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Illegal Fossil Export Is More Than an Irritator to the Global South
September 22, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
More than 2,000 researchers have signed an open letter requesting the repatriation of a dinosaur fossil to Brazil. Some say the case highlights a pattern of scientific colonialism in paleontology.
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Exodus 20:11 -- An Insurmountable Stone Wall Against Adding Millions of Years to the Bible
September 22, 2023 Answers in Genesis
God’s commentary on the Sabbath refutes all long-age theories.
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News Update/Commentary
Jellyfish, with no central brain, shown to learn from past experience
September 22, 2023 Science Daily
The study challenges previous notions that advanced learning requires a centralized brain and sheds light on the evolutionary roots of learning and memory.
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Peer Review Rejects Claims about Homo naledi
September 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall
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Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion
September 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Blog Post
ENCODE disproved junk DNA, therefore intelligent design
September 21, 2023 Sandwalk
This is a video of a debate that took place in Kraków, Poland on June 2, 2023. The topic was "Intelligent design in nature -- illusion or reality?"
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Dinosaur feathers reveal traces of ancient proteins
September 21, 2023 University College Cork, Ireland
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News Update/Commentary
Unzipping mRNA rallies plant cells to fight infection
September 21, 2023 Science Daily
New tool controls protein production in living cells, with potential applications from agriculture to medicine.
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News Update/Commentary
This parasitic plant convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh
September 21, 2023 Science Daily
Balanophora provides an extreme degree of genome shrinkage even among parasites. Along the way this subtropical plant developed the ability to induce the host plant to grow into the parasite's own flesh -- forming chimeric organs that mix host and parasit
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Vaccine specialist Peter Hotez: scientists are ‘under attack for someone else’s political gain’
September 21, 2023 Nature
The physician-researcher who spoke out against misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic says attacks against science are formidable -- and getting worse.
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Fire Sensory Capabilities of the Venus Flytrap
September 21, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Human Population Bottleneck Admitted by Secular Geneticists
September 21, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Secular scientists now claim that the human population almost died out. Does this match the Biblical record?
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No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma
September 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fact Check
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Ancient Origins of Brain Cells Found in Creatures From 800 Million Years Ago
September 20, 2023 Science Alert
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Leading Consciousness Theory Slammed as "Pseudoscience." Huh?
September 20, 2023 Mind Matters
critics’ real target
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Half-million-year-old ‘Lincoln Logs’ may be first wood structure made by ancient humans
September 20, 2023 Science
Interlocking timber unearthed in Zambia may have been part of a platform, bridge, or house foundation
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The Engineering Prowess of the Blood Clotting Cascade
September 20, 2023 ID the Future
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News Update/Commentary
Prehistoric fish fills 100 million year gap in evolution of the skull
September 20, 2023 Science Daily
X-rays of an ancient jawless fish shows earliest-known example of internal cartilage skull, unlike that of any other known vertebrate.
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News Update/Commentary
Archaeologists discover world's oldest wooden structure
September 20, 2023 Science Daily
Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new research.
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News Update/Commentary
Artificial Intelligence tools shed light on millions of proteins
September 20, 2023 Science Daily
A research team has uncovered a treasure trove of uncharacterized proteins. Embracing the recent deep learning revolution, they discovered hundreds of new protein families and even a novel predicted protein fold.
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News Update/Commentary
Slow growth in crocodile ancestors pre-dated their semi-aquatic lifestyle
September 20, 2023 Science Daily
The study suggests that this slow-growth strategy was not a mere evolutionary quirk but a survival mechanism, as only the slow-growing crocodylomorphs managed to survive the End-Triassic mass extinction. This stands in stark contrast to the fast-growing d
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago
September 20, 2023 Nature
Wood artefacts rarely survive from the Early Stone Age since they require exceptional conditions for preservation; consequently, we have limited information about when and how hominins used this basic raw material.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The oldest three-dimensionally preserved vertebrate neurocranium
September 20, 2023 Nature
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These ancient whittled logs could be the earliest known wooden structure
September 20, 2023 Nature
Stacked timbers dated to roughly 476,000 years ago show that ancient hominins worked with wood.
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How worlds are born: JWST reveals exotic chemistry of planetary nurseries
September 20, 2023 Nature
The telescope is delivering a cascade of insights about the ‘protoplanetary’ disks where planets take shape.
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Consciousness theory slammed as ‘pseudoscience’ -- sparking uproar
September 20, 2023 Nature
Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention.
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Hominins built with wood 476,000 years ago
September 20, 2023 Nature
Understanding the timeline of technological developments sheds light on early societies. A remarkable finding in Africa of a structure made from shaped wood provides clues about our hominin relatives.
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Getting inside the oldest known vertebrate skull
September 20, 2023 Nature
Analysis of a 458-million-year-old fossil fish reveals anatomical insights about the vertebrate skull and how skull organization evolved from that of ancestral early vertebrates to that of jawed vertebrates.
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The entire brain may be involved in language, not just a few regions
September 20, 2023 New Scientist
Brain regions identified as “language centres” are actually hubs that coordinate the processing of language throughout the brain, argues a controversial new study
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Dark stars: Have we finally found a weird sun powered by dark matter?
September 20, 2023 New Scientist
Astronomers say they have spotted evidence of stars fuelled by the annihilation of dark matter particles. If true, it could solve the cosmic mystery of how supermassive black holes appeared so early
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Stick insects that are normally asexual may occasionally have sex
September 20, 2023 New Scientist
Some animals reproduce asexually by creating embryos from unfertilised eggs, but this can lead to a lack of genetic diversity. To keep their gene pool healthy, two species of asexual stick insect appear to occasionally mate
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Was Adam Historical (And Does It Really Matter)?
September 20, 2023 Answers in Genesis
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Did Pre-Humans Build Log Cabins?
September 20, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary anthropologists are in trouble again with too-early evidence of intelligent design
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Evidence of Woodworking Extends High Human Intelligence Far Back
September 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
into the Mid-Pleistocene
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Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life
September 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Chameleon Vision -- A Unique Marvel of Design
September 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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ChatGPT on Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life
September 19, 2023
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Time doesn’t belong to physics
September 19, 2023 iai News
When Bergson met Einstein
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News Update/Commentary
RNA for the first time recovered from an extinct species
September 19, 2023 Science Daily
The researchers note that their findings have relevant implications for international efforts to resurrect extinct species, including both the Tasmanian tiger and the woolly mammoth, as well as for studying pandemic RNA viruses.
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News Update/Commentary
New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets
September 19, 2023 Science Daily
There are only so many chemical ingredients in the universe's pantry, and only so many ways to mix them. Scientists have now exploited those limitations to write a cookbook of hundreds of chemical recipes with the potential to give rise to life.
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News Update/Commentary
16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam
September 19, 2023 Science Daily
The study also revealed for the first time the unique parasitic behavior of a captive female from one species, who after parasitizing her host egg, buried the egg in a hole in the soil.
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News Update/Commentary
Tiny sea creatures reveal the ancient origins of neurons
September 19, 2023 Science Daily
Our brain cell components were forming in shallow seas around 800 million years ago
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Tasmanian tiger RNA is first to be recovered from an extinct animal
September 19, 2023 Nature
Genetic sequences from a museum specimen offer fresh clues about the physiology of thylacines, which went extinct in the 1930s.
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Bringing space rocks back to Earth could answer some of life’s biggest questions
September 19, 2023 Nature
Safe delivery of samples from an asteroid on 24 September will be the start of a global scientific journey -- but similar missions need support.
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Theory of consciousness branded 'pseudoscience' by neuroscientists
September 19, 2023 New Scientist
Integrated information theory is seen by some people as a leading theory of consciousness, but now over 100 neuroscientists have signed an open letter calling it untestable pseudoscience
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Science Turns Against Humanity
September 19, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Misanthropic headlines suggest worrisome trends justifying reduction in quality of life
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Split Mind: The Strangest Theory in Neuroscience?
September 19, 2023 Mind Matters
The idea that we might all have separate, undetected consciousnesses in each half of our brain supports materialism but there’s little evidence for it
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Science Turns Against Humanity
September 19, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Misanthropic headlines suggest worrisome trends justifying reduction in quality of life
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Book
New Book: Mind Is More than the Brain
September 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
| See Also Discovery Institute
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Video
Why Was Galileo on Trial for Heresy?
September 18, 2023 YouTube
Why was Galileo put on trial for believing the sun was the center of our solar system (heliocentrism)? This video looks at Renaissance science, Copernicus, Galileo, and the Inquisition that put Galileo on trial.