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Hibernating beetles break down and regrow their muscles on demand
July 25, 2022 New Scientist
Colorado potato beetles lose almost all the mitochondria in their muscles during hibernation, but regrow them in time to start flying in the spring
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In Artificial and Biological Neural Networks, Intelligent Design Is Undeniable
July 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Can a Computer Write Your Novel? Well, What Do You Want to Say?
July 25, 2022 Mind Matters
These tools are sure to become a staple in the hot and time-sensitive market for boutique formula fiction
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Claim: We've Shown That Dogs Can Form “Abstract Concepts"
July 25, 2022 Mind Matters
It’s a good idea to be skeptical when any such claim is followed up with the assertion that humans “aren’t that cognitively unique after all.”
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Study Finds T. rex Should Remain One Species
July 25, 2022 American Museum of Natural History
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Ancient fossil is earliest known animal predator
July 25, 2022 BBC
The 560-million-year-old specimen, which was found in Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, is likely a forerunner of cnidaria -- the group of species that today includes jellyfish.
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Darwinspeak: An Excuse for Lazy Thinking
July 25, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwin made it possible to become an intellectually fool-filled essayist
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Controversial idea that T. rex was three species comes under fire
July 25, 2022 New Scientist
A study that proposed Tyrannosaurus rex is three separate dinosaur species has been strongly disputed by another group of researchers, who say there was just one iconic tyrant lizard king
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News Update/Commentary
New study challenges old views on what's ‘primitive' in mammalian reproduction
July 25, 2022 Science Daily
Which group of mammals has the more ‘primitive' reproductive strategy -- marsupials, with their short gestation periods, or humans and other placental mammals, which have long gestation periods?
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Synthetic Tools Conduct Messages from Station to Station in DNA
July 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Artificial Neural Networks Can Show That the Mind Isn't the Brain
July 24, 2022 Mind Matters
Because artificial neural networks are a better version of the brain, whatever neural networks cannot do, the brain cannot do.
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How China's Pre-Crime Algorithms Work -- and Their Fatal Flaw
July 24, 2022 Mind Matters
The algorithms target, for example, those who complain about or draw attention to social injustices and abuses
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The mysterious inner life of the octopus
July 24, 2022 BBC
Octopuses are problem-solvers, mischief-makers and notorious escape artists. They also appear to have a rich inner life -- so what is it like to be an octopus?
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Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
July 23, 2022 YouTube
Lord Martin Rees is a cosmologist and astrophysicist at Cambridge University and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
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Claim: If Science Were Properly Presented, Trust Would Grow!
July 23, 2022 Mind Matters
The ideas examined in these four short essays all assume that scientists are exempt from the bias and self-interest that governs everyone else
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Exoplanets: As the Data Streams Back ... the Picture Comes In
July 23, 2022 Mind Matters
China is now focusing on the search for a planet like Earth, using the Earth 2.0 Telescope (ET). Astronomer Jian Ge believes his team can find 17
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Blog Post
Does the Past Still Exist?
July 23, 2022 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Sticklebacks may pass information learned from other fish to offspring
July 23, 2022 New Scientist
Stickleback fish can learn about predators by observing their peers. They may then be able to pass that information onto their offspring -- without ever interacting with them
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Speciation and the great apes
July 23, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Astronomer Suggests It Is Time To Look for Near-Earth Asteroids in the Direction of the Sun
July 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Radio bursts from ‘zombie’ black holes excite astronomers
July 22, 2022 Science
Delayed emissions from black holes that fed on stars months earlier could help explain the formation of powerful jets
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Unknown Cicada from the Cretaceous
July 22, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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New OpenAI Art Program Does Not Claim Copyright for AI
July 22, 2022 Mind Matters
As DALL-E 2, which generates blended images in response to key words, moves into the art world, a key question has just been settled
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Lab-Grown Brains Are Closer Now. Should They Have Rights?
July 22, 2022 Mind Matters
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Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives
July 22, 2022 Daily Kos
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Humans are evolving a new artery
July 22, 2022 Big Think
More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.
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How to Search for Life on Mars
July 22, 2022 The New Atlantis
First, stop refusing to look.
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Richard Lenski, E. coli, and the Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE)
July 22, 2022 Answers in Genesis
Back in February 1988, Michigan State University biologist Richard Lenski began a long-term experiment to look at how repeatable evolution was.
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News Update/Commentary
How the intestine replaces and repairs itself
July 22, 2022 Science Daily
A new study suggests that stem cells are able to integrate cues from their surroundings and coordinate their behavior across tissue through networks of vasculature in their close vicinity.
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Human Evolution Under Marshall Law
July 22, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new law of nature falsifies human evolution -- and maybe all evolution
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Chatbots Might Chat, But They’re Not People
July 22, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Chatbots Might Chat, But They’re Not People
July 22, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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CET Model in Plants Is Clearly Seen
July 21, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Warm-Bloodedness in Mammals May Have Arisen in Late Triassic
July 21, 2022 The Scientist
Researchers mapped ear canal shape to body temperature to predict when ancestors of mammals first became endothermic.
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Politicians Overplay Climate Science
July 21, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
With hype exploding around the internet, there has never been a bigger need to understand the limitations of science
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Lowly Organisms Help Rescue the Planet from Pollution
July 21, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Foresight in the biosphere
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Different Vertebrate Classes Arise in “Radically Diverse Ways”
July 21, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Hawaii's Lava Caves Are Teeming with Bacterial ‘Dark Matter'
July 21, 2022 Gizmodo
New research has found that the islands' volcanic environments are filled with a surprising diversity of bacterial life.
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Beloved monarch butterflies now listed as endangered
July 21, 2022 Associated Press
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Time isn’t simply just another dimension
July 21, 2022 Big Think
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
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Blots on a Field?
July 21, 2022 Science
A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease
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News Update/Commentary
Moths enlist additional troops in an evolutionary arms race
July 21, 2022 Science Daily
A new study shows that ultrasound-producing moths are far more widespread than previously thought, adding three newly discovered sound-producing organs, eight new subfamilies and potentially thousands of species to the roster.
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How James Webb Space Telescope Data Have Already Revealed Surprises
July 21, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Maintaining difference
July 21, 2022 Science v.377, n.6604, p.381-383
Ecotypes can persist over long time periods, even with substantial gene flow between them, which raises the question of how they maintain their locally adaptive phenotypes over time.
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News Update/Commentary
Competition limits the ranges of mountain birds
July 21, 2022 Science Daily
Citizen science data help clarify a longstanding puzzle
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Why the new James Webb Space Telescope images are such a big deal
July 20, 2022 Vox
The JWST can simply see more of the universe than the Hubble Space Telescope could.
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New fossil shows four-legged fishapod that returned to the water
July 20, 2022 University of Chicago
Researchers discover a new fossil that is closely related to other animals that made the transition to land, but with features more suited for swimming and life in the water.
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How researchers have pinpointed the origin of ‘warm-blooded’ mammals
July 20, 2022 Nature
Ancient inner ears give clues to when mammals evolved ‘warm-bloodedness’, and an efficient enzyme that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air.
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Evolution of thermoregulation as told by ear
July 20, 2022 Nature
An analysis of fossil specimens of the inner ear helps to refine the timeframe of a key transition in vertebrate evolution -- when our mammal-like ancestors began to regulate and maintain a high body temperature.
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Ear fossils hint at origin of warm-blooded mammals
July 20, 2022 Nature
Analysis suggests that the cold-blooded ancestors of mammals evolved faster metabolisms in the Late Triassic period, roughly 230 million to 200 million years ago.