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• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy

  November 27, 2024 Martin Qvarnström, et al. Nature, v.636, p.397-403

  The early radiation of dinosaurs remains a complex and poorly understood evolutionary event. Here we use hundreds of fossils with direct evidence of feeding to compare trophic dynamics across five vertebrate assemblages

• There’s a Limit to What Nature Can Do

  November 27, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Submarine canyon plastic accumulation is driven by turbidity currents

  November 27, 2024 Hannah Bird phys.org

  simulation study shows

• The Dogs of Chernobyl Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution

  November 27, 2024 Darren Orf Popular Mechanics

  Have the canines acquired strange mutations living near the power plant?

• News Update/Commentary

  Great apes visually track subject-object relationships like humans do

  November 26, 2024 Public Library of Science Science Daily

  When observing someone interact with something, humans and apes alternate attention between the two subjects

• The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: An Irreducibly Complex System

  November 26, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• Their DNA survives in diverse populations across the world

  November 26, 2024 Linda Ongaro The Conversation

  but who were the Denisovans?

• The radical treatments bringing people back from the brink of death

  November 26, 2024 Helen Thomson New Scientist

  Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death could be a reversible condition, even hours after a cardiac arrest

• Video

  Mendel's Law of Exponential Trait Combinations

  November 26, 2024 Biblical Genetics YouTube

  Mendel's papers did not only describe how traits are passed down. He also explained how his ideas of genetics lead directly to an explanation of the origin of species. Was Mendel directly and purposefully contradicting Darwin?

• News Update/Commentary

  World's oldest lizard wins fossil fight

  November 26, 2024 University of Bristol Science Daily

  A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed.

• Evidence of oldest known alphabet unearthed among Syrian tomb treasures

  November 26, 2024 Miryam Naddaf Nature

  Cylinders discovered in 2004 are inscribed with the earliest known examples of letters, say archaeologists.

• Why the word scientist was controversial 100 years ago

  November 26, 2024 Nature

  The debate about adopting the term scientist, and musings on how the content in Nature has evolved over the years, in this week’s pick from the journal’s archive.

• The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

  November 26, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

  An Irreducibly Complex System

• Is Physicalism Dead? And Is Psychology Today Here To Bury It?

  November 26, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Physicalism argues that the mind is simply the activities of neurons in the brain and consciousness is an illusion that they generate

• RNA World Suffers a Backhand Blow

  November 26, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  NASA hoped to find a chiral bias that favors left-handed amino acids. They lost.

• Exploding interstellar space rocks could explain mystery radio flashes

  November 25, 2024 Jonathan O’Callaghan New Scientist

  Enigmatic phenomena called fast radio bursts might be caused by interstellar objects colliding with highly magnetised neutron stars

• A Mysterious Explosion of Color in Animals Has Lasted 100 Million Years

  November 25, 2024 Russell McLendon Science Alert

  Nature comes in a variety of striking colors, but all that beauty didn't evolve for our enjoyment. Conspicuous colors tend to be signals, often helping animals woo mates or warn predators.

• Evolution Rate: All Noise, No Signal

  November 25, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Darwinists boast of reducing noise in evolution data, but where is the signal?

• Where Paleontology Fails, Paleo-Robots Avail

  November 25, 2024 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Did Neanderthal Children Collect “Stuff"?

  November 25, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The items that raise the question are small marine shells found in caves. They were carefully preserved but have no known function. A baby tooth was found in the same area

• Astronomers simulate hidden minor planets across the Galaxy

  November 25, 2024 Ben Pauley Sciworthy

  Researchers modeled how planets smaller than Earth formed and changed over the first billion years of their existence. They found these planets may be common around other stars, but they're too small to observe with today's telescopes.

• Smaller brains? Fewer friends?

  November 25, 2024 Rob Brooks The Conversation

  An evolutionary biologist asks how AI will change humanity’s future

• Were Neanderthals collecting fossils from the age of dinosaurs for fun?

  November 25, 2024 Evrim Yazgin Cosmos Magazine

  Fossils found in a cave in northern Spain might be an example of humans -- in this case Neanderthals -- collecting things for fun.

• Neuroscientist: Silicon Valley Transhumanism Is a False Religion

  November 25, 2024 Mind Matters

  By pursuing the so-called technological singularity, transhumanists want to become more-than-human. Triumphantly pledging our transcendence via the machines, they seem to also want to make humanity obsolete. Or worse

• New Book Makes the Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

  November 25, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  We are unlikely to be in this universe, new study finds. Multiverse falsified?

  November 24, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  According to the multiverse theory, we are likely to find ourselves in a universe particularly suited to the emergence of life. According to a new paper, though, that’s not the case given how it’s expanded over time.

• AI's scientific path to trust

  November 24, 2024 Alison Snyder Axios

  Public trust in AI is eroding, putting the technology's wide adoption and potential benefits at risk.

• The Human Evolution Ladder Failure Admitted by a Leading Evolutionist

  November 24, 2024 Jerry Bergman Answers in Genesis

  Evolutionists admit Lucy isn’t evidence of human evolution.

• Video

  The Big Bang was not a beginning of the Universe

  November 24, 2024 Roger Penrose YouTube

  Penrose argues that the Big Bang was not the beginning, proposing a cyclical model where each “eon" of the universe leads to the next. He dives deep into the implications of black holes, Hawking radiation, and the mysterious “spots in the sky"

• What’s the Big Deal About the Human Brain?

  November 24, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Hiker Discovers 280-Million-Year-Old Lost World

  November 23, 2024 Rebecca McPhee MSN

  Claudia Steffensen was hiking in the Italian Alps in 2023 when something caught her eye. She stepped on a rock with a footprint embedded in it. Little did she know she had just uncovered a 280-million-year-old ecosystem.

• Video

  Physicists Changed Their Mind about Dark Matter Particles

  November 23, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  Axions were introduced to the world of physics in the 1970’s. While early conceptions about axions have since been proven wrong, the particles are now making a comeback as the best motivated candidates for dark matter.

• Lucy’s Legacy

  November 22, 2024 Carolyn Y. Johnson, et al. Washington Post

  A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

• Silicon Valley’s Obsession with AI Looks a Lot Like Religion

  November 22, 2024 Greg Epstein MIT Press Reader

  The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion -- complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.

• Hunter-gatherers built a massive fish trap in Belize 4000 years ago

  November 22, 2024 Becky Ferreira New Scientist

  Earthen channels that span more than 640 kilometres show that pre-Mayan Mesoamericans built large-scale fish-trapping facilities earlier than previously thought

• The false religion of transhumanism

  November 22, 2024 Àlex Gómez-Marín The Institute of Art and Ideas

  The AI death cult ruling Silicon Valley

• In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain

  November 22, 2024 Anil Ananthaswamy Quanta Magazine

  The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible locations at once -- an insight with potentially major ramifications.

• News Update/Commentary

  Overthinking what you said? It's your ‘lizard brain'

  November 22, 2024 Northwestern University Science Daily

  Scientists sought to better understand how humans evolved to become so skilled at thinking about what's happening in other peoples' minds.

• New Fossil Stem Bird Is Surprisingly Modern

  November 22, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Martian Meteorite Points to Ancient Hydrothermal Activity

  November 22, 2024 Katherine Kornei Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  The Red Planet had water -- in the form of a hydrothermal system -- 4.45 billion years ago, new analyses of a Martian meteorite suggest.

• Diving Into the Brittle Star Genome to Understand the Evolution of Regeneration

  November 22, 2024 Sneha Khedkar The Scientist

  The sequenced genome of the brittle star revealed unique gene arrangements and provides insights into ancient genes involved in limb regeneration.

• Can You Fire or Sue an AI Employee? or Break Up with a Chatbot?

  November 22, 2024 Mind Matters

  “Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging Minnesota’s law criminalizing election deepfakes say an expert brought in by the state likely wrote his opinion with the help of AI”

• Machine Intelligence and Reasoning: We Are Not on a Path to AGI

  November 22, 2024 Erik J. Larson Mind Matters

  AI guru François Chollet’s Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) proves we’re not on a path to AGI

• Ryugu asteroid sample rapidly colonized by terrestrial life

  November 22, 2024 Justin Jackson phys.org

  despite strict contamination control

• Israeli scientists reconstruct DNA control systems of ancient human brains

  November 21, 2024 Jerusalem Post

  The scientists created an algorithm that reconstructs the epigenetic landscape of ancient brains -- chemical modifications to DNA that influence gene activity without altering its sequence.

• Trust edges up -- slightly

  November 21, 2024 H. Holden Thorp Science, v.386, n.6724, p.831

  The Pew Research Center survey on trust in science and researchers is eagerly awaited every year by science policy experts and communicators.

• Culture in humans and other animals

  November 21, 2024 Peter J. Richerson and Robert T. Boyd Science, v.386, n.6724, p.846-847

  Migration provides evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in chimpanzees

• ‘Junk DNA' is bunk!

  November 21, 2024 Garen Christopher Kaloustian Lifestyle by Blaze Media

  Why the human genome argues for intelligent design

• Why do humans have toenails?

  November 21, 2024 Lauren Leffer Popular Science

  Because we’re evolutionary ‘weirdos.’ ... They're a product of our primate past.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Rapid in silico directed evolution by a protein language model with EVOLVEpro

  November 21, 2024 Kaiyi Jiang, et al. Science, v.387, n.6732

  Altering protein function or stability through mutations is a powerful tool for engineering, but it is experimentally demanding to explore even a small fraction of potential mutations.