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Webb telescope finds galaxy larger than Milky Way, and it's upending cosmology
February 20, 2024 Live Science
Astronomers believe the first galaxies formed around giant halos of dark matter. But a newly discovered galaxy dating to roughly 13 billion years ago mysteriously appeared long before that process should have occurred.
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How entropy and equilibrium can help explain consciousness
February 21, 2024 New Scientist
Thinking about consciousness from the perspective of a physicist may be key to figuring out whether it is a single phenomenon or a collection of discrete states
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“Scientific Censorship Appears to Be Increasing”
February 20, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
PNAS Paper
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Why “Junk DNA” May Be a Placeholder for Ignorance
February 20, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
with one short rule, Philip Ball explains
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Why Intelligent Design Is Not a “God of the Gaps” Argument
February 20, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
atheist philosopher explains
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Darwin’s Bluff -- Continued
February 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwin’s “God Wouldn’t Do It This Way” Argument
February 20, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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What If We Lost the Power To Think Abstractly?
February 16, 2024 Mind Matters
Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges depicts a character whose total recall prevents him from using abstractions, though he recognizes their existence
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When Censorship Parades Itself As a Science ...
February 15, 2024 Mind Matters
A House Subcommittee discovered that the National Science Foundation -- which is supposed to support science and engineering -- is readying censorship tools
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A Physicist Tries To Avoid the Fact of Design in Our Universe ...
February 18, 2024 Mind Matters
Physicist Alexander Vilenkin of Tufts University argues, against apparent fine-tuning, that our universe’s cosmological constant should have a special value like zero, but doesn’t
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AI Decodes Scrolls Scorched by Vesuvius' Eruption
February 19, 2024 Mind Matters
In 79 AD, Vesuvius reduced a library to charcoal. Remarkably, machine learning technology has begun to decipher scrolls that humans could not unwrap
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Philosopher: Non-Materialism Is Fashionable Orthodoxy Now
February 20, 2024 Mind Matters
Non-reductionism, which means that the mind is not simply reducible to the brain, is now well accepted, she argues
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A Philosopher Explains: How the Soul Relates to the Body
February 18, 2024 Mind Matters
James Madden explains a philosophical approach to the soul called hylomorphism which, he argues, can benefit neuroscience
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Video
Mindscape Ask Me Anything
February 12, 2024 YouTube
We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good
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Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago
January 31, 2024 Science Advances, v.10, n.5
Evidence for the manufacture and use of fiber technology such as rope and twine is rare in the Paleolithic, despite the widely held view that such artifacts were in regular use during the Pleistocene.
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X-ray survey bolsters prevailing theory of universe’s expansion
February 14, 2024 Science
eROSITA telescope shows galaxies’ “clumpiness” matches predicted effect of dark energy, dark matter
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Eco-evolutionary emergence of macroecological scaling in plankton communities
February 15, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6684, p.777-782
The size of an individual is a product of physiological constraints such as area-to-volume ratio relationships or the fractal scaling of circulatory systems. Scaling patterns throughout ecosystems are well documented
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It’s a fake: Mysterious 280 million-year-old fossil is mostly just black paint
February 15, 2024 ars technica
The long bones of the hind limbs appear to be genuine. The rest? Not so much.
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On Biology and Politics
February 18, 2024 Quillette
Why the Left must take human evolution seriously.
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These Birds Score as High as Primates in a Puzzling Cognitive Test
February 19, 2024 Science Alert
Only some animals are known to fathom object permanence -- the idea that something still exists even when it's out of sight.
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Elements: Extraterrestrial Organic Matter
February 15, 2024 Geochemical Society
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Dedicated to the renewal and revival of Islamic Scholarship
January, 2024 Center for Islamic Sciences
Creating knowledge relevant to our times through the Qur’anic perspective on God, life, and the cosmos
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New evidence changes key ideas about Earth’s climate history
February 9, 2024 University of Waikato, New Zealand
The research debunks the idea that Earth’s surface (across land and sea) has experienced really hot temperatures over the last two billion years.
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More than 275 million never-before-seen gene variants uncovered in US population
February 19, 2024 Live Science
The newly uncovered gene variants were identified as part of an analysis of the DNA of more than 400,000 people in the U.S. who agreed to participate in the All of Us Research Program.
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Blog Post
Is the Schrödinger Equation True?
February 19, 2024
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That’s No Moon; It’s an Ocean World
February 7, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
If Saturn’s cratered moon Mimas has liquid water beneath its surface, ocean worlds might be far more common in the solar system than we thought.
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News Update/Commentary
Shallow soda lakes show promise as cradles of life on Earth
January 22, 2024 Science Daily
phosphate can concentrate in environments at the very high levels needed for the basic molecules of life to emerge. A shallow, salty lake in western Canada gives new support to Darwin's idea that life could have emerged in a ‘warm little pond.'
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient retroviruses played a key role in the evolution of vertebrate brains
February 15, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers report that ancient viruses may be to thank for myelin -- and, by extension, our large, complex brains.
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Geologic evidence that volcanic lightning promotes life on Earth
February 13, 2024 Physics Today
Large quantities of fixed nitrogen found in ash and pyroclastic deposits confirm suspicions about a likely source of life’s earliest building blocks.
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Why Venus spins backwards
June 27, 2022 BBC - Sky at Night magazine
Why does planet Venus rotate backwards when compared with all the other planets?
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We must put an end to scientism
February 19, 2024 iai News
Reviving humanist explanations
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In the quantum world, the future causes the past
February 15, 2024 iai News
How Bell’s Paradox is solved by Retrocausality
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Who Should You Trust?
February 15, 2024 Skeptic
Why Appeals to Scientific Consensus Are Often Uncompelling
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Go with your gut: the science and psychology behind our sense of intuition
February 17, 2024 The Guardian
From deciding where to have lunch to choosing to walk away from a danger you haven’t even identified yet, intuition plays a part in all our lives
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Mysterious Pattern in a Cave Is Oldest Rock Art Found in Patagonia
February 14, 2024 New York Times
About 8,200 years ago, in one of the last places settled by humans, prehistoric peoples began painting comblike designs as the climate shifted.
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New evidence finally reveals how male and female brains really differ
February 19, 2024 New Scientist
Research is cutting through historical discrimination and gender politics to get to the truth about differences between the brains of men and women
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A Science Sleuth Accuses a Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist of Research Misconduct
February 15, 2024 The Scientist
Researchers await the outcome of an ongoing investigation into dozens of instances of alleged image problems spanning 29 publications over a period of 23 years.
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How newly discovered brain cells have made us rethink the human mind
February 19, 2024 New Scientist
Strange new types of cells keep coming to light in the human brain. By the latest count, there are more than 3300, and we don’t even know what most of them do
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Our human ancestors often ate each other, and for surprising reasons
February 14, 2024 New Scientist
Fossil evidence shows that humans have been practising cannibalism for a million years. Now, archaeologists are discovering that some of the time they did it to honour their dead
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The existence of a new kind of magnetism has been confirmed
February 14, 2024 New Scientist
Altermagnets, theorised to exist but never before seen, have been measured for the first time and they could help us make new types of magnetic computers
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T. rex Out of Nowhere
February 15, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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The Copernican System & the Bible
February 19, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Happy Birthday, Nicolaus Copernicus!
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Flood Solves Land and Marine Mixing Near the Andes
February 19, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Not Funny: The Evolution of Humor
February 19, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If humor is just an evolutionary behavioral artifact, why laugh?
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“Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint for Life”
February 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Denis Noble in Nature
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The Vindhyan Controversy and Debunking Alleged Ediacaran and Cambrian Fossils
February 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin
February 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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In the Scientific Enterprise, the Wildness of Aslan Counsels Humility
January 22, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Vilenkin: A Physicist in Flight from Intelligent Design
February 18, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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In Darwin’s Bluff, Robert Shedinger Rightly Forgoes the Hagiographic Tradition
February 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today