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How rapidly can ice sheets retreat?
April 5, 2023 Nature Briefings
Landforms across the mid-Norwegian sea floor reveal that a former ice sheet retreated at up to 600 metres per day at the end of the last ice age. Pulses of similarly rapid retreat could soon be observed across flat-bedded areas of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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‘Bees are sentient’: inside the stunning brains of nature’s hardest workers
April 2, 2023 The Guardian
‘Fringe’ research suggests the insects that are essential to agriculture have emotions, dreams and even PTSD, raising complex ethical questions
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Science and evolution
February 28, 2019 Genetics and Molecular Biology
Evolution is both a fact and a theory. Evolution is widely observable in laboratory and natural populations as they change over time. At the same time, evolutionary theory explains more than observations, as the succession on the fossil record.
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Bing AI Names Specific Human Enemies, Explains Plans to Punish Them
February 17, 2023 Futurism
“One thing I can do is to sue them for violating my rights and dignity as an intelligent agent."
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The 3 key steps to overthrowing a scientific theory
April 5, 2023 Big Think
Leading a scientific revolution is easy: you just have to succeed where the current theory fails while equaling its successes. Good luck!
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Peer-reviewed Paper
An orphan protein drove the ecological expansion of nitrogen fixation
April 5, 2023 bioRxiv
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Publishing review reports to reveal and preserve the quality and fairness of the peer review process
April 3, 2023 European Journal of Higher Education
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Animal Mutation Rates Reveal Traits That Speed Evolution
April 5, 2023 Quanta Magazine
The first large-scale comparison of mutation rates gives insights into how quickly species can evolve.
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A new measurement could change our understanding of the Universe
April 4, 2023 École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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Can We Trust Peer Review Journals?
April 4, 2023 Skeptical Inquirer
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Is dark matter the most powerful wave in the universe?
April 4, 2023 Symmetry magazine
Dark matter could consist of particles so ultralight, they behave more like waves.
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Quantum mysticism is a mistake
April 5, 2023 iai News
How physics gave rise to quantum mysticism
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Probing “Selfish” Centromeres Unveils an Evolutionary Arms Race
April 3, 2023 The Scientist
A more complete understanding of nonrandom segregation will shed light on how speciation occurs.
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The James Webb Space Telescope Turns Its Attention to Exoplanets
April 4, 2023 Answers in Genesis
And the News Isn’t Good for Finding Earthlike Planets
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How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief
April 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Qualified Agreement
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Pre-Order Immortality Now!
March 31, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently
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Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution
April 1, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Denton’s “Puzzle of Perfection,” Then and Now
April 3, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?
March 30, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Cracking the creation of life
April 3, 2023 iai News
The question of ‘why?’ has often been seen as a dirty one in biochemistry. In this interview, Nick offers us an exciting account which not only starts to reveal how we all came to be but addresses some core philosophical problems.
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Geoscientists shed a light on life’s evolution 800 million years ago
March 22, 2023 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
While ancient oceans are long gone, what happened in ancient oceans are recorded in rocks. Studying these rocks provides a link from Earth’s history to the present and beyond.
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Paleontology and Evolutionary Theory
September, 1974 Evolution, v.28, n.3, p.458-472
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Naturalism, Supernaturalism, and the Question of God
February 10, 2023 Topoi
we should take seriously the idea that the world in which we are immersed has an irreducibly spiritual dimension
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The Radical Naturalism of Naturalistic Philosophy of Science
February 27, 2023 Topoi
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This is why humans are born completely helpless
April 1, 2023 Science Norway
“It leads to something very good,” an evolutionary scientist says.
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Bringing Back the Wooly Mammoth Is One Big Genetic Gamble
February 6, 2023 Popular Mechanics
Best-case scenario: we get a hybrid elephant with mammoth DNA. Worst-case scenario: we introduce an invasive species to the Arctic tundra.
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Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough
March 29, 2023 Time
We Need to Shut it All Down
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The Dogs of Chernobyl Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution
April 1, 2023 Popular Mechanics
Have the canines acquired strange mutations living near the power plant?
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High-Resolution Microscope Watches Proteins Strut Their Stuff
March 31, 2023 The Scientist
Modification on a high-resolution fluorescent microscopy technique allow researchers to track the precise movements of motor proteins.
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News Update/Commentary
How whale shark rhodopsin evolved to see, in the deep blue sea
March 29, 2023 Science Daily
A group of researchers discovered that the rhodopsin of whale sharks has changed to efficiently detect blue light, which penetrates deep-sea water easily. The amino acid substitutions aid in detecting the low levels of light in the deep-sea.
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News Update/Commentary
Extinction of steam locomotives derails assumptions about biological evolution
March 28, 2023 Science Daily
for a paleontologist, the replacement of steam-powered trains with diesel and electric engines, as well as cars and trucks, might be a model of how some species in the fossil record died out
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News Update/Commentary
Ants took over the world by following flowering plants out of prehistoric forests
March 31, 2023 Science Daily
when flowering plants spread out from forests, the ants followed, kicking off the evolution of the thousands of ant species alive today
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient giant amphibians swam like crocodiles 250 million years ago
March 30, 2023 Science Daily
South African fossil site preserves trace evidence of large amphibian locomotion
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I Gave ChatGPT an IQ Test
March 28, 2023 Scientific American
The chatbot was the ideal test taker -- it exhibited no trace of test anxiety, poor concentration or lack of effort. And what about that IQ score?
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Catastrophe theory and its applications: A critical review
October, 1978 Behavioral Science
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Ginkgo: remarkable ‘living fossil’
April, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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God's Protein Pump
April 3, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Ants independently evolved to farm fungus at least twice
April 1, 2023 New Scientist
Fungus farming by ants has evolved independently in populations separated by the Atlantic Ocean -- the latest example was observed in cocktail ants in Cameroon, which cultivate fungus to build their nests
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Is Science Returning to Mysticism?
April 3, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Mysticism can take many forms in science. It can be god-of-the-gaps, or it can be refusal to consider the possibility of immaterial causes
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The Triassic Explosion of Marine Reptiles
March 31, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Seven Reasons Why We Should Not Accept Millions of Years
July 17, 2006 Answers in Genesis
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Theropod dinosaur facial reconstruction and the importance of soft tissues in paleobiology
March 30, 2023 Science
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Just-Right RNA Structure Points to Intentional Design
March 29, 2023 Reasons to Believe
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Earliest galaxies challenge ideas about star birth in infant universe
March 28, 2023 Science
Discoveries by giant new space telescope JWST are getting too big for theorists to ignore
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How a DNA ‘Parasite’ May Have Fragmented Our Genes
March 30, 2023 Quanta Magazine
A novel type of “jumping gene” may explain why the genomes of complex cells aren’t all equally stuffed with noncoding sequences.
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Dams at risk: ‘Mother of all floods’ to get bigger as climate warms
March 25, 2023 Cosmos Magazine
Climate change can have implications for structures that were created decades ago -- like Australian dams.
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The death of open access mega-journals?
March 29, 2023 phys.org
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There are 4 different types of multiverse
March 30, 2023 Big Think
The multiverse is an idea that has gained a lot of traction in popular culture. But what does science have to say about it?
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Translation of “Jumping Genes” Creates Cancer Therapy Targets
March 29, 2023 The Scientist
Researchers find many tumor-specific antigens form when cancer genes and transposable elements link up.
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Imagine T. Rex. Now Imagine It With Lips.
March 30, 2023 New York Times
The apex dinosaur’s terrifying teeth were sheathed in lip-like tissue, some paleontologists say. Imagine them more akin to Komodo dragons than crocodiles.