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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
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Were Neanderthals Religious?
February 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Intelligently Designed Evolution? Sorry, Wrong Universe
February 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Sophisticated Precision in Fruit Fly Sensory Systems
February 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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On Ronald Reagan’s Birthday, Let’s Appreciate His Debt -- and Ours -- to Intelligent Design
February 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
February 13, 2024 YouTube
Explore evolution -- its scope and depth. How did life on Earth come to be as it is, and how did humans come to be as we are? What are the deep principles driving evolution? What are evolution’s challenges and open questions?
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New physics theory: Singularities could be everywhere
February 12, 2024 YouTube
Ok, I have seen a lot of weird ideas for what dark matter could be, but this one surprised even me. A team of researchers proposes that the universe might be filled with singularities, and those could make up what we call dark matter.
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What is Consciousness?
February 12, 2024 YouTube
Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers.
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Hall of Mirrors: The Many Ways Consciousness Baffles Researchers
February 14, 2024 Mind Matters
Does consciousness have a seat at the table? Wait a minute. Isn’t consciousness the table? Or is it?
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Book Banning Today: Silently ... Not Like in the Old Days
February 13, 2024 Mind Matters
Traditional anti-book banning groups are simply not where the action is and maybe don’t want to be
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How Neuroscience Disproved Free Will and Then Proved It Again
February 13, 2024 Mind Matters
In this excerpt from Minding the Brain (2023), neuroscientist Cristi L. S. Cooper discusses the discovery of “free won’t” -- the decision NOT to do something
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Evaluating the current state of evolution acceptance instruments
January 22, 2024 Evolution: Education and Outreach
a research coordination network meeting report
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Soda Lakes: The Missing Link in the Origin of Life?
January 26, 2024 Sci Tech Daily
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Exceptionally well preserved fossil bed discovered in south of France
February 9, 2024 National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
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Scientists propose an updated time scale scheme of the Earth's moon
January 26, 2024 phys.org
The moon's evolutionary history is divided into three distinct phases based on the temporal interplay of exogenic and endogenic processes in altering the moon.
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Cosmic Dust Could Spread Life from World to World Across the Galaxy
February 13, 2024 Universe Today
Does life appear independently on different planets in the galaxy? Or does it spread from world to world? Or does it do both? New research shows how life could spread via a basic, simple pathway: cosmic dust.
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A new look at our linguistic roots
February 12, 2024 knowable magazine
Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where, and when, the first Indo-European languages were spoken, and what kind of lives those first speakers led. A controversial new analytic technique offers a fresh answer.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Functional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers
February 12, 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Locomotor ability is dependent on the structures through which movement is produced -- in the case of avian flight, the most physically demanding form of vertebrate locomotion, flight ability is reflected in the structure of the feathered wing surface
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Scientists Discover Water on Asteroids for First Time
February 13, 2024 Space Chatter Wire
Cosmos History Made!
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Yet another misguided attempt to revise evolution
February 12, 2024 Why Evolution Is True
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Fragments of Asteroid with Mystery Origin Are Found Outside Berlin
February 10, 2024 New York Times
Astronomers tracked the entry of a small space rock into Earth’s atmosphere, and then meteorite hunters made an unexpected discovery.
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JWST Sees More Galaxies than Expected
February 9, 2024 Physics, v.17
The new JWST observatory is revealing far more bright galaxies in the early Universe than anyone predicted, and astrophysicists have more than one explanation for the puzzle.
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JWST is most in-demand telescope ever -- leaving many astronomers in the cold
February 5, 2024 Nature
Reviewers will probably approve only one in every nine research proposals submitted in latest application cycle.
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Black-hole observations solve cosmic-ray mystery
January 25, 2024 Nature
Data from an African observatory show that jets from a collapsed star are capable of producing some of the Galaxy’s fastest particles.
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Largest post-pandemic survey finds trust in scientists is high
February 14, 2024 Nature
Study of more than 70,000 people suggests that trust levels vary among countries and are linked to political orientation.
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News Update/Commentary
Why insects navigate more efficiently than robots
February 12, 2024 Science Daily
Engineers have studied how insects navigate, for the purpose of developing energy-efficient robots.
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Why string theory has been unfairly maligned -- and how to test it
February 12, 2024 New Scientist
String theory is widely considered beyond empirical investigation. But we could conceivably test it thanks to ancient particles called moduli, which might appear in astronomical observations, says theorist Joseph Conlon
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News Update/Commentary
The hidden rule for flight feathers -- and how it could reveal which dinosaurs could fly
February 12, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists examined hundreds of birds in museum collections and discovered a suite of feather characteristics that all flying birds have in common.
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News Update/Commentary
Great apes playfully tease each other
February 13, 2024 Science Daily
Like joking behavior in humans, ape teasing is provocative, persistent, and includes elements of surprise and play. It is likely that the prerequisites for humor evolved in the human lineage at least 13 million years ago.
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Rampant Fraud in Science Grows
February 14, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The epidemic of fraud in science hits an all-time high
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More Original Molecules Found in “Old” Fossils
February 13, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists astonished: original color molecules from snails still present after 12 million Darwin Years
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Our Privileged Planet, 20 Years On
February 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Dallas Conference, February 17
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Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences
February 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Does the World Need Another Book About Darwin?
February 13, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today