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Protocells on early Earth may have been formed by squeezing geysers
May 3, 2024 New Scientist
Simulations of the crust of early Earth show that cycles of pressure caused by geysers or tidal forces could have generated cell-like structures and even very simple proteins
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Dark energy is tearing the Universe apart. What if the force is weakening?
May 3, 2024 Nature
The first set of results from a pioneering cosmic-mapping project hints that the repulsive force known as dark energy has changed over 11 billion years, which would alter ideas about how the Universe has evolved and what its future will be.
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Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion
May 3, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha
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Video
Can Consciousness be Non-Biological?
May 2, 2024 YouTube
If consciousness is 100% physical, we would have to conclude that the same kind of consciousness that we experience as humans can be generated by non-biological entities (eventually).
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Darwin meets Dickinson
May 2, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6695, p.516
The biologist and the poet shared deep sensibilities about the natural world
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Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first
May 2, 2024 CNN
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has been documented.
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Unravelling life’s origin: five key breakthroughs from the past five years
May 2, 2024 The Conversation
There is still so much we don’t understand about the origin of life on Earth.
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Orangutan treats wound with pain-relieving plant
May 2, 2024 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Researchers observe a wild orangutan applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild animal
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Webb telescope probably didn’t find life on an exoplanet -- yet
May 2, 2024 University of California, Riverside
Claims of biosignature gas detection were premature
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Face of Female Neanderthal Revealed
May 2, 2024 Real Clear Science
A new Netflix documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan
May 2, 2024 Scientific Reports, v.14
Although self-medication in non-human animals is often difficult to document systematically due to the difficulty of predicting its occurrence, there is widespread evidence of such behaviors
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Endosymbiosis Under the Microscope
May 2, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Do microbes get married and become one? Is this an example of evolution?
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Was a Key to Photosynthesis Evolution Discovered?
May 2, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness
May 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Being a Bat
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“Junk DNA” from Three Perspectives
May 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Some Key Quotes
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Does Quantum Mechanics Imply Multiple Universes?
May 1, 2024 YouTube
Dive into the deepest quantum mystery: how do we transition from a haze of possibilities to the concrete reality we experience? Does the answer require a profusion of universes, each shaped by different quantum outcomes?
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A shocking beginning to star formation
May, 2024 Physics Today, v.77, n.5, p.36-42
The birth of stars is tightly entangled with interstellar shocks, which makes shocked regions a paradise for astrochemistry.
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The real butterfly effect and maggoty apples
May, 2024 Physics Today, v.77, n.5, p.30-35
Even though the Navier-Stokes equations are deterministic, it seems that you cannot make predictions beyond a fixed time horizon, no matter how small the initial uncertainty.
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Casey Luskin Versus Rutgers Biologist Dan Cardinale
May 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Debate: Thursday, May 2
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Here’s a List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA
May 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting)
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Another Call for a “New Synthesis”
May 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Odd bump on praying mantis chest is actually world’s weirdest tongue
May 1, 2024 New Scientist
A bristly bump on some mantises’ chests is a never-before-seen “gustifolium”, which may have evolved to help the insects with their highly specialised lifestyles
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Ancient crystals suggest early Earth had land and freshwater
April 30, 2024 Science
Hardy zircon minerals found in Australian rocks suggest conditions for life existed 4 billion years ago
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Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design
April 30, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
Part 2
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Multicellular Bacteria Evolve Defenses that Resemble the Immune System
April 30, 2024 The Scientist
Bacterial superorganisms must evolve defenses to fight off infections, and microbiologists found that they use a weapons cache coincidentally similar to that of the human immune system.
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A Case Study in Evolution or Adaptive Engineering?
April 30, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
Galápagos Finches
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Alien life is no joke
April 30, 2024 Aeon
Not long ago the search for extraterrestrials was considered laughable nonsense. Today, it’s serious and scientific
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Can the known particles and interactions explain consciousness?
April 30, 2024 Big Think
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers parse oddity of distantly related bats in Solomon Islands that appear identical
April 30, 2024 Science Daily
A study of body size in leaf-nosed bats of the Solomon Islands has revealed surprising genetic diversity among nearly indistinguishable species on different islands.
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Darwin’s Blunder Lives On
April 30, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A major journal publishes a paper claiming that natural selection is like human engineering
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Blog Post
The Enabling of Richard Dawkins
April 29, 2024
How the failure of Christian education has enabled Richard Dawkins' atheism -- and why even he now thinks society has gone too far in jettisoning Christianity
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Do Fungi Have Free-Will?
April 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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A new approach to dark matter could help us solve galactic anomalies
April 29, 2024 New Scientist
Cosmological puzzles are tempting astronomers to rethink our simple picture of the universe -- and ask whether dark matter is even stranger than we thought
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Calling It Evolution When It’s Not
April 29, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists’ favorite word gets dragged into situations that don’t involve speciation
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T. rex not as smart as previously claimed
April 29, 2024 University of Bristol
Dinosaurs were as smart as reptiles but not as intelligent as monkeys, as former research suggests.
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The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang
April 28, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Another Fish Story That Is True
April 27, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
You’ll be amazed at the power of a salmon’s homing instinct in this new short video
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The Universe’s Topology May Not Be Simple
April 26, 2024 Physics Magazine, v.17
Most models for the overall shape and geometry of the Universe -- including some exotic ones -- are compatible with the latest cosmic observations.
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Did the Universe Begin?
April 26, 2024 YouTube
Some scientists claim that the universe did not have a beginning. Yet the universe is expanding, and so run the movie in reverse and there seems to be a beginning. What stakes are riding on whether the universe had a beginning?
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Two lifeforms merge into one organism for first time in a billion years
April 26, 2024 Independent (UK)
‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say
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What is a presumed sign of life doing on a dead comet?
April 26, 2024 Science
Touted as a “biosignature” on an alien planet, dimethyl sulfide also seems to arise in banal ways
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5 extraordinary ideas about the mind and what it means to be conscious
April 26, 2024 New Scientist
To celebrate the launch of our new event series in the US, kicking off with a masterclass on the brain and consciousness, we have unlocked five incredible long reads
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Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!
April 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Three Dubious New Fossil Insect Orders from Cretaceous Burmese Amber
April 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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What Is Consciousness?
April 25, 2024 YouTube
Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers.
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Philosophy of Biological Information
April 25, 2024 YouTube
What is information in biology? information is essential for analyzing data and testing hypotheses. But what is information in evolution, population genetics, levels of selection, and molecular genetics? Is computational biology transformational?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The genetics of niche-specific behavioral tendencies in an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes
April 25, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6694, p.470-475
Lake Tanganyika contains one of the most impressive adaptive radiations, with about 250 species of cichlid occupying a variety of niches. Much research has focused on understanding the drivers of this and other adaptive radiations.
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A gene mutation turned these fish into intrepid explorers
April 25, 2024 Science
That behavioral change could explain the remarkable diversity of cichlid fish in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika
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The Golden Numbers
April 25, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
Evolutionists theorize that the universe came into being through random means. Nature, however, does not display randomness. In fact, it exhibits quite the opposite.
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How DNA Reveals God’s Design
April 25, 2024 Answers in Genesis
DNA’s Code: The Signature of God