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News Update/Commentary
‘Golden' fossils reveal origins of exceptional preservation
May 2, 2023 Science Daily
understanding how fossils which are among the world's best-preserved specimens of sea life from the Early Jurassic came to form in the first place, and the role that oxygen in the environment had in their formation
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News Update/Commentary
Scientist uncovers roots of antibiotic resistance
May 5, 2023 Science Daily
By understanding how mutations occur, researchers can better understand and develop therapeutics to combat resistant infections
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers use generative AI to design novel proteins
May 4, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can create proteins not found in nature using generative diffusion, the same technology behind popular image-creation platforms such as DALL-E and Midjourney.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover the dynamics of an ‘extra' chromosome in fruit flies
May 4, 2023 Science Daily
Offers unique opportunity to study similar chromosomes linked to cancer and infertility in humans
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Has Robert Gentry Refuted Big Bang Cosmology?
December, 2004 Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, v.56, n.4, p.260-265
On Energy Conservation and Cosmic Expansion
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Caught in the act: Astronomers spot star swallowing a planet for first time
May 3, 2023 ars technica
A sneak peek at Earth's eventual fate.
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Spacetime: is it real and physical, or just a calculational tool?
May 4, 2023 Big Think
Einstein's relativity overthrew the notion of absolute space and time, replacing them with a spacetime fabric. But is spacetime truly real?
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Ancient woman’s DNA recovered from a 20,000-year-old pendant
May 3, 2023 Nature
An innovative method was used to obtain a woman’s rich DNA record from a 20,000-year-old pendant found in Siberia, providing the first direct genetic evidence for the identity of an individual who handled an object in the deep past.
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James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor around alien planet. But where did it come from?
May 2, 2023 space.com
If confirmed, the presence of an atmosphere would be a breakthrough for exoplanet research.
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Racemization of amino acids under natural conditions: part 1
April, 2022 Creation Ministries International
a challenge to abiogenesis
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Rapid, buoyancy-driven ice-sheet retreat of hundreds of metres per day
April 5, 2023 Nature, v.617, p.105-110
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An infrared transient from a star engulfing a planet
May 3, 2023 Nature, v.617, p.55-60
Stars expand as they evolve and thus we expect their close planetary companions to be engulfed, possibly powering luminous mass ejections from the host star.
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Reappraising the palaeobiology of Australopithecus
May 3, 2023 Nature, v.617, p.45-54
The naming of Australopithecus africanus in 1925, based on the Taung Child, heralded a new era in human evolutionary studies and turned the attention of the then Eurasian-centric palaeoanthropologists to Africa, albeit with reluctance.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant
May 3, 2023 Nature
recovery of ancient human and deer mitochondrial genomes allowed us to estimate the age of the pendant at approximately 19,000–25,000 years
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Prehistoric pendant’s DNA reveals the person who held it
May 3, 2023 Nature
An innovative method reveals that an ancient trinket was handled by a woman some 20,000 years ago.
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Exoplanets May Support Life in the Terminator Zone
April 28, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A new study finds that the intersection between a searing dayside and a freezing nightside could be habitable.
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New cellular ‘organelle’ discovered inside fruit-fly intestines
May 4, 2023 Nature
Fruit-fly cells use previously unknown complex cellular structures to store phosphate, a molecule essential to life
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A Spatiotemporal Assessment of Extreme Cold in Northwestern North America Following the Unidentified 1809 CE Volcanic Eruption
April 18, 2023 Peleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Two large volcanic eruptions contributed to extreme cold temperatures during the early 1800s, one of the coldest phases of the Little Ice Age.
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Most Christian College Professors Teach Evolution, not Creation
May 4, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The results of a survey reported in April 2023 show Christian Colleges buckling to Darwinist groupthink
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Human Neurons with ‘Tricks up Their Sleeves'
May 4, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Space Aliens Invade Darwin Minds
May 5, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What explains the fascination with extraterrestrials in the science media? In a word: Darwinism.
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The Stubborn Mystery of the Tully Monster
May 5, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Uracil Discovered on Asteroid Ryugu
May 4, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
What Does It Mean for the Origin of Life?
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The Marvel of a Seed
May 3, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists in India protest move to drop Darwinian evolution from textbooks
April 28, 2023 Science
Decision marks troubling rejection of science, critics say
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Video
Neanderthal Genome Project: New Insights into Human Evolution
April 18, 2023 YouTube
Green has helped pioneer the use of advanced sequencing technology to study ancient DNA extracted from fossil bones. As a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, he coordinated the Neanderthal Genome Project
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Rise of Ayurveda: A Dangerous Trend to Decolonize the Scientific Method
May, 2023 Skeptical Inquirer, v.47, n.3
Medical Pseudoscience around the World
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A Stormy, Active Sun May Have Kickstarted Life on Earth
May 2, 2023 NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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Christians Differing on Creation Issues with Charity
May 2, 2023 Reasons to Believe
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil find in California shakes up the natural history of cycad plants
May 2, 2023 Science Daily
a new analysis of an 80-million-year-old permineralized pollen cone found in the Campanian Holz Shale formation located in California offers a more accurate cycad natural history -- one where the plants diversified during the Cretaceous.
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462 million-year-old fossilized eyes and brains uncovered in ‘secret' Welsh fossil site
May 2, 2023 Live Science
Wales' new “Castle Bank" fossil site could be among the world's most important deposits.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists present evidence for a billion-years arms race between viruses and their hosts
May 2, 2023 Science Daily
Findings add to our understanding of the deep evolutionary history of the highly diverse Bamfordvirae kingdom of viruses
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Strange but true: the expanding Universe doesn’t conserve energy
May 2, 2023 Big Think
The conservation of energy is one of the most fundamental laws governing our reality. But in the expanding Universe, that's just not true.
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Solving the mystery of time
May 2, 2023 iai News
Time, the final frontier of mind
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Scary ‘Emergent' AI Abilities Are Just a ‘Mirage' Produced by Researchers
May 2, 2023 Motherboard (Tech by Vice)
“There's no giant leap of capability" -- Stanford researchers
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Apes have the same willingness to share food as small children
May 3, 2023 New Scientist
In lab experiments, chimpanzees and bonobos share peanuts and grapes with other apes who shared food first, doing so at about the same rate as 4-year-old children
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Do we live in a hologram? Why physics is still mesmerised by this idea
May 3, 2023 New Scientist
The holographic universe theory still grips physicists 25 years since it was first published. Here’s what it is all about
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‘Remarkable’ AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable
May 2, 2023 Nature
Software from Baidu Research yields jabs for COVID that have greater shelf stability and that trigger a larger antibody response in mice than conventionally designed shots.
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The Hard Problem With Evolutionary Consciousness Theories
May 3, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new proposal to solve the hard problem of consciousness misses the real problem: evolutionary materialism.
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Mind-reading machines are here: is it time to worry?
May 2, 2023 Nature
Neuroethicists are split on whether a study that uses brain scans and AI to decode imagined speech poses a threat to mental privacy.
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People Can Do Puzzles -- and Why That Matters
May 2, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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We’re Seeing the First Wave of Applied Transhumanism
April 27, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Mathematics and Literature Point to Intelligent Design
April 28, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Book Puts Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Genes” in the ICU
May 2, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
Evolution is stupid
April 3, 2023 YouTube
Yudkowsky is a researcher, writer, and philosopher on the topic of superintelligent AI.
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5 Ways to Detect Text Written by ChatGPT and Other AI Tools
May 1, 2023 PC Magazine
The best way to figure out if an artificial intelligence wrote something may be to ask AI. We test AI-detection services with text written by ChatGPT and text written by a human: Here are the results.
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Scientists Unveil AI That Can Turn Thoughts Into Written Text
May 1, 2023 Daily Wire
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How close are we to reading minds?
May 1, 2023 The Conversation
A new study decodes language and meaning from brain scans
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The puzzle of Neanderthal aesthetics
April 30, 2023 BBC
Surprising new insights into the minds of this extinct human species suggest they may have been far more cultured than their outdated brutish reputation once suggested. But getting into the minds of a long-dead species is no easy task.
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Book
An approaching storm in evolutionary theory
April 1, 2023 International Journal of Organic Evolution, v.77, n.4, p.1170-1172
REVIEW: Rereading Darwin’s Origin of Species: The Hesitations of an Evolutionist by Richard G. Delisle and James Tierney (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022) | See Also Amazon