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• The astrophysicist who may be about to discover how the universe began

  September 23, 2024 Jonathan O’Callaghan New Scientist

  Astronomer Jo Dunkley is planning to use the Simons Observatory to snare evidence for inflation, the theory that the universe expanded at incredible speed after its birth

• Convergent Evolution Is a Theory Rescue Device, Not an Explanation

  September 23, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  New experimental work only explains the loss of similar structures, not their origin

• The Fine-Tuned Balance of Trace Elements for Marine Life

  September 23, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Oceanic Design

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  Interdisciplinary Origin of Life Meeting

  September 23, 2024 University of Strasbourg (France)

  to exchange ideas across different disciplines relevant to understanding the origin and nature of living systems, and to stimulate discussions and ideas to help guide the future of research on these topics

• Decade-Long Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Darwinian Evolution

  September 22, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• God and Time

  September 21, 2024 Natalja Deng Philosophy Compass, v.19, n.9-10

  This article introduces the reader to contemporary philosophical research on God and time, without presupposing any familiarity with either philosophy of religion or philosophy of time.

• Earth Had a Ring 466 Million Years Ago

  September 20, 2024 Becky Ferreira New York Times

  Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a new study suggests.

• Bacteria on the space station are evolving for life in space

  September 20, 2024 James Woodford New Scientist

  Genetic analysis shows that microbes growing inside the International Space Station have adaptations for radiation and low gravity, and may pose a threat to astronauts

• Is Assembling Life Like Assembling LEGOs?

  September 20, 2024 Robert Shedinger Evolution News & Science Today

• Update on the Dubious Nature of the Precambrian Gabonionta

  September 20, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Challenges to the Evolutionary Origins of the Glycolytic Pathway

  September 20, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Time, Black Holes, and the Cosmos

  September 20, 2024 Roger Penrose YouTube

  Penrose joins Brian Greene to explore some of his most iconic insights into the nature of time, black holes, and cosmological evolution.

• Video

  Schrödinger's Cat is Conscious and that Changes Everything

  September 20, 2024 Bernardo Kastrup YouTube

  why the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment is often misunderstood. The cat is not dead and alive at the same time, because it is conscious itself, and consciousness as we know it only perceives nature in a defined state.

• Deep Time Requires Biased Explanations

  September 19, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  In two recent cases, belief in deep time shuts the door to possible solutions to puzzling observations.

• Optimization: A Theoretical Principle That Is Predictive for Biology

  September 19, 2024 Emily Reeves Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Metaphysics vs. Materialism

  September 19, 2024 Raymond Tallis YouTube

  Metaphysics asks the most profound questions, then uses sophisticated philosophical analysis to seek the deepest truths. What happens when metaphysics trains its analytical guns on ‘materialism’, the claim that only the physical is real?

• News Update/Commentary

  Researchers publish breakthrough study on how new genes evolve

  September 19, 2024 University of Arkansas Science Daily

  Findings suggest that new genes can form by repurposing fragments of ancestral genes while incorporating entirely new coding regions (the protein-coding parts of the DNA).

• Quantum collapse holds the key to consciousness

  September 19, 2024 Stuart Hameroff iai News

  How consciousness is a quantum symphony

• Ice Skater

  September 19, 2024 Robin George Andrews Science

  Beneath Europa’s icy crust is a salty ocean, perhaps the best place in the Solar System to look for life. A NASA spacecraft will soon set off to probe the jovian moon

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The evolutionary history of wild and domestic brown rats (Rattus norvegicus)

  September 19, 2024 Jason Munshi-South, et al. Science, v.385, n.6715, p.1292-1297

  gaps remain in understanding the evolution of brown rat commensalism, their global dispersal, and mechanisms underlying contemporary adaptations to diverse environments

• Decade-Long Study: No Evidence Found for Darwinian Evolution

  September 19, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict

• The cactus family’s surprising evolutionary journey

  September 19, 2024 Penny Sarchet New Scientist

  We are finally untangling the ancient history of the cactus family, revealing some surprising forces that shaped these plants -- and prompting concern for their future

• An Incredible Organism Is Evolving at Lightning Speed -- Faster Than We Ever Imagined Possible

  September 18, 2024 Darren Orf Popular Mechanics

  Rip up the old rules of biology.

• Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered

  September 18, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  Particles of light can spend “negative time" passing through a cloud of extremely cold atoms – without breaking the laws of physics

• Video

  Life: A History of Mergers

  September 18, 2024 James McInerney YouTube

  the tangled evolutionary history of life on Earth, exploring the pivotal role of symbiosis, horizontal gene transfer and the merging of evolving objects with other evolving objects, and how this has shaped the living world.

• Video

  Consciousness, Physics, and the Mind-Body Problem

  September 18, 2024 David Papineau YouTube

  How do conscious states relate to the rest of reality? Do all animals deserve moral consideration? Can AI be conscious? Philosopher discusses the nature of consciousness, the mind-body problem, physicalism versus materialism

• News Update/Commentary

  Silencing in action: How cells ‘repress' genomic remnants of ancient viruses

  September 18, 2024 European Molecular Biology Laboratory Science Daily

  Researchers have identified key cellular control sites that regulate gene expression and prevent the activation of ‘cryptic' genomic regions, including ancient viral sequences

• Big Jets Challenge Cosmology

  September 18, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Twin jets from a black hole are too big for theory

• Epigenetic Clocks Continue to Tick Over Multiple Lifetimes

  September 17, 2024 Hannah Thomasy The Scientist

  Murine T cells that survived at least four host lifetimes offer insights into immunological senescence.

• Water Is a Problem

  September 17, 2024 Howard Glicksman Evolution News & Science Today

  and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

• Video

  Argument from Improbability Fallacy

  September 17, 2024 AronRa YouTube

• Video

  The last woolly mammoths and Noah's Flood

  September 17, 2024 Biblical Genetics YouTube

  Recently, the genomes of multiple mammoths from the last surviving population were sequenced. The scientists concluded the population was founded by 8 or fewer individuals and only 1 mitochondrial lineage was among them.

• 7 Famous Fossil Hoaxes

  September 17, 2024 Mikael Angelo Francisco nautil.us

  How scientists over history excavated the fakes.

• The Mammalian Inner Ear is a Striking Example of Convergent Evolution

  September 17, 2024 Nicole Grunstra and Anne Le Maître University of Vienna

  An Unexpected Result

• Problem-solving matter

  September 17, 2024 David C. Krakaueris and Chris Kempesis Aeon

  Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process

• reverse engineering evolution’s optimal beauty

  September 17, 2024 Richard Dawkins Big Think

  Some biologists believe natural selection produces animals that are just good enough. Dawkins disagrees.

• News Update/Commentary

  More black holes than expected in the early universe

  September 17, 2024 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Science Daily

  an international team of scientists has found more black holes in the early universe than has previously been reported. The new result can help scientists understand how supermassive black holes were created.

• News Update/Commentary

  An unexpected result: The mammalian inner ear is a striking example of convergent evolution

  September 17, 2024 University of Vienna Science Daily

  Mammals with distant evolutionary ties but similar ecological roles evolved comparable inner ear shapes

• Can Plants See? A Shape-Shifting Plant Raises the Question

  September 17, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  If it can’t see, how does it copy the leaves of any one of a number of plants growing nearby?

• Our reality seems to be compatible with a quantum multiverse

  September 17, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  Even though the strange behaviour we observe in the quantum realm isn’t part of our daily lives, simulations suggest it is likely our reality could be one of the many worlds in a quantum multiverse

• From Sandstone Basin to Stonehenge Altar

  September 16, 2024 Rebecca Owen Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  New research unearths the Scottish origin of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone and its 750-kilometer journey to Salisbury Plain.

• Long Live the RNA

  September 16, 2024 Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga The Scientist

  In the mouse brain, nuclear RNAs can last for years with some of them potentially helping to maintain genome integrity.

• There Might Be More Than One Way to Make a Planet

  September 16, 2024 Katrina Miller New York Times

  Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more top down than bottom up.

• Blog Post

  The Consciousness Panel

  September 16, 2024 John Horgan

  “Conscious Collaboration for Global Transformation” hosted by health/spirituality mogul Deepak Chopra. ... I moderated a panel in which Chopra and four other speakers talked about how the universe consists primarily not of matter but of consciousness

• The AI expert who says artificial general intelligence is nonsense

  September 16, 2024 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  Artificial intelligence has more in common with ants than humans, says Neil Lawrence. Only by taking a more nuanced view of intelligence can we see how machines will truly transform society

• News Update/Commentary

  New insights into DNA organization during embryonic development

  September 16, 2024 Hubrecht Institute Science Daily

  When an embryo is first formed after fertilization, each cell has the potential to become any cell type of the body. The researchers have studied the spatial organization of DNA that is so particular to these early developmental stages.

• How Cells Harness Disorder for Function

  September 16, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

  Embrace the Chaos

• Split-Brain Research Confirms Unity of the Human Mind

  September 16, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Evolution's Hypothetical Last Universal Common Ancestor

  September 16, 2024 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Where did viruses come from? AlphaFold and other AIs are finding answers

  September 16, 2024 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Protein structures predicted by artificial intelligence have charted the evolution of the virus family responsible for dengue and hepatitis C.