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We don’t need a quantum gravity
March 11, 2024 iai News
Why we shouldn't quantize spacetime
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News Update/Commentary
Nasa’s Webb, Hubble telescopes affirm universe’s expansion rate, puzzle persists
March 11, 2024 Science Daily
The puzzle is that the current rate of the expansion of the universe is faster than what astronomers expect it to be, based on the universe's initial conditions and our present understanding of the universe's evolution.
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Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics
March 10, 2024 Mind Matters
At Closer to Truth, British philosopher and pastor Keith Ward provides an example to host Robert Lawrence Kuhn
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How Complexity and Emergence Create a Cosmos?
March 10, 2024 YouTube
The universe began as a simple hot bath of particles and forces. How then the vast diversity of things we find on earth today? Much depends on the principles of ‘complexity’ and ‘emergence’. What are they? How does each work and how do they work together?
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When did humans start wearing clothes?
March 10, 2024 Live Science
Clothes don't survive the way artifacts made of stone, bone and other hard materials do, so scientists have to get creative to answer this question.
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Does Science Disprove Christianity?
March 10, 2024 YouTube
Meyer helps us understand the role philosophy plays in how scientists analyze evidence and reflects on the anti-supernatural bias among many in the scientific community. He also helps us understand the difference between Evolution and Intelligent Design.
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‘Monumental’ experiment suggests how life on Earth may have started
March 9, 2024 Portland Press Herald
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The String Theory Wars and What Happened Next
March 9, 2024 YouTube
String theory became extremely controversial during what's been dubbed the “String Wars” about 20 years ago. Then it kind of disappeared. What happened? What were the string wars? And what are string theorists doing now?
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What Does Quantum Theory Mean?
March 9, 2024 YouTube
Quantum theory may be weird, but quantum theory is truly how the microworld works. What does all this weirdness mean? How to go from microworld weirdness to macroworld normalcy? Will we ever make sense out of quantum mechanics?
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‘Monumental' experiment suggests how life on Earth may have started
March 9, 2024 Washington Post
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Controversial new theory of gravity rules out need for dark matter
March 9, 2024 The Guardian
Exclusive: Paper by UCL professor says ‘wobbly’ space-time could instead explain expansion of universe and galactic rotation
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Good-bye Anthropocene
March 8, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Science cannot rid itself of human nature and politics
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Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?
March 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Wrestling with AI: Making More and Better Disciples
March 8, 2024 Mind Matters
AI may have “knowledge," but it lacks wisdom.
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The Singularity -- When We Merge with AI -- Won't Happen
March 8, 2024 Mind Matters
Futurist predictions depend on the assumption that the human brain is like a machine, says, computer scientist Erik Larson. But it isn’t
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Neuroscientist: How the Brain-As-Computer Myth Led Science Astray
March 8, 2024 Mind Matters
Michael Merzenich explains neuroplasticity -- how the brain organizes itself in detail -- to Robert Lawrence Kuhn at Closer to Truth
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Dawkins/O'Connor Interview | In-Depth Analysis
March 8, 2024 YouTube
Richard Dawkins levels his critique at William Lane Craig ... once again. A deep-dive into the fascinating interview by Alex O'Connor.
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‘World’s oldest bread’ discovered in Turkey
March 8, 2024 CNN
dating back 8,600 years
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‘Strange bird’ specimen might have looked like any other bird 120 million years ago
March 8, 2024 CNN
until it opened its mouth
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Researchers develop artificial building blocks of life
March 8, 2024 Science Daily
For the first time, scientists have developed artificial nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, with several additional properties in the laboratory.
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New study discovers how altered protein folding drives multicellular evolution
March 8, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered a mechanism steering the evolution of multicellular life. They identified how altered protein folding drives multicellular evolution.
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Stepping Into the Unknome
March 8, 2024 The Scientist
A database of neglected genes may help unlock the mysteries hiding in the overlooked regions of the proteome.
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Paul M. Sutter Thinks We’re Doing Science (and Journalism) Wrong
March 8, 2024 Undark
In a new book, an astrophysicist has much to say about the public’s lack of trust in science, and how it can be fixed.
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This Could Be How the Earth’s First Cells Formed
March 8, 2024 Popular Mechanics
The answer may have been hiding in our own bodies all along.
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Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark
March 8, 2024 Fulcrum7
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Brain Waves Travel in One Direction When Memories Are Made and the Opposite When Recalled
March 8, 2024 Columbia University
These wide-ranging waves quickly link the specific constellations of brain regions that work in harmony to perform a task.
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Quantum physics and the end of naturalism
March 8, 2024 iai News
The need for transcendent reality
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Evolutionary nature of animal friendships
March 8, 2024 Science Daily
Biologists present groundbreaking research shedding new light on the evolution of social bonds and cooperation among group-living animals.
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Summer Seminars Were a Turning Point for Me
March 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Up from Dawkins
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New Rumours that AI Has Become Sentient
March 7, 2024 YouTube
A brief comment on this week's news about Claude 3 supposedly showing self-awareness.
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What's the Stuff of Mind and Brain?
March 7, 2024 YouTube
Mind stuff consists of perceptions, cognitions, emotions. Brain stuff consists of electrical sparks and circuits and chemical concentrations and flows. These are not similar categories. How do the two relate?
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Climate change is an important predictor of extinction risk on macroevolutionary timescales
March 7, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6687, p.1130-1134
investigating what factors explain which species went extinct across the Phanerozoic using data on marine invertebrates from the Paleobiology Database.
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The “blind spot” in science that’s fueling a crisis of meaning
March 7, 2024 Big Think
Here's the case for why science can't keep ignoring human experience.
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Got milk? Meet the weird amphibian that nurses its young
March 7, 2024 Nature
Some caecilians feed their young on a combination of their own skin and a nutrient-rich milk-like liquid.
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Wonders Under the Sea
March 7, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Big animals both living and extinct showcase exquisite detail in bulk
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Walking Cells and Other Surprises Among Protists
March 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
An Evolutionary Challenge
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A Misguided Critique of Irreducible Complexity
March 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Skull, tooth, and claw
March 7, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6687, p.1069-1070
these birds exhibited a surprising range of trophic levels, from being plant and fish eaters to ambush predators and raptors. It is likely that the capacity to fly allowed access to more niches and fueled diversification.
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Earth's earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils
March 7, 2024 Science Daily
The oldest fossilized forest known on Earth -- dating from 390 million years ago -- has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast of South West England.
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How the brain coordinates speaking and breathing
March 7, 2024 Science Daily
Neuroscientists have discovered a circuit that controls vocalization and makes sure that breathing is prioritized over speaking
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Cracking epigenetic inheritance
March 7, 2024 Science Daily
A research team has recently made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the DNA copying machine helps pass on epigenetic information to maintain gene traits at each cell division.
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Museums' vertebrate collections go online -- in 3D
March 7, 2024 Berkeley News
CT scans of animal skeletons are now available to anyone, including those with 3D printers
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Sora: Life Is Not a Multiple-Choice Test
March 6, 2024 Mind Matters
With Sora, as with other generative AI developments, some are quick to proclaim that artificial general intelligence has arrived. Not so fast.
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Bumblebees show each other how to solve complex puzzles
March 6, 2024 New Scientist
Puzzles that bumblebees cannot solve on their own can be cracked with help from another bee, adding to research on the transmission of culture among insects
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Have You Thanked God for Bacteria Today?
March 6, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
More research documents that bacteria are essential for good health
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Thermodynamics and its Relation to Creation/Evolution
March 6, 2024 Answers Research Journal
An Introduction
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Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?
March 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Geologists reject the Anthropocene as Earth’s new epoch -- after 15 years of debate
March 6, 2024 Nature
But some are now challenging the vote, saying there were ‘procedural irregularities’.
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Why scientists trust AI too much -- and what to do about it
March 6, 2024 Nature
Some researchers see superhuman qualities in artificial intelligence. All scientists need to be alert to the risks this creates.
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Cracking Chirality: The Mystery of Mirror Molecules
March 6, 2024 YouTube
how the essential molecules of life, like DNA, RNA, and proteins, acquired their homochiral structures and how magnetic rocks at the bottom of a prebiotic lake, may have set the stage for life as we know it