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• Scandal! Science Busts Allegedly Bogus Neurological Science

  October 3, 2024 Wesley J. Smith Mind Matters

  If these leading dementia studies’ images are indeed falsified, many years of follow-up research by others may have been wasted

• Microbiologists Find Living Microbes in 2-Billion-Year-Old Rock

  October 3, 2024 Sci News

  Researchers from the University of Tokyo and elsewhere have found pockets of living microbes in mineral-filled veins within 2-billion-year-old rock from the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa.

• Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs not a one-off

  October 3, 2024 Ian Sample The Guardian

  Scans of underwater crater in West Africa suggest another large asteroid smashed into the planet around the same time

• News Update/Commentary

  New findings supply corrective to evolutionary hypothesis

  October 3, 2024 University of Arkansas Science Daily

  Biological sciences researchers argue that statistical ‘noise' leads to perceived increase in evolutionary rates over short times scales

• News Update/Commentary

  2-billion-year-old rock home to living microbes

  October 3, 2024 University of Tokyo Science Daily

  New research could help us understand very early life on Earth and the hunt for evidence of life on Mars

• Blog Post

  The Beyond-Spacetime Meme

  October 3, 2024 John Horgan

  Decades ago, I coined the phrase ironic science to describe theories that shouldn’t be taken too seriously, because they can’t be tested as genuine science can. Ironic science is more akin to philosophy or literature than real science.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Environment-independent distribution of mutational effects emerges from microscopic epistasis

  October 3, 2024 Sarah M. Ardell, et al. Science, v.386, n.6717, p.87-92

  A single mutation may have very different effects on fitness depending on the genetic and environmental context. Understanding how this occurs more broadly has been historically difficult to study

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Alternate RNA decoding results in stable and abundant proteins in mammals

  October 2, 2024 Shira Tsour, et al. bioRxiv

  Amino acid substitutions may substantially alter protein stability and function, but the contribution of substitutions arising from alternate translation (deviations from the genetic code) is unknown.

• Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail

  October 2, 2024 Sara Reardon Nature

  Wiring diagram lays out connections between nearly 140,000 neurons and reveals new types of nerve cell.

• A complete wiring diagram of the fruit-fly brain

  October 2, 2024 Anita V. Devineni Nature

  Neuroscientists have reconstructed the first complete wiring map of the fruit-fly brain, including 140,000 neurons and more than 50 million connections. This resource has already begun to revolutionize the field.

• Film Creates Awe About the Brain

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

  Illustra Media’s latest short film will have you spellbound over the systems at work in your head

• People Are Not Peas -- Why Genetics Education Needs an Overhaul

  October 2, 2024 Elaine Guevara sapiens.org

  The decades out-of-date genetics taught in most U.S. schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. A biological anthropologist calls for change.

• After Dawkins Is Canceled, What Comes Next? Not Better Science!

  October 2, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  As the National Academies of Science try to blend traditional lore into science findings, the concept of truth that atheists and theists clash over is irrelevant

• The Mystery of Evolution May Be Unsolvable

  October 2, 2024 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Science Today

  By Materialist Science

• Ancient DNA tells story of toddler who lived in Italy 17,000 years ago

  October 2, 2024 Christa Lesté-Lasserre New Scientist

  A young boy who lived towards the end of the last glacial period had dark skin, blue eyes and a congenital heart condition, a study of his genome reveals

• Video

  Can Good Science Start with the Bible?

  October 2, 2024 Is Genesis History? YouTube

  Aristotle laid the groundwork for modern science, with his belief in an eternal, self-running, Creator-less universe. In this video, paleontologist Kurt Wise investigates Aristotle's views on science and what he calls “Aristotle's Intuition."

• ‘In awe’: scientists impressed by latest ChatGPT model o1

  October 1, 2024 Nicola Jones Nature

  The chatbot excels at science, beating PhD scholars on a hard science test. But it might ‘hallucinate’ more than its predecessors.

• Some of Uranus' moons might be able to support life

  October 1, 2024 Conor Feehly space.com

  “The most exciting prospect at the (Uranian) moons is that they could still host subsurface oceans at present.”

• “Follow the salt”: A new strategy for finding life on Mars

  October 1, 2024 Dirk Schulze-Makuch Big Think

  Scientists might be looking for Martian life in the wrong place.

• Planet spotted orbiting Barnard's star just 6 light years away

  October 1, 2024 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  Astronomers have detected an exoplanet around Barnard’s star, one of the sun’s closest neighbours, but it is too hot for liquid water or life

• Freeze-thaw cycle helps asteroids ferry molecules of life to planets

  October 1, 2024 Matthew Sparkes New Scientist

  Cracks running through samples of asteroid Ryugu were probably formed by the repeated thawing and freezing of water inside it, which could have helped asteroids like this carry the building blocks of life to early Earth

• RNA: The Text Message System Between Cells?

  October 1, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  RNA is a very old way that cells encode information so cells across the domains of life can read messages encoded by other cells in RNA -- for good or ill

• Radiation biologist, geneticist, and creation apologist

  October, 2024 Philip Bell Creation Ministries International

  Dr Nigel Crompton about his life in science

• Thutmose II's Tomb Discovered in Egypt

  October, 2024 Doug Petrovich Bible & Spade, v.37, n.4, p.27-29

• Lucy at 50 has not aged well

  October, 2024 Peter Line Creation Ministries International

  The world-famous ‘Lucy’ was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. The official name of the ~1-metre-tall partial skeleton is AL 288-1, dated to allegedly ~3.2 million years ago (Ma). It was classified as Australopithecus afarensis.

• Book

  Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity

  October, 2024 Kevin N. Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman, and Scott F. Gilbert Princeton University Press

  A new account of the central role developmental processes play in evolution | See Also Amazon

• Video

  Roger Penrose Thinks Quantum Mechanics is Dead Wrong

  October 1, 2024 Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal YouTube

• Scientists Ask: Does the Soul Survive Death?

  October 1, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Silicon Valley's Trendy Ethic: Effective Altruism

  September 30, 2024 Heather Zeiger Mind Matters

  How effective is it really? Does the underlying utilitarianism leave out some important things?

• New Atheism Is Shrinking and It's Not Entirely Clear Why

  September 30, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Now, there is an eerie unfashionable silence that fashionable media are beginning to notice. For one thing, it is affecting Richard Dawkins

• Do Bacteria Grow Old?

  September 30, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Life cannot mutate for millions of years: a major challenge to old-age claims

• How Evolutionary Traps Plague the Animal Kingdom

  September 30, 2024 Cody Cottier Discover magazine

  For many creatures, the modern landscape is a minefield rife with hazards that natural selection never saw coming.

• Was the Moon Captured?

  September 30, 2024 Mark Thompson Universe Today

  The general consensus is that Theia crashed into Earth billions of years ago and led to the formation of the Moon. The story doesn’t end there though

• Do Animals Understand Death?

  September 30, 2024 Ed Cara Gizmodo

  Philosopher Susana Monsó's book Playing Possum, newly translated into English next month, makes the strong case that many animals big and small understand the concept of death.

• The astrophysicist unravelling the origins of supermassive black holes

  September 30, 2024 Daniel Cossins New Scientist

  How did the supermassive black holes we’re now seeing in the early universe get so big so fast? Astrophysicist Sophie Koudmani is using sophisticated galaxy simulations to figure it out

• Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled

  September 30, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Free Will: Key to Consciousness?

  September 29, 2024 Patrick Haggard YouTube

  What is it about the problems of free will such that addressing these problems can elucidate the deep structure or underpinnings of the mind? The key is how free will works in a wholly physical, material world? Or perhaps it doesn’t work?

• The Most Sophisticated AIs Are Most Likely to Lie

  September 28, 2024 Frank Landymore Futurism

  The AIs are “getting better at pretending to be knowledgeable."

• Crows are even smarter than we thought

  September 28, 2024 Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Big Think

  New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities.

• Octopus Organizes Packs of Fish To Help It Hunt

  September 27, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Unlike the fish, the octopus can work with stones where prey fish shelter. The fish get whatever the octopus drops -- unless they are cheaters

• Fraud, So Much Fraud

  September 27, 2024 Derek Lowe Science

  a scientific publication record over at least the past 25 years that shows multiple, widespread, blatant instances of fraud

• Video

  Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?

  September 27, 2024 Carlo Rovelli YouTube

  Although many physicists, astronomers, cosmologists do not believe in God, many do. Why the stark division -- divided both by what they believe and by how they interpret the same evidence. A cosmos of order or disorder?

• Video

  Beetle Blasts and Biomimetics

  September 27, 2024 Institute for Creation Research YouTube

  Though tiny, the bombardier beetle is a fascinating masterclass in design. Evolutionists claim that this explosive insect came about by chance, but frankly, that's impossible.

• Blog Post

  The Atlantic unfairly disses Dawkins

  September 27, 2024 Jerry Coyne Why Evolution Is True

• When Paleontologists Let Turtles Fly

  September 27, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• News Update/Commentary

  Forest loss forces langur species to interbreed

  September 27, 2024 Deutsches Primatenzentrum (DPZ)/German Primate Center Science Daily

  In mixed groups of these two species, hybrids have been found and genetically confirmed. If hybridization continues, it could mean the extinction of one or both species.

• News Update/Commentary

  Researchers discover what hinders DNA repair in patients with Huntington's Disease

  September 27, 2024 McMaster University Science Daily

  Researchers have found that the protein mutated in patients with Huntington's disease doesn't repair DNA as intended, impacting the ability of brain cells to heal themselves.

• Picture Imperfect

  September 26, 2024 Charles Piller Science

  Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent neuroscientist and top NIH official, fall under suspicion

• Richard Dawkins Keeps Shrinking

  September 26, 2024 Ross Andersen The Atlantic

  For nearly five decades, Richard Dawkins has enjoyed a global fame rarely achieved by scientists. He has adapted his swaggering Oxbridge eloquence to a variety of media ecosystems.

• In a new manifesto, OpenAI’s Sam Altman envisions an AI utopia

  September 26, 2024 Hallam Stevens The Conversation

  and reveals glaring blind spots