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Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle
February 14, 2023 Quanta Magazine
The neocortex of our brain is the seat of our intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells that they developed only after their evolutionary split from reptiles.
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We’re Safe from an A.I. Takeover
February 14, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Don’t worry. AI is a very long way from replacing humans. It cannot do even simple rocket-science projections yet.
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On Origin of Life, New Long Story Skewers Materialist Doctrine
February 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Birds are not Dinosaurs?
February 14, 2023 The Natural Historian
Examining Ken Ham’s Hypocritical Viewpoint
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In Search of the Impossible Machine, the Artificial Heart
February 14, 2023 MIT Press Reader
The history of the total artificial heart is punctuated with both brilliant innovation and continual clinical failure.
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Livestream the Dallas Conference on Science & Faith
February 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Scientist: Ichthyosaurs Evolved “Astonishingly Rapidly”
February 14, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Understanding human intentions will be the next big breakthrough in AI
February 14, 2023 New Scientist
With the recent news that the ChatGPT AI can pass a theory of mind test, how far away are we from an artificial intelligence that fully understands the goals and beliefs of others?
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News Update/Commentary
Snakes can hear more than you think
February 14, 2023 Science Daily
A new study has found that as well as ground vibrations, snakes can hear and react to airborne sound.
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Arctic Lemur-like Fossils Were Transported During Flood
February 13, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Giant Viruses Grew Out of Small Ones
February 13, 2023 The Scientist
A study employing CRISPR/Cas9 to explore the evolutionary beginnings of some giant viruses finds evidence their large genomes arose from gene duplications.
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A guide to (not) understanding quantum mechanics
February 13, 2023 ars technica
How can we come to grips with a theory that doesn’t explain how anything works?
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AI chatbots are coming to search engines -- can you trust the results?
February 13, 2023 Nature
Google, Microsoft and Baidu are using tools similar to ChatGPT to turn Internet search into a conversation. How will this change humanity’s relationship with machines?
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The Universe violates the perfect cosmological principle
February 13, 2023 Big Think
Generations ago, cosmologists asserted that the Universe might not just be the same in all directions, but at all times. But is that true?
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RNA's ‘joints' play key role in our gene expression
February 13, 2023 Science Daily
Longstanding puzzle of RNA methylation revealed by team of chemists
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Genetic switch makes the eyes of male bees large and of female bees small
February 13, 2023 Science Daily
The researchers have now presented this gene and the evolutionary genetic conclusions they have drawn from it.
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Never Trust an Evolutionary Psychologist
February 13, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Anxious? Depressed? Having a bad relationship? Darwinists will say it’s all just a meaningless game.
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New Open-Access Book from South Africa Explores Intelligent Design and Science-Faith Issues
February 13, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Cockatoos Found To Rival Chimps in Tool Set Use
February 13, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Oldest spinosaur brains revealed
February 13, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have reconstructed the brains and inner ears of two British spinosaurs, helping uncover how these large predatory dinosaurs interacted with their environment.
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Why the human genome was never completed
February 12, 2023 BBC
No human genome has ever been read in its entirety before. This year, scientists expect to pass that milestone for the first time.
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Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and Intelligent Design
February 12, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Earth’s Ecosystems Became Complex Much Earlier Than Thought After Permian Extinction
February 12, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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The Problems with Neo-Darwinism
February 11, 2023 The Gospel Coalition
Do you believe in evolution? ... The proper Christian answer to that question depends on the meaning of the term.
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Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a window to understanding the brain
February 11, 2023 Big Think
“Language is the most distinctively human talent."
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The Desire to Be God
February 11, 2023
This should never be the role of science or medicine
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Paradoxes of Religion and Science in the USA
February 11, 2023 Skeptic
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Sabine Hossenfelder Has Lost Faith in Science?
February 11, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Fish Can Recognize Themselves in Photos, Thus May Be Self-Aware
February 11, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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What Science Media Make of the 3 Million Year Old Tool Assembly, Recently Found
February 11, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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ChatGPT: Beware the Self-Serving AI Editor
February 10, 2023 Mind Matters
The chatbot “edits" by reworking your article to achieve its own goals, not necessarily yours
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Did apes make stone tools?
February 10, 2023 Core Academy of Science
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What it would take to bring back the dodo
February 10, 2023 Nature
An audacious plan to ‘de-extinct’ dodos depends on huge leaps in biotechnology and resurrecting a lost habitat.
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Highly cited genetics studies found to contain sequence errors
February 10, 2023 Nature
An analysis of two prominent journals reveals dozens of papers with apparent mistakes in their nucleotide-targeting reagents.
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Cockatoos understand when a job requires a toolkit
February 10, 2023 New Scientist
Goffin’s cockatoos know when they need to bring more than one tool to retrieve some food -- something only chimpanzees have demonstrated before among non-human animals
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Can Pristine Fossils Be Old?
February 10, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Cases of exceptional preservation in fossils should raise questions about alleged deep time
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Tracing the origin of life
February 10, 2023 Science Daily
A new discovery provides insights into the origin of life
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‘It's me!' Fish recognizes itself in photographs, say scientists
February 10, 2023 Science Daily
A big step forward in vertebrate cognitive function research
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Cockatoos know to bring along multiple tools when they fish for cashews
February 10, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers show that the cockatoos carry multiple tools to their worksite when the job calls for it. This behavior has only been previously reported in chimpanzees, our closest relatives.
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Stone Tool Kits from 3 Million Years Ago?
February 10, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Showing the love as a science leader: the emotional side of empowering and inspiring others
February 10, 2023 Nature
Effective leaders should ideally make you feel calm, clear about priorities and cared for, say Gianpiero Petriglieri and Robert Harris.
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Tree rings reveal drought that might have doomed the Hittites
February 10, 2023 Nature
Three years of minimal rain could have forced the ancient civilization to abandon its capital -- and perhaps triggered the empire’s ultimate collapse.
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Why Birds Are Not Dinosaurs (and Why It Matters)
February 10, 2023 Answers in Genesis
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Space rock or flashy alien technology? We're going to find out
February 10, 2023 New Scientist
Science is filled with imagined realities -- beliefs that will turn out to be untrue -- and the idea that interstellar objects are simply rocks could be one of them
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The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents
February 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Killer Whale Mommies Are Not Good DarwinMoms, It Turns Out
February 10, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Neanderthals Cooked and Ate Crabs Too
February 10, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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The Weirdness of Quantum Mechanics Forces Scientists To Confront Philosophy
February 10, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Fossil discovery reveals complex ecosystems existed on Earth much earlier than previously thought
February 9, 2023 McGill University
Discovery challenges understanding of how quickly life recovered from the greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history
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New models shed light on life’s origin
February 9, 2023 University of Rochester
The research reveals clues about the physical and chemical characteristics of Earth when life is thought to have emerged.