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Jonathan Witt Takes Us on a Fantastic Voyage

"You’re a computer geek living thirty years in the future, and you just won a lottery for a space flight to a distant planet, as yet unnamed." Read More ›
T-Rex
Photo credit: J.M. Luijt, CC BY-SA 2.5 NL <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/nl/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Wildly Varying Intelligence of T. Rex

After centuries with the “stupid” label, the big, bad extinct dino was found in one 2023 study to be as smart as a primate. But then… Read More ›
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What’s in a Name? Debating the Anthropocene Epoch

Earlier this month, geologists voted down a proposal to give the years since 1950 a geological name, the Anthropocene Epoch. Read More ›
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Origin of Life: The Challenge of Achieving Homochirality with Mineral Surfaces

There are sound counterarguments to the plethora of schemes that OOL researchers devise in trying to account for how life could have emerged abiotically. Read More ›
T-Rex
Photo credit: J.M. Luijt, CC BY-SA 2.5 NL <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/nl/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Claim: Tyrannosaur Was as Smart as a Monkey

One researcher argues that, based on bird studies, the huge predators may have had many more brain cells than we have supposed. Read More ›
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Photo: High resolution CT scans of fossilized teeth and jaw bones of Purgatorius mckeeveri material from UCMP, Gregory Wilson Mantilla / Stephen Chester, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time. Read More ›
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Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives

Any of us can point to certain pivotal events in our past that need not have occurred, but did. Read More ›
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Bioethicists Okay Human Extinction to Eliminate Suffering

A few months ago, Oxford professor Roger Crisp opined that we might not want to stop a huge asteroid from hitting the Earth. Read More ›
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Space Archaeology — How About Cellular Archaeology?

ʻOumuamua is a fascinating object, and certainly deserves further investigation. How could we discern design from non-design? Read More ›
Tabby's Star

Studying Tabby’s Star, Scientists Use the Design Filter — Non-Intelligent Causes Win This Round

Here’s a case where astronomers ruled out intelligent causes, despite their initial excited hopes. Read More ›

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