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NASA Finds Spots on the Moon with San Francisco Temperatures
July 30, 2022 Mind Matters
No, this news is NOT from the “Strange News” tabloid at the checkout counter; it really happened and it is good news for proposed moon bases
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Exoplanets: Life Forms Made One Third of Earth's Minerals
July 30, 2022 Mind Matters
Researchers hope detection of such minerals on exoplanets can narrow the search for life
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Blog Post
Is the brain a computer?
July 30, 2022 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist? Not so Fast!
July 30, 2022 Answers in Genesis
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Big Science Spreading Climate Disinformation
July 30, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Three kinds of deliberate misinformation (i.e., disinformation) are being spread by Big Science and Big Media about climate change
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Scientists Are Undermining Our Trust in Science
July 30, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Six Brain Regions Control Language -- But We're Not Sure How
July 29, 2022 Mind Matters
We’re learning more about human language but it remains, in its way, mysterious
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Scientists May Have Found a Key Shift Between the Brains of Humans and Neanderthals
July 29, 2022 Science Alert
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Rare Earth hypothesis: Why we might really be alone in the universe
July 29, 2022 Astronomy magazine
The originators of the theory, Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee, explain why they think the development of complex life on other worlds is likely extraordinarily rare.
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News Update/Commentary
White egret orchid evolved frilly petal to support pollinator hawkmoth
July 29, 2022 Science Daily
Botanists suggest that the frilly lip of the white egret orchid evolved as a stabilizer for the hawkmoth while it pollinates the plant, resulting in better seed production.
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News Update/Commentary
Communication makes hunting easier for chimpanzees
July 29, 2022 Science Daily
When chimpanzees produce a specific vocalization, known as the ‘hunting bark', they recruit more group members to the hunt and capture their prey more effectively, researchers have now shown.
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News Update/Commentary
Swimming without brains and muscles
July 29, 2022 Science Daily
Physical mechanisms behind the movement of microswimmers
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Dolphins May Remember Personal Experiences
July 29, 2022 The Scientist
Bottlenose dolphins can recall trivial details of a prior event to later solve a novel task, a study finds, suggesting these mammals are capable of episodic memory.
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Nudge Theory Falsified
July 29, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The effectiveness of a popular technique for manipulating human behavior is effectively zero, a re-analysis shows
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Much Ado About Lactase Persistence
July 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Energy Harnessing and Blind Faith in Natural Selection
July 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Much Ado About Lactase Persistence
July 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists Discover 200 ‘Goldilocks’ Zones on the Moon Where Astronauts Could Survive
July 29, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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How Wandering Nuclei Shape Developing Embryos
July 29, 2022 The Scientist
As cricket blastoderms form, cell nuclei are pulled into an egg’s remaining empty space to form the new cell layers that will shape the developing animal.
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Fossil Friday: Dickinsonia, the Ediacaran Animal that Wasn’t
July 29, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Woodpeckers: There Are Advantages To Having a Small Brain
July 28, 2022 Mind Matters
Woodpeckers absorb 1200 to 1400 g shock driving their beaks into wood -- but a shock absorbing skull doesn’t explain the absence of damage
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Did pollination exist before plants?
July 28, 2022 Science
Research shows that seaweeds depend on crustaceans for fertilization
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DeepMind's protein-folding AI cracks biology's biggest problem
July 28, 2022 New Scientist
Artificial intelligence firm DeepMind has transformed biology by predicting the structure of nearly all proteins known to science in just 18 months, a breakthrough that will speed drug development and revolutionise basic science
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DeepMind uncovers structure of 200m proteins in scientific leap forward
July 28, 2022 The Guardian
Success of AlphaFold program could have huge impact on global problems such as famine and disease
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover new ‘origins of life' chemical reactions
July 28, 2022 Science Daily
The reaction generates amino acids and nucleic acids, the building blocks of proteins and DNA
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In Critiquing Dembski, Jason Rosenhouse Prioritizes Imagination over Reality
July 28, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Did Europeans Evolve into Becoming Lactose Tolerant?
July 28, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Top Ten Discoveries Related to Moses and the Exodus
July 28, 2022 The Shiloh Excavations
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Time is the increase of order, not disorder
July 28, 2022 iai News
Towards a new arrow of time
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Cellular self-organization: An overdrive in Cambrian diversity?
July 28, 2022 BioEssays
During the early Cambrian period metazoan life forms diverged at an accelerated rate to occupy multiple ecological niches on earth. A variety of explanations have been proposed to address this major evolutionary phenomenon termed the “Cambrian explosion.”
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Carbon Dating Is Becoming Useless
July 28, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Due to atmospheric trends, the usefulness of carbon dating may die.
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Fossil Scientists Ask, Could a Neanderthal Meditate?
July 27, 2022 Mind Matters
A paleoneurology research team suggests they couldn’t. But how can the researchers be sure?
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What does the Webb telescope reveal about God?
July 27, 2022 Why Evolution Is True
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Four revelations from the Webb telescope about distant galaxies
July 27, 2022 Nature
Astronomers are rapidly analysing spectacular snapshots of the faraway Universe.
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James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday
July 27, 2022 The Guardian
The scientist was best known for his theory that the Earth is a self-regulating community of organisms
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Why Did Europeans Evolve Into Becoming Lactose Tolerant?
July 27, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine
Famine and disease from millennia ago likely spurred the rapid evolution of the trait on the continent
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High Energy: Long Story Short Addresses “Energy Harnessing” and Life’s Origin
July 27, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive Sounds To Fend Off Bat Predators
July 27, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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How Many People Can Earth Support?
July 27, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Challenge to Origin of Life: Energy Harnessing (Long Story Short, Ep. 7)
July 27, 2022 YouTube
Chemical evolution would have required a continuous supply of energy to create the first life. But are the energy sources that have been proposed for chemical evolution realistic?
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Identifying Bias in Data Using Two-Distribution Hypothesis Tests
July 27, 2022 ACM Digital Library
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News Update/Commentary
Reef fish evolution driven by biting
July 26, 2022 Science Daily
Coral reefs are home to a spectacular variety of fish. A new study shows that much of this diversity is driven by a relatively recent innovation among bony fish -- feeding by biting prey from surfaces.
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Exoplanets: Searching for “Earth 2.0”
July 26, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Phase of Matter Opens Portal to Extra Time Dimension
July 26, 2022 Scientific American
Physicists have devised a mind-bending error-correction technique that could dramatically boost the performance of quantum computers
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Trust in Science? Fraud Now Claimed Re Key Alzheimer Paper
July 26, 2022 Mind Matters
Autism and COVID-19 research have also been marred by misrepresentation, raising issues about what “trust in science” should mean
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Extreme Exoworlds and the Extremophile Paradox
July 25, 2022 Astrobiology, v.22, n.8
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Extraterrestrial Life: Ancient Microbes May Help Us Find Alien Life Forms
July 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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CBS Annual Conference Abstracts 2022
July 25, 2022 Journal of Creation Theology and Science Series B: Life Sciences
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CGS Annual Conference Abstracts 2022
July 25, 2022 Journal of Creation Theology and Science Series C: Earth Sciences
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Quantum Physics and the End of Reality
July 25, 2022 IAI Live YouTube Special
Can quantum physics explain consciousness?