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Science and the legal rights of nature
May 19, 2023 Science
Laws that establish legal rights for nature are being pursued in a growing number of countries to protect the environment. The success of these rights-of-nature laws can depend in large part on how scientific concepts and expertise have been used
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Time is an object
May 19, 2023 Aeon
Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories
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Octopuses and squid are masters of RNA editing while leaving DNA intact
May 19, 2023 Science News
These changes could explain the intelligence and flexibility of shell-less cephalopods
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The myth of value-free science
May 19, 2023 iai News
What do scientists owe us?
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When do humans become conscious -- in the womb or after birth?
May 19, 2023 Big Think
Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
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How to Write Imperfect Nonsense Using Evolution: Cheat
May 19, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary theory, with its Stuff Happens Law, makes nonsense more probable than sense
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The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic
May 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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The Ultimate Defense of Substance Dualism
May 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Coming Soon
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FAQ: The Cambrian Explosion Is Real, and It Is a Problem for Evolution
May 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
The 5 core principles of life
May 19, 2023 YouTube
Nobel Prize-winner Paul Nurse
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Blog Post
Breaking Google Bard
May 18, 2023
I’ve finally started playing around with Google Bard. With self-referential sentences, it seems even more at sea than ChatGPT. Here is an exchange from 5/18/23
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Does Iron Toast Union Rescue Long Ages?
May 18, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
On the one hand, biochemists perform decay rate studies that show biochemicals cannot last a million years in the best of conditions. On the other hand, paleontologists keep finding biochemicals in fossil bones deemed tens of millions of years old.
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Electron is perfectly spherical
May 18, 2023 Creation Ministries International
Real particle physics refutes big bang dogma
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New Animal Cell Organelle Discovered
May 18, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
As design becomes more complex, evolution becomes less likely
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Intelligent Design in Weather
May 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
The “Perfect Day” Conspiracy
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Humans were making fires at least 250,000 years ago in Europe
May 18, 2023 phys.org
Early humans in Europe were making and controlling fire at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland have found.
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We’re effectively alone in the Universe, and that’s OK
May 18, 2023 ars technica
Solitude is not a curse -- it urges us to explore the mysteries of our galaxy and beyond.
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A surprise new “theory of everything” involves the symmetry between order and disorder
May 18, 2023 Big Think
There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.
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Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?
May 18, 2023 nautil.us
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
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Once again, ideology distorts science
May 18, 2023 Why Evolution Is True
the editor-in-chief of Scientific American flubs big time, wrongly asserting that sparrows have four sexes
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Scientists find oldest known evidence of humans in Europe using fires to cook
May 18, 2023 The Guardian
Prehistoric hearths found near Madrid date back about 250,000 years, with nearby tools showing food traces
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Human-evolution story rewritten by fresh data and more computing power
May 18, 2023 Nature
Humans did not emerge from a single region of Africa, suggests a powerful modelling study. Rather, our ancestors moved and intermingled for millennia.
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil of mosasaur with bizarre ‘screwdriver teeth' found in Morocco
May 18, 2023 Science Daily
Along with other recent finds from Africa, it suggests that mosasaurs and other marine reptiles were evolving rapidly up until 66 million years ago, when they were wiped out by an asteroid along with the dinosaurs and around 90% of all species on Earth.
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News Update/Commentary
Scales or feathers? It all comes down to a few genes
May 18, 2023 Science Daily
Specifically modifying gene expression causes feathers to replace scales in the chicken
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News Update/Commentary
Perfection: The Enemy of Evolution
May 18, 2023 Science Daily
Freedom to miss the optimal mark opens a wide range of new designs over time
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Did life evolve more than once?
May 18, 2023 The Conversation
Researchers are closing in on an answer
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In First Detection of Gravitational Waves, Timing Was Everything
May 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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ChatGPT can’t think -- consciousness is something entirely different to today’s AI
May 17, 2023 The Conversation
There has been shock around the world at the rapid rate of progress with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence created with what’s known as large language models (LLMs).
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When Political Dogma Replaces Medical Truth
May 17, 2023 City Journal, New York
The peer-review process is consistently failing to stop bad scholarship on gender medicine.
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What did the earliest animals look like?
May 17, 2023 University of California, Berkeley
Scientists have long debated whether comb jellies or sponges are the sister group to all other animals. A detailed comparison of the chromosomes finally resolves the question.
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New Research Using DNA Changes Origin of Human Species
May 17, 2023 University of California, Davis
New Model for Human Evolution Suggests Homo sapiens Arose From Multiple Closely Related Populations
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Comb jellies, not sponges, might be the oldest animal group after all
May 17, 2023 New Scientist
An argument that has been raging among biologists for over a decade -- whether comb jellies or sponges were the first group to split off from the common ancestor of all animals -- has a new twist, thanks to an analysis of genetic patterns
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The “inflaton” could shed light on the mystery of the early Universe
May 17, 2023 Big Think
We can reasonably say that we understand the history of the Universe within one-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. That's not good enough.
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Chromosomal comparisons reveal comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals
May 17, 2023 Nature
Analyses of chromosome organization across diverse animals provide evidence that a group of marine creatures called comb jellies are the sister clade of all other animals, bringing to bear new methods to answer a long-standing evolutionary question.
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The evolution of fast-growing coral reef fishes
May 17, 2023 Nature
Individual growth is a fundamental life history trait, yet its macroevolutionary trajectories have rarely been investigated for entire animal assemblages. Here we analyse the evolution of growth in a highly diverse vertebrate assemblage
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Religion and educational mobility in Africa
May 17, 2023 Nature
In this study, we examine the educational progress across faiths throughout postcolonial Africa, home to some of the world’s largest Christian and Muslim communities.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A temperate Earth-sized planet with tidal heating transiting an M6 star
May 17, 2023 Nature
Temperate Earth-sized exoplanets around late-M dwarfs offer a rare opportunity to explore under which conditions planets can develop hospitable climate conditions.
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Changes in education levels across generations in Africa are linked to religion
May 17, 2023 Nature
Census data from across Africa reveal that religion is a strong predictor of whether a child is likely to complete more or less education than their parents. The analysis calls into question current approaches to closing education gaps.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals
May 17, 2023 Nature
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JWST shows an ancient galaxy in stunning spectroscopic detail
May 17, 2023 Nature
New insights into the structure of an early galaxy
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Comb Jellies Take the Lead Over Sponges!
May 17, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Comb jellies pull ahead in an endless game to earn the title Last Common Ancestor of All Animals
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The Dawkins Test Returns an Answer
May 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Intelligent Design
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News Update/Commentary
Homo sapiens likely arose from multiple closely related populations
May 17, 2023 Science Daily
In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence, researchers have uncovered a new model of human evolution -- overturning previous beliefs that a single population gave rise to all humans
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa
May 17, 2023 Nature, v.617, p.755-763
Despite broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, considerable uncertainty surrounds specific models of divergence and migration across the continent. Progress is hampered by a shortage of fossil and genomic data
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Video
The (Crazy) State of Origin-of-Life Research
May 16, 2023 YouTube
Are we getting closer to discovering how life first emerged? Will scientists be able to create life in a lab in our lifetimes? Dr. James Tour is a chemist and nanotechnologist who has been following origin-of-life research closely for years.
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Blog Post
The Role of Plausibility in Science
May 16, 2023 NeuroLogica
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The Journal Nature Falls for Autism Pseudoscience
May 16, 2023 Skeptical Inquirer
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Opposing scientists find no clear evidence for gender bias in academic science
May 16, 2023 Big Think
The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.
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We can’t avoid a singularity inside every black hole
May 16, 2023 Big Think
Yes, “the laws of physics break down" at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.
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Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add -- and That Matters
May 16, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today