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• News Update/Commentary

  The viral puzzle of why humans are susceptible to hepatitis B virus, but monkeys are not

  December 3, 2024 Tokyo University of Science Science Daily

  Scientists reveal the structural features of hepatitis B viral receptor homologue in macaques that restrict viral entry into their cells

• Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence

  December 3, 2024 Geoffrey Simmons Evolution News & Science Today

• A Tissue-Sized Cell with Billions of Nuclei

  December 2, 2024 Danielle Gerhard The Scientist

  Single-nucleus RNA sequencing revealed specialized regions within the placenta's multinucleated cell.

• The contentious genius who made black holes real

  December 2, 2024 Davide Castelvecchi Nature

  Roger Penrose, now 93, never shied away from wild ideas and the ensuring debates. The first full-length biography reveals more about the mathematician and the man. | See Also Amazon

• Great power and great responsibility: how consciousness changes the world

  December 2, 2024 Alan C. Love Nature

  A vivid account of the evolution of minds will fill readers with wonder -- and challenge how they think about their moral responsibility to protect the planet.

• ChatGPT turns two: how the AI chatbot has changed scientists’ lives

  December 2, 2024 Mariana Lenharo Nature

  How many researchers are using the AI tool? Nature gathers data and talks to members of the academic community.

• Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life

  December 2, 2024 Elise Cutts New Scientist

  Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds -- that may be about to change

• Now It’s “Whale Rights”

  December 2, 2024 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• Blog Post

  The Particle in a Box

  December 2, 2024 John Horgan

  If I can understand the particle in a box, I can understand quantum mechanics, which means, maybe, I can understand, like, you know, life. This notion popped into my head three years ago, and it’s still rattling around in there.

• Controversial study redraws classical picture of the neuron

  December 2, 2024 Sofia Quaglia Science

  Fine-grained imaging of mouse brain cells suggests “pearling” of axons that researchers think may help with signaling

• ‘Large Head People': Mysterious New Form of Ancient Human Emerges

  December 2, 2024 Carly Cassella Science Alert

  A “provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans -- cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals -- that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100,000 years ago.

• A 65,000-Year-Old Hearth Reveals Evidence That Neanderthals Produced Tar for Stone Tools

  December 2, 2024 Alexa Robles-Gil Smithsonian Magazine

  While Neanderthals have been found to create glue-like substances with other materials, this finding, if confirmed, would be the first sign of Neanderthals burning the rockrose plant to make tar

• Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

  December 2, 2024 Yasemin Saplakoglu Quanta Magazine

  The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.

• Monday Micro Softy 3: The Wolverton Mountain Puzzle

  December 2, 2024 Robert J. Marks Mind Matters

  Here’s the answer to Dead President’s Club as well -- and smart STEM people often don't get that one right

• Video

  Creationists at the Aquarium!

  December 2, 2024 Todd Wood and Paul Garner YouTube

  Aquarium in Chattanooga, Tennessee -- a host of biological ideas, from created kinds to natural evil. What do turtles and penguins tell us about creation? What secrets of speciation do the African Great Lakes hold?

• News Update/Commentary

  Researchers deal a blow to theory that Venus once had liquid water on its surface

  December 2, 2024 University of Cambridge Science Daily

  A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbor was once much more like Earth than it is today.

• News Update/Commentary

  Insect fossil find ‘extremely rare'

  December 2, 2024 University of Otago Science Daily

  Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be seen by the human eye but have been preserved in an ‘extraordinary' way.

• News Update/Commentary

  Deep-sea marvels: How anglerfish defy evolutionary expectations

  December 2, 2024 Rice University Science Daily

  these enigmatic creatures defied the odds to diversify in the harsh, resource-poor environment of the bathypelagic zone -- part of the open ocean that extends from 3,300 to 13,000 feet below the ocean's surface.

• News Update/Commentary

  Study may reverse century-old understanding of the shape of ‘arms' on mammals' brain cells

  December 2, 2024 Johns Hopkins Medicine Science Daily

  Biology textbooks may need a revision, say scientists, who present new evidence that an arm-like structure of mammalian brain cells may be a different shape than scientists have assumed for more than a century.

• Moon and Mars Puzzle Geologists

  December 2, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  “Young” features have no explanation, leaving scientists baffled

• Plant Missile Technology: A Peek in the Armory

  December 2, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”

  December 2, 2024 Martin Hilbert Evolution News & Science Today

• Pre-Order Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

  December 2, 2024 John G. West Evolution News & Science Today

  and Get a Free Book about C. S. Lewis

• Irresolvable problems with Neo-Darwinism

  December, 2024 Philip Bell Creation Ministries International

  experts calling for a new theory of evolution

• Book

  By Design (2nd edition)

  December, 2024 Jonathan Sarfati Creation Ministries International

  Evidence for nature's Intelligent Designer -- the God of the Bible

• ‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’: neuroscientist believes life could be eternal

  December 1, 2024 Michael Segalov The Guardian

  A brilliant young scientist believes that if we preserve our brains, they could be revived in the future, helping us live for centuries

• Video

  The Crisis in Cosmology Just Got So Much Worse

  December 1, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  In a new paper, astrophysicists now demonstrate that something is wrong with the theory indeed. It could be the first good evidence that “Einstein was wrong.”

• Book

  Apemen overturned

  December, 2024 Peter Line Creation Ministries International

  REVIEW: Human Evolution: The grand experiment by Carl Werner

• Blog Post

  Is the Omega Point Ironic Science?

  November 29, 2024 John Horgan

  Frank Tipler lays out his theory in The Physics of Immortality (1994). He is still working on the theory, and he insists in the Q&A below that it is hard, falsifiable physics, not “theology” or “ironic science.”

• Everything you ever wanted to know about astrology -- for free

  November 29, 2024 Chris French The Skeptic

• The Early Earth Wasn’t Completely Terrible

  November 29, 2024 Mark Thompson Universe Today

  It all sounds rather inhospitable at this stage but even then, liquid oceans of water are thought to have existed under an atmosphere of carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

• Life on Mars could be surviving in an area deep underground

  November 29, 2024 Jonathan O’Callaghan New Scientist

  The Acidalia Planitia region of the Red Planet might have all the requirements for methane-burping bacteria to exist beneath the surface

• Why the number “1/137” appears everywhere in nature

  November 29, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  One of the fundamental constants of nature, the fine-structure constant, determines so much about our Universe. Here’s why it matters.

• Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

  November 29, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Many worlds, many selves

  November 28, 2024 Emily Qureshi-Hurst Aeon

  If it’s true that we live in a vast multiverse, then our understanding of identity, morality and even God must be reexamined

• Contemporary hominin locomotor diversity

  November 28, 2024 Willam H. Harcourt-Smith Science, v.386, n.6725, p.969-970

  Footprints in Kenya show that hominin bipedalism had a complex evolutionary history

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Footprint evidence for locomotor diversity and shared habitats among early Pleistocene hominins

  November 28, 2024 Kevin G. Hatala, et al. Science, v.386, n.6725, p.1004-1010

  It is now well accepted that hominin evolution is a story of many lineages existing contemporaneously. Evidence for this pattern has mostly come from fossils being dated to similar time periods.

• Minerals in hot springs performed a key chemical reaction for early life on Earth

  November 28, 2024 Quoc Phuong Tran The Conversation

  One of the biggest scientific mysteries is where life on Earth started.

• Video

  Huge Physics Anomaly Finally Put to Test, But That Just Makes it More Confusing

  November 28, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  Ten years ago, physicists discovered an anomaly that was dubbed the “ATOMKI anomaly”. The decays of certain atomic nuclei disagreed with our current understanding of physics. Particle physicists assigned the anomaly to a new particle, X17

• Great Apes Point To How Human Language May Have Evolved

  November 28, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  What’s revealing in these types of studies is not what the researchers find but what the science media choose to make of them

• These two ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago

  November 28, 2024 Miryam Naddaf Nature

  Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species coexisted.

• Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

  November 28, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  Happy Thanksgiving!

• Philosopher Warns of Social Conflict Over AI Consciousness

  November 27, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  the prospect of AI systems with their own interests and moral significance “is no longer an issue only for sci-fi or the distant future”

• Lucy Worshiped Like a Religious Icon

  November 27, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The adulation given to the ‘Lucy’ bones overlooks big problems with the fossil

• Brains grew faster as humans evolved

  November 27, 2024 Durham University

  Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species

• Video

  Fine-Tuning and the Multiverse

  November 27, 2024 Reasons to Believe YouTube

  Scientists have discovered that the fundamental constants needed to describe our universe provide evidence of an intelligent cause that made the universe. In recent years, many scientists have argued that the multiverse provides an alternative explanation

• News Update/Commentary

  ‘Genetic time machine' reveals complex chimpanzee cultures

  November 27, 2024 University of Zurich Science Daily

  Chimpanzees are known for their remarkable intelligence and use of tools, but could their cultures also evolve over time like human cultures? A new, multidisciplinary study suggests that

• Fossilized poo and vomit show how dinosaurs rose to rule Earth

  November 27, 2024 Helena Kudiabor Nature

  Analysis of 200-million-year-old digested foods reveals how the animals became dominant.

• Fossilized faeces helps explain dinosaurs’ rise to dominance

  November 27, 2024 Nick Petrić Howe and Emily Bates Nature

  Hundreds of pieces of fossilized faeces and vomit show how dinosaurs became Earth’s dominant land animals

• Wastes of time -- faeces and vomit track how dinosaurs rose to prominence

  November 27, 2024 Lawrence H. Tanner Nature

  The earliest known dinosaur fossils are at least 230 million years old, and by 200 million years ago, dinosaurs dominated global ecosystems. Reconstructing food webs using fossil evidence of feeding activity helps to explain this ascendency.