial Garment of Jesus?
September 17, 2022 YouTube
Habermas shares the special qualities of the Shroud of Turin and problems with the most recent Carbon 14 dating
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At Scientific American: Webb Is Breaking the Big Bang Paradigm
September 17, 2022 Mind Matters
That cosmic blast has been as much of a cultural and philosophical concept as a scientific one -- hence the angst over challenging findings
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Researchers Claim to Have Found a Rare Dinosaur ‘Mummy' with Some Fossilized Skin
September 17, 2022 Science Alert
Bits of a fossil discovered jutting out from a Canadian cliff in 2021 could be attached to a rare complete dinosaur skeleton, complete with fossilized skin.
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No, AI did not discover a new type of physics
September 17, 2022 Big Think
An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
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Defining the “Science of Purpose”
September 17, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Gogo Darwin: Latest Evo-Hype from Heart Fossil
September 17, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A soft-tissue fossil should shame Darwinians into embarrassed silence, but they’re using it to promote evolution.
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Early Life Learned to Love Oxygen Long Before It Was Cool
September 16, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Laboratory experiments show that earthquakes may have helped early life evolve in an oxygen-free world.
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News Update/Commentary
Gut microbes and humans on a joint evolutionary journey
September 16, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers discover simultaneous evolutionary history of gut microbes with their human hosts over hundreds of thousands of years
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News Update/Commentary
Even smartest AI models don't match human visual processing
September 16, 2022 Science Daily
How deep-network models take potentially dangerous ‘shortcuts' in solving complex recognition tasks
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Historic Adaptations May Now Make Us Susceptible to Disease
September 16, 2022 The Scientist
Researchers made the find using an algorithm that purportedly distinguishes between mutations that were selected for and those that came along for the ride by coincidence, a feat that has long eluded scientists.
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Is Sahelanthropus Our Seven-Million-Year-Old Bipedal Ancestor?
September 16, 2022 Answers in Genesis
Could this purported human ancestor even walk upright?
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News Update/Commentary
Data science reveals universal rules shaping cells' power stations
September 16, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have used data science and computational biology to show that the same ‘rules' have shaped how mitochondria and chloroplasts have evolved throughout life's history.
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Fossil Friday: Rhenocystis and the Controversial Calcichordate Hypothesis
September 16, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Perseverance Rover Is Finding More and More Organic Matter on Mars
September 16, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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NASA’s Mars rover makes ‘fantastic’ find in search for past life
September 16, 2022 Nature
Perseverance has collected four rock samples from an ancient river delta where organisms might have thrived.
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Meet the mystery diamond from outer space
September 16, 2022 CNN
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Palestinian Farmer Discovers Rare Ancient Treasure in Gaza
September 15, 2022 NBC
The discovery has set off excitement among archaeologists, and the territory's Hamas rulers are planning a major announcement in the coming days
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News Update/Commentary
Earth's newest secret: How volcanoes really work
September 15, 2022 Science Daily
Recent findings from Iceland's Fagradalsfjall eruptions change what we know about how volcanoes work
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Researchers Discover Extinct Prehistoric Reptile That Lived Among Dinosaurs
September 15, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine
Discovery sheds light on the tuatara, the last living member of a once-diverse group of reptiles that has almost entirely been supplanted by lizards
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The Perseverance rover is finding more and more organic matter on Mars
September 15, 2022 New Scientist
NASA’s Perseverance rover has found a glut of organic molecules on Mars, as well as other materials that make the dry river delta it is now exploring perfect for hunting for signs of life
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DNA clocks suggest ageing is pre-programmed in our cells
September 15, 2022 New Scientist
Looking at DNA in a tissue sample is now all you need to accurately work out the age of almost any mammal, and this reveals something fundamental about ageing
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Scientists are using AI to dream up revolutionary new proteins
September 15, 2022 Nature
Huge advances in artificial intelligence mean researchers can design completely original molecules in seconds instead of months.
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Frank Drake (1930–2022)
September 15, 2022 Nature
Radioastronomer who hunted for alien signals and penned the eponymous equation.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Exceptional preservation of organs in Devonian placoderms from the Gogo lagerstätte
September 15, 2022 Science, v.377, n.6612, p.1311-1314
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We found the oldest ever vertebrate fossil heart
September 15, 2022 The Conversation
It tells a 380 million-year-old story of how our bodies evolved
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Research Contradicting the LGBT Agenda Shouldn’t be Printed
September 15, 2022 Answers in Genesis
Academic Editorial
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News Update/Commentary
The hemispheres are not equal: How the brain is not symmetrical
September 15, 2022 Science Daily
Some functions are processed more on the left side, others more on the right. Scientists have now discovered heritable underpinnings of brain asymmetry and how much we share with monkeys.
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Dinosaur Skin Dazzles Scientists
September 15, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Skin of a juvenile hadrosaur emerges from a hillside in Canada; is it really 78 million years old?
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Another Prestigious Science Journal Conflates Science with Politics and Pushes for Technocracy
September 15, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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RuvAB: Another Elegant Molecular Motor Visualized
September 15, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Pioneering Research Using Bacteria Brings Scientists a Step Closer To Creating Artificial Cells with Lifelike Functionality
September 15, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
Human Cyborgs are Just the Beginning
September 14, 2022
The USG Administrative State believes that Human Augmentation is ‘Imperative’
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Rapid shifting of a deep magmatic source at Fagradalsfjall volcano, Iceland
September 14, 2022 Nature, v.609, p.529-534
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City life is giving male Australian cane toads longer legs
September 14, 2022 New Scientist
Invasive cane toads that live in Australia’s cities have developed different physical traits from those in the countryside, which may be due to rapid adaptation to urban environments
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Inside the US Supreme Court’s war on science
September 14, 2022 Nature
A new ultraconservative supermajority on the United States’ top court is undermining science’s role in informing public policy. Scholars fear the results could be disastrous for public health, justice and democracy itself.
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The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird
September 14, 2022 Answers Research Journal, v.15, p.285-300
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News Update/Commentary
Pioneering research using bacteria brings scientists a step closer to creating artificial cells with lifelike functionality
September 14, 2022 Science Daily
Scientists have harnessed the potential of bacteria to help build advanced synthetic cells which mimic real life functionality.
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News Update/Commentary
New method for comparing neural networks exposes how artificial intelligence works
September 14, 2022 Science Daily
Adversarial training makes it harder to fool the networks
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News Update/Commentary
Early gibbon fossil found in southwest China: Discovery fills evolutionary history gap of apes
September 14, 2022 Science Daily
A team of scientists has discovered the earliest gibbon fossil, a find that helps fill a long-elusive evolutionary gap in the history of apes.
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Report from Australia: Sharing Design Evidence Down Under
September 14, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Big Bang Singularity Resolution in Quantum Cosmology
September 14, 2022 arXiv
We evaluate the physical viability and logical strength of an array of putative criteria for big bang singularity resolution in quantum cosmology.
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Three times artificial intelligence has scared scientists -- from creating chemical weapons to claiming it has feelings
September 13, 2022 The U.S. Sun
The artificial intelligence revolution has only just begun, but there have already been numerous unsettling developments.
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Fighting among the creationists?
September 13, 2022 Biblical Genetics
Dealing with disagreements among colleagues
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70-year-old quantum prediction comes true, as something is created from nothing
September 13, 2022 Big Think
In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.