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The search for alien tech
October 25, 2021 Aeon
Radio signals is old hat: now it’s all about hunting for extraterrestrial technosignatures. But do we want to be found?
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Mysterious ‘alien beacon’ was false alarm
October 25, 2021 Nature
Radio signal seemed to originate from the star Proxima Centauri, and provided a helpful drill for future searches.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The role of borosilicate glass in Miller–Urey experiment
October 25, 2021 Nature: Scientific Reports
We have designed a set of experiments to test the role of borosilicate reactor on the yielding of the Miller–Urey type of experiment.
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Evolution by Subtraction Has No Teeth
October 25, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwin’s theory won’t get very far when complex traits are lost by natural selection
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Glass flask catalysed famous Miller-Urey origin-of-life experiment
October 25, 2021 New Scientist
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Why C. S. Lewis Doubted the Creative Power of Natural Selection
October 25, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Current Trend to Non-Theist Intelligent Design (ID) Theory
October 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Why Is Common Descent a Better Explanation for the History of Life Than Common Design?
October 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Science Writer Asks: Why Are Medical Journals Full of Fashionable Nonsense?
October 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Some At-Your-Fingertips Stats on Human–Chimp Similarity
October 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Deepest earthquake ever detected struck 467 miles beneath Japan
October 25, 2021 National Geographic
If confirmed, the temblor would be a shock to geologists who thought rocks that deep inside Earth were too putty-like to break and shake.
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Video
C.S. Lewis, Science, and the Occult: Director Discusses New C.S. Lewis Movie and More
October 25, 2021 Discovery Science
British producer and director discusses his new biopic on C.S. Lewis, The Most Reluctant Convert, with Discovery Institute Vice President John West. The freewheeling conversation covers a wide range of topics
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A Scientifically Weak and Ethically Uninspiring Vision of Human Origins
October 25, 2021 Discovery Institute
review of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens
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News Update/Commentary
BICEP3 tightens the bounds on cosmic inflation
October 25, 2021 Science Daily
A new analysis of the South Pole-based telescope's cosmic microwave background observations has all but ruled out several popular models of inflation.
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Compassion and Religion: Darwin's Unscratchable Itches
October 24, 2021 Mind Matters
If one’s research is in a hole as deep as evolutionary psychology is when accounting for compassion, why not stop digging?
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Egnor vs. Dillahunty: Are Singularities a Part of Science?
October 24, 2021 Mind Matters
Also, an audience member asks the debaters: Does atheism make better predictions than theism?
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Why are medical journals full of fashionable nonsense?
October 24, 2021 BigThink
The credibility problem facing the biomedical and public health establishment is, at least in part, a product of its own making.
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Discovery Points to a Crucial Role Red Blood Cells Play in Our Immune Systems
October 24, 2021 Science Alert
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Berkeley Scientist and Center Director Resigns Over MIT’s Deplatforming of Exoplanet Scientist
October 24, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Did Francis Collins or Anthony Fauci Have Any Role in the Slow Torture Death of Beagle Puppies in Tunisia?
October 24, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Mummy’s older than we thought: new find could rewrite history
October 24, 2021 The Guardian
Discovery of nobleman Khuwy shows that Egyptians were using advanced embalming methods 1,000 years before assumed date
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Tiny Crab Preserved in 100-million-year-old Amber Lived Among Dinosaurs
October 23, 2021 Geology In
Scientists have found the oldest aquatic animal preserved in amber -- and it's the most complete crab fossil ever discovered.
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Does Captain Kirk die when he goes through the transporter?
October 23, 2021 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Harvard Astronomer: Advanced Aliens Engineered the Big Bang
October 23, 2021 Mind Matters
Avi Loeb writes in Scientific American that when we humans are sufficiently advanced, we will create other universes as well
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Evolution cannot take credit for morality
October 23, 2021 Creation Ministries International
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Physicist: Beauty in the Universe Is an “Illusory Consequence of Our Human Mathematics”
October 23, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Three Stunners Challenge Traditional Darwinism
October 23, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Sabine Hossenfelder: No Way To Tell If The Universe Was Fine-Tuned for Us
October 23, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Rob Sheldon partially agrees
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Evidence of Ancient Life Was Discovered Inside a Ruby
October 22, 2021 Geology In
A ruby that formed in Earth's crust 2.5 billion years ago encases evidence for early life, wriggling around in the planet's mud.
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Earth may be trapped inside a giant magnetic tunnel
October 22, 2021 Live Science
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A New Movie on the Conversion of C. S. Lewis
October 22, 2021 The Gospel Coalition
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The Historical Adam -- Part 2: Myth or Reality?
October 22, 2021 Biblical Science Institute
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Ants Could Help Explain Why Our Brains Mysteriously Shrank Thousands of Years Ago
October 22, 2021 Science Alert
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Pterosaur Flight Design Confounds Evolutionary Theory
October 22, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Is natural selection really capable of optimizing flight four different ways? If so, it must have godlike powers.
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Where and What Is Consciousness?
October 22, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Three Stunners Challenge Traditional Darwinism
October 22, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?
October 22, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Design Theorist Eric Anderson on Claims for a Self-Replicating Machine
October 22, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers Study Why Many Life Forms Discard Pieces of Their DNA as They Develop
October 22, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Darwinian Evolutionary Biologist Jerry Coyne Learns a Thing or Three About Censorship
October 22, 2021 Uncommon Descent
when he’s not doling it out
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Shedding light on microbial communities in deep aquifers
October 21, 2021 phys.org
Underground in peridotite aquifers, the rock can interact with water to produce hydrogen, which microbes can use to power their cells, research suggests.
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The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel with Other Sounds
October 21, 2021 Quanta Magazine
Scientists thought that the brain’s hearing centers might just process speech along with other sounds. But new work suggests that speech gets some special treatment very early on.
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News Update/Commentary
Some of the world’s oldest rubies linked to early life
October 21, 2021 Science Daily
While analyzing some of the world's oldest colored gemstones, researchers discovered carbon residue that was once ancient life, encased in a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby.
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Understanding Tremors Through Tree Rings
October 21, 2021 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Researchers look to carbon isotopes and cell-level wood anatomy to understand how seismic-induced changes in water availability affect tree growth.
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Book
ICR's New In-Depth Science Book: Chimps and Humans
October 21, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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Self-Replication? Not Even Close
October 21, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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On the origin of minds
October 21, 2021 Aeon
Cognition did not appear out of nowhere in ‘higher’ animals but goes back millions, perhaps billions, of years
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The curious case of the shrinking genome
October 21, 2021 Knowable magazine
Scientists are exploring why some creatures throw away bits of their DNA during development
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Why no tusks? Poaching tips scales of elephant evolution
October 21, 2021 Associated Press
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Plants Use RNA to Talk to Neighbors
October 21, 2021 The Scientist
A study finds that plants sharing the same growth medium can exchange microRNAs that silence genes in the recipient, suggesting the nucleic acids may act as signaling molecules.