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‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
January 26, 2024 Science
Analysis of sequence databases reveals novel circular RNA genomes belonging to “obelisks”
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The superfluid Universe
February 1, 2016 Aeon
Quantum effects are not just subatomic: they can be expressed across galaxies, and solve the puzzle of dark matter
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The Strongest Neuroscience Arguments in the Free Will Debate
February 7, 2024 Psychology Today
Can we choose the experiences that shape us, or are those choices determined?
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News Update/Commentary
A rare recent case of retrovirus integration
February 5, 2024 Science Daily
An infectious gibbon ape leukaemia virus is colonizing a rodent's genome in New Guinea
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News Update/Commentary
Mechanism discovered that protects tissue after faulty gene expression
February 2, 2024 Science Daily
A study has identified a protein complex that is activated by defects in the spliceosome, the molecular scissors that process genetic information.
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News Update/Commentary
Pinpointing changes to our genetic instructions that disrupt development
February 6, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers find a vulnerability within our genomes that can cause developmental defects such as extra fingers and heart disorders
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers discover key to molecular mystery of how plants respond to changing conditions
February 6, 2024 Science Daily
Research offers a new understanding of coordinated cellular response in plants
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News Update/Commentary
Mystery of moths' warning sound production explained
February 5, 2024 Science Daily
The workings of the ultrasonic warning sounds produced by the wings of a species of moth have been revealed.
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News Update/Commentary
Smells like evolution: Fruit flies reveal surprises in chemical sensing
February 5, 2024 Science Daily
New study reveals how gene expression shapes the diverse smelling and tasting abilities of different fly species. Most genes are surprisingly stable, but thousands have evolved to create unique olfactory landscapes.
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The biggest questions about the Universe’s beginning
February 6, 2024 Big Think
The Universe didn't begin with a bang, but with an inflationary “whoosh" that came before. Here are the biggest questions that still remain.
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Novelty Activates a Long Noncoding RNA for Spatial Learning in Mice
February 6, 2024 The Scientist
Genes activated in new environments include those used during development.
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It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life
February 5, 2024 Nature
The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. Scientists must set the record straight, argues a new book. | See Also Pan MacMillan
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Life: Designed to not evolve
October, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Socialist science in the 20th century
December, 2022 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953 by Simon Ings (Faber & Faber, 2016) | See Also Amazon
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The Conserved Complexity of Eye Cell Types
February 5, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Homo habilis ‘Handy Man’ Getting Fired
February 6, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
More evolutionists admit major problems exist with this fossil and its interpretation
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Where Do All the Species Come From?
February 6, 2024 Answers in Genesis
What is speciation, and do creationists think it happens?
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Another Saturn Moon Hired for Astrobiology
February 8, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Liquid water under Mimas? Impossible. But if it is there, could life be far behind?
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Animists in Modern Dress: Origin-of-Lifers
February 5, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The spirits of the molecules give rise to animated complex systems, goes the new false religion
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Winged Darwin: Pterosaur Diversity, But No Ancestor
February 7, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A lizard could not just take off like a bird. Flight specs are required!
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Machines vs. Organisms
February 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Artificial General Intelligence
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The Oracle Problem
February 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Artificial General Intelligence
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Human Origins and the Beginning of Art
February 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Astrophysicist: “We Do Not Yet Know How, Where, or Why Life First Appeared”
January 31, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwinists Devolve
February 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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What Is the Essence of Life?
February 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Earth Was Designed for Technological Advancement
February 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Dallas Conference
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Asked at Psychology Today: Were Neanderthals Religious?
February 4, 2024 Mind Matters
We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing
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Cyber Plagiarism: When AI Systems Snatch Your Copyrighted Images
February 2, 2024 Mind Matters
Outright copying of others’ images may put system’s owners in legal jeopardy. Let's look at U.S. legal decisions
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Philosopher Tweets on Consciousness -- and Gets Feedback
February 3, 2024 Mind Matters
Tulane U’s Kevin Morris tweeted that “the brain/ nervous system IS consciousness,” and started a broad discussion with many views represented
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When a Brilliant Man Has a Very Confused Perspective ...
February 3, 2024 Mind Matters
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb simply doesn’t seem to see that human beings are more valuable than advanced machines
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Human Intelligence Is Fundamentally Different from Machine Intelligence
February 2, 2024 Mind Matters
Design theorist William Dembski discusses the problems we will encounter when we try to integrate the two when, say, sharing the road with self-driving cars
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Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions
February 2, 2024 Mind Matters
The research team hopes to improve care of livestock by establishing what they do and don’t feel about the way they are treated
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Rare ancient tree discovery has scientists ‘gobsmacked’
February 2, 2024 CNN
Trees are believed to have originated hundreds of millions of years ago. Ever since, evidence of these ancient plant sentinels has been in short supply.
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At least 37 publications affiliated with Harvard Medical flagged for alleged manipulated results
February 1, 2024 Not the Bee
in the first month of 2024
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News Update/Commentary
‘Genomic time machine' reveals secrets of our DNA
January 30, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers reveal a novel method to uncover bits of our genetic blueprint that come from ancient genetic parasites, offering fresh insights into human evolution and health.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview
December, 2021 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, v.90, p.68-76
Popular works, by the likes of Richard Dawkins, deflect associations with eugenics and social Darwinism, but also extend the reach of Darwinism beyond biology into social policy, politics, and ethics.
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How a Militant Marxist (and Atheist) Found God
February 3, 2024 YouTube
Why would a militant communist, indoctrinated to hate Christians, become a follower of Jesus? What scientific evidence and personal experiences convinced him to radically change the direction of his life?
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Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait, what?
January 29, 2024 YouTube
I was rather surprised when I recently learned that the British science communicator and ex-particle physicist Brian Cox supposedly debunked the Big Bang with a creation story, no less than in a BBC documentary. I had a look at the clip
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New Evidence for the Human Nature of Neanderthals
February 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Are Memories “Stored” in the Brain?
February 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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What Christof Koch Misunderstands About the Mind and the Brain
January 31, 2024 Mind Matters
In his revealing interview at Closer to Truth, the Allen Institute neuroscientist, though he doubts physicalism, attributed subjective experiences to “brains”
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Scientists Attempt an Honest Look at Why We Trust Science Less
January 30, 2024 Mind Matters
Contemplating the depressing results of a recent Pew survey, a molecular biologist and a statistician take aim at growing corruption in science
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Moss project takes step toward first artificial plant genome
January 30, 2024 Science
Chinese team makes partially synthetic version of spreading earthmoss chromosome, aiming to harness plant for industry
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Book
To infinity and beyond
February 1, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6682, p.488
A physicist’s wild romp through the multiverse probes space-time, string theory, and everything in between | See Also Amazon
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Mysterious artifacts suggest modern humans and Neanderthals lived side by side for millennia
January 31, 2024 Science
Hunters of our species braved cold, harsh conditions as they pushed into ice age Europe
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Paper Trail
January 18, 2024 Science
In the latest twist of the publishing arms race, firms churning out fake papers have taken to bribing journal editors
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Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell?
January 31, 2024 ars technica
Simulations all the way down -- the philosophical debate on the nature of our Universe.
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Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells
January 31, 2024 Quanta Magazine
A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it.
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Earth's oldest rocks reveal diverse microbial ecosystem dating 3B years
January 25, 2024 Interesting Engineering
Researchers stumbled upon evidence of microbial populations in possibly the oldest rock samples going back more than three billion years.