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• Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)

  December 16, 2024 David Spiegelhalter Nature

  All of statistics and much of science depends on probability -- an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.

• How Do Snakes Fly?

  December 16, 2024 Hannah Thomasy The Scientist

  Changing body shapes and coordinated wiggling provide lift and stability for gravity-defying reptiles.

• Christianity Spread Quickly to Europe

  December 16, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  A silver amulet discovered in Germany had an inscription from the 3rd century AD. The message was just published.

• A Thought Experiment on the Mind, the Brain -- and AI

  December 16, 2024 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  In a crowded AI marketplace, a nerd confronts a philosopher on subject of the human mind

• What, Exactly, Does Your Brain Do? What Can't It Do?

  December 16, 2024 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

  A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be

• Sci-fi icon Kim Stanley Robinson: ‘there’s so much bad fiction about anthropomorphizing AI’

  December 16, 2024 Anne Pichon Nature

  The influential writer talks about frighteningly accurate predictions, the creative act of reading, AI consciousness -- and hope.

• Intelligent Design and Aquinas’ Fifth Way

  December 16, 2024 Martin Hilbert Evolution News & Science Today

• Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

  December 16, 2024 Richard Weikart Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Fossil Explosions in the History of Life

  December 16, 2024 Günter Bechly YouTube

  Paleontologist Günter Bechly explores how the fossil record documents repeated leaps in the history of life. This lecture was taped at a Discovery Institute event in Cambridge, England in August 2024.

• Why Scientism Is a Dead End for Science As Well As Philosophy

  December 15, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Canadian journalist Patrick Keeney’s thoughts on the topic -- just as the Notre Dame fire smoldered out -- are well worth revisiting

• Let’s Throw Mathematical Light on the Origin of Life

  December 15, 2024 Otangelo Grasso Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  String Theory Isn’t Dead

  December 15, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  Heard anything of string theory lately? Well, there have been a few developments. Apparently it’s not dead, going by a recent review article. The article also lists all the things that string theorists have learned recently.

• Video

  This Physics Problem is Unsolvable

  December 14, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  what if some physics problems require calculations that are just impossible? The authors of a new paper claim they’ve found a measurable quantity in a physical system that just can’t be computed.

• The Surprising Connection Between Oppenheimer and Interstellar

  December 14, 2024 Gary Varner Mind Matters

  The connection hinges on plutonium, a source of power for spacecraft. It shows how much detail goes into well-done sci-fi films

• Can Chimpanzees Help Us Understand How Human Language Started?

  December 14, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  If the capacity for a human mind was present before humans and chimps diverged (if they did), why did no chimpanzee develop one?

• What most people think they know about the Big Bang is wrong

  December 14, 2024 Elisha Sauers Mashable

  A rapid stretching of the universe.

• Neanderthal ancestry through time

  December 13, 2024 Leonardo N. M. Iasi, et al. Science, v.386, n.6727

  Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans

• Life doesn't have to be biological

  December 13, 2024 Sara Walker The Institute of Art and Ideas

  No one has a good understanding of what ‘life' is

• What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.

  December 13, 2024 Zack Savitsky Quanta Magazine

  Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy is less a fact about the world than a reflection of our growing ignorance. Embracing that truth is leading to a rethink

• Does quantum computation occur in parallel universes?

  December 13, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  By improving quantum error correction, quantum computations are now faster than ever. But parallel universes? That’s utter nonsense here.

• The “living mirror” theory

  December 13, 2024 James Cooke Big Think

  Why all living organisms may have consciousness

• Bacteria Disarm Phages by Disrupting Their Tail Assembly

  December 13, 2024 Andrea Lius The Scientist

  Attachment of a bacterial protein to the tips of phage tails produces non-infectious, tailless phages.

• Video

  The Privileged Planet -- Designed for Discovery

  December 13, 2024 Jay Richards YouTube

  Why is the fine-tuning argument so extraordinary, and how have recent scientific discoveries made it even clearer that the universe points to a divine Creator?

• Brain Imaging Study Shows That Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

  December 13, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once

• News Update/Commentary

  The molecular machines that loop our chromosomes also twist DNA

  December 13, 2024 Delft University of Technology Science Daily

  While six years ago they found that these so-called SMC motor proteins make long loops in our DNA, they now discovered that these motors also put significant twists into the loops that they form.

• First sighting of ‘neutrino fog’ sparks excitement -- but is it bad news for dark matter?

  December 13, 2024 Gemma Conroy Nature

  Ultra-sensitive detectors have observed neutrinos from the Sun, whose signals mimic those expected to be produced by elusive dark matter.

• Say Hello to Our Microscopic Granddaddy?

  December 13, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Neanderthal ancestry through time

  December 13, 2024 Leonardo N. M. Iasi, et al. Science, v.386, n.6727

  Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans

• Letter from Paris: Notre-Dame Restored

  December 13, 2024 David Berlinski Evolution News & Science Today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Confronting risks of mirror life

  December 12, 2024 Katarzyna P. Adamala, et al. Science, v.386, n.6728, p.1351-1353

  All known life is homochiral. DNA and RNA are made from “right-handed” nucleotides, and proteins are made from “left-handed” amino acids.

• Alternate mutation modalities in models of population dynamics

  December 12, 2024 Jonathan Bartlett Academia Biology, v.2, n.4

  how a cyclical mutation modality can be modeled in population dynamics and how this can, at least partially, resolve problematic long-term trends predicted by current comprehensive simulations

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture

  December 12, 2024 Arev P. Sümer, et al. Nature

  Modern humans arrived in Europe more than 45,000 years ago, overlapping at least 5,000 years with Neanderthals. Limited genomic data from these early modern humans have shown that at least two genetically distinct groups inhabited Europe

• A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans

  December 12, 2024 Robert Sanders University of California, Berkeley

  Surviving Neanderthal genes in modern genomes tell a story of thousands of years of interactions

• Oldest modern human genomes sequenced

  December 12, 2024 Arev Pelin Sümer, et al. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

  Genomes of seven early Europeans show they belonged to a small, isolated group that had recently mixed with Neandertals but left no present-day descendants

• Mars rover makes epic climb to explore some of the oldest rocks in the Solar System

  December 12, 2024 Alexandra Witze Nature

  The uphill trek jump-starts a new era of discovery for NASA’s Perseverance.

• Magic mushrooms found in Africa are a species new to science

  December 12, 2024 James Woodford New Scientist

  A fungus named Psilocybe ochraceocentrata is the closest relative of a widely cultivated psychedelic mushroom, giving clues to their evolutionary origins

• Ancient genomes reveal when modern humans and Neanderthals interbred

  December 12, 2024 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  The oldest genomes ever recovered from modern humans have helped pin down when and how the momentous mingling of two hominins played out

• When Should Writers Who Use Chatbots, Gen AI, Etc., Give Credit?

  December 12, 2024 Mind Matters

  “If I use an AI tool for research or to help me create something, should I cite it in my completed work as a source? How do you properly give attribution to AI tools when you use them?”

• News Update/Commentary

  Barn swallow research offers real-time insight on how new species form

  December 12, 2024 University of Colorado, Boulder Science Daily

  In a new study, scientists describe how different traits used to choose mates in barn swallow populations are driving the bird to diverge, which could eventually lead to the formation of new species.

• News Update/Commentary

  Study sheds light on the origin of the genetic code

  December 12, 2024 University of Arizona Science Daily

  Nearly all living organisms use the same genetic code, a complicated mechanism by which genetic information is translated into proteins. A new study suggests conventional wisdom about how the code evolved is likely flawed.

• News Update/Commentary

  Unique motor control system of anglerfish's specialized ‘fishing rod' discovered

  December 12, 2024 Nagoya University Science Daily

  When the first dorsal fin evolved from a swimming and buoyancy aid to a hunting tool, the motor neurons shifted their position. The findings have implications for understanding the potential of evolutionary processes of vertebrates

• News Update/Commentary

  How the dirt under our feet could affect human health

  December 12, 2024 Virginia Tech Science Daily

  Researchers are linking human activity to increased gene transfer from soil bacteria to humans.

• What Is Denisovan DNA?

  December 12, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  Reader Asks

• Is It a Myth That Darwin Rejected Design?

  December 12, 2024 Richard Weikart Evolution News & Science Today

• Why the Multiverse Theory Can’t Explain Away Cosmic Fine-Tuning

  December 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today

• Mystery woman's DNA reveals close family ties between Europe's earliest people

  December 12, 2024 Andrew Curry Science

  Pair of studies shines light on how modern humans and Neanderthals settled the continent together

• Video

  Return of the God Hypothesis in Cambridge

  December 12, 2024 Stephen Meyer YouTube

  the rise, fall, and revival in the sciences of the belief in God as Creator, with particular reference to figures related to the University of Cambridge in England. This presentation was taped at a Discovery Institute event in Cambridge, UK in August 2024

• Curiosmos is a galactic playground of planet creation and creature evolution

  December 11, 2024 Graham Smith Rock Paper Shotgun

• Blog Post

  To Assess or to Advocate?

  December 11, 2024 Roger Pielke, Jr.

  The IPCC is at risk of losing its credibility

• Does Life Really Need Planets? Maybe Not

  December 11, 2024 Evan Gough Universe Today

  Do we have a planetary bias when it comes to understanding where life can perpetuate? It’s only natural that we do. After all, we’re on one.