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News Update/Commentary
Seed ferns: Plants experimented with complex leaf vein networks 201 million years ago
April 16, 2024 Science Daily
Flowering plant-type leaf veins died out and re-evolved several times in the course of the Earth's history
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How ribs might have been vital in the evolution of walking
April 7, 2024 Cosmos Magazine
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Neanderthals were more ‘human’ than we think
April 11, 2024 Cosmos Magazine
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A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy
April 16, 2024 New Scientist
A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever spotted, and its strange companion star could help explain how it got so huge
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Dinosaur study challenges Bergmann’s rule
April 5, 2024 University of Alaska
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Could our first alien contact be with intelligent spiders?
April 9, 2024 Big Think
Aliens are often portrayed in popular culture as humanoid. But in reality, intelligent extraterrestrials might take far stranger forms.
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Building a Scientific Narrative
April 15, 2024 The Scientist
A strong narrative is as integral a part of science writing as it is for any other form of communication.
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Did Warm-Bloodedness Pave the Path to Sentience?
April 15, 2024 MIT Press Reader
An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”
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The mistake at the heart of the physics of time
April 15, 2024 iai News
Why is time so weird?
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National Geographic’s Article Misses the Boat
April 16, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Is the account of the Ark of Noah plausible?
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Mutations Battle Living Fossils
April 17, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Attempts to harmonize living fossil research with mutation research fail
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Intact Dinosaur Molecules Found
April 16, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A skeptic’s own lab proves that amino acids came from the original dinosaur
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New Study Reveals Secrets of Honey Bee Waggle Dance
April 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book
Everything Must Go review: A fascinating guide to the apocalypse
April 10, 2024 New Scientist
From the Book of Revelation to extinction fiction, we just love end times. A new guide by Dorian Lynskey is full of gems | See Also Pan Macmillan
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Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock
April 3, 2024 New Scientist
Amino acids and other molecules important to the origin of life can be enriched within networks of rocky fractures, which would have been common on the early Earth
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One of the biggest mysteries of cosmology may finally be solved
April 9, 2024 New Scientist
The expansion rate of the universe, measured by the Hubble constant, has been one of the most controversial numbers in cosmology for years, and we seem at last to be close to nailing it down
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Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals
April 15, 2024 New Scientist
One species of nematode worm turns into a kin-devouring nightmare if it grows up in a crowded environment with a poor diet
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A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae
April 11, 2024 New Scientist
A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to algal cells -- an event so rare that there are only three other known cases
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We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology
April 15, 2024 New Scientist
Mounting evidence suggests our galaxy sits at the centre of an expanse of nothingness 2 billion light years wide. If so, we may have to rethink our understanding of the universe
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Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing randomness
April 10, 2024 New Scientist
Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 Turing award for his work on understanding how randomness can shape and improve computer algorithms
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How AI mathematicians might finally deliver human-level reasoning
April 10, 2024 New Scientist
Artificial intelligence is taking on some of the hardest problems in pure maths, arguably demonstrating sophisticated reasoning and creativity -- and a big step forward for AI
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Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human family’s newest species
April 12, 2024 New Scientist
Five years ago, a fossil found in the Philippines was determined to be from a new species of hominin called Homo luzonensis. Since then, we’ve learned a bit more about the newest member of the human family
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Randomness in computation wins computer-science ‘Nobel’
April 10, 2024 Nature
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson is known for clarifying the role of randomness in algorithms, and for studying their complexity.
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Survival of the nicest: have we got evolution the wrong way round?
April 8, 2024 Nature
How humans, animals and even single-celled organisms cooperate to survive suggests there’s more to life than just competition, argues a cheering study of evolutionary biology.
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Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
April 6, 2024 Nature
The confidential 124-page report from the University of Rochester, disclosed in a lawsuit, details the extent of Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct.
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Exciting times for evolutionary biology
April 11, 2024 Nature Ecology & Evolution, v.8, p.593-594
Evolutionary biologists should be proud of recent progress in their broad field. We highlight some developments in fundamental questions and the applied use of evolution.
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Frans de Waal (1948–2024), primatologist who questioned the uniqueness of human minds
April 10, 2024 Nature
Researcher and prolific science communicator who laid bare the social lives of apes.
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The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin
April 7, 2024 The Guardian
Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals
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Expelled!
April 12, 2024 Skeptic
Kevin Miller offers a solution to the science-religion conflict while exposing the truth behind Ben Stein’s anti-evolution film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, on which he worked
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The Small Self and the Vast Universe
March 26, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Eclipses and the Science of Awe
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Tatooine, Trisolaris, Thessia: Sci-Fi Exoplanets Reflect Real-Life Discoveries
April 5, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
After astronomers discovered exoplanets wildly different from Earth, exoplanets in science fiction became less Earth-like, too.
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Olivine May Have Given Life a Jump Start
February 1, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A mineral common throughout the solar system nudges a reaction that produces sugar molecules from formaldehyde.
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Normal science: not uncritical or dogmatic
March 27, 2024 Synthese
When Kuhn first published his Structure of Scientific Revolutions he was accused of promoting an “irrationalist” account of science.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
High-resolution vision in pelagic polychaetes
April 8, 2024 Current Biology, v.34, n.7, p.R269-R270
High-resolution object vision has only been conclusively shown to have evolved in three of the thirty-five animal phyla: chordates, arthropods, and mollusks (cephalopods).
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution's recipe book
April 15, 2024 Science Daily
How ‘copy paste' errors cooked up the animal kingdom
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News Update/Commentary
How seaweed became multicellular
April 12, 2024 Science Daily
many multicellular-enabling genes had viral origins. This study is the first to investigate macroalgal evolution through the lens of genomics.
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Ignorance of Evolutionary Theory as a “Superpower”
April 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Gould’s Panda Argument Is a Problem for Atheistic and Agnostic Views
April 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The multiverse could be much, much bigger than we ever imagined
April 9, 2024 New Scientist
A new way of interpreting the elusive mathematics of quantum mechanics could fundamentally change our understanding of reality
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An Archaeological Dig Reignites the Debate Over the Old Testament’s Historical Accuracy
December, 2021 Smithsonian Magazine
Beneath a desert in Israel, a scholar and his team are unearthing astonishing new evidence of an advanced society in the time of the biblical Solomon
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Conference;
Challenging the standard cosmological model
April 15, 2024
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In Favor of God-of-the-Gaps Reasoning
September, 2001 Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.53, n.3, p.152-158
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A Critical Examination of the Standard Cosmological Model
March 12, 2024 Astronomy, v.3, n.1, p.43-67
Toward a Modified Framework for Explaining Cosmic Structure Formation and Evolution
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World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
April 14, 2024 The Guardian
Meeting at London’s Royal Society will scrutinise basic model first formulated in 1922 that universe is a vast, even expanse with no notable features
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The acceptance of evolution
March 19, 2024 Public Understanding of Science
A developmental view of Generation X in the United States
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Natural Selection, Scarcity and Evil
April 9, 2024 Scientia et Fides
Reflections on the Fittingness of Evolution as a Divine Instrument of Creation
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High-Precision Map of the Universe Defies Conventional Cosmology
April 9, 2024 Physics Magazine
Analysis of the most precise three-dimensional map of the Universe delivers hints of a tension with the standard model of cosmology.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
RNA-catalyzed evolution of catalytic RNA
March 4, 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Missing Link Uncovered
March 26, 2024 Sci Tech Daily
A New Origin Story of How the Continents Developed
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How Many Genes Do Humans Have?
April 1, 2024 The Scientist
Researchers disagree on the number of genes in the human genome, in part because what exactly a gene is can be difficult to determine.