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Surprise finding suggests ‘water worlds' are more common than we thought
September 8, 2022 phys.org
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News Update/Commentary
Physicists invoke the cosmological collider to explain why matter, and not antimatter, dominates the universe
September 8, 2022 Science Daily
Early in its history, shortly after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with equal amounts of matter and ‘antimatter' -- particles that are matter counterparts but with opposite charge. But then, as space expanded, the universe cooled.
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News Update/Commentary
Weedy rice has become herbicide resistant through rapid evolution
September 8, 2022 Science Daily
Aggressive, herbicide-resistant weed is a threat in nation's largest rice production region
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News Update/Commentary
Bird neurons use three times less glucose than mammalian neurons
September 8, 2022 Science Daily
Birds have impressive cognitive abilities and show a high level of intelligence. Compared to mammals of about the same size, the brains of birds also contain many more neurons.
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News Update/Commentary
Changes in the tree canopy facilitated the evolution of the first-ever gliding reptile
September 8, 2022 Science Daily
There are now enough fossils to create a near-perfect skeletal reconstruction of this unusual dragon-like creature
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Altogether -- Unbelievable! Part 2
September 8, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Christian radio interview with Francis Collins and Richard Dawkins
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A Closer Look at Hummingbird Tongue Design
September 8, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Electric Cell: More Synergy with Physics Found in Cellular Coding
September 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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What Makes the Human Brain Different?
September 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Glaciers Flowed on Ancient Mars, But Slowly
September 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Another Philosopher Argues That the Unified Self Is an Illusion
September 7, 2022 Mind Matters
At Closer to Truth, Lawrence Kuhn interviews Julian Baggini, who claims, in terms reminiscent of Thomas Metzinger, that a unified self is an illusion
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Woman Missing Her Brain's Language Lobe Pens New York Times Piece
September 7, 2022 Mind Matters
Helen Santoro’s parents were told she would “never speak and would need to be institutionalized.” She became a science writer instead
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Why Human Skeletal Joints Are Masterpieces of Engineering
September 7, 2022 YouTube
One of Britain's top mechanical engineers, Stuart Burgess explains how the skeletal joints in the human body are masterpieces of intelligent design. He also responds to claims by some that human joints are badly designed.
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These female hummingbirds evolved to look like males -- apparently to evade aggression
September 7, 2022 Science Daily
1 in 5 adult female white-necked jacobin hummingbirds look like males. New research shows that this is a rare case of 'deceptive mimicry' within a species: Females with male-like plumage are trying to pass themselves off as males
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Stephen Meyer: No, the Big Bang Hasn’t Been “Disproven”
September 7, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is There Enough Phosphorus for Us?
September 7, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Brasilodon Is Earliest Known Mammal, New Research Shows
September 7, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Surprising discovery links Piezo1 and cholesterol during brain development
September 7, 2022 Science Daily
New research may provide avenues for novel treatment of diseases like Alzheimer's
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You’ve Been Thinking of Australian Mammals All Wrong
September 7, 2022 Gizmodo
"Most people, including Australians, don’t know about most mammals in Australia," says Jack Ashby, author of the new book Platypus Matters.
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31,000-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals Oldest Known Surgery
September 7, 2022 The Scientist
A Stone Age individual’s left leg healed after being amputated just above the foot, allowing them to survive for six to nine years after the procedure was performed, researchers say.
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Earliest known surgery was of a child in Borneo 31,000 years ago
September 7, 2022 Nature
Evidence that a child in a hunter-gatherer society survived amputation offers a remarkable insight into the origins of surgery. It challenges the current view that such procedures emerged alongside farming some 10,000 years ago.
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Missing foot reveals world’s oldest amputation
September 7, 2022 Nature
A 31,000-year-old skeleton shows evidence of complex surgery
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Surgical amputation of a limb 31,000 years ago in Borneo
September 7, 2022 Nature, v.609, p.547-551
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Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness
September 7, 2022 YouTube
Nick Lane is a biochemist at UCL and author of Transformer, The Vital Question, and many other amazing books on biology, chemistry, and life.
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Prehistoric child’s amputation is oldest surgery of its kind
September 7, 2022 Nature
Skeleton missing lower left leg and dated to 31,000 years ago provides the earliest known evidence for surgical limb removal.
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Telling the Tooth about Brains
September 7, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Has new research about teeth helped evolutionists understand why humans evolved large brains?
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AI Wins a Prize at an Art Show. So Are Human Artists Finished?
September 6, 2022 Mind Matters
A painting generated by a carefully crafted AI prompt won at Colorado’s State Fair digital art competition. Some artists wonder if they still have a job
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Human brain cells made fewer genetic mistakes than Neanderthals’
September 6, 2022 Big Think
Despite the fact that both species shared a similarly large neocortex, scientists still have many questions about how closely the function of their brains resembled our own.
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David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies
September 6, 2022 Creation Ministries International
The first to fly
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How to Keep Titan Old Despite Evidence
September 6, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Cassini’s finding of a mostly dry Titan falsified expectations. But secularists refuse to give up on their beloved billions of years.
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The Electric Cell: More Synergy with Physics Found in Cellular Coding
September 6, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: An Appeal to Sanity
September 6, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Can Religion Without Belief “Make Perfect Sense"?
September 5, 2022 Mind Matters
Philosopher Philip Goff, a prominent voice in panpsychism, also defends the idea of finding meaning in a religion we don’t really believe
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Another STEM field, particle physics, gets woke
September 5, 2022 Why Evolution Is True
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James Webb Telescope Data: Challenges for the Big Bang?
September 5, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Molecular Machines Labor 24×7 Every Day
September 5, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s Labor Day in America, but the molecular motors in your body never take a holiday break.
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Discovery of New Types of Microfossils May Answer Age-Old Scientific Question
September 5, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Analysis: Can “Communitarian Atheism" Really Work?
September 4, 2022 Mind Matters
Ex-Muslim journalist Zeeshan Aleem, fearing that we are caught between theocracy and social breakdown, sees it as a possible answer
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Scientists Just Found a New Kind of Synapse Hiding in the Brains of Mice
September 4, 2022 Science Alert
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Science journals bow to woke orthodoxy, provoke ridicule
September 4, 2022 Just the News
Quillette editor roasts Scientific American, as Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker says he won't referee or cite Nature journal following its new submission criteria designed to stop “harm."
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Natural Sources of Information?
September 3, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Madness: Why Sci-Fi Multiverse Stories Often Feel Boring
September 3, 2022 Mind Matters
In a multiverse, every plot development, however implausible, is permitted because we know it won’t affect our return to the expected climax
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There Really Is a “Batman" and He Isn't in the Comics
September 3, 2022 Mind Matters
Daniel Kish lost both eyes to cancer as a baby. With nothing to lose, he discovered human echolocation
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What Would it Take to Find Life on Venus?
September 3, 2022 Universe Today
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A Post-Impact Deep Freeze for Dinosaurs
September 2, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
New research supports the hypothesis that dinosaurs were done in by climate change after an asteroid impact kicked up a massive plume of sulfur gases that circled the globe for several decades.
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More Ways that Human and Ape Brains Differ
September 2, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Woman on beach finds fossil from unknown animal likely older than dinosaurs
September 2, 2022 Washington Post
‘It is likely a reptile or a close relative,’ scientist John Calder said about the extremely rare fossil found on a beach in Canada
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Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid
September 2, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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I Went to Listen to Richard Dawkins Speak at a Christian Arts Festival
September 2, 2022 Medium
The militant atheist, evolutionary biologist and alleged eugenist.
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News Update/Commentary
Dragons and brain evolution
September 2, 2022 Science Daily
A molecular atlas of an Australian dragon's brain sheds new light on over 300 million years of brain evolution