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Stem Cell Lines Riddled with Undetected Mutations
August 12, 2022 The Scientist
Most of the human induced pluripotent stem cells stored at major cell line repositories and used in research harbor thousands of DNA errors, a study finds, highlighting the need for improved quality control measures.
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Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor
August 12, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science, Faith, and the Problem of Pain
August 12, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The Cosmic California Megastorm
August 12, 2022 New York Times
A different ‘Big One' is approaching. Climate change is hastening its arrival.
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What Does It Mean To Say Bees “Feel and Think"?
August 11, 2022 Mind Matters
The New Scientist reviewer is unsure that we are ready for such a radical message. Unsure? At one time, it would have been branded “NOT science!”
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The Big Bang didn't happen
August 11, 2022 iai News
What do the James Webb images really show?
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Could a Less Complex Larynx Have Enabled Speech in Humans?
August 11, 2022 The Scientist
A paper argues that the evolutionary loss of a thin vocal membrane in the larynx may have facilitated oral communication.
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Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works
August 11, 2022 Quanta Magazine
Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters. The process might be what makes our own brains so successful.
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Newly identified fossil insect used 360-degree vision and sticky feet to find and snare its meals
August 11, 2022 phys.org
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No Escape from “In the Beginning”
August 11, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The universe had a beginning. Cyclic universes don’t work.
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Not all in the genes: Are we inheriting more than we think?
August 11, 2022 Science Daily
A fundamental discovery about a driver of healthy development in embryos could rewrite our understanding of what can be inherited from our parents and how their life experiences may shape us.
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From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design
August 11, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
my debt to Charles Thaxton
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What Is It Like to Be a Spider?
August 11, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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About Those “Synthetic Embryos”
August 11, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Humans Have More Voice Control Than Any Other Primates
August 11, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton
August 11, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The 6th mass extinction hasn’t begun yet, but Earth is barreling toward it
August 11, 2022 Live Science
A mass extinction event is already underway.
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Dinosaurs evolved different eye socket shapes to allow stronger bites
August 11, 2022 Science Daily
All the better to better eat you with -- Large dinosaur predators, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, evolved different shapes of eye sockets to better deal with high bite forces, new research has shown.
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US Federal Court Rules: Machines Do Not “Invent" Things
August 10, 2022 Mind Matters
Evidently, Stephen Thaler’s aim was to get the patent office to recognize that an AI system can invent things all by itself
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Why Misinformation Comes from the Top As Well As the Bottom
August 10, 2022 Mind Matters
At Big Think, Cameron English asks us to look at the incentives for academic scientists to publish questionable research that gains widespread attention.
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Scientists have unearthed what could be the world’s oldest ice core
August 10, 2022 Nature
Antarctic sample dated at 3–5 million years old extracted as international ice-drilling teams race to extend Earth’s climate record.
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The dramatic story behind general relativity’s Nobel Prize snub
August 10, 2022 Advanced Science News
More than 100 years on after Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize, some confusion remains around the committee's reasons for omitting relativity.
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The Petrology of the Muav Formation, Tonto Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona
August 10, 2022 Answers Research Journal
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How microglia are prompted to change their state to adapt to different areas of the brain
August 10, 2022 Science Daily
New study shows that microglia cells ‘listen in' to neighboring neurons and change to match them.
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Self-pollinating plant shows rapid loss of genetic variation
August 10, 2022 Science Daily
A group of ‘selfing' monkeyflower plants lost 13% to 24% of their genetic variation compared to another group that were propagated by bumble bees. This loss could rob the plants of their ability to adapt to environmental challenges
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Nearly a hundred genes have been lost during the woolly mammoth's evolution
August 10, 2022 Science Daily
A new study shows that 87 genes have been affected by deletions or short insertions during the course of the mammoth's evolution. The researchers note that their findings have implications for international efforts to resurrect extinct species
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Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses
August 10, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Some Concluding Thoughts on Gutsick Gibbon’s Challenge
August 10, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Let’s Do Assumption-Free Science!
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‘Eternal Engine’ Inspires the Next Generation of Ultraprecise Atomic Clocks
August 10, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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How Naked Mole-Rats Avoid Mutations
August 10, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Naked mole-rat research eloquently supports the creationists’ position that mutations are dominant in causing disease, aging, and eventually, death
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Evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents
August 10, 2022 Science Daily
New research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth's continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were particularly prevalent during the first billion years or so of our planet's four-and-a-half-billion year history.
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Webb telescope reveals unpredicted bounty of bright galaxies in early universe
August 9, 2022 Science
Star formation after the big bang appears much faster than models had forecast
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Super-Earth Skimming Habitable Zone of Red Dwarf
August 9, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Benefits of Viruses
August 9, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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What the James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed About Distant Galaxies So Far
August 9, 2022 Answers in Genesis
How should creationists interpret the images from the farthest galaxies yet?
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How to Comb a Jelly
August 9, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
To make a comb jelly attractive to a Darwinist, all you have to do is reduce by 1 the number of miracles required for its sudden appearance
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Networking for food: Bats communicate and work together for more efficient foraging
August 9, 2022 Science Daily
Social hunting strategies are already well documented in many animal species when prey is distributed in an unpredictable way across the landscape.
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Yes, Winston Ewert’s Dependency Graph Is a Real Model
August 9, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science Journal Reaffirms Universe Had a Beginning
August 9, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
a key argument in Meyer’s God Hypothesis
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Darwin critics call for a new look at Darwinian evolution
August 9, 2022 Current Science Daily
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The big idea: are we living in a simulation?
August 8, 2022 The Guardian
Could the universe be an elaborate game constructed by bored aliens?
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Why do we die?
August 8, 2022 BBC
Certain jellyfish and their relatives offer tantalising clues as to whether immortality is possible -- so why does death become the rest of us?
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If DNA Is a Language, Who Is the Speaker?
August 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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How AI Neural Networks Show That the Mind Is Not the Brain
August 8, 2022 Mind Matters
A series of simple diagrams shows that, while AI learns faster than the human brain, the human mind tackles problems that stump AI
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Epitaph for Transhumanism: But It's Far from Dead!, Advocate Says
August 8, 2022 Mind Matters
George Dvorsky embraced it as a religion but he sees public interest waning amid growing criticism of Big Tech’s side effects
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Are Some People Born with Tails? (Part 2)
August 8, 2022 Answers in Genesis
Tall tales told by evolutionists about supposed “atavistic” organs
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What Earth’s mysterious infancy tells us about the origins of life
August 8, 2022 New Scientist
Redrawing the geological timeline of Earth’s first billion years is casting new light on whether life emerged on land or in the oceans
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Fossil Soft Tissue: An Apatite for Rotten Fish
August 8, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists put up with the smell of rotting sea bass for 2.5 months to learn why some fossils preserve soft tissues. They didn’t learn much.
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Into the brain of comb jellies: Scientists explore the evolution of neurons
August 8, 2022 Science Daily
A new study into the neurons found in the earliest-diverging animal lineages reveals key clues about the form of the most ancestral nervous system, and how neurons first evolved.
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Seven-month-old babies already have a sense of symmetry
August 8, 2022 Science Daily
A collaborative study examined the spontaneous looking patterns of 7-month-old babies when presented with mosaic-like sequences with a symmetrical and asymmetrical structure.