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How Much Scientific Research Is Actually Fraudulent?
July 9, 2021 reason.com
It may be more than you think.
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There is no such thing as a scientific theory
July 9, 2021 iai News
It’s all about practices
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Did a Cuttlefish Write This?
July 9, 2021 New York Times
Octopuses and squid are full of cephalopod character. But more scientists are making the case that cuttlefish hold the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence.
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Astrobiologists Ignore Life Complexity
July 9, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
To astrobiologists, cells are just emergent collections of matter. The difficulty of getting them to emerge escapes their notice.
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News Update/Commentary
The giant panda's mystery revealed
July 9, 2021 Science Daily
The evolution of the temporomandibular joint and premolar teeth enabled adaptation to bamboo diet
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Junk DNA: Less Junk Than Ever, It Seems
July 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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This One Planetary Feature May Be Crucial for the Rise of Complex Life in the Universe
July 9, 2021 Science Alert
The way a planet is tilted on its rotational axis with respect to its orbital plane around a star could be key to the emergence of complex life.
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Is There a Hidden Quantum Reality Underlying What We Observe?
July 9, 2021 Forbes
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Junk No Longer: ERVs Are “Integral” and “Important Components” of Immune Responses
July 9, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Stem cells can use same method as plants and insects to protect against viruses
July 8, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have found a vital mechanism, previously thought to have disappeared as mammals evolved, that helps protect mammalian stem cells from RNA viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and Zika virus.
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Barrage of city-sized asteroids peppered Earth between 2.5B, 3.5B years ago
July 8, 2021 United Press International
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Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness
July 8, 2021 Stanford News
Stanford-led expeditions to a remote area of Yukon, Canada, have uncovered a 120-million-year-long geological record of a time when land plants and complex animals first evolved and ocean oxygen levels began to approach those in the modern world.
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Can Traditional Philosophy Help Us Understand Mind vs. Brain?
July 8, 2021 Mind Matters
Michael Egnor asks us to look back to the traditional idea that the soul is the “form” of the body
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Can we explain dark matter by adding more dimensions to the universe?
July 8, 2021 Live Science
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News Update/Commentary
Research reveals structure of nanomachine that assembles a cell's energy control system
July 8, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have determined the structure of a tiny multi-protein biological machine, furthering our understanding of human cells and helping to enhance research into cancer, neurodegeneration and other illnesses.
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News Update/Commentary
Climate changed the size of our bodies and, to some extent, our brains
July 8, 2021 Science Daily
Colder, harsher climates drove the evolution of larger body sizes, while warmer climates led to smaller bodies. Brain size also changed dramatically but did not evolve in tandem with body size.
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On Evolution and Racism, Scientific American Goes to War Against the Truth
July 8, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Textbooks Are Wrong: Birds CAN Smell
July 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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“Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy”
July 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Egnor vs. Papineau, Round 4: Egnor Defends the Mind vs. the Brain
July 7, 2021 Mind Matters
Philosopher David Papineau does not feel that neurosurgeon Michael Egnor is being “entirely helpful” at this point…
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Critique topples Nature paper on belief in gods
July 7, 2021 Retraction Watch
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Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
July 7, 2021 Quanta Magazine
A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains for the first time may explain how we can learn so quickly.
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Textbooks say most birds can't smell. Scientists are proving them wrong
July 7, 2021 Science
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Changes in Earth’s orbit enabled the emergence of complex life
July 7, 2021
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Weasel Goes the PopGen
July 7, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Is the field of population genetics a valid science or an assumption-laden storytelling game?
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Lubricant found in a beetle's leg is more slippery than Teflon
July 7, 2021 New Scientist
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What forms can consciousness take and can we see it in our brains?
July 7, 2021 New Scientist
New insights into the different states of human consciousness and where it occurs in the brain are helping us crack the mystery of what gives rise to felt experience
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We need to overhaul the language of genetics to root out racism
July 7, 2021 New Scientist
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Can a robot ever be conscious and how would we know if it were?
July 7, 2021 New Scientist
Some people think we could easily build and identify a conscious robot, while others insist that it’s impossible -- it all depends on what you think consciousness is.
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What is consciousness like for other animals and when did it evolve?
July 7, 2021 New Scientist
The conscious experiences of non-human animals, from whales and birds to octopuses and bees, are revealing fresh clues about when consciousness evolved and what it’s for
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News Update/Commentary
New clues to why there's so little antimatter in the universe
July 7, 2021 Science Daily
New research shows radioactive molecules are sensitive to subtle nuclear phenomena. The molecules might help physicists probe violation of the most fundamental symmetries of nature, including why the universe contains relatively little antimatter.
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New Paper Investigates Engineering Design Constraints on the Bacterial Flagellum
July 7, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Civilization May Have Collapsed in 1200 B.C.E. but the Silver Trade Didn’t
July 7, 2021 Haaretz
Ancient Israelites, Canaanites and others in the southern Levant had to import silver. Now we know from where
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Whatever It Is, It Ain’t Aliens
July 7, 2021 Quillette
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Astronomer: Standard Model of the Universe Needs No Modification
July 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Bacterial Flagellum: Engineering Design Constraints
July 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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The secret lives of Neanderthal children
July 7, 2021 BBC
Among the growing collection of Neanderthal remains to be discovered are fossilised bones belonging to children. Now we are gaining unprecedented insights into what being a young Neanderthal was like.
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How seeds know it's a good time to germinate
July 7, 2021 Science Daily
Dehydrated plant seeds can lay dormant for long periods -- over 1,000 years in some species -- before the availability of water can trigger germination. This protects the embryonic plant inside from a variety of environmental stresses
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Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia
July 7, 2021 Science Daily
A team performed fieldwork in the Junggar Basin to discover two fossil teeth belonging to two separate specimens of bat, dubbed Altaynycteris aurora. It's thought to be the oldest fossil of bat found in Asia.
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‘Social’ Mitochondria, Whispering Between Cells, Influence Health
July 6, 2021 Quanta Magazine
Mitochondria appear to communicate and cooperate with one another, both within and between cells. Biologists are only just beginning to understand how and why.
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New fossil sheds light on the evolution of how dinosaurs breathed
July 6, 2021
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Round 3: Egnor vs Papineau: The Big Bang Has No Natural Beginning
July 6, 2021 Mind Matters
In the debate between theistic neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and naturalist philosopher David Papineau, the question gets round to the origin of the universe itself
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Key processes in early brain development revealed
July 6, 2021 Science Daily
The neocortex is a layered structure of the brain in which neurons are arranged parallel to each other. This organization is critical for healthy brain function. Researchers have uncovered two key processes that direct this organization.
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The evolution of vinegar flies is based on the variation of male sex pheromones
July 6, 2021 Science Daily
The new study is a valuable basis for understanding how pheromone production, their perception and processing in the brain, and ultimately the resulting behavior drive the evolution of new species.
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News Update/Commentary
Sharp size reduction in dinosaurs that changed diet to termites
July 6, 2021 Science Daily
Dinosaurs were generally huge, but a new study of the unusual alvarezsaurs show that they reduced in size about 100 million years ago when they became specialized ant-eaters.
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Darwin’s Genie: Misapplied Natural Selection Continues
July 6, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Your Chances of Living To Be Over 100
July 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Darwin’s Genie: Misapplied Natural Selection Continues
July 6, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Richard Lewontin (1929-2021), Mensch
July 6, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Tributes to Richard Lewontin (1919-2021)
July 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent