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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
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Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”
February 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rescuing Chance for Darwinism
February 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Origin of Language: Still a Mystery, Despite All We Know Now
February 8, 2024 Mind Matters
We aren’t even sure which is the world’s oldest spoken language, though Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese have impressively long histories
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Belief in the Soul Is Found in Every Time and Place
February 11, 2024 Mind Matters
Substance dualism holds clearly that the soul and the body are two different types of entities
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Is Your Mind Bigger Than the Universe? Well, Look at It This Way ...
February 12, 2024 Mind Matters
Surprisingly, there is a way to measure the mind that shows it IS bigger than the universe -- information
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Will Deepfakes Be Used To “Show" Us That Computers Can Now Think?
February 12, 2024 Mind Matters
As the deepfake technology advances, William Dembski wonders whether some AI zealots might try to “fake it till they make it,” Theranos-style
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Are the New Atheists Losing Their “Cool" Quotient?
February 11, 2024 Mind Matters
And taking Darwinism with them? A look at what’s happened in the last two decades would seem to suggest that
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Video
Creation Dialogue -- Young or Old?
February 3, 2024 YouTube
Marcus Ross and Hugh Ross
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All Aboard the James Tour Damage Control Train!
February 9, 2024 YouTube
James was not happy with how badly he was humiliated by his intellectual superiors at Harvard, so he is back at it with some damage control!
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Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?
January 23, 2024 YouTube
If the deep laws of the universe had been ever so slightly different human beings wouldn’t, and couldn’t, exist. All explanations of this exquisite fine-tuning, obvious and not-so-obvious, have problems or complexities.
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Escarpment evolution drives the diversification of the Madagascar flora
February 8, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6683, p.653-658
Madagascar is a hotspot of biodiversity and unique species, both because of its long isolation from the mainland and its high rates of speciation.
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Teach Indigenous knowledge alongside science
February 8, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6683, p.592-594
Evidence supports the teaching of Indigenous knowledge alongside sciences in the classroom
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In Edwin Hubble's shadow: Early investigations on the expansion of the Universe
January, 2000 Analytica Chimica Acta, v.10, p.120-147
An overview on the progress on theoretical and observational cosmology in the first half of the 20th century is given.
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A nonadaptive explanation for macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of complex multicellularity
February 5, 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v.121, n.7
“Complex multicellularity,” conventionally defined as large organisms with many specialized cell types, has evolved five times independently in eukaryotes, but never within prokaryotes. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain this phenomenon
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Religion and Science: Beyond the Epistemological Conflict Narrative
April 7, 2008 Annual Review of Sociology
We categorize studies of the relationship between science and religion into three groups: the symbolic epistemological conflict studies, the symbolic directional influence studies, and the social-institutional studies.
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Surprise Discovery Shows Blue Whales Have Been Mating with Another Species
February 12, 2024 Science Alert
New research suggests interspecies hanky panky between blue and fin whales is more common than we thought, at least in certain parts of the world.
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From a small town in Wales, a scientific sleuth has shaken Dana-Farber
January 27, 2024 Stat news
and elevated the issue of research integrity
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Book
Darwin's Bluff: The Mystery of the Book Darwin Never Finished
February, 2024 Discovery Institute Press
Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a manuscript of almost 300,000 words that he never completed. It was his sequel to The Origin of Species. | See Also Amazon
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Your appendix is not, in fact, useless
February 2, 2024 National Public Radio
This anatomy professor explains
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A Prehistoric Tool Discovery May Have Just Rewritten Human History
February 8, 2024 Motherboard (Tech by Vice)
New research suggests a sudden “revolution" in human history that allowed our species to thrive and spread was a longer and more complex process.
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Contents of Charles Darwin’s entire personal library revealed for first time
February 11, 2024 The Guardian
300-page catalogue details thousands of books, journals, pamphlets and articles in naturalist’s library
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Astrophysicist Explains the Problem with Naturalistic Origin of Life
February 8, 2024 Wintery Knight
There’s an interesting article posted at Universe Today by Dr. Paul M. Sutter. Although he does accept unguided evolution after the origin of life, he doesn’t think that naturalism can account for the origin of life.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The hierarchical basis of serial homology and evolutionary novelty
November 1, 2022 Journal of Morphology
Given the pervasiveness of gene sharing in evolution and the extent of homology across the tree of life, why is everything not homologous with everything else?
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Hominins may have left Africa 700,000 years earlier than we thought
February 9, 2024 New Scientist
Our hominin ancestors originated in Africa and the consensus is that they didn't leave there until about 1.8 million years ago, but stone tools found in Jordan challenge the idea
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Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything
February 7, 2024 New Scientist
Physicists’ search for a theory that explains all reality in one framework appeared to have stalled. But now they are reinvigorating the hunt by exploring a wild landscape of abstract geometry
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How population size shapes the evolution of guppy fish
February 6, 2024 Nature
A long-term fish experiment reveals how a mechanism called density dependence, in which the population growth rate slows as the number of individuals rises, affects population dynamics on time scales relevant for ecology and evolution.
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Fake research papers flagged by analysing authorship trends
February 7, 2024 Nature
A new approach to detecting fraudulent paper-mill studies focuses on patterns of co-authors rather than manuscript text.
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News Update/Commentary
How the brain's internal compass guides the body
February 7, 2024 Science Daily
A study in fruit flies reveals how the brain's compass and steering regions make course corrections
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists debunk role of ‘junk cells' in fight against malaria
February 8, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown ability of a group of immune system cells, known as Atypical B cells (ABCs), to fight infectious diseases such as malaria.
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News Update/Commentary
Surprisingly vibrant color of 12-million-year-old snail shells
February 9, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers provide world's first evidence of intact polyene pigments in fossils
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News Update/Commentary
Faulty DNA disposal system causes inflammation
February 8, 2024 Science Daily
endosomes responsible for disposing of dysfunctional mitochondrial DNA were leaking mitochondrial DNA into the cell and prompting the inflammatory immune response