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Mars meteorite with organic molecules holds clues to chances of ancient life
January 13, 2023 space.com
The meteorite, which crashed down in Morocco 11 years ago, was formed hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Developments in paleoanthropology
January 13, 2023 Creation Ministries International
This paper discusses some of the more recent fossil finds and/or developments in paleoanthropology from a creationist perspective.
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Will ChatGPT Replace Human Writers?
January 13, 2023 Mind Matters
Some people think so. But maybe they’re mistaken about the purpose and nature of language
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News Update/Commentary
Madagascar lemur retroviruses are surprisingly similar to ones in polar bears or domestic sheep
January 13, 2023 Science Daily
This suggests an intriguing and complex pattern of host switching of retroviruses, much more complex than previously thought.
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News Update/Commentary
Using paleogenomics to elucidate 10,000 years of immune system evolution
January 13, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists were able to date the increase in frequency of most of the mutations that are advantageous in defending against pathogens to after the Bronze Age, 4,500 years ago.
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Evolution of Uniquely Human DNA Was a Balancing Act
January 13, 2023 Gladstone Institutes
Humans and chimpanzees differ in only one percent of their DNA. Human accelerated regions (HARs) are parts of the genome with an unexpected amount of these differences.
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“Almost Inconceivable” -- Scientists Discover That This Insect Has Superhero-Like Abilities
January 13, 2023 Sci Tech Daily
The female locust’s digging ability allows her to bury her eggs in a safe location by extending her abdomen, including her nervous system, to two to three times its size -- similar to a superhero in a movie.
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How Life Reshapes the Habitable Zone
January 13, 2023 Universe Today
Astronomers are very interested in the Habitable Zone of distant stars, which is the orbital radius where liquid water, and therefore potentially life, can exist on a planet in that region. But life itself changes the characteristics of a planet.
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JWST Upsetting Cosmology
January 13, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The James Webb Space Telescope continues turning up contradictions to consensus views on cosmic evolution
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‘The Science' Is Ruining Science
January 13, 2023 The Pipeline
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Fossil Hyraxes and the Abrupt Origin of Hyracoidea
January 13, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin
January 12, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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If Consciousness Is Not Physical, How Can an AI Duplicate It?
January 12, 2023 Mind Matters
Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed Berkeley philosopher Hubert Dreyfus on the question before his death in 2017
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NASA's Curiosity rover finds water halos filled with opal on Mars
January 12, 2023 Interesting Engineering
Subsurface fractures may have offered more habitable conditions than the surface, with access to water and radiation protection.
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1000 Dogs Tested on Standardized Dog IQ Test. What Was Found?
January 12, 2023 Mind Matters
There were no breed differences for short-term memory or logical reasoning but some differences in how much they needed to interact with humans when problem-solving
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Frog Stripe Evolution?
January 12, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Probability and Number Theory Collide -- in a Moment
January 12, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians are taking ideas developed to study random numbers and applying them to a broad range of categories.
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News Update/Commentary
Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds
January 12, 2023 Science Daily
Tissint, which crash landed in Morocco more than 11 years ago, is one of only five Martian meteorites that have been observed as they fell to Earth
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Svante Pääbo: ‘It’s maybe time to rethink our idea of Neanderthals’
January 12, 2023 The Guardian
The Swedish geneticist on winning the Nobel prize, his laureate father and early man’s sensitive side
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News Update/Commentary
Why older fathers pass on more genetic mutations to their offspring
January 12, 2023 Science Daily
It's not just the number of mutations that matters. It's the failure to fix them too.
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How the Scriptures affirm a literal and historical six-day creation
January 12, 2023 Creation Ministries International
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News Update/Commentary
Gut bacteria affect brain health, mouse study shows
January 12, 2023 Science Daily
Findings suggest new approach to treating Alzheimer's, other neurodegenerative diseases
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Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists
January 12, 2023 Nature
Researchers cannot always differentiate between AI-generated and original abstracts.
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Hummingbirds and Humans Evolved by Mistake
January 12, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
To believe these evolutionary tales, one must accept that genetic mistakes created our beloved backyard acrobats and our own brains
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Epigenetic Manipulations Can Accelerate or Reverse Aging in Mice
January 12, 2023 The Scientist
Repairing damaged DNA appears to drive aging by causing the loss of epigenetic information, but restoring that information reverses such effects, a study finds.
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News Update/Commentary
How crocs can go hours without air: Crocodilian hemoglobin
January 12, 2023 Science Daily
Experiments on ancient proteins find mutations more numerous, nuanced than once thought
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists solve the mystery of why OGT enzyme is critical for cell survival
January 12, 2023 Science Daily
New findings open door to better understanding cancers and many other diseases
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Is the End of Science Near?
January 12, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds
January 11, 2023 Carnegie Science
Tissint, which crash landed in Morocco more than 11 years ago, is one of only five Martian meteorites that have been observed as they fell to Earth.
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Gloomy News from a Nature Article: Is the End of Science Near?
January 11, 2023 Mind Matters
A study in the premier science journal notes the long term falling off of truly original findings, as opposed to endless citations of others’ findings
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Tenure No Longer Protects Creationist Professors
January 11, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Professor Change Laura Tan expelled: A new book about a new case
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News Update/Commentary
Origins of the building blocks of life
January 11, 2023 Science Daily
A new study posits that interstellar cloud conditions may have played a significant role on the presence of key building blocks of life in the solar system.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists study life origins by simulating a cosmic evolution
January 11, 2023 Science Daily
Because of amino acids' relationship to living things scientists are eager to understand the origins of these molecules. Amino acids may have helped spawn life on Earth after being delivered here about 4 billion years ago by pieces of asteroids.
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390-Million-Year-Old Seawater Pockets Uncovered
January 11, 2023 Sci Tech Daily
a new chapter in climate science
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Thinking Biblically About Transhumanist Technologies
January 11, 2023 Answers in Genesis
Examining biotechnology -- from medical therapies to radical modifications
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Peer-reviewed Paper
An electric molecular motor
January 11, 2023 Nature, v.613, p.280-286
Macroscopic electric motors continue to have a large impact on almost every aspect of modern society. Consequently, the effort towards developing molecular motors that can be driven by electricity could not be more timely.
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Remnants of Ancient Life review: Explore the palaeobiology revolution
January 11, 2023 New Scientist
Dale Greenwalt's book is a gripping look at palaeobiology, a field achieving incredible insights into ancient life on Earth
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Monkeys, Not Humans, Likely Made Ancient Brazilian Tools
January 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Appreciating the Irreducibly Complex Design of Salmon Osmoregulation
January 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Jupiter’s Moon Europa Could Contain Sea Life from a Comet Strike
January 10, 2023 Forbes
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Video
Does God Exist?
January 10, 2023 YouTube
Ever since the Enlightenment, the knowing, urbane, sophisticated answer has been, “Of course not.” Now a historian, a scientist, and a journalist talk it over and reveal new threads in the debate around science and theism.
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Is ChatGPT Solely a Neural Network? I Tested That ...
January 10, 2023 Mind Matters
Changing the random number test to a “computer easy, human hard" test requires simply that we ask ChatGPT to reverse the random number. It couldn't.
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Carl Sagan was wrong: ordinary evidence is enough
January 10, 2023 iai News
Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence?
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Some dinos may have been as brainy as modern primates, controversial study argues
January 10, 2023 Science
Experts welcome new neuron-density data, but say findings are premature
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A green comet will appear in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years
January 10, 2023 CNN
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Video
They Lied to Us? (Humans & Chimps: Part 1)
January 10, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
The Creation Podcast: Episode 40
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How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test
January 10, 2023 Tablet magazine
For America’s new clerisy, scientific debate is a danger to be suppressed
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A theory of theories
January 10, 2023 CERN Courier
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Logic underpins knowledge -- but what if logic itself is flawed?
January 10, 2023 New Scientist
We use logic to build facts into systems of thought, but paradoxes force us to question what we think we know. And it could be worse, because logic may not be sufficient to comprehend reality
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How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?
January 10, 2023 New Scientist
If we can’t measure something, we can’t know its true nature. This fundamental limitation hampers our understanding of the quantum world -- but it doesn't preclude scientific thinking