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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.
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Could Life Exist in Molecular Clouds?
November 30, 2023 Universe Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Psychological inoculation strategies to fight climate disinformation across 12 countries
November 30, 2023 Nature Human Behavior
Decades after the scientific debate about the anthropogenic causes of climate change was settled, climate disinformation still challenges the scientific evidence in public discourse.
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News Update/Commentary
Snake skulls show how species adapt to prey
November 30, 2023 Science Daily
By studying the skull shapes of dipsadine snakes, researchers have found how these species of snakes in Central and South America have evolved and adapted to meet the demands of their habitats and food sources.
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News Update/Commentary
Genomic study sheds light on how carnivorous Asian pitcher plants acquired signature insect trap
November 30, 2023 Science Daily
Plants' duplicated genomes may have paved the way for specialized carnivory, separate-sexed plants
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Human Cerebellum Aids Higher Cognitive Functions
November 30, 2023 Mind Matters
At one time, the cerebellum was thought to facilitate only functions like movement. But recent research shows that it’s more complex
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Hossenfelder vs Goff: Debate About Electrons Sparks Social Media!
November 30, 2023 Mind Matters
The public has not suddenly become interested in whether electrons exist. Rather, more people are using new media for an increasingly broad array of purposes.
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World’s oldest forts upend idea that farming alone led to complex societies
November 30, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6674
In remote Siberia, hunter-gatherers built complex defenses 8000 years ago
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Surtsey at 60
November 30, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6674, p.1004
A volcanic island off the coast of Iceland celebrates six decades as a living laboratory
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A Neptune-mass exoplanet in close orbit around a very low-mass star challenges formation models
November 30, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6674, p.1031-1035
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Book
Bold ideas, daunting challenges
November 30, 2023 Science, v.382, n.6674, p.1005
A vibrant history traces the triumphs and missteps of quantum, nuclear, and particle physics | See Also Grace in All Simplicity by Robert N. Cahn and Chris Quigg (Pegasus, 2023)
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Big Science Has Lost Its Way
November 30, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Ruled by leftist academicians and globalists, scientific institutions have betrayed the public
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Flowers Were More Diverse 100 Million Years Ago Than They Are Today
November 30, 2023 University of Vienna
Floral Time Travel
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Butterflies and Cancer Detection
November 30, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Views of Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., F.R.S.
November 30, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
New Thoughts on Evolution
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The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering
November 30, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today