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• ‘Nuclear clock’ breakthrough paves the way for super-precise timekeeping

  September 4, 2024 Elizabeth Gibney Nature

  Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Recurrent evolution and selection shape structural diversity at the amylase locus

  September 4, 2024 Davide Bolognini, et al. Nature

  The adoption of agriculture triggered a rapid shift towards starch-rich diets in human populations.

• Progress on nuclear clocks shows the benefits of escaping from scientific silos

  September 4, 2024 Nature

  Nuclear clocks might soon rival the best atomic ones as supremely accurate timekeepers -- a testament to the value of both competition and cooperation in research.

• Countdown to a nuclear clock

  September 4, 2024 Adriana Pálffy and José R. Crespo López-Urrutia Nature

  An ultra-precise laser synchronized to one of the world’s most precise clocks has been used to excite rapid nuclear oscillations -- promising a timekeeper that could help to tackle fundamental questions about the Universe.

• Humans have evolved to digest starch more easily since the advent of farming

  September 4, 2024 Nature

  The region of the human genome that harbours genes encoding amylase enzymes, which are crucial for starch digestion, shows extensive structural diversity. Amylase genes have been duplicated and deleted several times in human history

• Evolution and creation

  September 4, 2024 Jerry Hopkins Marshall News Messenger

  Evolution is not an empirical science. It is a matter of absolute faith. In fact, it cannot be proven by any exercise of science. It cannot be demonstrated by observation, tested or otherwise verified.

• The Mystery of Consciousness: New Study Challenges ‘Brain-Death’ Narrative

  September 4, 2024 Charles Camosy National Catholic Register

  Contemporary Western cultures insist consciousness resides exclusively in our brains, but an abundance of recent scientific research indicates otherwise.

• The Matkatamiba Fold, Central Grand Canyon, Arizona

  September 4, 2024 Andrew A. Snelling Answers Research Journal, v.17, p.479-611

  Muav Formation beds are bent in the Matkatamiba fold exposed along the Colorado River in central Grand Canyon. Conventional geologists accept that this folding occurred during the Laramide orogeny at ~40–70 ma

• MIT chemists explain why dinosaur collagen may have survived for millions of years

  September 4, 2024 Anne Trafton MIT News

  The researchers identified an atomic-level interaction that prevents peptide bonds from being broken down by water.

• News Update/Commentary

  Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

  September 4, 2024 University of California, Berkeley Science Daily

  New study finds rapid increase over last 12,000 years in genes for enzymes that digest starch

• Similarities Between Vertebrate Limbs Are Best Explained Not by Common Ancestry but by Design

  September 4, 2024 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

• Fruit Is Designed for Life

  September 4, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• A lawsuit claimed that teaching evolution promotes atheism

  September 4, 2024 Kelsey Dallas Deseret News

  Here’s what a federal court said -- Atheists may support the theory of evolution, but that doesn’t mean public school lessons on evolution unlawfully promote atheism

• Video

  We Just Found a Missing Link for Evolution of Animal Life Hiding in a Toxic Lake

  September 4, 2024 Anton Petrov YouTube

  the missing link between single cell and multicellular life -- Barroeca monosierra

• Can we solve quantum theory’s biggest problem by redefining reality?

  September 4, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  With its particles in two places at once, quantum theory strains our common sense notions of how the universe should work. But one group of physicists says we can get reality back if we just redefine its foundations

• Atheist on the Ropes

  September 4, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  Piers Morgan Confronts Richard Dawkins About ID and Stephen Meyer

• Despite new clues, this ancient fish has stumped scientists for centuries

  September 3, 2024 Sean Cummings Science News

  Cross a boomerang, a ribbon and a fish, and you might get Pegasus volans

• How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles

  September 3, 2024 Matt Strassler Quanta Magazine

  In this article adapted from his new book, “Waves in an Impossible Sea," physicist Matt Strassler explains that the origin of mass in the universe has a lot to do with music.

• Should We Worry About Where Transhumanism Is Heading?

  September 3, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Wesley J. Smith asks some hard questions about the moral implications of Zoltan Istvan’s “anything to defeat death” atheist movement

• Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity

  September 3, 2024 Howard Glicksman Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  How cells control gene expression by cleaning up their mistakes

  September 3, 2024 University of Chicago Science Daily

  alternative splicing may have an even greater influence on biology than just by creating new protein isoforms. The biggest impact of alternative splicing may come via its role in regulating gene expression levels.

• Definitions Matter: Rethink Supernaturalism

  September 3, 2024 Ken Keathley The Gospel Coalition

  REVIEW: Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age by Peter Harrison (Cambridge Univ Press, May 2024) | See Also Amazon

• Darwin's Bold Bluff: He Never Demonstrated His Evolution Theory

  September 3, 2024 Denyse O’Leary Mind Matters

  He often promised he would demonstrate it. But, as Robert Shedinger shows, when he didn’t, his supporters decided to just act like he had

• Dark Matter Searches Continue to Fail

  September 3, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The more precise the detectors, the less the evidence for the mysterious unknown stuff

• Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery

  September 3, 2024 Guillermo Gonzalez Evolution News & Science Today

• The ultra-selfish gene

  September 3, 2024 Mathias Kirk Bonde Works in Progress

  We now have the power to genetically modify entire species by inserting certain genes into them with brute force. Doing this to malaria-carrying mosquitoes could allow us to wipe out humanity’s most deadly killer.

• Human-built 5600-year-old submerged bridge found inside cave stuns scientists

  September 3, 2024 Maria Mocerino Interesting Engineering

  Geologists discover an ancient bridge in a cave in Mallorca that shows that humans settled the island as early as 6,000 years ago.

• Belief in alien visits to Earth is spiralling out of control

  September 2, 2024 Tony Milligan The Conversation

  here’s why that’s so dangerous

• What Does the Appendix Do?

  September 2, 2024 Hannah Thomasy and Priyom Bose The Scientist

  The appendix is a small pouch-like organ of evolutionary significance that still triggers curiosity regarding its function.

• Biophysicist Proposes “Spiritual Particle”

  September 2, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Does a “Spiritual Particle” Explain Human Consciousness?

  September 1, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

• A right-handed molecule is coaxed to behave like a left-handed one

  September, 2024 Alex Lopatka Physics Today, v.77, n.9, p.19

  Electrons in a chiral molecule, if excited by ultrafast light pulses, can give the molecule entirely different properties.

• Are Plants Conscious?

  September, 2024 Massimo Pigliucci Skeptical Inquirer, v.48, n.5

  When scientific skeptics think of a purveyor of pseudoscience, they may visualize a somewhat socially awkward dude with a tinfoil hat. Oddly, however, sometimes pseudoscience claims come from credentialed scientists who ought to know better.

• Book

  The Perils of Human Exceptionalism

  September, 2024 Dennis L. Durst Lexington Books

  REVIEW: Elements of a Nineteenth-Century Theological Anthropology | See Also Amazon

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Explanatory gaps in evolutionary theory

  September, 2024 Bendik Hellem Aaby, Gianmaria Dani, and Grant Ramsey Biology & Philosophy, v.39

  Proponents of the extended evolutionary synthesis have argued that there are explanatory gaps in evolutionary biology that cannot be bridged by standard evolutionary theory.

• There Is No Known Evolutionary Rule for Animal Intelligence

  August 31, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Book

  Teleology

  August, 2024 Matthew Tugby Cambridge University Press

  Teleology is about functions, ends, and goals in nature. This Element offers a philosophical examination of these phenomena and aims to reinstate teleology as a core part of the metaphysics of science. | See Also Amazon

• Video

  What Is Assembly Theory?

  August 30, 2024 Sara Walker YouTube

  a groundbreaking way to think about how time shapes the universe, not just by ticking forward but by building complexity step by step. It’s like watching the universe assemble itself, with each moment adding a new layer of intricate design.

• Mining for Neutrinos, and for Cosmic Answers

  August 30, 2024 Joseph Howlett New York Times

  In a South Dakota cavern, scientists are working to capture the most elusive particles in the universe.

• Astronomers puzzled by little red galaxies that seem impossibly dense

  August 30, 2024 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  ‘Little red dot’ galaxies seen by JWST appear to be much more tightly packed with stars than other galaxies, raising big questions about how they came to be this way

• Alfred Wallace’s Views Hold Up Well Today

  August 30, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today

  Unlike Those of His Friendly Rival Charles Darwin

• Are There Rules Governing Which Animals Are Smart?

  August 30, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  A neurologist makes a case for the importance of warm-bloodedness but cold-blooded reptiles can be learn surprisingly quickly

• The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record

  August 30, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Woolly mammoth ‘de-extinction' is nearing reality -- and we have no idea what happens next

  August 30, 2024 Sascha Pare Live Science

  Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing.

• What a submerged ancient bridge reveals about early human settlement

  August 30, 2024 Cassidy Delamarter University of South Florida

  discovered in a Spanish cave

• News Update/Commentary

  A marine sponge microbe provides insights into the evolution of tuberculosis

  August 30, 2024 University of Melbourne Science Daily

  surprising discovery of a bacterium in a marine sponge from the Great Barrier Reef with striking similarity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis (TB)

• News Update/Commentary

  Genomic dark matter solves butterfly evolutionary riddle

  August 30, 2024 George Washington University Science Daily

  New study reveals how an unexpected genetic mechanism influences the evolution of butterfly wing coloration

• Earthworms have ‘completely scrambled’ genomes

  August 30, 2024 Christie Wilcox Science

  Did that enable their ancestors to leave the sea? ... Chaotic rearrangements of chromosomes may have helped leeches swim into fresh water and other worms wriggle onto land

• The race to save fossils exposed by Brazil’s record-setting floods

  August 30, 2024 Meghie Rodrigues Nature

  As intermittent rain continues, palaeontologists in southern Brazil are working to extract dinosaur and other bones before they are damaged.

• Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design

  August 30, 2024 Randy J. Guliuzza Institute for Creation Research

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