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• Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research

  February 5, 2025 Nature

  A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity.

• How one language family took over the world: ancient DNA traces its spread

  February 5, 2025 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Millennia-old genomes suggest Indo–European tongues originated from the Caucasus mountain region.

• ‘Taung Child’ fossil offers clues about the evolution of childhood

  February 5, 2025 Dean Falk Nature

  A fossil found in South Africa 100 years ago provides insights into the emergence of a crucial -- and unusual -- life stage.

• Fossil bird skull suggests Antarctic waterfowl survived Cretaceous mass extinction

  February 5, 2025 Nature

  The fossilized skull of a bird called Vegavis, which lived in the Antarctic 68 million years ago, confirms it was an early waterfowl. However, the skull also suggests that, unlike most modern waterfowl, Vegavis used to dive for its fish prey

• Volcano-scorched Roman scroll is read for the first time in 2000 years

  February 5, 2025 Matthew Sparkes New Scientist

  A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to X-ray imaging and machine learning

• Would we recognise alien intelligence, asks novel

  February 5, 2025 Emily H. Wilson New Scientist

  In Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky's intriguing new novel, two women marooned on a strange moon encounter alien life -- and struggle to recognise intelligence in other beings

• Special Relativity and Creation

  February 5, 2025 Danny R. Faulkner Answers in Genesis

  A Brief Overview

• Ancient duck-like creature discovered in Antarctica may be the oldest modern bird ever discovered

  February 5, 2025 Kristel Tjandra Live Science

  A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

• Ribosomes Team Up to Translate Tricky mRNA Segments

  February 5, 2025 Shelby Bradford The Scientist

  During translation, ribosomes can pause on the nucleic acid. Researchers showed that collisions from incoming proteins get them moving again.

• Could This Be the Year’s Most Ridiculous Idea About How Life Originated?

  February 5, 2025 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Fireweed: An Example of Intelligent Latent Design

  February 5, 2025 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Assuming Evolution Makes Scientists Lazy

  February 4, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Scientist: Don’t just say “it evolved.” Go to the lab and figure it out.

• Charles Darwin’s brilliance was continuously evolving

  February 4, 2025 Nature

  The cumulative process of scientific creativity and a noisy lizard’s midnight snack feature in our weekly dive into Nature’s archive.

• This deer-riding monkey could rewrite the story of evolution

  February 4, 2025 Sofia Quaglia BBC: Science Focus

  New research suggests that cultural practices in the animal kingdom can develop across species boundaries.

• Video

  Neuroscience and Philosophy

  February 4, 2025 Chris Evans YouTube

  ‘Neurophilosophy’ is the view that all that is mental or mind or consciousness can be solved ultimately by neuroscience. ‘Neuromania’ is the view that trying to explain consciousness by physical processes alone is impossible

• Video

  Genes hiding among the junk: The Dark Proteome

  February 4, 2025 Biblical Genetics YouTube

  Even though it was completed a quarter century ago, geneticists still struggle to estimate the number of genes in the human genome. They went from ‘hundreds of thousands’ to “22 thousand”. The number, however, has just exploded.

• Babies Learn Much Language in the First Six Months Post-birth

  February 4, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  By their first birthday, babies are already fine-tuning their ears to the sounds of their native language in a process called perceptual attunement. Think of it like their brain sorting through a buffet of sounds

• Those 53 Grand Canyon Rocks

  February 4, 2025 Andrew A. Snelling Answers in Genesis

  The Grand Canyon was formed rapidly.

• Stephen Hawking's radical final theory

  February 4, 2025 Thomas Hertog The Institute of Art and Ideas

  Why Stephen Hawking changed his mind about the observer

• The Slippery Slope of Theistic Darwinism

  February 4, 2025 John G. West Evolution News & Science Today

  The Sad Cases of Howard Van Till and Karl Giberson

• The 100-year-old symmetry theorem that is still changing physics today

  February 4, 2025 John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin New Scientist

  Emmy Noether was hailed as a mathematical genius in her own time. And her theorem on symmetry is still driving new discoveries in particle physics and quantum computing today

• Video

  Cosmology and Creation

  February 3, 2025 Ian McFarland YouTube

  How do physicists and philosophers who believe in God harmonize the discoveries of cosmology with the doctrine of creation? How does cosmology enhance or erode their belief in God? If God exists, must the universe have had a beginning?

• Nearby Habitable-Zone Exoplanet May Be a World of Fire and Ice

  February 3, 2025 Gayoung Lee Scientific American

  A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the solar system -- but it’s still no place like home

• News Update/Commentary

  New research on ancient life found in Yellowstone hot springs

  February 3, 2025 Montana State University Science Daily

  New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists today.

• News Update/Commentary

  Don't know something? Apes can tell

  February 3, 2025 Johns Hopkins University Science Daily

  To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a simple experiment that demonstrated that apes will communicate unknown information in the name of teamwork.

• Important Takeaways from the “Final Experiment”

  February 3, 2025 Calvin Smith Answers in Genesis

  Understanding why biblical creationists and Christian flat-earthers disagree.

• New findings raise questions about when (and where) life began

  February 3, 2025 Dirk Schulze-Makuch Big Think

  Life may have arisen far earlier -- and more rapidly -- than previously thought.

• Life-bearing water arrived on Earth later rather than sooner

  February 3, 2025 Kitta MacPherson phys.org

  meteorite analysis suggests

• Earth Is Designed to Clean Itself

  February 3, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Do these processes look like the result of chance mistakes?

• Book

  Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

  February 3, 2025 John G. West Evolution News & Science Today

  New Book | See Also Amazon

• Addressing Flaws in Population Dynamic Models

  February 3, 2025 Emily Reeves Evolution News & Science Today

  Paper Digest

• Human Evolution by the Numbers

  February 3, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

  Chatbot Weighs In

• Why even physicists still don’t understand quantum theory 100 years on

  February 3, 2025 Sean Carroll Nature

  Quantum mechanics depicts a counter-intuitive reality in which the act of observation influences what is observed -- and few can agree on what that means.

• Is there life out there?

  February 3, 2025 Maikel Rheinstadter The Conversation

  The existence of other technological species is highly likely

• Proof of Darwinism Lies in a Book That Was Never Written…

  February 2, 2025 Mind Matters

  Terry Scambray looks at Robert Shedinger’s Darwin’s Bluff, which tells the tale of the proof that Darwin was always “going to” provide

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  Were Multiple Universes Created?

  February 1, 2025 Robin Collins YouTube

  What is the extent of God’s creation? If there are multiple universes, did God create each of them? If an infinite number of universes, did God create all of them? Theists may be conflicted

• Philosopher: Should We Just Accept a Lifeless Cosmos?

  February 1, 2025 Mind Matters

  The question of whether we are alone remains one of science’s greatest enigmas. As David Kipping aptly points out, the data paints a tantalizing picture -- just as compatible with a Universe brimming with life as it is with one where we stand solitary

• Chatbot Is Asked To Estimate the Probability of Human Evolution...

  February 1, 2025 Mind Matters

  the requirement for AI to be capable of correctly crunching numbers puts it ahead of the average scientist in grasping the fact that there is no chance that evolution by natural selection can account for more than small fraction of genetic diversity

• The Periodic Table As a Product of Laws of the Universe

  February 1, 2025 Mind Matters

  At Aeon, Vanessa A. Seifert complains that chemistry is often dismissed as the “poor cousin of the sciences” but has “revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe”: makes the case that laws are significant in chemistry as well as physics

• Early debates in space science

  February, 2025 W. David Cummings and Louis J. Lanzerotti Physics Today, v.78, n.2, p.38-44

  Is there thick dust on the lunar surface? Does the Sun generate a wind or a breeze? Where do gamma-ray bursts originate? Here’s how five of the biggest questions in the field were answered with the help of satellites.

• Are birds reptiles?

  February 1, 2025 Emma Bryce Live Science

  If you're wondering whether birds are reptiles, know this: The reptile family tree is more varied and diverse than you might realize.

• 2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

  February 1, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today

  February 8!

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  How Does the Human Immune System Display God's Design?

  February 1, 2025 Joe Francis YouTube

  the fascinating interplay between immune system and microbiome -- the diverse community of microscopic organisms that play a crucial role in keeping our bodies functioning. Be amazed by the beauty of God's craftsmanship in these biological marvels

• Douthat: Our Minds Are Tied to Reality

  January 31, 2025 Peter Biles Mind Matters

  The New York Times columnist thinks everyone should be more religious

• ‘A neural fossil’: human ears try to move when listening, scientists say

  January 31, 2025 Nicola Davis The Guardian

  Researchers found that muscles move to orient ears toward sound source in vestigial reaction

• See Lucy Run, 3.2 Million Years Ago

  January 31, 2025 Franz Lidz New York Times

  Our early human ancestor was capable of running, if slowly, a new study finds.

• What if we’re alone? The philosophical paradox of a lifeless cosmos

  January 31, 2025 Shai Tubali Big Think

  If humanity lives in an otherwise barren Universe, we’ll have to forge philosophy that fills the void.

• Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations

  January 31, 2025 Anil Ananthaswamy Quanta Magazine

  Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

• We don't understand matter any better than mind

  January 31, 2025 John Collins The Institute of Art and Ideas

  There is no ‘mind-body problem'

• Dinosaur Original Collagen Confirmed

  January 31, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Three methods have confirmed the presence of intact collagen fragments in a dinosaur hip bone