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• Functional Ambidexterity of an Ancient Nucleic Acid-Binding Domain

  March 28, 2025 Orit Weil-Ktorza, et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition

  The (HhH)₂-Fold is an ancient and ubiquitous nucleic acid-binding domain. We demonstrate that this domain can bind to dsDNA of either chirality.

• Mapping a complex evolutionary history

  March 27, 2025 Simon Gravel Science, v.387, n.6741, p.1352-1353

  Tracking the geographic origins of genetic ancestors reveals past human migrations

• An end to human exceptionalism

  March 27, 2025 Adrian Woolfson Science, v.387, n.6741, p.1360

  Our species’ extinction is inevitable, argues a paleontologist

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A geographic history of human genetic ancestry

  March 27, 2025 Michael C. Grundler, et al. Science, v.387, n.6741, p.1391-1397

  Demography is critical for understanding how genetic variation has moved through time and space, and thus the selective and stochastic forces involved. However, these patterns are difficult to determine from modern genomes alone

• News Update/Commentary

  Cartilage and bone development: Three paths to skeleton formation

  March 27, 2025 University of Basel Science Daily

  In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. ... these skeletal cells differ in their gene regulation --- which may be a key to the vertebrates' evolutionary success story.

• Current AI models a ‘dead end' for human-level intelligence

  March 27, 2025 Ben Turner Live Science

  In a new survey, 76% of scientists said that scaling large language models was “unlikely" or “very unlikely" to achieve AGI.

• The Convoluted Concept of Evolving Evolvability

  March 27, 2025 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  Is AI the new research scientist?

  March 27, 2025 University of Florida Science Daily

  Not so, according to a human-led study ... Researchers asked generative AI to write a research paper. While adept at some steps, it wholly failed at others.

• News Update/Commentary

  How calcium may have unlocked the origins of life's molecular asymmetry

  March 27, 2025 Institute of Science, Tokyo Science Daily

  Research hints at calcium's potential role in enforcing a specific molecular handedness among primitive polyesters and early biomolecules

• Ancient wasp may have used its rear end to trap flies

  March 27, 2025 Chris Simms New Scientist

  Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to immobilise other insects

• News Update/Commentary

  How did the large brain evolve?

  March 26, 2025 Deutsches Primatenzentrum / German Primate Center Science Daily

  Two specific genes that evolve exclusively in humans jointly influence the development of the cerebrum. ... these genes contribute together to the evolutionary enlargement of the brain.

• Does all intelligent life face a Great Filter?

  March 26, 2025 Paul Sutter ars technica

  The Universe should be full of alien civilizations. Why can’t we find any?

• We may have found the edge of quantum theory -- what’s beyond it?

  March 26, 2025 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  Researchers have identified the border between quantum physics and some as-yet-unknown post-quantum realm by mathematically analysing all possible measurements of simple quantum systems

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists uncover key mechanism in evolution

  March 26, 2025 Georgia Institute of Technology Science Daily

  how whole-genome duplication emerges and remains stable over thousands of generations of evolution in the lab

• New research sheds light on earliest days of Earth's formation

  March 26, 2025 Emina Gamulin phys.org

  New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

• Video

  What Can Fossils Teach Us About Biblical Creation and Noah's Flood?

  March 26, 2025 Kurt Wise YouTube

  we explore how paleontology provides insight into the pre-Flood world, the global catastrophe of Noah’s Flood, and the incredible design found in ancient creatures

• Video

  The Stunning Complexity of the Human Body

  March 26, 2025 Institute for Creation Research YouTube

  From running marathons to sculpting masterpieces, the human body is capable of incredible feats. But could something this intricate really be the product of blind evolutionary processes?

• Video

  Altered States, Psychedelics, and Consciousness Theories?

  March 26, 2025 Bernardo Kastrup YouTube

  Altered states of consciousness, such as induced by meditative practices or ingesting hallucinogens, radically alter one’s consciousness. But do these altered states provide veritable evidence about the nature of consciousness?

• The Promises and Pitfalls of Correlating Y Chromosome Genetics to Human History

  March 26, 2025 Nathaniel T. Jeanson Answers Research Journal

  Response to: Review of: Traced: Human DNA’s Big Surprise

• The End of Reasonable Darwinism

  March 26, 2025 Harry F. Sanders, III Answers in Genesis

  Richard Dawkins has released a new book, The Genetic Book of the Dead. Of course, it is evolutionary to its very core, and much of it is stuff that has already been said and rebutted by creationists

• News Update/Commentary

  Earliest days of Earth's formation

  March 26, 2025 York University Science Daily

  New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

• Astronomers just found a new treasure trove of galaxies

  March 26, 2025 Robin George Andrews National Geographic

  They could help answer our biggest questions. ... Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

• An early hint of cosmic dawn has been seen in a distant galaxy

  March 26, 2025 Jonathan O’Callaghan New Scientist

  A galaxy inside a bubble may be evidence that the universe was starting to become transparent 330 million years after the big bang

• Evolution Explains Everything and Nothing

  March 26, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Scientists and reporters treat evolution like an all-purpose demon, a placeholder for ignorance

• Were large soda lakes the cradle of life?

  March 25, 2025 Peter Rüegg phys.org

  Phosphorus may have played a key role in the origin of life. Certain conditions are needed to trigger the start of the biochemical processes that precede life. One of these is the presence of sufficient phosphorus.

• Longest molecules ever found on Mars may be remnants of building blocks of life

  March 25, 2025 Ben Turner and Jess Thomson Live Science

  NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced by biological processes.

• News Update/Commentary

  The evolution of low-temperature adapted enzymes

  March 25, 2025 Waseda University Science Daily

  Scientists uncover how enzymes evolved to function at low temperatures by reconstructing prehistoric proteins from extinct bacteria

• News Update/Commentary

  Were large soda lakes the cradle of life?

  March 25, 2025 ETH Zurich Science Daily

  Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ago for life to emerge?

• What makes humans intelligent?

  March 25, 2025 Carlyn Zwarenstein salon.com

  These unique neurons might hold the key ... Research suggests our intelligence may arise from specialized brain cells only found in humans

• The ‘panzoic effect’

  March 25, 2025 Graham Lau Psyche

  the benefits of thinking about alien life

• How Our Expert Classes Have Torpedoed Public Trust

  March 25, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice

• A Giant Surprise Smashes Old Earth Astronomy

  March 25, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Astronomers astounded at massive, luminous galaxy discoveries that undermine old earth assumptions

• Curiosity rover detects long-chain carbon molecules on Mars

  March 24, 2025 Paul Voosen Science

  Fatty acid byproducts could be the remains of microbes -- or not

• Can AlphaFold Handle Disordered Proteins? A Biophysicist Says Yes

  March 24, 2025 Mind Matters

  Jed Macosko takes issue with Erik J. Larson’s assessment here at Mind Matters News that proteins with no fixed order are likely to stump AI

• Video

  Evolution vs. Evidence: Are We Really 98% Chimp?

  March 24, 2025 James Tour YouTube

  Tour interviews Rob Stadler about his book The Scientific Approach to Evolution, challenging mainstream evolutionary claims by emphasizing the importance of high-confidence scientific evidence.

• The expanding Universe -- do ongoing tensions leave room for new physics?

  March 24, 2025 Wendy Freedman Nature

  One century after Edwin Hubble revealed his astonishing discovery of a cosmos beyond the Milky Way, the most precise measurements still can’t agree on how fast galaxies are moving.

• Why Africans should be telling the story of human origins

  March 24, 2025 Abdullahi Tsanni Nature

  Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage.

• Book

  Is Neo-Darwinism Enough?

  March, 2025 Denis Noble and David Sloan Wilson Inkwell Press

  The Noble-Wilson Dialogue on Evolution

• Abstract Reasoning in Our Ancestors Earlier than Thought?

  March 24, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Jonathan Wells and the “Unknown Unknowns”

  March 24, 2025 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Latest Data Challenges 25 Years of Cosmology

  March 24, 2025 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  There’s something crazy going on in the world of physics right now. According to new data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the cosmological constant might not actually be constant

• NASA rover discovers largest organic compounds yet found on Mars

  March 24, 2025 Ian Sample The Guardian

  Presence of long-chain alkanes in rock raises new questions about possible existence of life billions of years ago

• News Update/Commentary

  Chimpanzees act as ‘engineers', carefully choosing materials to make tools

  March 24, 2025 University of Oxford Science Daily

  chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide materials that produce more flexible tools for termite fishing.

• Can Christianity Just Abandon the Idea of the Soul?

  March 23, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Theologian Nancey Murphy thinks that the Christian tradition can do without the idea of a soul, by relying only on faith in a bodily resurrection

• Video

  Should Christians engage in anti-evolutionism?

  March 23, 2025 Marcus Ross Creation Unfolding

  In this podcast, Dr. Marcus Ross discusses the importance of “infinite games," a theory of “doing life" that seeks to build positive life-building strategies rather than tearing down those of others.

• Blog Post

  How Determinism Creeps into Biology

  March 23, 2025 Mike Klymkowsky

  Introductory genetics: one way determinism sneaks into students' understanding of biology

• Video

  Philosophy of Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

  March 23, 2025 Richard Dawkins YouTube

  What is the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES) and why better? Includes multilevel selection, transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, niche construction, evolvability, and ideas from evolutionary developmental biology.

• Oldest known galaxy in universe has oxygen

  March 23, 2025 Evrim Yazgin Cosmos Magazine

  JADES-GS-z14-0 is the most distant confirmed galaxy ever found. New observations from 2 different teams of astronomers shows that the galaxy has oxygen, making scientists rethink (again!) how galaxies formed in the early universe.

• Scientists Just Found a Fossil That Doesn’t Belong to Any Known Life Form

  March 23, 2025 Melissa Ait Lounis Daily Galaxy

  Towering over ancient landscapes, this strange fossil has baffled scientists for over a century. A fresh discovery may finally explain why -- or deepen the mystery.

• Bacteria’s Last Will and Testament to Feed Living Relatives

  March 23, 2025 Sneha Khedkar The Scientist

  Dead bacteria release an enzyme that breaks down their contents into nutrients for other bacteria, highlighting a novel postmortem biochemical process.