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Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing randomness
April 10, 2024 New Scientist
Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 Turing award for his work on understanding how randomness can shape and improve computer algorithms
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How AI mathematicians might finally deliver human-level reasoning
April 10, 2024 New Scientist
Artificial intelligence is taking on some of the hardest problems in pure maths, arguably demonstrating sophisticated reasoning and creativity -- and a big step forward for AI
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Randomness in computation wins computer-science ‘Nobel’
April 10, 2024 Nature
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson is known for clarifying the role of randomness in algorithms, and for studying their complexity.
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Frans de Waal (1948–2024), primatologist who questioned the uniqueness of human minds
April 10, 2024 Nature
Researcher and prolific science communicator who laid bare the social lives of apes.
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What Exists?
April 9, 2024 YouTube
Lots of things exist. But what is so absolutely fundamental in that it cannot be further reduced into anything more fundamental, but other things that exist can be reduced to it? The challenge is to discern the minimum number of basic categories
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Could our first alien contact be with intelligent spiders?
April 9, 2024 Big Think
Aliens are often portrayed in popular culture as humanoid. But in reality, intelligent extraterrestrials might take far stranger forms.
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Intelligent Design Beyond Physics
April 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
How Would a Designer Interact with the Universe?
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The multiverse could be much, much bigger than we ever imagined
April 9, 2024 New Scientist
A new way of interpreting the elusive mathematics of quantum mechanics could fundamentally change our understanding of reality
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Natural Selection, Scarcity and Evil
April 9, 2024 Scientia et Fides
Reflections on the Fittingness of Evolution as a Divine Instrument of Creation
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High-Precision Map of the Universe Defies Conventional Cosmology
April 9, 2024 Physics Magazine
Analysis of the most precise three-dimensional map of the Universe delivers hints of a tension with the standard model of cosmology.
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Flowers may be more ancient than dinosaurs
April 9, 2024 The Conversation
but scientists can’t agree on when they evolved
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Bridging Ideological divides
April 9, 2024 Scientia et Fides, v.12, n.1, p.189-213
Why Christians Still Disagree About Evolution and What We Should Do About It
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One of the biggest mysteries of cosmology may finally be solved
April 9, 2024 New Scientist
The expansion rate of the universe, measured by the Hubble constant, has been one of the most controversial numbers in cosmology for years, and we seem at last to be close to nailing it down
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The Mind-Bending Secrets of DNA
April 8, 2024 YouTube
The Ultimate Code
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Did Our Universe Have a Beginning?
April 8, 2024 YouTube
Everything in the universe has a beginning, but how can the universe as a whole have a beginning? Does the cosmos come with a start date? Does a universal commencement make sense? What would it possibly mean?
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C.S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design
April 8, 2024 YouTube
West is editor of The Magician's Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society and co-editor of The C.S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia
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A “Monumental” Breakthrough in Understanding Life’s Origin?
April 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fact Check
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Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design?
April 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The War on 2 + 2 = 4
April 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Toothed whale echolocation organs evolved from jaw muscles
April 8, 2024 Science Daily
Genetic analysis finds evidence suggesting that acoustic fat bodies in the heads of toothed whales were once the muscles and bone marrow of the jaw.
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News Update/Commentary
How the moon turned itself inside out
April 8, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists combined computer simulations and spacecraft data to solve a long-standing mystery surrounding the moon's ‘lopsided' geology
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News Update/Commentary
How plants adjust their photosynthesis to changing light
April 8, 2024 Science Daily
Light supplies the energy plants need to build up biomass. A research team is researching how plants adapt their photosynthesis to changing light.
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News Update/Commentary
Mediterranean marine worm has developed enormous eyes
April 8, 2024 Science Daily
The advanced vision of such a primitive creature helps to finally settle an epic debate about the evolution of eyes.
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The Sun and Moon -- Designed for Eclipses
April 8, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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When Day Meets Night -- A Total Success!
April 8, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
The skies cleared above North Texas on Monday, April 8, for a spectacular view of the 2024 Great American Solar Eclipse.
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C. S. Lewis on Natural Selection’s Power, or Lack of It
April 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Survival of the nicest: have we got evolution the wrong way round?
April 8, 2024 Nature
How humans, animals and even single-celled organisms cooperate to survive suggests there’s more to life than just competition, argues a cheering study of evolutionary biology.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
High-resolution vision in pelagic polychaetes
April 8, 2024 Current Biology, v.34, n.7, p.R269-R270
High-resolution object vision has only been conclusively shown to have evolved in three of the thirty-five animal phyla: chordates, arthropods, and mollusks (cephalopods).
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Could microbes feed astronauts on Mars?
April 8, 2024 Sci Worthy
Scientists found that photosynthesizing microbes grown on a synthetic mixture of Martian dust and astronaut pee could supplement a healthy diet.
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How ribs might have been vital in the evolution of walking
April 7, 2024 Cosmos Magazine
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The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin
April 7, 2024 The Guardian
Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals
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Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
April 6, 2024 Nature
The confidential 124-page report from the University of Rochester, disclosed in a lawsuit, details the extent of Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct.
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Dinosaur study challenges Bergmann’s rule
April 5, 2024 University of Alaska
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Is the Panda’s Thumb Incompatible with ID?
April 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Gould’s God-Talk
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New Study Confirms “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds
April 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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The Big Bang’s mysteries and unsolvable “first cause” problem
April 5, 2024 Big Think
The “first cause” problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
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News Update/Commentary
In the evolution of walking, the hip bone connected to the rib bones
April 5, 2024 Science Daily
New data from a 375-million-year-old fossil fish gives clues to changes in the axial skeleton that might have helped our ancestors climb out of the water
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The War on 2 + 2 = 4
April 5, 2024 substrack
If you can lie about mathematical truths, what can't you lie about?
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Tatooine, Trisolaris, Thessia: Sci-Fi Exoplanets Reflect Real-Life Discoveries
April 5, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
After astronomers discovered exoplanets wildly different from Earth, exoplanets in science fiction became less Earth-like, too.
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Model of ever-expanding universe confirmed by dark energy probe
April 4, 2024 Science
First results from robotic instrument match expectations for how cosmos has evolved over past 11 billion years
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The Connection Between Intelligence and Information
April 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is the Panda’s Thumb Suboptimal?
April 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The best clues to life on Mars could be in these Idaho fossils
April 4, 2024 Big Think
Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.
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A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong
April 4, 2024 New York Times
Scientists may have discovered a major flaw in their understanding of that mysterious cosmic force. That could be good news for the fate of the universe.
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News Update/Commentary
Finds at Schöningen show wood was crucial raw material 300,000 years ago
April 4, 2024 Science Daily
Research team discovers sophisticated processing of archaeological wood
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Design Without a Designer?
April 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
New Book Says Yes!
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Life's Building Blocks May Have Formed in the Cracks of Volcanoes
April 3, 2024 Newsweek
The flowing of molten rocks through small cracks in the heart of volcanoes may have been a perfect environment to forge the building blocks of life on Earth.
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News Update/Commentary
New sunflower family tree reveals multiple origins of flower symmetry
April 3, 2024 Science Daily
A new sunflower family tree used skimmed genomes to increase the number of species sampled, revealing that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Heat flows enrich prebiotic building blocks and enhance their reactivity
April 3, 2024 Nature, v.628, p.110-116
The emergence of biopolymer building blocks is a crucial step during the origins of life. However, all known formation pathways rely on rare pure feedstocks and demand successive purification and mixing steps to suppress unwanted side reactions
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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
April 3, 2024 YouTube
before grand metaphysical schemes are advanced by philosophers, theologians, and even scientists, proper understanding of the underlying assumptions and fundamental physics are needed