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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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It's the spin that makes the difference
February 20, 2024 Empa
Magnetic effects at the origin of life?
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Research of water droplet interfaces that offer the secret ingredient for building life
January 2, 2024 Purdue University
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Oxazolone mediated peptide chain extension and homochirality in aqueous microdroplets
January 2, 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
This study provides experimental evidence identifying oxazolones as the key intermediates in prebiotic peptide synthesis.
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How molecular “handedness” emerged in early biology
February 28, 2024 Scripps Research
chemists fill a major gap in origin-of-life theories
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A mobile DNA sequence could explain tail loss in humans and apes
February 28, 2024 Nature
The lack of a tail is one thing that separates apes -- including humans -- from other primates. Insertion of a short DNA sequence into a gene that controls tail development could explain tail loss in the common ancestor of apes.
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Giant ‘bubble’ in space could be source of powerful cosmic rays
February 26, 2024 Nature
Scientists have identified a region in the Milky Way capable of accelerating particles to super-high energy levels.
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How humans lost their tails -- and why the discovery took 2.5 years to publish
February 28, 2024 Nature
An elegant run of experiments in mice reveals the genetic changes that led humanity’s ape ancestors to lose the appendage.
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To unravel the origin of life, treat findings as pieces of a bigger puzzle
February 26, 2024 Nature
Explaining isolated steps on the road from simple chemicals to complex living organisms is not enough. Looking at the big picture could help to bridge rifts in this fractured research field.
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Symmetry breaking and chiral amplification in prebiotic ligation reactions
February 28, 2024 Nature, v.626, p.1019-1024
The single chirality of biological molecules is a signature of life. Yet, rationalizing how single chirality emerged remains a challenging goal.
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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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The ocean vents where life on Earth likely began
March 4, 2024 Big Think
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
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‘Attenborough's strange bird' was the first in its kind without teeth
March 5, 2024 Science Daily
a branch of the bird family tree went extinct 66 million years ago and this strange bird is another puzzle piece that helps explain why some birds and dinosaurs went extinct and others survived
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Tiny worms tolerate Chornobyl radiation
March 5, 2024 Science Daily
exposure to chronic radiation from Chornobyl has not damaged the genomes of microscopic worms living there today which suggests that these worms are exceptionally resilient.
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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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Specified Complexity Made Simple
February 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
The Historical Backdrop
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Programmer: How We Know Computers Won't Surpass the Human Mind
March 5, 2024 Mind Matters
we can only devise a “halting detector” less powerful than the ones our own minds have
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Programmers: Why Materialism Can't Explain Human Creativity
March 4, 2024 Mind Matters
why it’s unlikely that the mind that enables human creativity is merely the product of animal evolution
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What's the Meaning of Consciousness?
March 5, 2024 YouTube
That consciousness exists almost everyone agrees. What consciousness means -- that’s where arguments and disputations arise. Can consciousness be a random accident, selected by evolution, the ‘foam on the waves’ of brain activity. But consciousness seems
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The Multiverse is REAL
March 4, 2024 YouTube
visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford
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How functional is the human genome? Part 1
March 3, 2024 YouTube
Is the human genome highly functional or mostly junk? This is a question that is not only being asked in the creation-evolution debate; it is a question raging in the ivory tower as well.
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A New Challenge for Lee Cronin
March 4, 2024 YouTube
Live at Champion Forest
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Webinar on The Design Inference
March 5, 2024 YouTube
In a dramatically expanded new edition, Dembski and co-author Ewert show how Dembski’s method of design detection has stood the test of time, and they demonstrate its applicability to biology, cosmology, and daily life.
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Study sheds new light on ancient volcanoes' environmental impact
February 29, 2024 EurekAlert!
Mercury rising
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A model for the evolution of intelligence
March 4, 2024 Science Daily
Study finds ability to solve food puzzles is the only predictor of innovation, brain size in wild birds
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Surprise discovery shakes up our understanding of gene expression
January 22, 2020 Science Daily
Rather than directions going one-way from DNA to RNA to proteins, the latest study shows that RNA itself modulates how DNA is transcribed -- using a chemical process that is increasingly apparent to be vital to biology.
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How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life's origins
March 4, 2024 New Scientist
What did NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to sample Bennu discover? Mission leader Dante Lauretta says the asteroid could hold clues about how life began
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Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought
March 4, 2024 New Scientist
The ocean on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is one of the best places we have found to search for alien life, but it might have less oxygen than researchers had thought
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Modeling the origins of life: New evidence for an ‘RNA World'
March 4, 2024 phys.org
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Do we have cosmic dust to thank for life on Earth?
February 28, 2024 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
It might be that what set prebiotic chemistry in motion and kept it going in the early days of the Earth was dust from outer space accumulating in holes melted into ice sheets.
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Is Earth the only Goldilocks planet?
March 4, 2024 Astronomy magazine
Some scientists believe the universe is teeming with life. Others aren’t so sure.
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Oolers Beat Dead RNA Horses
March 4, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists find it hard to let go of implausible stories. They keep them alive with all their “might.”
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Oldest known animal sex chromosome evolved in octopuses 380 million years ago
March 4, 2024 Nature
Result reveals for the first time how some cephalopods determine sex.
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Does Darwinism Meet the Tests of a True Theory?
March 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Stuff Happens Law in Geology
March 5, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
“Then something happened,” say geologists who weren’t there and didn’t witness anything
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Orgelian Specified Complexity
March 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Impact of the Chicxulub Asteroid
March 3, 2024 A View from the Right
the impact (in both senses of the term) of the Chicxulub asteroid, which struck the Yucatán Peninsula and caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction.
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Do We Need Quantum Gravity?
March 2, 2024 YouTube
Brian Keating --- Are singularities real? Or are we just fooling ourselves? And if they’re not real, why do we need a theory of quantum gravity?
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Einstein: The Closet Geocentrist
August 26, 2019 YouTube
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Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room and the Limits of Understanding
March 1, 2024
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Neuroscientist: Human Brain More Complex Than the Models Show
March 4, 2024 Mind Matters
The weird “homunculus” -- the way the brain maps the body -- was pioneer neurosurgeons’ best guess nearly a century ago
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On the Trail of the Denisovans
March 2, 2024 New York Times
DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet -- perhaps even in the Pacific islands.
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Consciousness and the Laws of Physics
January, 2021 Journal of Consciousness Studies, v.28, n.9-10, p.16-31
I consider ways in which intrinsically mental aspects of fundamental ontology might induce modifications of the known laws of physics
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Convergent evolution of algal CO2-fixing organelles
March 1, 2024 Science Daily
proteins of a CO2-fixing organelle revealed various pyrenoid-associated proteins among algal groups, suggesting the independent evolution of pyrenoids in different algal groups.
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The Golgi organelle's ribbon structure is not exclusive to vertebrates, contrary to previous consensus
February 29, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers report that the Golgi ribbon, an organelle structure previously thought to be exclusive to vertebrates, is also present in animal taxa, including mollusks, earthworms, and sea urchins.
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Mystery of Moths' Warning Sound
March 4, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Can Informational Realism Help Sort Out the Mind-Body Problem?
March 3, 2024 Mind Matters
According to William Dembski, informational realism asserts that the ability to exchange information is the defining feature of reality
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Will the origin of life ever be uncovered?
March 2, 2024 YouTube
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