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News Update/Commentary
Mice pass the mirror test, a classic indicator of self-recognition
December 5, 2023 Science Daily
When the researchers marked the foreheads of black-furred mice with a spot of white ink, the mice spent more time grooming their heads in front of the mirror -- presumably to try and wash away the ink spot.
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Well-preserved skin may be from a mummy
December 5, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Fat Star Child Too Big for Mom
December 5, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Could a mother give birth to a 170-pound baby? That’s what a new exoplanet is like
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Watch It Now: Tour and Cronin at Harvard
December 5, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Despite Fine-Tuning, Roger Penrose Is “Agnostic” About Intelligent Design
December 5, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Seti: how we’re searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies
December 5, 2023 The Conversation
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Intelligent design is much more amazing and valuable than artificial intelligence
December 5, 2023 American Thinker
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Cosmology’s crisis needs MOND
December 5, 2023 iai News
It takes more than one study to falsify a theory
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“Singularities don’t exist,” claims black hole pioneer Roy Kerr
December 5, 2023 Big Think
The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?
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How new antimatter science could soon explain the existence of everything
December 5, 2023 BBC, Science Focus
Matter comes in many flavours, each with its own unique, intriguing properties.
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Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?
December 5, 2023 Nature
Scientists worry that ill-informed use of artificial intelligence is driving a deluge of unreliable or useless research.
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News Update/Commentary
‘Shocking' discovery: Electricity from electric eels may transfer genetic material
December 5, 2023 Science Daily
electric eels can alter the genes of tiny fish larvae with their electric shock. Their findings help to better understand electroporation, a method by which genes can be transported using electricity.
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Measuring Censorship Is Hard, and Stopping It May Be Harder
December 5, 2023 Inside Higher Ed
Censorship often comes from scientists themselves, driven by laudable motives
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2023 saw thrilling space missions and new cosmic mysteries
December 5, 2023 New Scientist
The past year gave us thrilling missions to Jupiter and the moon, stunning images that captured the universe like it’s never been seen before, and a few tanatalising cosmic mysteries
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Amber Fossils Suggest Male Mosquitoes Were Once Bloodsuckers
December 4, 2023 New York Times
The preserved insects, from a cache of Lebanese resin, appear to be male but have mouth parts that are found only on modern female mosquitoes.
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Tracing the crocodiles’ curious evolutionary family tree
December 4, 2023 Popular Science
Multiple extinct relatives of the crocodile like the Poposaurus lived 237 to 201.3 million years ago.
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Prestigious science journals confirm censored views
December 4, 2023 Just the News
masks at best don't reduce COVID infection
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Might There Be No Quantum Gravity After All?
December 4, 2023 Physics, v.16
A proposed model unites quantum theory with classical gravity by assuming that states evolve in a probabilistic way, like a game of chance.
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News Update/Commentary
More than a meteorite: New clues about the demise of dinosaurs
December 4, 2023 Science Daily
What wiped out the dinosaurs? A meteorite plummeting to Earth is only part of the story. Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions may have ultimately set the stage for the dinosaur extinction
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News Update/Commentary
Crocodile family tree mapped: New light shed on croc evolution
December 4, 2023 Science Daily
Around 250 million years ago, 700 species of reptiles closely related to the modern-day crocodile roamed the earth. Now new research reveals why just 23 species of crocodile survive today.
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News Update/Commentary
New theory unites Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics
December 4, 2023 Science Daily
The prevailing assumption has been that Einstein's theory of gravity must be modified, or ‘quantized', in order to fit within quantum theory.
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News Update/Commentary
Earliest-known fossil mosquito suggests males were bloodsuckers too
December 4, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have found the earliest-known fossil mosquito in Lower Cretaceous amber from Lebanon. What's more, the well-preserved insects are two males of the same species with piercing mouthparts
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Renowned Chemist on Origin-of-Life
December 4, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
Put Up or Shut Up
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Fire, engravings, burial all bogus???
December 4, 2023 Core Academy of Science
The remarkable remains from the Dinaledi chamber were first published in 2015. Lee Berger's research team claimed they were members of genus Homo (our own genus) but that they were a species new to science. They called it Homo naledi
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Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset
December 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Lessons from Julia Galef
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How to Overcome Scientism
December 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists Behaving Badly
December 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Suppressing Intelligent Design Was Only the Start
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Video
The electrical origins of life
December 4, 2023 YouTube
Modern cells use electrical charges on membranes to drive their metabolism, which in turn makes the building blocks of genes and proteins. Lane shows that equivalent processes were possible in ancient hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean.
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Do Scientists Need To Learn To Lie More Believably?
December 3, 2023 Mind Matters
As public trust in science diminishes, one serious proposal that scientists should manipulate our beliefs for our own good
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Fossils and the Flood (Part Two)
December 3, 2023 YouTube
Scientist Paul Garner joins us again to discuss his book “Fossils and the Flood.” Informed by the latest creationist scholarship and richly illustrated -- this book reconstructs the world before and after the Genesis Flood in unprecedented depth
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Should Scientists Lie to Us for Our Own Good?
December 3, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Search for ET Should Quit Claiming Earth Is Not Special
December 2, 2023 Mind Matters
How will we assess the raw probability of being alone in this universe when we have no other universe to compare with ours?
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Live with William Dembski
December 2, 2023 YouTube
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Can Money Be Pure Information? Merely a Trusted Idea?
December 1, 2023 Mind Matters
A group of pragmatic Pacific Islanders put that concept to the test centuries ago
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Meteorites likely source of nitrogen for early Earth
December 1, 2023 Science magazine
Micrometeorites originating from icy celestial bodies in the outer Solar System may be responsible for transporting nitrogen to the near-Earth region in the early days of our solar system.
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Molecular movie captures DNA repair from start to finish
December 1, 2023 Chemistry World
An international team of researchers has used time-resolved ultrafast crystallography to follow the progress of DNA repair by a photolyase enzyme.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Gene as a dynamical notion: An extensive and integrative vision
December, 2023 Biosystems
Redefining the gene concept, from traditional to genic-interaction, as a new dynamical version
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News Update/Commentary
A new possible explanation for the Hubble tension
December 1, 2023 Science Daily
The universe is expanding. How fast it does so is described by the so-called Hubble-Lemaitre constant. But there is a dispute about how big this constant actually is
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Scientists issue major warning over world’s most dangerous volcanoes
December 1, 2023 Metro (UK)
Scientists have warned that some of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes are understudied, making it harder to predict if or when they may erupt.
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News Update/Commentary
Paleolithic humans may have understood the properties of rocks for making stone tools
December 1, 2023 Science Daily
Paleolithic humans in the Middle East selected flint for their cutting tools based on differences in the mechanical properties of the rock. They seem to have purposefully selected the most suitable rocks for fashioning into tools
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Bird Tracks Found in Early Dinosaur Strata
December 1, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Either a dinosaur walked on bird feet or evolutionists are way off on their story of bird origins
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Meiotic DNA breaks drive multifaceted mutagenesis in the human germ line
December 1, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6674
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Ceres, a window into how planets could harbor life
December, 2023 Physics Today, v.76, n.12, p.54-55
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Exactly How Much Life Is on Earth?
December 1, 2023 New York Times
According to a new study, living cells outnumber stars in the universe, highlighting the deep, underrated link between geophysics and biology.
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The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent
December 1, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Bicentennial Year
December 1, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
A Cause for Celebration and for Sadness
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Wonders of Creation: Hummingbirds
December 1, 2023 Apologetics Press
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Scientists Build Tiny Biological Robots from Human Cells
November 30, 2023 New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Is the Turing Test Dead?
November 30, 2023 IEEE Spectrum
Researchers wonder whether improved large language models require new tests for machine intelligence
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A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity
November 30, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians prove a theorem that illuminates the geometry of universes with tiny amounts of mass.