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Rethinking Superdeterminism
December 16, 2019 arXiv
The “measurement problem” indicates that quantum mechanics is at least an incomplete theory -- good as far as it goes, but missing a piece -- or, more radically, is in need of complete overhaul.
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Why killer whales -- and humans -- evolved menopause
December 16, 2019 ars technica
Grandmothers help to explain an evolutionary mystery.
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Fossilized Brains Found in Ancient Bug-Like Creatures
December 16, 2019 Live Science
New evidence of preserved brain tissue from the Cambrian period counters arguments that nervous tissue cannot be fossilized.
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Consciousness is real
December 16, 2019 Aeon
Consciousness is neither a spooky mystery nor an illusory belief. It’s a valid and causally efficacious biological reality
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Spectacularly-Preserved Fossil Shrimp Look Modern
December 16, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
More fossil evidence again fails to show evolution; instead, it shows no evolution
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The Top Retractions of 2019
December 16, 2019 The Scientist
A journal is forced to remove a record-breaking number of papers -- and all in one go.
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News Update/Commentary
Celebrated ancient Egyptian woman physician likely never existed
December 16, 2019 Science Daily
Merit Ptah is often called the first woman doctor, esearcher calls it a case of mistaken identity
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Could Speech Have Emerged 200,000 Years Ago?
December 16, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Show a Naturalistic Origin of Life and Win $10 Million
December 16, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Sabine Hossenfelder on Avoiding Cognitive Biases
December 16, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Teaching Evolution to the Next Generation
December 15, 2019 Answers in Genesis
Rather than being taught platitudes and dismissive mockery, young Christians need thorough training in evolutionary beliefs.
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Oxford Mathematician John Lennox on Whether a Scientist Can Believe in God
December 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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People Want Time Travel and They Don’t Care What They Have To Believe To Get It
December 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Once Again, New Scientist Needs Us To Know That Our Sense of Self Is an Illusion
December 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Asked at The Scientist: “Does Science Describe Experience or Truth?”
December 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Exoplanets can be made less habitable by stars' flares
December 15, 2019 Science Daily
Astronomers found that not all exoplanets in habitable zones will be able to maintain hospitable conditions for life.
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Defining terms carefully
December 14, 2019 Creation Ministries International
Why we need clarity when we debate evolution
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On New Zealand’s Volcano, Knee-Deep Ash and Boiling Water Underfoot
December 14, 2019 New York Times
The team that recovered bodies from White Island went “to the depths of their endurance and past it,” said the colonel who oversaw the mission.
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How Scientists Can Avoid Cognitive Bias
December 14, 2019 backreaction.blogspot.com
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What About Living Fossils?
December 14, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Dinosaur Evolution: Darwinian Tricks to Force Data into Theory
December 14, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new paper about a theropod dinosaur fossil illustrates the methods Darwinians use to force uncooperative data into their belief.
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News Update/Commentary
Mitochondria are the ‘canary in the coal mine' for cellular stress
December 14, 2019 Science Daily
How some cancers resist chemotherapy
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News Update/Commentary
Conscious visual perception occurs outside the visual system
December 14, 2019 Science Daily
The results are significant given the ongoing debate among neuroscientists on what consciousness is and where it happens in the brain.
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News Update/Commentary
Following the lizard lung labyrinth
December 14, 2019 Science Daily
Savannah monitor lizards have a unique airflow pattern that is a hybrid of bird and mammal flow patterns
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A Visual Meditation on the Numbers That Design Nature
December 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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A Visual Meditation on Infinite Patterns in Nature
December 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Steve Meyer’s 2019 End of Year Message
December 13, 2019 Discovery Institute
Steve Meyer, Director of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute, gives an end of year thank you to our supporters, reviews the exciting progress made in 2019, and even makes an announcement about his next book.
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Here’s why many CRISPR/Cas9 experiments could be wrong -- and how to fix them
December 13, 2019 Massive Science
Researchers assumed that CRISPR was turning off genes. They shouldn’t have
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Dark Matter ‘Strikes Back' in Galactic Mystery
December 13, 2019 Gizmodo
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Whales Are the Biggest Animals to Ever Exist -- Why Aren’t They Bigger?
December 13, 2019 Smithsonian Magazine
New research highlights the role diet plays in dictating a cetacean’s size
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News Update/Commentary
Mongoose females compete over reproduction
December 13, 2019 Science Daily
A new study on wild banded mongooses reveals that females may use spontaneous abortion to cope with reproductive competition, and to save their energy for future breeding attempts in better conditions.
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Researchers reconstruct spoken words as processed in nonhuman primate brains
December 13, 2019 Science Daily
Using a brain-computer interface, a team of researchers has reconstructed English words from the brain activity of rhesus macaques that listened as the words were spoken.
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Has Another Hole Been Found in The Standard Model of the Universe?
December 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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What If Epigenetics Turns Out To Be Useful in Treating Disability?
December 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Can a Conference Change a Life?
December 13, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Was Earth’s oxygenation a gradual process?
December 13, 2019 Cosmos Magazine
Modelling suggests a string of major events wasn’t necessary.
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Time travel without paradoxes is possible with many parallel timelines
December 13, 2019 New Scientist
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The Man with Two Fingerprints Also Has His Donor’s Semen
December 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Book
Book Review: Can Science Explain Everything? by John Lennox
December 12, 2019 Apologetics 315
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Designed Adaptations Challenge Evolution
December 12, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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The Top 10 Websites for Science in 2019
December 12, 2019 Real Clear Science
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New Atheism: A Shipwreck of Fools
December 12, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Did New Atheism Become the Godlessness That Failed?
December 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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How Can Mind Interact with Matter?
December 12, 2019 Mind Matters
Nature itself provides examples of how the immaterial interacts with the material
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A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s 38 years
December 12, 2019 The Conversation
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Largest study of its kind reveals that many psychiatric disorders arise from common genes
December 12, 2019 Science Daily
In the largest-ever study of its kind researchers identified more than 100 genetic variants that affect the risk for more than one mental health condition.
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Speech could be older than we thought
December 12, 2019 Science Daily
The theory of the ‘descended larynx' has stated that before speech can emerge, the larynx must be in a low position to produce differentiated vowels.
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How humans learned to dance: From the chimpanzee conga line
December 12, 2019 Science Daily
Two chimpanzees housed in a zoo in the US have sparked the question about how human dance evolved after being observed performing a duo dance-like behavior, similar to a human conga line.
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First direct observation of a black hole and its ‘shadow’ is Physics World 2019 Breakthrough of the Year
December 12, 2019 Physics World
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Is the Law of Conservation of Energy Cancelled?
December 12, 2019 nautil.us
Maybe energy can be created and destroyed, or maybe the notion doesn’t quite make sense.