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• What we eat affects our health -- and can alter how our genes function

  January 9, 2025 Stanford Medicine EurekAlert!

• Why sabre-toothed animals evolved again and again

  January 9, 2025 Chris Simms New Scientist

  Sabre teeth can be ideal for puncturing the flesh of prey, which may explain why they evolved in different groups of mammals at least five times

• News Update/Commentary

  An earful of gill: Evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear

  January 9, 2025 Keck School of Medicine of USC Science Daily

  A recent study has uncovered the surprising evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear, linking it to the gills of ancient fish and marine invertebrates.

• To Reject Intelligent Design, Here’s What You Have to Believe

  January 9, 2025 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Science Today

• Repurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer-ear evolution

  January 9, 2025 Mathi Thiruppathy, et al. Nature, v.639, p.682-690

  How new structures emerge during evolution has long fascinated biologists. An example is how the diminutive bones of the mammalian middle ear arose from ancestral fish jawbones.

• Quantum mechanics 100 years on: an unfinished revolution

  January 8, 2025 Nature

  A century ago, physics had its Darwinian moment -- a change in perspective that was as consequential for the physical sciences as the theory of evolution by natural selection was for biology.

• We need to talk about human genome editing

  January 8, 2025 Nature

  In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this time to prepare for their arrival.

• What will viruses do next? AI is helping scientists predict their evolution

  January 8, 2025 Smriti Mallapaty Nature

  Forecasts of viral variation could improve vaccine and antiviral treatments ahead of time.

• Video

  Chimp and Human (Dis)similarities

  January 8, 2025 Robert Carter YouTube

  The genetic similarity of humans and chimpanzees has long been championed as evidence for evolution. The newest gene sequences tell us that, indeed, there are long stretches of highly similar DNA between us. On the other hand, ...

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Rethinking dinosaur origins: oldest known equatorial dinosaur-bearing assemblage

  January 8, 2025 David M. Lovelace, et al. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v.203, n.1

  mid-late Carnian Popo Agie FM, Wyoming, USA

• 230 Million-Year-Old Fossil from Wyoming Challenges Dinosaur Origin Theories

  January 8, 2025 Margherita Bassi Gizmodo

  A chicken-sized dino, the oldest known in North America, has thrown a wrench in the widely accepted timeline of early dinosaur history.

• Physicists discover that ‘impossible' particles could actually be real

  January 8, 2025 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  Every fundamental particle in the universe fits into one of two groups called fermions and bosons, but now it seems there could be other particles out there that break this simple classification and were once thought to be impossible

• Video

  Natural Selection is the Exact Opposite of Evolution

  January 8, 2025 Creation Ministries International YouTube

  Most people believe that the existence of natural selection proves evolution. They believe that random mutations produce changes in the genetic code of organisms, causing change over time;

• Spiky fossils Punk and Emo change our understanding of molluscan evolution

  January 8, 2025 Nature

  Two exceptionally preserved 3D fossils dating to about 430 million years ago highlight previously unknown diversity in the physical form and ecology of the molluscs, and the evolutionary plasticity inherent to the group.

• News Update/Commentary

  Discovery of ‘Punk' and ‘Emo' fossils challenges our understanding of ancient molluscs

  January 8, 2025 Imperial College London Science Daily

  Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and Emo, revealing that ancient molluscs were more complex and adaptable than previously known.

• News Update/Commentary

  New AI predicts inner workings of cells

  January 8, 2025 Columbia University Irving Medical Center Science Daily

  In the same way that ChatGPT understands human language, a new AI model developed by computational biologists captures the language of cells to accurately predict their activities.

• How quantum mechanics emerged in a few revolutionary months 100 years ago

  January 8, 2025 Kristian Camilleri Nature

  It began with concerns about the orbits used to explain the motion of electrons in atoms -- but quantum theory ended up upending reality itself.

• News Update/Commentary

  Human ‘domainome' reveals root cause of heritable disease

  January 8, 2025 Center for Genomic Regulation Science Daily

  Unstable proteins drive many different types of genetic disorders, according to new research

• New preprint argues that Neanderthals may be “same species” as us

  January 8, 2025 Mind Matters

  At least some key distinctions between us and our ancient counterparts date back earlier than previously estimated, hinting that modern and archaic humans -- including our close, extinct relatives -- have more in common than we ever thought.

• A Library Without Books Is Like a Book Without Pages

  January 8, 2025 Mind Matters

  There is a disturbing new phenomenon afoot -- babies and toddlers are turning up at nurseries and schools not knowing what books are, or how to use them

• “Evolution in Real Time”

  January 8, 2025 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

  (Yeah, Right)

• Video

  String Theory Is Falsifiable After All, String Theorists Say

  January 8, 2025 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  String theory is one of the leading theories of everything, but it’s been criticized for being impossible to prove wrong -- if it can’t be falsified, there’s no way to test it against empirical evidence.

• Scientists Reveal Hidden Secret That Helped Make the Great Lakes

  January 8, 2025 Tom Howarth Newsweek

  The Great Lakes owe their existence to a hotspot that was active hundreds of millions of years ago, according to new research.

• Researchers finally solve the mystery of the flying dinosaurs

  January 8, 2025 Nick Forbes Independent (UK)

  Researchers have long puzzled over how winged dinosaurs ruled the skies -- until now. Pterosaurs were able to fly thanks to large sail-like “vanes” at the ends of their tails

• Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine?

  January 8, 2025 Peter M. Visscher, et al. Nature, v.637, p.637-645

  Polygenic genome editing in human embryos and germ cells is predicted to become feasible in the next three decades. Several recent books and academic papers have outlined the ethical concerns raised by germline genome editing

• Gene Regulation Is Distinctively Human

  January 8, 2025 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Another study finds extreme brain differences between humans and apes

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  New Silurian aculiferan fossils reveal complex early history of Mollusca

  January 8, 2025 Mark D. Sutton, et al. Nature, v.637, p.631-636

  Mollusca is the second most species-rich animal phylum, but the pathways of early molluscan evolution have long been controversial. Modern faunas retain only a fraction of the past forms in this hyperdiverse and long-lived group.

• The dark proteome

  January 7, 2025 Robert Carter Creation Ministries International

  Our understanding of genomic complexity keeps increasing

• Archaic Humans Might Actually Be the Same Species as Us

  January 7, 2025 David Nield Science Alert

  Our species is defined by a long list of cultural and genetic traits that set us apart from our ancient counterparts.

• All Science Is Political Science

  January 7, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Unless independently wealthy, scientists work at the behest of government funding agencies

• Freedom from Religion Foundation Deletes Entire Honorary Board

  January 7, 2025 Mind Matters

  When FFRF removed Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne’s article defending the sex binary in humans, Coyne, Richard Dawkins, and Steven Pinker all resigned in protest.

• Farewell to Günter Bechly

  January 7, 2025 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge

  January 7, 2025 Emma Marris Nature

  Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after two millennia, they vanished.

• Aha = wow

  January 7, 2025 Bridget Ritz and Brandon Vaidyanathan Aeon

  We surveyed thousands of scientists in four countries and learned just how important beauty is to them

• 25-year update on the “Millennium problems” in physics

  January 7, 2025 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  In the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here’s where we are.

• News Update/Commentary

  Earth's air war: Explaining the delayed rise of plants, animals on land

  January 7, 2025 Yale University Science Daily

  the ozone layer plays a key role in preserving the planet's biodiversity. And now we may have a better idea of why that took so long -- more than 2 billion years -- to happen

• Common Sense Is Still Out of Reach for Chatbots

  January 7, 2025 Mind Matters

  common sense might somehow “emerge” from vast quantities of data, in the way that some scientists argue that life somehow “emerged” from a lifeless void

• In the Battle for Biology, Woke Folks Come for Coyne

  January 7, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• The Ocean Teems with Networks of Interconnected Bacteria

  January 6, 2025 Veronique Greenwood Quanta Magazine

  Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is far more interconnected than anyone realized.

• “Super-Puff'' Exoplanets: Evidence of Youth?

  January 6, 2025 Jake Hebert Institute for Creation Research

  Astronomers have inferred the presence of a fourth exoplanet in the Kepler-51 star system. They made the discovery when the third exoplanet in the system passed in front of its host star two hours sooner than their models predicted.

• Habitability: Just Add Water: A Lot of It

  January 6, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Desert planets are likely unlivable, even if they have water. They need oceans of it.

• How a quantum innovation may quash the idea of the multiverse

  January 6, 2025 Michael Brooks New Scientist

  The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics invokes alternative realities to keep everything in balance. Has solving a century-old paradox now undermined their existence?

• News Update/Commentary

  Hornwort genomes provide clues on how plants conquered the land

  January 6, 2025 Boyce Thompson Institute Science Daily

  Over 450 million years ago, plants began the epic transition from water to dry land. Among the first pioneers were the ancestors of humble hornworts, a group of small, unassuming plants that have persisted to this day.

• Scientific American Goes Woke on Cats and Water

  January 6, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

• Is the Social Panic Over “Disinformation" Starting to Wane?

  January 6, 2025 Mind Matters

  At Politico, Laurie Clarke takes a look at the rather obvious and clumsy attempts by governments in recent years to control the news by citing the dangers of disinformation.

• Large Language Models (LLMs) Flunk Word Game Connections

  January 6, 2025 Gary Smith Mind Matters

  Despite hype, ChatGPT and its competitors, in all their iterations, are still just text-generators based on statistical patterns in the text databases they train on

• How Science Has Been Misused to Corrupt Churches

  January 6, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Ignan Earths: Habitability of Terrestrial Planets with Extreme Internal Heating

  January 6, 2025 Matthew Reinhold and Laura Schaefer Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

  Is it possible for a rocky planet to have too much internal heating to maintain a habitable surface environment? In the Solar System, the best example of a world with high internal heating is Jupiter's moon Io

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago

  January 6, 2025 Hadar Ahituv, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools

• Video

  C.S. Lewis’s Challenge to Scientocracy in Cambridge and Beyond

  January 6, 2025 Discovery Science YouTube

  Beloved writer C.S. Lewis was a searing critic of the misuse of science for totalitarian ends. Dr. John West explores the increasing relevance of Lewis’s views for today in this talk delivered in Cambridge, UK in August 2024.