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• Intelligent Design in Action

  January 22, 2025 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

  Mars Archaeology

• A cosmic shape could explain the fundamental nature of the universe

  January 21, 2025 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  Physicists have created a 3D shape called the cosmohedron, which can be used to reconstruct the quantum wavefunction of the universe -- and potentially do away with the idea of space-time as the underlying fabric of the universe

• How often do unexpected scientific discoveries occur? More often than you might think

  January 21, 2025 Elizabeth Gibney Nature

  A study assessed 1.2 million biomedical publications and measured the ‘unexpectedness’ of their findings.

• Why AI will never be able to acquire human-level intelligence

  January 21, 2025 José M. Muñoz, Javier Bernacer, Alva Noë, and Evan Thompson Nature

• How Having Extra Chromosome Sets Shapes Evolution

  January 21, 2025 Sachin Rawat Physics, v.18

  Researchers predict that having extra sets of chromosomes can both speed up and slow down the evolution of an organism, depending on the organism’s “fitness landscape.”

• Scientists Find Earliest Evidence of Human Footprints Outside Africa Which Are Over 800,000 Years Old

  January 21, 2025 Shraddha MSN

• AI-Generated Junk Science Is a Big Problem on Google Scholar

  January 21, 2025 Isaac Schultz Gizmodo

  A recent investigation of the academic search engine highlights the pervasive issue of AI-generated text in academic literature, especially regarding controversial topics.

• Video

  How Birds Actually Fly and Why It Matters

  January 21, 2025 David Rives and Andy McIntosh YouTube

  Discover how the intricate structure of feathers, wing dynamics, and unique flight mechanisms point to a universal design ‘blueprint’ seen across birds, bats, and insects.

• News Update/Commentary

  Wild baboons not capable of visual self-awareness when viewing their own reflection

  January 21, 2025 University College London Science Daily

  Wild baboons failed to demonstrate visual self-recognition in a test carried out by anthropologists.

• Psychodynamic nonsense

  January 21, 2025 Niklas Serning Aeon

  After decades of practising psychotherapy, I believe it has little foundation in science and often causes harm

• Darwin Storytellers Desperate

  January 21, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Running out of material for just-so stories, Darwinians are indulging in junior-high-level subject matter

• Daniel Dennett Made Atheism Easy To Understand

  January 21, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  In the process, he somehow also made it less believable

• Giant, Mysterious Spires Ruled the Earth Long Before Trees Did

  January 21, 2025 Colin Schultz; updated by Carlyn Kranking Smithsonian Magazine

  What Exactly Are These Odd-Looking Fossils? ... For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites -- which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide -- were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom”

• How to navigate uncertainty in an unpredictable world

  January 20, 2025 Yongyi Min Nature

  A statistician offers a masterful guide to embracing the unknown.

• Book

  Sharing is caring and other moving stories: Books in brief

  January 20, 2025 Andrew Robinson Nature

  Color in Nature ... A Century of Tomorrows ... The Well-Connected Animal ... You Must Stand Up ... Lost Wonders

• ‘Publish or perish’ culture blamed for reproducibility crisis

  January 20, 2025 Laurie Udesky Nature

  Survey of more than 1,600 biomedical researchers also flagged small sample sizes and cherry-picking of data as leading causes of reproducibility problems.

• Video

  A new fossil supports a creationist worldview!

  January 20, 2025 Matt McLain YouTube

  The new Gorgonopsian fossil, a part of the wider Therapsid group, is considered quite “evolved" even though it appears lower in the geologic column than more “primitive" forms.

• Conservation of Information

  January 20, 2025 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

  The History of an Idea

• Ancient Viral DNA Shapes Early Embryo Development

  January 20, 2025 Helmholtz Zentrum München

  Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life.

• The Big Bang theory is not the only game in town

  January 20, 2025 Martín López Corredoira The Institute of Art and Ideas

  The universe may be eternal

• Snowflakes: A Symphony of Intricacy and Beauty

  January 20, 2025 Jonathan K. Corrado Institute for Creation Research

• Video

  Philosophy of Biological Ethics & New Norms

  January 19, 2025 John Dupré YouTube

  Can biology -- especially evolutionary biology -- help explain ethics, and if so, can science influence ethics and help set new norms? If science can, should science do?

• How ‘quantum foam' may have inflated the early universe

  January 19, 2025 Paul Sutter space.com

  The early universe experienced a phase of rapid expansion, known as inflation. For decades, cosmologists assumed that this expansion was powered by a new entity in the universe

• Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth.

  January 19, 2025 Philip Ball The Guardian

  But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet

• Archaeologists Baffled after Discovering Gigantic Skull of a 200-million-year-Old Dinosaur

  January 18, 2025 Shraddha MSN

  a never-before-seen species

• Video

  Chasing LUCA -- Origins of the Genetic Code

  January 18, 2025 Joanna Masel YouTube

  Evolution Soup talks to Joanna about the genetic code, the importance of LUCA, and Joanna's incredible research that took her billions of years back into time.

• Video

  Tuskless Elephants: A Case Study in Creation Science

  January 18, 2025 Randy Guliuzza and David Rives YouTube

  Often touted as a clear example of evolution, this phenomenon is examined through a biblically accurate lens. Together, they unpack the evidence, explore the genetic and environmental factors at play, and challenge the prevailing evolutionary narratives.

• What 2024’s Bright Comet May Reveal About the Age of the Solar System

  January 17, 2025 Danny R. Faulkner Answers in Genesis

  For a long time, young-earth creationists have used the existence of comets today as evidence against a solar system that is 4.5 billion years old.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Evidence for Endogenous Collagen in Edmontosaurus Fossil Bone

  January 17, 2025 Lucien Tuinstra, Brian Thomas, Steven Robinson, Krzysztof Pawlak, Gazmend Elezi, Kym Francis Faull, and Stephen Taylor Analytical Chemistry, v.97, n.5

  Reports of proteins in fossilized bones have been a subject of controversy in the scientific literature because it is assumed that fossilization results in the destruction of all organic components.

• Is reality shaped by our observation?

  January 17, 2025 Elizabeth Hlavinka salon

  Why a fringe idea in science is still controversial ... The idea, proposed in the '70s by the late John Wheeler, once seemed outlandish. But could he be right?

• New theory of black holes solves problem of dark matter

  January 17, 2025 Phillip B. Levin The Institute of Art and Ideas

  The evaporation of three cosmic mysteries

• News Update/Commentary

  Three million years ago, our ancestors were vegetarian

  January 17, 2025 University of the Witwatersrand Science Daily

  Nitrogen isotopes in tooth enamel show no evidence of meat consumption in Australopithecus

• News Update/Commentary

  Reading the genome and understanding evolution

  January 17, 2025 Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Science Daily

  How leaf beetles found the key to digesting plants better with the help of bacteria

• News Update/Commentary

  The universe is expanding too fast to fit theories: Hubble tension in crisis

  January 17, 2025 Duke University Science Daily

  New measurements support faster-than-expected Universe expansion

• A promising (and surprisingly simple) way to detect alien life

  January 17, 2025 Dirk Schulze-Makuch Big Think

  Motility was suggested as a promising “biosignature” as early as the 1960s, but the technology was insufficient -- until now.

• A Melting Antarctica Could Wreak Havoc on Earth by Unleashing Volcanic Chaos

  January 16, 2025 Darren Orf Popular Mechanics

  Messing with our planet’s “magma plumbing system” is a really bad idea.

• Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model

  January 16, 2025 Thomas Hayes, et al. Science, v.387, n.6736, p.850-858

  Advances in machine learning and the availability of large public repositories of sequence, structural, and functional data are enabling researchers to understand the protein sequence code and build on it.

• Strange Swapping Behavior Defines New Particle Candidate

  January 16, 2025 Katherine Wright Physics, v.18

  Researchers predict the existence of a class of particles that behave differently from those already known.

• Sulfur Emissions May Have Played a Lesser Role in Dinosaur Extinction

  January 16, 2025 Science Magazine

  Asteroid Impact

• Design Writ Large

  January 16, 2025 Stephen Dilley Evolution News & Science Today

  CSC Fellows on “Science, Mathematics, and Technology”

• Video

  Philosophy of the Mind

  January 16, 2025 Nathan Jacobs YouTube

  Can art inform the classic mind-body problem? While the relationship between mental activity and physical brain continues to baffle, can the existence and process of art provide insight?

• Video

  Design Arguments, Design Detection, and Natural Theology

  January 16, 2025 Doug Axe, Bill Dembski, Bruce Gordon, and David Haines YouTube

  Can we detect intelligent design in nature? If so, what are the implications for “natural theology”? These questions were explored at the panel “Design Writ Large: Design Arguments, Design Detection, and Natural Theology”

• The ancestral genome’s tale

  January 16, 2025 Kathrin Nägele Science, v.387, n.6731, p.253

  Narratives that invoke ancient DNA must be crafted with care, argues an archaeologist

• Australopithecus at Sterkfontein did not consume substantial mammalian meat

  January 16, 2025 Tina Lüdecke, et al. Science, v.387, n.6731, p.309-314

  Diet has long been hypothesized as a driver of change among hominins, especially with regard to the increase in brain size. However, identifying diet in early hominins has been difficult

• News Update/Commentary

  Early humans adapted to harsh conditions more than a million years ago

  January 16, 2025 University of Calgary Science Daily

  A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.

• News Update/Commentary

  Asteroid impact sulfur release less lethal in dinosaur extinction

  January 16, 2025 Vrije Universiteit Brussel Science Daily

  Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact crater

• What if life on Venus is just life from Earth?

  January 16, 2025 Monisha Ravisetti space.com

  “What if there was life, but it's transferred from Earth because there's already life here?"

• Is mathematics the empress of science?

  January 16, 2025 Don Lincoln Big Think

  A physicist explains why mathematics is a powerful tool for scientific modeling, but is not a science itself.

• Addressing Challenges from Junk DNA Defenders

  January 16, 2025 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  New “Long Story Short” Video

• Molecular Machines Twist Evolution

  January 16, 2025 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research