For decades, researchers were transfixed with the idea of humanizing great apes by raising them among humans and teaching them language. Emerging from the ruins and recriminations of the collapse, philosophy prof Don Ross has a new idea: Let’s start with elephants instead…
Source: Believing elephants into personhood | Uncommon Descent
Researchers have used artificial intelligence to make new discoveries, and confirm old ones, about one of nature’s best-known mimics, opening up whole new directions of research in evolutionary biology.
Source: AI used to test evolution’s oldest mathematical model
Air pollution — especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change — accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a new study.
Source: Air pollution can accelerate lung disease as much as a pack a day of cigarettes — ScienceDaily
As methane concentrations increase in the Earth’s atmosphere, chemical fingerprints point to a probable source: shale oil and gas, according to new research.
Source: Fracking prompts global spike in atmospheric methane, study suggests — ScienceDaily
The late Jeffrey Epstein cultivated a lot of people, including Darwinists who were pop science faves. In the aftermath, they must be wishing he’d never heard of them.
Source: Darwinists may be paying a price for pop science celebrity: Jeffrey Epstein | Uncommon Descent
Dead or alive, left-spinning or right-spinning — in the quantum world particles such as the famous analogy of Schrödinger’s cat can be all these things at the same time. An international team, together with experts from Forschungszentrum Jülich, have now succeeded in transforming 20 entangled quantum bits into such a state of superposition. The generation of such atomic Schrödinger cat states is regarded as an important step in the development of quantum computers.
Source: Schrödinger’s cat with 20 qubits: New record with entangled quantum bits — ScienceDaily
