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Tiny, ‘fairy-like’ robots that could replace dying bumblebees: ‘Superior to its natural counterparts’
March 20, 2023 MSN - Microsoft
Researchers in Finland have developed small, fairy-like robots that can fly, which could help to pollinate vital crops across the globe.
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A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator
March 19, 2023 The Guardian
Thomas Hertog worked with cosmologist on a new book after he shared his doubts about A Brief History of Time
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The early universe was crammed with stars 10,000 times the size of our sun
March 19, 2023 space.com
When the universe's first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth's sun, new research suggests.
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Laws of cause and explanation
March 18, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Skeptic Argues Free Will Is Real
March 18, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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The age-old debate continues: are science and religion compatible?
March 18, 2023 The Spectator
REVIEW: Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion by Nicholas Spencer (Oneworld, 2023) | See Also Amazon
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil site is ‘Rosetta Stone' for understanding early life
March 17, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers who analyzed the 400 million-year-old cache, found in rural north-east Scotland, say their findings reveal better preservation of the fossils at a molecular level than was previously anticipated.
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Fact Check: Imagining Darwin’s Abolitionism
March 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Could Sex Evolve?
March 17, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Still baffling after all these years: a new PNAS article reinforces the difficulty of explaining the evolution of sex
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The Abrupt Origin of Ichthyosaurs
March 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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What is life? Scientists still can’t agree.
March 16, 2023 Vox
Science writer Carl Zimmer explains why this question has been so hard to answer.
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Free Will Is Real
March 16, 2023 Skeptic (Reading Room)
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At light speed, Einstein’s equations break down and nothing makes sense
March 16, 2023 Big Think
Everything everywhere all at once.
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‘Terminator zones’ on distant planets could harbor life
March 16, 2023 University of California, Irvine
These in-between regions could be prime sites for liquid water
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“Sacred Cause”? Reconsidering Charles Darwin as Abolitionist
March 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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GPT-4 is here: what scientists think
March 16, 2023 Nature
Researchers are excited about the AI -- but many are frustrated that its underlying engineering is cloaked in secrecy.
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How stem cells make a human brain
March 16, 2023 Nature
Technical “tour de force” allows researchers to trace the family tree of crucial brain cells.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolutionary transitions from camouflage to aposematism
March 16, 2023 Science, v.379, n.6637, p.1136-1140
Using bright coloration to warn predators off of toxic prey, or aposematism, presents a conundrum in evolution. How do brightly colored organisms survive long enough to warn predators when they are easier to predate than their cryptic peers?
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The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging from Large AI Models
March 16, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Large language models like ChatGPT are now big enough that they’ve started to display startling, unpredictable behaviors.
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The strongest evidence for a Universe before the Big Bang
March 16, 2023 Big Think
The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there's one piece of evidence we can't ignore that shows otherwise.
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News Update/Commentary
Cellular waste removal differs according to cell type
March 16, 2023 Science Daily
Study identifies different types of so-called lysosomes
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News Update/Commentary
How fishermen benefit from reversing evolution of cod
March 16, 2023 Science Daily
Under long-term fisheries management, evolutionary change, that has resulted in smaller maturation sizes, can be reversed profitably.
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Cites Stephen Meyer to Critique Darwinian Evolution
March 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Longest dinosaur neck on record was six times longer than a giraffe's
March 15, 2023 New Scientist
We only have a few fossil bones of Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, but researchers have estimated its neck length by analysing its vertebrae and comparing them with those from related dinosaurs
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Let’s Sing the Body Electric
March 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass expressed feeling spiritually electrified by the perfections of the human body.
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OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world
March 15, 2023 ars technica
“ARC's evaluation has much lower probability of leading to an AI takeover than the deployment itself."
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Fauci and Collins Owe the Country an Apology
March 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Our universe is suspiciously unlikely to exist -- unless it is one of many
March 15, 2023 The Conversation
The multiverse
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It’s Not a Stretch: This Dinosaur Had a 50-Foot Neck
March 15, 2023 New York Times
Researchers developed a new estimate of the neck length of Mamenchisaurus, which foraged for foliage more than 150 million years ago in what is now China.
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“Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”
March 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Peer-Reviewed Paper
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The truths in physics are dependent on falsehoods
March 14, 2023 iai News
Truth in physics is scale and context dependent
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The ‘Rapunzel’ virus: an evolutionary oddity
March 14, 2023 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Extremely long tail provides window into how bacteria-infecting viruses assemble
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Monkey-Made “Tools” Cast Doubt on High Intelligence in Early Hominids
March 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ichthyosaurs Did Not Evolve, They Appeared Suddenly
March 14, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists have a new falsification to deal with and it packs a double punch
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Newly revealed ancient galaxies generate excitement
March 14, 2023 Physics Today
Peering at some of the universe’s oldest galaxies, the JWST finds that they were surprisingly numerous, massive, and organized.
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Scientists Identify Chemical Reaction That May Have Triggered Life on Earth
March 14, 2023 Science Alert
There was a critical point early in Earth's history when chemical reactions among the mix of organic molecules began to be powered from within, forming something we might start to think of as biological.
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From the archive: Saturn, and Charles Darwin shares animal stories
March 14, 2023 Nature
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Asteroid collision shows how much amateur astronomers have to offer
March 14, 2023 Nature, v.615, p.374
Astronomy, like other scientific fields, continues to benefit from working scientists collaborating with amateur colleagues.
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Dizzy apes give clues on human drive for mind-altering experiences
March 13, 2023 University of Birmingham
Great apes' spinning behaviours could provide clues about the role of altered states for the origins of the human mind.
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The James Webb Space Telescope Demolishes the Big Bang Hypothesis
March 13, 2023 Bible Science Forum
Apparently the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has now observed and identified 6 new massive “primordial” galaxies, 10 times the size of the Milky Way galaxy but only half a billion years after the alleged big bang start of the Universe.
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Parasite Drove Natural Selection in Amazonian Indigenous Groups
March 13, 2023 The Scientist
The findings could help researchers understand why some individuals are more vulnerable to deadly Chagas disease.
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An Indication of Order and Design in Nature
March 13, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
The Hexagon
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Our View of Intelligent [Human] Life Upended by Tools Find?
March 13, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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The physicist betting that space-time isn't quantum after all
March 13, 2023 New Scientist
Most experts think we have to tweak general relativity to fit with quantum theory. Physicist Jonathan Oppenheim isn't so sure, which is why he’s made a 5000:1 bet that gravity isn’t a quantum force
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Oldest ichthyosaur fossil hints they evolved before mass extinction
March 13, 2023 New Scientist
Ichthyosaur bones found in 250 million-year-old rock hint that these swimming reptiles may have appeared before Earth’s biggest mass extinction and survived
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The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big Deal
March 13, 2023 Wired
A new experiment pulled off the most precise measurement of an electron’s self-generated magnetic field -- and the universe’s subatomic model is at stake.
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These bones could rewrite the history of life
March 13, 2023 Science Norway
Everyone believed that the mighty ichthyosaurs arose in the wake of the Earth's biggest catastrophe. But a new Norwegian discovery suggests instead that these ancient lizards already existed -- and survived the inferno 252 million years ago.
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Shadows in the Big Bang Afterglow Reveal Invisible Cosmic Structures
March 13, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Cosmologists are using secondary signatures from the cosmic microwave background to map the universe’s hidden matter.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Earliest Triassic ichthyosaur fossils push back oceanic reptile origins
March 13, 2023 Current Biology, v.33, n.5, p.R178-R179
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Evolution’s Tall Tale -- The Giraffe Neck
March 13, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today