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Orangutan Heals Wound Using Leaves -- and Triggers Big Media Event
May 10, 2024 Mind Matters
The orangutan is not the first or only animal to self-medicate. Birds and elephants do it too
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Extraterrestrials Are Clearly a Matter of Faith, Not Science
May 11, 2024 Mind Matters
We can be quite sure that “They’re not out there” will never be the default hypothesis, as astrophysicist Ethan Seigel hopes
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Science Team Argues, Consciousness Came Before Life
May 13, 2024 Mind Matters
Can the authors take issue with Darwinian evolution claims while maintaining a materialist stance?
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Hurry Up, Let Me Evolve Already
May 13, 2024 Mind Matters
A review of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
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General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
April 22, 2024 YouTube
General relativity, Black holes, Hawking radiation, Aliens, Holographic principle, Dark energy, Dark matter, Quantum mechanics, Simulation, AGI, Complexity, Consciousness, Naturalism, Limits of science, Mindscape podcast, Einstein
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Scientifically Proving God's Existence
May 8, 2024 YouTube
Director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture discusses the scientific proof of intelligent design, or the existence of God.
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The Theory of Evolution: A 3 Minute Summary
May 12, 2024 YouTube
If you're curious about how life on Earth has evolved over billions of years and want to understand the science that explains our biological diversity, this summary is for you!
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What is Causation?
May 11, 2024 YouTube
In a ‘billiard-ball world’ of Newtonian science, causation was obvious -- things had to touch each other in space and a cause always had to precede an effect. But quantum mechanics destroys such notions. What then is causation?
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How the brain is flexible enough for a complex world
May 10, 2024 Science Daily
without being thrown into chaos
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Insights into protein evolution
May 13, 2024 Science Daily
A research team has unveiled a breakthrough in understanding how specific genetic sequences, known as pseudogenes, evolve.
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World's largest hummingbird is actually two species
May 13, 2024 Science Daily
Surprise discovery found ‘hiding in plain sight'
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New insights into the mechanisms of chromosome segregation errors
May 13, 2024 Science Daily
from research on centromere structure
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Island birds more adaptable than previously thought
May 13, 2024 Science Daily
Island species may tolerate changes better than mainland animals
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Cellular activity hints that recycling is in our DNA
May 10, 2024 Science Daily
New research shows that ‘spliceosomes' might reinsert problematic gene sequences after removing them
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Giant structure in space challenges understanding of the universe
May 13, 2024 Cosmos Magazine
About 9.2 billion light-years from Earth is a colossal structure which has confounded astronomers. The discovery might upend current cosmological theories.
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An updated perspective on teleonomy
May 13, 2024 Behavioral and Brain Sciences, v.47
The analysis of proxy failure provides a good starting point for interdisciplinary discussions. Here, the discussion of teleonomy is extended and updated to include more recent discourse on the topic.
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The Present Phase of Stagnation in the Foundations of Physics Is Not Normal
November 21, 2018 nautil.us
The problem is loads of wrong predictions from theoretical physicists.
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The importance of distinguishing climate science from climate activism
May 8, 2024 npj Climate Action, v.3
I am concerned by climate scientists becoming climate activists, because scholars should not have a priori interests in the outcome of their studies. Likewise, I am worried about activists who pretend to be scientists, as this can be misleading
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Exposing counterfeit science
January, 2023 Creation Ministries International
Creation magazine interviews nutrition and exercise science adviser David Lightsey, M.S.
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The First Two Cells in a Human Embryo Contribute Disproportionately to Fetal Development
May 13, 2024 The Scientist
A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus.
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Inside the Wild Ways Many Creatures Make Milk
May 13, 2024 Smithsonian Magazine
Mammals aren’t the only animals that provide nutritious secretions for their young
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Human embryos embrace asymmetry to form the body
May 13, 2024 Nature
The cells generated by the very first division of the fertilized egg make a lopsided contribution to the body’s organs and tissues.
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How Does the Brain Think?
May 10, 2024 Discover magazine
Thinking builds neural networks, which is why practice improves performance
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Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced alien civilisations
May 10, 2024 New Scientist
Sufficiently advanced aliens would be able to capture vast quantities of energy from their star using a massive structure called a Dyson sphere. Such a device would give off an infrared heat signature -- and astronomers have spotted 60 stars that match
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Oldest known human viruses found hidden within Neanderthal bones
May 14, 2024 New Scientist
Genetic analysis of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal skeletons has uncovered the remnants of three viruses related to modern human pathogens, and the researchers think they could be recreated
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5 of the world’s toughest unsolved maths problems
February 7, 2019 New Scientist
The Open Problems in Mathematical Physics is a list of the most monstrous maths riddles in physics. Here are five of the top problems that remain unsolved
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The Dark Universe: Why we're about to solve the biggest mystery in science
May 12, 2024 BBC - Science Focus
A researcher searching for the missing part in our theory of matter reveals how we'll find it.
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The Tradition of British Natural Theology
May 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Meyer and Klavan
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Discontinuities in the Fossil Record -- A Problem for Neo-Darwinism
May 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent Design Argument
May 13, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet
May 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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From the “Junk DNA” Files
May 13, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?
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Stanford's Censorship: An Interview with Dr. Scott Atlas
May 8, 2024 Stanford Review
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Arts Major Cracks Hard Math Through Practice, Practice, Practice
May 10, 2024 Mind Matters
She became an engineering prof that way. The war on math is certainly not over but the warriors may be starting to find themselves on the back foot
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Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead?
May 9, 2024 The Conversation
There’s bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests
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New sex-determining mechanism in African butterfly discovered
May 9, 2024 Science Daily
In a study of a species of African butterfly, researchers have discovered a previously undescribed molecular mechanism of how the sex of an embryo is initially specified.
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New Rhizobia-diatom symbiosis solves long-standing marine mystery
May 9, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ocean.
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Chimps learn and improve tool-using skills even as adults
May 7, 2024 Science Daily
Prolonged learning capacity might be key to evolution of tool use in chimps and humans
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Again with the “Plants Are Intelligent” Nonsense
May 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Twisting Evidence Against Evolution into Evidence for Evolution
May 9, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Freed from serious critique by non-Darwinists, evolutionists can twist any data into support for their Darwinist ideology
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An Example of Chance and Necessity, or Programming?
May 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Antibiotic Resistance
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Evolvability predicts macroevolution under fluctuating selection
May 9, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6696, p.688-693
Macroevolution pertains to patterns over long time scales and change across diverged lineages. Microevolution, on the other hand, operates on ecological time scales and populations, and questions of local adaptation are often the focus.
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Long ago, a lake on Mars might have been sprawling with microbes
May 3, 2024 space.com
Curiosity discovered manganese oxide in bedrock in a Martian region that may have been a shoreline billions of years ago.
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A Laser Zapped the Rocks on Mars and Revealed a Long-Lost Water World
May 7, 2024 Popular Mechanics
Evidence suggests the Red Planet once mirrored Earth’s blue oceans.
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Consciousness came before life
May 8, 2024 iai News
The fundamental cause of evolution
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The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’
April 2, 2024 The Guardian
New research into the dying brain suggests the line between life and death may be less distinct than previously thought
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Did Homo Erectus Have Language, Build Boats, and Sail Across Oceans?
April 17, 2024 IFL Science
Humans may have had language for millions of years.
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Why eggs should be front and centre in the story of evolution
May 8, 2024 New Scientist
From large and shell-covered to tiny and jelly-like, the developmental story of eggs offers a way to rethink the story of life, says Jules Howard in his new book Infinite Life
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Ancient DNA traces family lines and political shifts in the Avar empire
April 24, 2024 Nature
Genetic pedigrees spanning nine generations uncover the social organization of a nomadic empire that dominated much of central and eastern Europe from the sixth to the early ninth century.
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‘Milestone’ discovery as JWST confirms atmosphere on an Earth-like exoplanet
May 8, 2024 Nature
55 Cancri e is too hot to support life as we know it, but could provide clues about Earth’s formation.