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Controversial new theory of gravity rules out need for dark matter
March 9, 2024 The Guardian
Exclusive: Paper by UCL professor says ‘wobbly’ space-time could instead explain expansion of universe and galactic rotation
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Quantum physics and the end of naturalism
March 8, 2024 iai News
The need for transcendent reality
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Fast folding cells perform a truly amazing feat … and have from the beginning
October, 2022 Creation Ministries International
One of the biggest mysteries in biology is how the body’s cells fold up long protein molecules.
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Surprisingly Colorful Fossil Snail Shells
March 11, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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When did humans start wearing clothes?
March 10, 2024 Live Science
Clothes don't survive the way artifacts made of stone, bone and other hard materials do, so scientists have to get creative to answer this question.
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Cracking Chirality: The Mystery of Mirror Molecules
March 6, 2024 YouTube
how the essential molecules of life, like DNA, RNA, and proteins, acquired their homochiral structures and how magnetic rocks at the bottom of a prebiotic lake, may have set the stage for life as we know it
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Mercury Shouldn't Be Liquid. But It Is.
February 21, 2024 YouTube
Mercury, a.k.a. quicksilver, is famous for being a liquid at room temperature ... and also below room temperature. But you can't use a high school chem class to explain why. Instead, we need a little help from Einstein.
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New Rumours that AI Has Become Sentient
March 7, 2024 YouTube
A brief comment on this week's news about Claude 3 supposedly showing self-awareness.
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What's the Stuff of Mind and Brain?
March 7, 2024 YouTube
Mind stuff consists of perceptions, cognitions, emotions. Brain stuff consists of electrical sparks and circuits and chemical concentrations and flows. These are not similar categories. How do the two relate?
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Where did India’s people come from? Massive genetic study reveals surprises
March 4, 2024 Science
Analysis confirms Iranian influx, but also finds genes from Neanderthals and a mysterious human ancestor
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Producing more but understanding less: The risks of AI for scientific research
March 6, 2024 ars technica
A psychologist and an anthropologist ponder the epistemic risks AI could pose for science.
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Climate change is an important predictor of extinction risk on macroevolutionary timescales
March 7, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6687, p.1130-1134
investigating what factors explain which species went extinct across the Phanerozoic using data on marine invertebrates from the Paleobiology Database.
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Cellular Self-Destruction May Be Ancient. But Why?
March 6, 2024 Quanta Magazine
How did cells evolve a process to end their own lives? Recent research suggests that apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, first arose billions of years ago in bacteria with a primitive sociality.
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Astronomers spot oldest ‘dead’ galaxy yet observed
March 6, 2024 University of Cambridge
A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers.
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Ancient stone tools found in Ukraine date to over 1 million years ago, and may be oldest in Europe
March 6, 2024 Associated Press
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Revealing the evolutionary origin of genomic imprinting
March 6, 2024 Science Daily
Some genes can be expressed or silenced depending on whether we inherited them from our mother or our father. The mechanism behind this is determined by DNA modifications during egg and sperm production.
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Company Trying to Resurrect a Mammoth Makes a Stem Cell Breakthrough
March 6, 2024 Gizmodo
The ‘de-extinction’ company Colossal Biosciences has taken a step toward its hairy elephant -- erm, mammoth
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The “blind spot” in science that’s fueling a crisis of meaning
March 7, 2024 Big Think
Here's the case for why science can't keep ignoring human experience.
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The Comet Strike Theory That Just Won’t Die
March 5, 2024 New York Times
Mainstream science has done its best to debunk the notion, but a belief in a world-changing series of prehistoric impacts continues to gain momentum.
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Plagiarizing God: “Biomimicry” Assumes Intelligent Design
March 6, 2024 Breakpoint Colson Center
Scientists who mimic creation’s design unknowingly glorify the Creator.
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World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast
March 6, 2024 The Guardian
The fossilised Calamophyton remains show how early trees helped shape landscapes and stabilise riverbanks millions of years ago
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Genomes of modern Indian people include wide range of Neanderthal DNA
March 6, 2024 New Scientist
A genetic study of nearly 2700 individuals has revealed the ancestry of Indian people, and gets scientists closer to reconstructing the genomes of ancient Neanderthals
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Will these reprogrammed elephant cells ever make a mammoth?
March 6, 2024 Nature
The de-extinction company Colossal is the first to convert elephant cells to an embryonic state, but using them to make mammoths won’t be easy
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Bees and chimpanzees learn from others what they cannot learn alone
March 6, 2024 Nature
It has been argued that human culture rests on a unique ability to learn from others more than we could possibly learn alone in a lifetime. Two studies show that we share this ability with bumblebees and chimpanzees.
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Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research
March 6, 2024 Nature
Scientists are enthusiastically imagining ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) tools might improve research. Why are AI tools so attractive and what are the risks of implementing them across the research pipeline?
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Ancient skin sported intricately patterned scales
March 6, 2024 Nature
The discovery of 285-million-year-old fossils of intricately patterned animal scales indicates that evolutionary tinkering of armoured skin started at the dawn of life on dry land as aquatic vertebrates adapted for terrestrial survival.
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East-to-west human dispersal into Europe 1.4 million years ago
March 6, 2024 Nature
Stone tools stratified in alluvium and loess at Korolevo, western Ukraine, have been studied by several research groups since the discovery of the site in the 1970s.
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Got milk? Meet the weird amphibian that nurses its young
March 7, 2024 Nature
Some caecilians feed their young on a combination of their own skin and a nutrient-rich milk-like liquid.
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Why can’t researchers agree about consciousness?
March 5, 2024 Nature
Because it’s all in the mind
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Oldest stone tools in Europe hint at ancient humans’ route there
March 6, 2024 Nature
Dating of artefacts found at a site in western Ukraine suggests that archaic humans had entered Europe’s eastern gate by 1.4 million years ago.
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Arno A. Penzias (1933–2024), co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background
February 22, 2024 Nature
Astrophysicist whose radio-wave observations confirmed the Big Bang origin of the Universe.
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Good-bye Anthropocene
March 8, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Science cannot rid itself of human nature and politics
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Wonders Under the Sea
March 7, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Big animals both living and extinct showcase exquisite detail in bulk
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Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?
March 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Yet Another Engineering Innovation from Cuttlefish
March 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Walking Cells and Other Surprises Among Protists
March 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
An Evolutionary Challenge
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A Misguided Critique of Irreducible Complexity
March 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Sora: Life Is Not a Multiple-Choice Test
March 6, 2024 Mind Matters
With Sora, as with other generative AI developments, some are quick to proclaim that artificial general intelligence has arrived. Not so fast.
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It's the spin that makes the difference
February 20, 2024 Empa
Magnetic effects at the origin of life?
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Research of water droplet interfaces that offer the secret ingredient for building life
January 2, 2024 Purdue University
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Oxazolone mediated peptide chain extension and homochirality in aqueous microdroplets
January 2, 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
This study provides experimental evidence identifying oxazolones as the key intermediates in prebiotic peptide synthesis.
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How molecular “handedness” emerged in early biology
February 28, 2024 Scripps Research
chemists fill a major gap in origin-of-life theories
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A mobile DNA sequence could explain tail loss in humans and apes
February 28, 2024 Nature
The lack of a tail is one thing that separates apes -- including humans -- from other primates. Insertion of a short DNA sequence into a gene that controls tail development could explain tail loss in the common ancestor of apes.
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Giant ‘bubble’ in space could be source of powerful cosmic rays
February 26, 2024 Nature
Scientists have identified a region in the Milky Way capable of accelerating particles to super-high energy levels.
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How humans lost their tails -- and why the discovery took 2.5 years to publish
February 28, 2024 Nature
An elegant run of experiments in mice reveals the genetic changes that led humanity’s ape ancestors to lose the appendage.
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To unravel the origin of life, treat findings as pieces of a bigger puzzle
February 26, 2024 Nature
Explaining isolated steps on the road from simple chemicals to complex living organisms is not enough. Looking at the big picture could help to bridge rifts in this fractured research field.
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Symmetry breaking and chiral amplification in prebiotic ligation reactions
February 28, 2024 Nature, v.626, p.1019-1024
The single chirality of biological molecules is a signature of life. Yet, rationalizing how single chirality emerged remains a challenging goal.
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Bumblebees show each other how to solve complex puzzles
March 6, 2024 New Scientist
Puzzles that bumblebees cannot solve on their own can be cracked with help from another bee, adding to research on the transmission of culture among insects
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The ocean vents where life on Earth likely began
March 4, 2024 Big Think
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
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‘Attenborough's strange bird' was the first in its kind without teeth
March 5, 2024 Science Daily
a branch of the bird family tree went extinct 66 million years ago and this strange bird is another puzzle piece that helps explain why some birds and dinosaurs went extinct and others survived