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• Longevity as Evidence of Original Design

  October 15, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• The early days of peer review: five insights from historic reports

  October 15, 2024 David Adam Nature

  A crop of referee reports from the Royal Society’s archive reveal discussions about cutting printing costs, reviewer holidays and even editing images.

• Quantum theory is challenging long-standing ideas about entropy

  October 15, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  A mathematical study finds that three definitions of what it means for entropy to increase, which have previously been considered equivalent, can produce different results in the quantum realm

• First breathtaking images from Euclid telescope's map of the universe

  October 15, 2024 James Dinneen New Scientist

  The Euclid space telescope's massive “cosmic atlas” promises to shed light on fundamental questions in physics and cosmology

• Video

  The Robot Repairmen Inside You (Secrets of the Cell)

  October 15, 2024 Michael Behe YouTube

  Behe investigates the trillions of microbots inside each of us that work 24/7 to repair whatever is broken. These amazing molecular machines “do the work and you can keep running without even knowing there was ever a problem.”

• Your genes do not define you

  October 15, 2024 Gregory Radick iai News

  When chance, not reason, steers science

• Paleontologists May Have Discovered Earth's Oldest Moving Animal

  October 15, 2024 Ian Randall Newsweek

  Quaestio lived some 555 million years ago in the so-called Ediacaran Period, a key time in the history of life when complex, multicellular life first evolved.

• Ancient hominins had humanlike hands, indicating earlier tool use

  October 15, 2024 Justin Jackson phys.org

• Rain may have helped form the first cells, kick-starting life as we know it

  October 15, 2024 Aman Agrawal The Conversation

  Billions of years of evolution have made modern cells incredibly complex. Inside cells are small compartments called organelles that perform specific functions essential for the cell’s survival and operation.

• Book

  Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

  October, 2024 Robert M. Sapolsky Penguin Random House

  a brilliant (and in his inimitable way, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self who tells our biology what to do | See Also Amazon

• Contrary to Occam’s Razor, the Simplest Explanation Is Often Not the Best One

  October 15, 2024 Naomi Oreskes Scientific American

  Occam’s razor holds that the simplest explanation is closest to the truth. But the real world is quite complex

• Video

  Doug Axe on Protein Evolution’s Magic Number

  October 15, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  (It’s Six)

• “Selective Scientific Interpretations”

  October 14, 2024 Calvin Smith Answers in Genesis

  Part 5 of “The Shadow League”

• A Science Writer Tries Moderating a Panel on Consciousness

  October 14, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Science writer John Horgan provides an entertaining account of a panel discussion he moderated last month, “Awakening to Truth: Consciousness as the Fundamental Reality.”

• Appreciating the Molecular Detail of ATP Synthase

  October 14, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• AI Is Dumber Than a Cat? That's What an AI Pioneer Thinks

  October 14, 2024 Christopher Mims talked to LeCun Mind Matters

  Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, has gained a name for debunking the AI “smarter than humans” scare. The scare is driven by, among others, this year’s Nobelist Geoffrey Hinton. Oh, and Elon Musk as well.

• ‘Doing good science is hard’: retraction of high-profile reproducibility study prompts soul-searching

  October 14, 2024 Holly Else Nature

  A paper by some of the biggest names in scientific integrity is retracted for issues including misstatements about the research plan.

• Is there life on Jupiter’s moon Europa? NASA launches mission to find hints

  October 14, 2024 Alexandra Witze Nature

  The Europa Clipper spacecraft will use its various instruments to probe whether the icy ocean world is habitable.

• The archaeologist fighting claims about an advanced lost civilisation

  October 14, 2024 Colin Barras New Scientist

  Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse peddles the idea that we have overlooked an extraordinary ancient civilisation. Flint Dibble explains why that is wrong, and why real archaeology is more exciting

• DNA Polymerase Works in Short Bursts Rather than One Long Stretch

  October 14, 2024 Shelby Bradford The Scientist

  The enzyme that copies and repairs DNA is more dynamic than originally thought.

• NASA Launches Europa Clipper to Explore an Ocean Moon’s Habitability

  October 14, 2024 Kenneth Chang New York Times

  The spacecraft lifted off Monday on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, embarking on a nearly six-year journey to Jupiter.

• Nobel Prize Undercuts Evolutionary Genetics

  October 14, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  As the cell becomes more complicated, evolution becomes less probable

• Will Colorado Allow Elephants to Sue?

  October 14, 2024 Wesley J. Smith Mind Matters

  The Nonhuman Rights Project wants to become the guardian of five elephants at the Colorado Springs zoo and take control of their care

• Comet Caps a Year of Natural Beauty

  October 14, 2024 Guillermo Gonzalez Evolution News & Science Today

• Cells from Different Species Can Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNA

  October 13, 2024 Annie Melchor Wired

  Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system -- even between organisms widely separated by evolution.

• Can We Please Just Find the Aliens Already?

  October 13, 2024 Claire Isabel Webb New York Times

  Europa, a moon of Jupiter where life could have sparked like it did on Earth

• Animation Reveals the Intricacies of the Electron Transport Chain

  October 13, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

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• On Scientism: When Science Fiction Creeps into Science

  October 13, 2024 Kirk Durston Mind Matters

  At his blog, Thoughts about God, Truth, and Beauty, scientist and clergyman Kirk Durston offered some thoughts last spring on how science fiction creeps into science:

• Intelligent Design: New, and Not Improved

  October 13, 2024 Gregg Davidson Seven Series Podcast

  how the definition of Intelligent Design (ID) has changed over the last few decades, in ways that are not an improvement over the original formulation

• Video

  Is Intelligent Design Evidence of God?

  October 12, 2024 Freeman Dyson YouTube

  The world certainly appears to be designed, in particular from the cosmology of the cosmos rather than from the biology of species. Are appearances deceiving or revealing? Does design need a Designer?

• Famed lions’ full diet revealed by DNA -- and humans were among their prey

  October 11, 2024 Emma Marris Nature

  Ancient DNA confirms that the nineteenth-century carnivores hunted humans and a variety of wild game, including a surprising animal.

• AI scans RNA ‘dark matter’ and uncovers 70,000 new viruses

  October 11, 2024 Smriti Mallapaty Nature

  Many are bizarre and live in salt lakes, hydrothermal vents and other extreme environments.

• The largest storm in our solar system is moving unexpectedly

  October 11, 2024 Ashley Strickland CNN

  New observations of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show that the 190-year-old storm wiggles like gelatin and shape-shifts like a squeezed stress ball.

• News Update/Commentary

  How did the building blocks of life arrive on Earth?

  October 11, 2024 University of Cambridge Science Daily

  chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites used to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth ... without ‘unmelted' asteroids, there may not have been enough of these compounds on Earth for life to emerge.

• News Update/Commentary

  ‘Inside-out' galaxy growth observed in the early universe

  October 11, 2024 University of Cambridge Science Daily

  Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big Bang.

• Business Prof: Big Data Is Making Science Worse, Not Better

  October 11, 2024 Mind Matters

  It’s helping fuel the sources of bad science, says Pomona College’s Gary Smith in International Higher Education

• Was Toumaï a biped?

  October 11, 2024 Fabien Trécourt French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

  The fossils of this primate, which were discovered in the early 2000s and date back 7 million years, remain the subject of intense debate, notably as to whether they should be considered part of the human lineage.

• The True Story Behind Ben Stein's Anti-Evolution/Pro-Intelligent Design Film

  October 11, 2024 Kevin Miller Skeptic

  Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolution in real time

  October 11, 2024 Institute of Science and Technology, Austria Science Daily

  Snails on a tiny rocky islet evolved before scientists' eyes. While the researchers intentionally brought in a distinct population of the same snail species, these evolved to strikingly resemble the population lost over 30 years prior.

• How the evolution of citrus is inextricably linked with our own

  October 11, 2024 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  Millions of years ago, our ancestors lost a gene for producing vitamin C and got a taste for citrus. Since then, we've cultivated the tangy fruits into global staples like sweet oranges and sour lemons

• Gravity may explain why Neanderthals failed to adopt advanced weaponry

  October 11, 2024 Jeremy Hsu New Scientist

  Spear-throwing tools called atlatls allow humans to launch projectiles over great distances, but Neanderthals apparently never used them -- and an experiment involving a 9-metre-tall platform may explain why

• The Incredible Krebs Cycle

  October 11, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• The Avalon Explosion and the Power of Maybe

  October 11, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Predicting rapid adaptation in time from adaptation in space

  October 11, 2024 Diego Garcia Castillo, et al. Science Advances, v.10, n.41

  a 30-year field experiment in marine snails

• Mega El Niño May Have Led to Major Mass Extinction 252 Million Years Ago

  October 11, 2024 Rebecca Owen Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  The extreme climate conditions wrought by a decades-long ENSO pattern could be the culprit in the Great Dying, which wiped out nearly 90% of life on Earth.

• Clipper Sets Sail for an Ocean Millions of Miles Away

  October 11, 2024 Kimberly M. S. Cartier Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Europa Clipper will assess whether Jupiter’s moon has the right ingredients to host life, and could illuminate the mysteries of icy worlds throughout the solar system.

• Ecological speciation in Darwin’s finches: Ghosts of finches future

  October 10, 2024 Jeffrey Podos and Katie M. Schroeder Science, v.386, n.6718, p.211-217

  When we think of a species adapting to environmental change, we mostly think about one trait. However, changes in one trait will likely affect others.

• Natural selection in the real world is mostly ineffective

  October 10, 2024 Robert Carter Creation Ministries International

  A long-term study on the water flea contradicts thousands of papers on natural selection

• Nurturing Naturalism

  October 10, 2024 Calvin Smith Answers in Genesis

  Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possible explanations for the origin of living things. Organisms either appeared on the earth fully developed or they did not.

• “Surprisingly Recent'' Lunar Volcanism?

  October 10, 2024 Jake Hebert Institute for Creation Research

  Tiny volcanic glass beads suggest “surprisingly recent” lava flows on the moon that are “difficult to reconcile with the accepted history of lunar volcanism.”