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Salvo: The Facts and Fictions of the Scopes Monkey Trial
April 25, 2025 Mind Matters
Society has changed so much that biologists face trouble not for believing in Darwinism but for believing in the reality of biology
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A Soul in the Machine?
April 25, 2025 Closer To Truth
Mossbridge is an American cognitive neuroscientist, author, and educator who works on exceptional human performance including psi effects, notably on precognition and presentiment.
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The 5 Biggest Mysteries About the Big Bang
April 25, 2025 YouTube
Prepare for an interstellar journey as we catapult into the mind-bending depths of the cosmos, where the Big Bang's echoes resonate with the possibility of countless universes!
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Ancient camp shows how humans adapted to extreme cold in Europe
April 25, 2025 New Scientist
An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago documents a switch towards hunting reindeer for their fur, which may have helped people to endure harsh winters during the last glacial period
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Darwinism Is a Potemkin Theory of Evolution
April 25, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
April 24, 2025 Nature
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
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On an RNA-Membrane Protogenome
April 24, 2025 Life, v.15, n.5
Efficient evolution exists before DNA, else the DNA genome itself could not evolve. Current data suggest RNA-membranes for this role.
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Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf That Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals
April 24, 2025 Berkeley Lab
Decades of research leads to self-contained solar panels that convert carbon dioxide into C2 products
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Beyond the big bang
April 24, 2025 Irish Times
Irishman’s universal evolution theory challenges accepted cosmology ... Julian Gough has unveiled a cosmological theory he believes may better explain the origins of our universe
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Humanity’s Fifth Copernican Moment
April 24, 2025 Rational Optimist Society
It looks increasingly likely that we will find extraterrestrial life
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Convergence and consensus
April 24, 2025 Science, v.388, n.6745, p.339
there are continued threats to the principles, conduct, and findings of science
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Consciousness reveals there's no single objective world
April 24, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Science as we know it won’t explain consciousness
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Former Atheist Unimpressed by Snaky Evolution Claim
April 24, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A story of “blindingly fast evolution” reported for Burmese pythons shows the flexibility of Darwinist thinking
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Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b may just be statistical noise
April 24, 2025 New Scientist
Last week astronomers reported hints of biological activity on a distant planet, but a re-analysis of their data suggests the claimed molecules may not be there at all
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News Update/Commentary
The oldest ant ever discovered found fossilized in Brazil
April 24, 2025 Science Daily
A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science. The hell ant was preserved in limestone
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Marine Mammals: Designed for Deep Diving
April 24, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind
April 24, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Comparing Predictions
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Human de novo mutation rates from a four-generation pedigree reference
April 23, 2025 Nature, v.643, p.427-436
Understanding the human de novo mutation rate requires complete sequence information.
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However Life Got Started on Earth, it Didn't Take Long
April 23, 2025 Universe Today
At some early point in Earth's history, a collection of increasingly complex chemicals performed a new trick. They somehow transformed themselves, with help from a jolt of energy, into an energy-producing and self-replicating cell.
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Answers to a 160-year-old riddle about the genetics of Mendel’s pea traits
April 23, 2025 Nature
The genetic bases of the seven pairs of contrasting traits in the garden pea that were described by the ‘father of genetics’, Gregor Mendel, have long puzzled scientists.
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Tracking the evolution and persistence of antibiotic resistance in the human gut
April 23, 2025 Nature
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a growing health threat, but its evolution outside laboratory settings is poorly understood. Bacteria living in the human gut are now found to evolve persistent resistance after brief exposure to antibiotics
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Ancient DNA reveals Phoenicians’ surprising genetic ancestry
April 23, 2025 Nature
Phoenician civilization thrived across the Mediterranean for more than 1,000 years.
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Century-old genetics mystery of Mendel’s peas finally solved
April 23, 2025 Nature
Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist.
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Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes
April 23, 2025 Nature
Mendel studied in detail seven pairs of contrasting traits in pea (Pisum sativum), establishing the foundational principles of genetic inheritance. Here we investigate the genetic architecture that underlies these traits
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A Defense of John Ioannidis and Metascience
April 23, 2025 Real Clear Science
John Ioannidis, the leader of the metascience discipline that researches the causes of the scientific irreproducibility crisis, recently has been the subject of a series of attacks
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Science Writer: Research Should Not Be Publicly Funded
April 23, 2025 Mind Matters
He defends his view by pointing out that waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding
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How Earth got its water: Meteorite reveals surprising new clues
April 23, 2025 earth.com
For decades, scientists have tried to answer a simple but fundamental question -- where did Earth’s water come from? Without hydrogen, the main ingredient in water, our planet wouldn’t have been able to support life.
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How Did Germs Turn from Friend to Foe?
April 23, 2025 Is Genesis History?
From glowing squids and leafcutter ants to nitrogen-fixing bacteria and underground forest networks, microbes are essential partners in life-sustaining systems. Microbiologist uncovers the hidden design behind these microscopic marvels
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An elegant account of how one ancient language went global
April 23, 2025 New Scientist
Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an excellent job of it
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What rattlesnake venom can teach us about evolution
April 23, 2025 Science Daily
A new study found that some rattlesnakes are producing simpler venoms containing fewer and more focused toxin families than complex venoms -- a surprising discovery that challenges long-held ideas
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Parts of our DNA may evolve much faster than previously thought
April 23, 2025 Science Daily
advanced DNA sequencing developed the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through generations, laying the foundations for new insights into the roots of human disease and evolution
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Sea Turtles and Their Trusty Magnetic Compass
April 23, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Most Phoenicians did not come from the land of Canaan, challenging historical assumptions
April 23, 2025 Science
Recent genetic studies indicate that Phoenicians, who are often associated with Canaan, do not have direct ancestry with ancient Middle Easterners or Canaanites
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Larry Sanger on Intelligent Design and His Conversion to Christianity
April 22, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Wikipedia Co-Founder
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In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances
April 22, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Life Itself
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Dinofuzz: What Is It?
April 22, 2025 Answers in Genesis
Evaluating the evidence -- did dinosaurs have feathers?
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Why Webb May Never Be Able to Find Evidence of Life on Another World
April 22, 2025 Universe Today
The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on the planet. The JWST detected a pair of atmospheric chemicals that on Earth are produced by living organisms.
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Can AI Become Conscious?
April 22, 2025 YouTube
AI consciousness, its possibility or probability, has burst into public debate, eliciting all kinds of issues from AI ethics and rights to AI going rogue and harming humanity. We explore diverse views
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How do you like them apples? Apple genus evolution revealed
April 22, 2025 Science Daily
New genomic analysis results could help guide breeding for tastier, hardier apples
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Can a strange state of matter explain what life is -- and how it began?
April 22, 2025 New Scientist
Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of evolution itself
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Crows Are So Smart They Can Identify Geometric Shapes
April 22, 2025 Science Alert
Crows have a sense of geometric intuition much like our own
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Does Our Humanity Really Depend on “Concept Cells”?
April 22, 2025 Mind Matters
A recently discovered type of brain cell, thought to be unique to humans, codes for a variety of types of information around a single concept
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New theory suggests gravity is not a fundamental force
April 21, 2025 Advanced Science News
A new theory proposes gravity isn’t a fundamental force but emerges from quantum electromagnetic interactions, potentially reshaping our view of spacetime itself.
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Even a Mouse Brain Reveals Staggering Complexity
April 21, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Universe’s Largest Structure Is Even Bigger Than We Expected
April 21, 2025 Gizmodo
By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our understanding of how the cosmos is built.
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Skeptic to Believer
April 21, 2025 YouTube
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger joins hosts Andrew McDiarmid and Nathan Jacobson on the ID The Future podcast to delve into his personal evolution from longtime skeptical philosopher to belief in God.
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The eukaryotic cell emerged as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition
April 21, 2025 Science Daily
Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer proteins
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Stone Age dog skeleton hints at complex early relationship with pets
April 21, 2025 New Scientist
A nearly complete skeleton found in a cave in France belonged to a group known as the Palaeolithic dogs and its skeleton suggests it had a confusing relationship with humans
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Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology
April 21, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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On Evolution, Pope Francis Spoke and the Media Got it Wrong
April 21, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today