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Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting
March 13, 2024 Nature
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb says that an interstellar meteor showered Earth with particles. At a planetary-science conference this week, researchers begged to differ.
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Ancient malaria genome from Roman skeleton hints at disease’s history
March 13, 2024 Nature
Genetic information from ancient remains is helping to reveal how malaria has moved and evolved alongside people.
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Whales make waves in the quest to discover why menopause evolved
March 13, 2024 Nature
Why do several species of whale experience menopause, and why does the phenomenon occur at all? Analysing whale data might help to answer these questions and shed light on why menopause evolved in humans.
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News Update/Commentary
Sulfur and the origin of life
March 13, 2024 Science Daily
A new study shines a spotlight on sulfur, a chemical element that, while all familiar, has proved surprisingly resistant to scientific efforts in probing its role in the origin of life.
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JWST Sets Record for Early Mature Galaxies
March 13, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The James Webb Space Telescope sees mature stars and galaxies too early for big bang theory
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Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate
March 13, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mysterious ‘unparticles' may be pushing the universe apart
March 13, 2024 Live Science
New theoretical research suggests that a mysterious form of matter called “unparticles" could be the driving force behind the expansion of the universe.
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Loathed by scientists, loved by nature: sulfur and the origin of life
March 13, 2024 University of Arizona
A University of Arizona-led study shines a spotlight on sulfur, a chemical element that, while all familiar, has proved surprisingly resistant to scientific efforts in probing its role in the origin of life.
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A New Discovery Reveals Why Darwin’s ‘Living Fossil’ Keeps Defying Evolution
March 13, 2024 Popular Mechanics
As the world evolved rapidly around them, gars weirdly just stayed the same. Now we know why.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A Critical Examination of the Standard Cosmological Model
March 12, 2024 Astronomy, v.3, n.1, p.43-67
Toward a Modified Framework for Explaining Cosmic Structure Formation and Evolution
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Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Consciousness?
March 12, 2024 YouTube
That the universe is fine-tuned for life, with multiple physical laws required to be within small ranges, is generally accepted. But can we then make the additional argument that the universe is somehow required to contain consciousness?
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About the Claim That Chatbot Claude 3 Showed Self-Awareness ...
March 12, 2024 Mind Matters
Has anyone noticed the resemblance between the conviction that an AI project thinks like a human and that extraterrestrials are visiting us?
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Grappling Honestly with Science's Blind Spot
March 12, 2024 Mind Matters
An astrophysicist, a theoretical physicist, and a philosopher all walk into a bar and say, “At the heart of science lies something we do not see that makes science possible” Um… yes!
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Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Consciousness?
March 12, 2024 YouTube
That the universe is fine-tuned for life, with multiple physical laws required to be within small ranges, is generally accepted. But can we then make the additional argument that the universe is somehow required to contain consciousness?
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Scientists have replicated Earth's earliest form of evolution in the lab
March 12, 2024 Daily Mail (UK)
A minor theory of the creation of life just got a major boost in new experiments. The ‘RNA World' hypothesis proposed that Earth had RNA before life existed. Scientists have now shown that RNA could have existed and evolved before life.
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Is life based on a seeming violation of Newton’s law in molecular interactions?
March 12, 2024 Pennsylvania State University
Interactions between molecules that are not equal and opposite can occur naturally, researchers demonstrate
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A Leap Towards Building Synthetic Organisms
March 12, 2024 The Scientist
Douglas Blackiston’s frog-fueled research seeks to push the boundaries of understanding developing organisms.
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News Update/Commentary
Gene flow in giraffes and what it means for their conservation
March 12, 2024 Science Daily
Giraffes, with their bizarre body plan, have always held a special place in the minds of evolutionary biologists. In a new study whole-genome sequencing data investigated the evolutionary processes occurring within giraffes.
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Researchers expand our understanding of how the body and brain communicate
March 12, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers investigating how the brain processes the incoming stream of information from the heart and lungs, discovered that specific neurons in the thalamus are involved in processing cardiac and respiratory signals.
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From Jacques Monod, a Grim Message for Humanity
March 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is It Becoming Acceptable to Speak of Biological Systems and Processes in Terms of Design?
March 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Aliens in the Garbage
March 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Is Intentionality Embedded in the Universe?
March 11, 2024 Mind Matters
All efforts to extinguish intentionality and morality only serve to further establish their inescapable reality
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Surprisingly Colorful Fossil Snail Shells
March 11, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Pink Dancing Hippos: Don't Tell ChatGPT-4 Not To Do Something
March 11, 2024 Mind Matters
Can OpenAI fix this flaw in GPT4? Absolutely. Time will tell if they do or not.
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If AI Speeds Up Science, Does It Risk Squashing Some Parts?
March 11, 2024 Mind Matters
A Yale anthropologist and a Princeton psychologist warn of the dangers of overreliance on AI in science
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What is Biological Information?
March 11, 2024 YouTube
information is essential for analyzing data and testing hypotheses. But what is information in molecular genetics and neuroscience? What in evolution, population genetics, and levels of selection? Why is computational biology transformational?
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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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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.