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Fossils suggest early primates lived in a once-swampy Arctic
January 25, 2023 Science News
The animals probably moved north as the planet warmed, to a new habitat opening near the poles
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Einstein’s quantum ghost is here to stay
January 25, 2023 Big Think
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
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Neil Turok on the case for a parallel universe going backwards in time
January 25, 2023 New Scientist
To explain the cosmos without invoking cosmic inflation, physicist Neil Turok has proposed the existence of a mirror-image universe going backwards in time from the big bang. He tells us why the idea is so compelling
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Is science really getting less disruptive -- and does it matter if it is?
January 25, 2023 Nature
A study suggesting papers and patents that change the course of science are becoming less dominant is prompting soul-searching -- and lively debate about why, and what to do about it.
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Two-Tier Tolerance: Academia Promotes Sex Advocate, Punishes Creationist
January 25, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
In academia, there is tolerance for thee but not for me: behold an Oxford University professor’s career as a transsexual advocate
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Tour Shines Light on Scientific Paradoxes on Origin of Life
January 24, 2023 YouTube
Tour thwarts a YouTuber’s misguided understanding of chemistry
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News Update/Commentary
Botany: Chloroplast from the father
January 24, 2023 Science Daily
Under cold conditions, not only the mother plant but also the father plant can pass on its chloroplasts to the offspring
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News Update/Commentary
How cells prevent harmful extra DNA copies
January 24, 2023 Science Daily
A protein that prepares DNA for replication also prevents the replication process from running out of control, according to a new study. The work solves a mystery that has long puzzled biologists.
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The Truth About the Chimp Genome
January 24, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
Humans & Chimps: Part 2 | The Creation Podcast: Episode 41
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Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science
January 24, 2023 Nature
As researchers dive into the brave new world of advanced AI chatbots, publishers need to acknowledge their legitimate uses and lay down clear guidelines to avoid abuse.
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The Elephant in the Science Lab
January 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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What time is it on the Moon?
January 24, 2023 Nature
Satellite navigation systems for lunar settlements will require local atomic clocks. Scientists are working out what time they will keep.
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Intelligent Design: What it is and Why it Matters to Our Worldview and Culture
January 24, 2023 YouTube
Friday session of the Southland seminar -- God's Sovereign Plan Through His Creation
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Signature in the Cell
January 24, 2023 YouTube
Charles Darwin and the Mystery of How Life Began
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Body Designs Not Often Considered
January 24, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
There’s more going on under the skin and on the skin than we know
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Earth’s Core Has Stopped and May Be Reversing Direction
January 23, 2023 Motherboard (Tech by Vice)
The surprising finding might solve longstanding mysteries about climate and geological phenomena.
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GPT-3 versus the Writers at Mind Matters
January 23, 2023 Mind Matters
How does the AI fare when it is asked to write on topics covered in Mind Matters articles?
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A new model for dark matter
January 23, 2023 University of Michigan
Phase transition in early universe changes strength of interaction between dark and normal matter
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Earth's inner core may have started spinning other way
January 23, 2023 Yahoo! News
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Why giant prehistoric animals got smaller
January 23, 2023 BBC
There are good reasons why invertebrates are as small as they are -- ecology and environment keep them in check. But there was a time when insects were as big as crows. What happened to those lost giants?
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News Update/Commentary
JWST has seen building blocks of life in a dark, cold cloud in space
January 23, 2023 New Scientist
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a frigid cloud of dust and gas where stars are forming, and it found frozen elements that are crucial for the development of life
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Instant Mammals? LOL!
January 23, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
These evolutionists are either starting a new Darwin comedy show or are seriously deprived of logical thinking.
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News Update/Commentary
Young chimpanzees and human teens share risk-taking behaviors
January 23, 2023 Science Daily
Adolescent chimpanzees may be less impulsive
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News Update/Commentary
Immense diversity and interdependence in high temp deep-sea microorganism communities
January 23, 2023 Science Daily
Some microorganisms cannot metabolize all of the nutrients they need to survive so they rely on nutrients created by other species in a process known as a ‘metabolic handoff.'
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New Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital
January 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin?
January 23, 2023 Nature
Earthquake data hint that the inner core stopped rotating faster than the rest of the planet in 2009, but not all researchers agree.
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Return of the God Hypothesis
January 23, 2023 YouTube
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We can still see these 5 traces of ancestor species in all human bodies today
January 22, 2023 The Conversation
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A new pterodactyloid pterosaur with a unique filter-feeding apparatus from the Late Jurassic of Germany
January 21, 2023 Paläontologische Zeitschrift
A new long-legged, spatula-beaked, filter-feeding pterodactyloid pterosaur from Upper Jurassic limestones in Bavaria is remarkable for its completeness, unusual dentition and hints of the preservation of soft tissues, including wing membranes.
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Big Science Cred Collapsing
January 21, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Beware, believers in the scientific method: science cannot exceed the honesty of its practitioners
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Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?
January 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Fuzzy with a Chance of Feathers
January 21, 2023 YouTube
Did dinosaurs have feathers? Some scientists talk of birds as being dinosaurs with feathers. Creationist paleontologist Dr. Marcus Ross will walk you through the evidence and inference towards a creationist view of dinosaurs and birds.
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Evolving “Backward”
January 20, 2023 Sci Tech Daily
Discovery Overturns More Than a Century of Knowledge About the Origin of Modern Birds
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Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds
January 20, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Reports that the James Webb Space Telescope killed the reigning cosmological model turn out to have been exaggerated. But astronomers still have much to learn from distant galaxies glimpsed by Webb.
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Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia
January 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Earth's oldest known environmental clean-up was 400 million years ago
January 19, 2023 phys.org
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Marine biology: The genes that made whales gigantic
January 19, 2023 EurekAlert!
The molecular evolution of genes previously associated with large sizes reveals possible pathways to cetacean gigantism
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Squirrels that gamble win big when it comes to evolutionary fitness
January 19, 2023 Science Daily
Imagine overhearing the Powerball lottery winning numbers, but you didn't know when those numbers would be called -- just that at some point in the next 10 years or so, they would be.
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Study reveals key aspect of the finely tuned regulation of gene expression
January 19, 2023 Science Daily
A team of researchers unveils a novel, key aspect of enhancer-mediated regulation of gene expression and proposes a mechanism that explains the tight connection between gene enhancers and promoters.
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Science won’t ever make philosophy or religion obsolete
January 19, 2023 Big Think
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
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Up to 74% of planets in the ‘habitable zone’ may not be good for life
January 19, 2023 New Scientist
Many planets that have the right temperatures for liquid water on their surfaces used to be too hot or too cold, which may affect their ability to host life now
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Turning back time with epigenetic clocks
January 19, 2023 Nature
If biological ageing can be slowed, halted or rewound, are the machine-learning algorithms the best way to measure it? Some experts are unconvinced.
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New Brain Research Supports Free Will
January 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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On the Miracles of Physiological Design
January 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica
January 18, 2023 phys.org
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Unusual dinosaur fossil discovery made in India
January 18, 2023 CNN
Paleontologists working in central India have made a rare discovery -- a fossilized dinosaur hatchery with 92 nests and 256 eggs belonging to colonies of giant plant-eating titanosaurs.
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Cause for excessive folding of gyri in human cerebral cortex
January 18, 2023 Science Daily
Brain's characteristic wrinkled surface is generally an indicator of higher cognitive function, but too much folding can produce the opposite effect
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I Wrote a Viral Screed Against Peer Review
January 18, 2023 Slate
I Got Some Emails
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PhD training is no longer fit for purpose -- it needs reform now
January 18, 2023 Nature
If researchers are to meet society’s expectations, their training and mentoring must escape the nineteenth century.
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Multimillion-dollar trade in paper authorships alarms publishers
January 18, 2023 Nature
Journals have begun retracting publications with suspicious links to sites trading in author positions.