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Shaky Science Instruction Pervades Middle School Classrooms
April 25, 2022 undark.org
A shortage of qualified science educators may be hurting efforts to help more Americans learn how science works.
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News Update/Commentary
‘I know this song!' Evolutionary keys to musical perception
April 25, 2022 Science Daily
When we hear a song that we already know, we can identify it even if it is not an exact version of the original. If it sounds higher or lower, faster or slower, or if the instruments are different from the known version, humans can identify it
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News Update/Commentary
Beetle in the coconut: Fossil find sheds new light on Neotropical rainforests
April 25, 2022 Science Daily
South American fossil reveals earliest evidence of seed beetle predation in palm fruit
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Michael Crichton Would Call Twitterheads “Soundrels"
April 25, 2022 Mind Matters
Why “Scientific Consensus” is an Oxymoron
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Raven Tells Darwin “Nevermore”
April 25, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Was there ever a more useless jargon generator than Darwinian evolution?
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Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists
April 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Theoretical Physicist on Why She Stopped Working on Black Hole Information Loss
April 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Earliest Evidence of Plate Tectonics Found in 3.8-Billion-Year-Old Crystals
April 24, 2022 Forbes
A handful of ancient zircon crystals found in South Africa hold the oldest evidence of subduction, a key element of plate tectonics
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Pancreas Knows Not to Digest Itself
April 24, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The pancreas creates powerful digestive juices that could auto-digest the organ were it not for regulatory systems
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Would You Believe? Time Doesn’t Really Exist?
April 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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A Search for the Most Complex Thing in the Universe?
April 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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3.8-Billion-year-old crystal to point earliest geochemical evidence of plate tectonics
April 23, 2022 Tech Explorist
Crystal points to an early start for the active global process that shapes Earth's surface and climate
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The spreading of the seafloor has slowed, and scientists aren’t sure why
April 23, 2022 Washington Post
The slowdown could mean a drop in greenhouse emissions from volcanoes, which are affected by the seafloor-creating process
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I stopped working on black hole information loss.
April 23, 2022 backreaction.blogspot.com
Here’s why.
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AI Companies Are Massively Faking the Loophole in the Turing Test
April 23, 2022 Mind Matters
I propose the Turing Test be further strengthened by presuming a chatbot is human until proven otherwise
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Darwinians Make Their Living Off Claims of Bad Design
April 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
eye division
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But Isn’t This an Argument for Divine Creation?
April 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
An ocean in your brain: Interacting brain waves key to how we process information
April 22, 2022 Science Daily
Scientists show how the brain responds differently to seeing the same thing under different conditions
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Studying Volcanoes through Myths, Legends, & Other Unconventional Data
April 22, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Studying historic eruptions through a storytelling lens often improves our understanding of and ability to prepare for such events.
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Myths, Legends, and Buried Hair
April 22, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
In our May issue of Eos, we’re seeking out innovations in volcanology.
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Darwinists Seek to Explain the Eye’s Engineering Perfection
April 22, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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How the James Webb Space Telescope will search for extraterrestrial life
April 22, 2022 Astronomy magazine
The world's most powerful telescope, now in space, will offer new tools to address the timeless question about life in the universe: Are we alone on Earth?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The Origins and Functions of De Novo Genes: Against All Odds?
April 22, 2022 Journal of Molecular Evolution
“De novo” genes evolve from previously non-genic DNA. This strikes many of us as remarkable, because it seems extraordinarily unlikely that random sequence would produce a functional gene. How is this possible?
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Are These Really Pterosaur Feathers?
April 22, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The fuzzy claim says more about Darwin Party groupthink than actual pterosaur traits
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How a Brazilian dinosaur sparked a movement to decolonize fossil science
April 22, 2022 Nature
Rather than excitement, the discovery of the species set off a Latin American movement to stop colonial palaeontology.
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Dingo genome suggests Australian icon not descended from domestic dogs
April 22, 2022 New Scientist
A new analysis helps to unravel the mystery of the Australian dingo’s origins by showing that it is probably descended from a wild dog rather than a domestic breed
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Have Dominant Paradigms Failed Psychiatry?
April 21, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Another Species of “Hominin” Still Alive?
April 21, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Book
Inside the dinosaurs’ demise
April 21, 2022 Science, v.376, n.6591, p.360
REVIEW: The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black (St. Martin’s Press, 2022) | See Also Amazon
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What Did Neanderthals Evolve From?
April 21, 2022 Discover magazine
Scientists search for the missing link between humans and Neanderthals.
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Tonga Eruption Made Waves in Earth’s Ionosphere
April 21, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The blast from Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai produced far-reaching ionospheric disturbances, including one with an initial speed of up to 950 meters per second.
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The Planck era: Imagining our infant universe
April 21, 2022 Astronomy magazine
During the Planck era, the universe was so small that our laws of physics break down. To dive deeper back in time, we’ll need new scientific language.
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The most complex thing in the universe
April 21, 2022 iai News
Biocosmology: the birth of a new science?
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News Update/Commentary
Dividing walls: How immune cells enter tissue
April 21, 2022 Science Daily
To get to the places where they are needed, immune cells not only squeeze through tiny pores. They even overcome wall-like barriers of tightly packed cells. Scientists have now discovered that cell division is key to their success.
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Tiny axles and rotors made of protein could drive molecular machines
April 21, 2022 New Scientist
Researchers have designed proteins that self-assemble into tiny machine parts for use in molecular engines
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Artificial nerve cells have been made in the lab
April 21, 2022 New Scientist
Synthetic neurons made of hydrogel could one day be used in sophisticated artificial tissues to repair organs such as the heart or the eyes
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“Adaptive Tracking" in Seasonal Fruit Fly Populations
April 21, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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Evolutionists: The Eye Is “Close to Perfect”
April 21, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Pterosaurs may have flaunted colorful plumage long before the reign of dinosaurs
April 20, 2022 Science
Exquisitely preserved specimen from Brazil suggests ancient origin for feathers
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover potential key missing link protein bridging eukaryotes and prokaryotes
April 20, 2022 Science Daily
Modern eukaryotic cells have proteins that enable chromosome segregation during cell division, new discoveries shed light on their origin in simpler prokaryotic organisms.
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Sea of Tranquility review: A disturbing tale of time travel
April 20, 2022 New Scientist
The new science fiction novel from Station Eleven's author is mostly set centuries into the future -- but also contains scary glimpses of a pandemic-strewn past
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Claim: Research Shows That Animals Have a Moral Sense
April 20, 2022 Mind Matters
We are informed at Nautilus, the Templeton Foundation’s magazine, that “It’s time to take moral emotion in animals seriously.” Really?
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Can a Human Being Be Gifted Despite Missing Lots of Brain?
April 20, 2022 Mind Matters
So many would think -- but that’s not what the evidence shows
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Hard Problem of Consciousness Solved?: A 4th Spatial Dimension?
April 20, 2022 Mind Matters
Philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes argues that higher spatial dimensions might hold the key
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Scientists Just Found a Mystery Insect Organ
April 20, 2022 Popular Mechanics
Researchers hypothesize that the organ is a way for certain species of insects to communicate amongst each other.
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The Absence of Universally Conserved Protein-Coding Genes
April 20, 2022 Answers Research Journal
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Is Psychiatry Facing an Existential Crisis?
April 20, 2022 Psychology Today
Have the field's dominant paradigms failed?
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Pterosaur fossil suggests feathers may have evolved long before flight
April 20, 2022 New Scientist
Feathers of different colours have been found on a fossilised pterosaur skull, hinting that an ancestor of these winged reptiles had feathers far earlier than we thought
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A colourful view of the origin of dinosaur feathers
April 20, 2022 Nature
Birds and their dinosaur ancestors had feathers, and now it seems that a distantly related group called pterosaurs had them, too. The finding extends the origins of feathers back to long before birds evolved, and sheds light on their role.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Pterosaur melanosomes support signalling functions for early feathers
April 20, 2022 Nature
Remarkably well-preserved soft tissues in Mesozoic fossils have yielded substantial insights into the evolution of feathers.