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Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit
November 13, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new observations have forced them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.
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Why Even Einstein Couldn’t Unite Physics
November 13, 2023 Universe Today
Near the end of his life Einstein worked tirelessly to find a way to unite electromagnetism with gravity. He could not, and never did, the notes scattered on his desk scrawled with fruitless probes and useless hypotheticals.
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Recreation of ancient seawater reveals which nutrients shaped the evolution of early life
November 13, 2023 phys.org
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The multiverse is unscientific nonsense
November 13, 2023 iai News
It's all mere speculation
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Young children trounce large language models in a simple problem-solving task
November 13, 2023 Big Think
AIs can imitate but not innovate -- for now, at least.
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Beneficial Mutations Don’t Exist
November 13, 2023 Answers in Genesis
How equivocation provides false legitimacy to the story of evolution
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Only an Immaterial Mind Can Ask “How Does Life Work?"
November 12, 2023 Mind Matters
Science writer Philip Ball, facing cancer surgery, struggles to find meaning and purpose in a wholly material world. He is looking in the wrong place
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Determinism vs. free will: A scientific showdown
November 12, 2023 ars technica
Two books delve into what science may tell us about whether we have free will.
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‘Dark Big Bang' Theory Argues a Second Cosmological Origin Event Could Help Resolve Dark Matter Mystery
November 12, 2023 The DeBrief
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Illustra Highlights a Monarch Wonder
November 12, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Learn about butterflies that live long and fly thousands of miles to an exact spot they have never seen
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Exopsychology: The Psychology of No One We Ever Knew
November 11, 2023 Mind Matters
The academic attempt to establish a psychology of alien intelligences -- for whose existence we have no evidence -- tells us something about ourselves
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Must AI Inevitably Degenerate into Nonsense, through “Model Collapse”?
November 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Yes, the Film on Near-Death Experiences Is Another “Hated Hit"
November 10, 2023 Mind Matters
As with Sound of Freedom, critics trashed After Death but audiences loved it. And the critics just aren’t keeping up with the science
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Darwinian Anthropology Is Inherently Elitist
November 10, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A study on African hunter-gatherer singing borders on racism, elitism, and malpractice
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How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs, or Not
November 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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What’s Wrong With Peer Review?
November 10, 2023 Wall Street Journal
A series of high-profile retractions has raised questions about the process used by scientific and medical journals to decide which studies are worthy of publication.
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Footwear from Over 75,000 Years Ago? Some Fascinating Hints
November 9, 2023 Mind Matters
Some researchers focus on changes in human foot bones, others on evidence of foot protection on ancient trackways
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Galápagos finches, rapid speciation, and recent creation
November 9, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Mutation bias and adaptation in bacteria
November 9, 2023 Microbiology, v.169, n.11
Genetic mutation is largely a stochastic force. However, there is ample evidence showing that mutations can also exhibit strong biases, with some mutation types and certain genomic positions mutating more often than others.
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Darwinism Is Useless in Fossil Discoveries
November 9, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Like a rabbit’s foot, Darwinian paleontologists hope saying “evolution” will bring them good luck
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How Sunflowers “See'' the Sun
November 9, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design?
November 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
First Check the Data
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Passing the Turing Test Is No Guarantee of True AI
November 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Geoglyphs and Natural Features Test Dembski’s Design Inference
November 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
ahead of new book edition
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Carbon Dating Reveals the Timing of Puerto Rican Cave Art
November 9, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
New dates from cave art pigment add to evidence that Indigenous Puerto Ricans inhabited the island for millennia.
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Genesis, Creation, and Biology: A Discussion with Todd Wood
November 9, 2023 YouTube
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Milky Way-like galaxy found in the early universe
November 9, 2023 University of California, Riverside
Research team, including a UC Riverside astronomer, made the discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope
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Many physicists assume we must live in a multiverse
November 9, 2023 The Conversation
but their basic maths may be wrong
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News Update/Commentary
Bacteria-virus arms race provides rare window into rapid and complex evolution
November 9, 2023 Science Daily
Intricate ecological networks emerge from simple beginnings that feature repeating patterns of evolutionary development
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News Update/Commentary
Barnacle bends shape to fend off warm-water sea snails on the move
November 9, 2023 Science Daily
Research shows changing predator-prey dynamics as sea temperatures rise
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News Update/Commentary
Desert birds lay larger eggs when they have more helpers
November 9, 2023 Science Daily
Desert birds lay larger eggs when they have more helpers to feed their chicks, new research shows.
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Exopsychology, the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
November 8, 2023 Psychology Today
Looking outside ourselves could give fresh insights inside ourselves.
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Eating meat may not have ‘made us human,' contrary to popular theory
November 8, 2023 Live Science
Meat-eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists.
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Brain and body are more intertwined than we knew
November 8, 2023 Nature
A host of disorders once thought to be nothing to do with the brain are, in fact, tightly coupled to nervous-system activity.
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These incredible images are the first from dark-energy telescope Euclid
November 8, 2023 Nature
A spiral galaxy and the Horsehead Nebula are among the first pictures released by ESA’s Universe-mapping observatory.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
An evolutionary continuum from nucleated dwarf galaxies to star clusters
November 8, 2023 Nature, v.623, p.296-300
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Ultra-compact oddities are galaxies stripped of stars
November 8, 2023 Nature
Observations have shown that some dwarf galaxies lose their stars through interactions with more massive galaxies. The dense nuclei that remain are ultra-compact dwarf galaxies, the origin of which has long been a subject of debate.
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News Update/Commentary
How animals get their stripes and spots
November 8, 2023 Science Daily
New research helps explain how sharp patterns form on zebras, leopards, tropical fish and other creatures. Their findings could inform the development of new high-tech materials and drugs.
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A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins
November 8, 2023 New Scientist
The enduring mystery of dark matter has led some physicists to propose that it was forged in a distinct moment of cosmic creation, potentially transforming our view of the early universe
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Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA
November 8, 2023 Nature
Highly edited strain survives and replicates despite containing 7.5 artificial chromosomes.
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Christian Chemist Trounces 10 Leading OoL Researchers
November 8, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
James Tour’s easy challenge to origin-of-life leaders is a total victory against chemical evolution
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists one step closer to unravelling the fundamental building blocks of life
November 8, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have engineered a chromosome entirely from scratch that will contribute to the production of the world's first synthetic yeast.
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Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Place in the Evolutionary Tree?
November 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Origin of Life Challenge
November 7, 2023 YouTube
Results + Huge announcement
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Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Way Into a Tidy Evolutionary Tree?
November 7, 2023 Mind Matters
New finds in genetics and neuroscience both shed light and deepen the puzzle of the almost “alien" species
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News Update/Commentary
Genome sequencing reveals why songbirds are larger in colder climates
November 7, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have unlocked the genetic basis underlying the remarkable variation in body size observed in song sparrows, one of North America's most familiar and beloved songbirds.
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Enceladus has All the Raw Materials for Life
November 7, 2023 Universe Today
Saturn's moon Enceladus isn't just bright and beautiful. It has an ocean under all that ice that has chemicals necessary for life.
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New microfossils suggest earlier rise in complex life
November 7, 2023 Pennsylvania State University
Window to the past
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News Update/Commentary
Previous genetic association studies involving people with European ancestry may be inaccurate
November 7, 2023 Science Daily
Failing to account for mixed genetic lineages could lead to inaccuracies
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Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist
November 7, 2023 Nature
This is the third high-profile retraction for Ranga Dias. Researchers worry the controversy is damaging the field’s reputation.