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• The mystery of Stonehenge’s central stone unearthed

  August 14, 2024 Nick Petrić Howe and Dan Fox Nature

  A geochemical analysis suggests that Stonehenge’s Altar Stone came from northern Scotland

• Stonehenge’s central rock probably came from Scotland

  August 14, 2024 Nature

  The origins of the stones that make up the ancient monument Stonehenge can provide insights into the connectivity of a Neolithic society in Britain (about 4300 to 2000 BC) that otherwise left no written record.

• A Scottish origin for Stonehenge's Altar Stone

  August 14, 2024 Emily Bates Nature

  Geologists have found the provenance for Stonehenge's central Altar Stone, in the Orcadian Basin in Scotland

• Geology’s biggest mystery: when did plate tectonics start to reshape Earth?

  August 14, 2024 Michael Marshall Nature

  Researchers have spent decades hunting for clues about the origins of the process that moves the continents around. Its deep history is finally starting to come into focus.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Origin and evolution of the bread wheat D genome

  August 14, 2024 Emile Cavalet-Giorsa, et al. Nature

  Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a globally dominant crop and major source of calories and proteins for the human diet. Compared with its wild ancestors, modern bread wheat shows lower genetic diversity

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Astrobiological Potential of Rocks Acquired by the Perseverance Rover at a Sedimentary Fan Front in Jezero Crater, Mars

  August 14, 2024 T. Bosak, et al. AGU Advances, v.5, n.4

  The Perseverance rover has collected seven oriented samples of sedimentary rocks, all likely older than the oldest signs of widespread life on Earth

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A Scottish provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge

  August 14, 2024 Anthony J. I. Clarke, et al. Nature, v.632, p.570-575

  Understanding the provenance of megaliths used in the Neolithic stone circle at Stonehenge, southern England, gives insight into the culture and connectivity of prehistoric Britain.

• News Update/Commentary

  Research shows statistical analysis can detect when ChatGPT is used to cheat on multiple-choice chemistry exams

  August 14, 2024 Florida State University Science Daily

  Research revealed how the use of ChatGPT to cheat on general chemistry multiple-choice exams can be detected through specific statistical methods.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Agency as an Inherent Property of Living Organisms

  August 14, 2024 Bernd Rosslenbroich, Susanna Kümmell, and Benjamin Bembé Biological Theory

• Scientists Capture Clearest Glimpse of How Brain Cells Embody Thought

  August 14, 2024 Hristos S. Courellis, et al. Zuckerman Institute

  Recordings from thousands of neurons reveal how a person’s brain abstractly represents acts of reasoning.

• Scientists Found a 520-Million-Year-Old Miracle: a Fossil with Brains and Guts Intact

  August 14, 2024 Jackie Appel Popular Mechanics

  It’s an unprecedented look into prehistoric anatomy.

• Stonehenge's central rock came from Scotland, study finds -- raising questions about how it got there

  August 14, 2024 Evan Bush NBC News

  By analyzing grains of rock within Stonehenge's “altar stone," researchers determined it was most likely transported from present-day Scotland -- more than 450 miles away.

• Surprising Signs of Neanderthal Adaptability Discovered in Ancient Rock Shelter

  August 14, 2024 Michelle Starr Science Alert

  On an ordinary morning long ago, at the foothills of what are now the Pyrenees of Spain's Iberian Peninsula, a group of Neanderthals woke, greeted the day, and set about their tasks in the growing light.

• Video

  Tectonics of Western North America during the Late Stages of the Biblical Flood

  August 14, 2024 John Baumgardner and Sarah Petersen YouTube

  A significant challenge for the secular earth science community has been accounting for the major tectonic changes in western North America since the mid-Cretaceous part of the rock record.

• News Update/Commentary

  Decoding the world's largest animal genome

  August 14, 2024 University of Konstanz Science Daily

  Scientists have sequenced the largest genome of all animals, the lungfish genome. Their data help to explain how the fish-ancestors of today's land vertebrates were able to conquer land.

• Why the amazing Altamura Man fossil remains a mystery

  August 14, 2024 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  A Neanderthal skeleton was discovered encased in rock in an Italian cave 30 years ago, but it hasn’t been studied much due to a long-running impasse about how to safely excavate it

• An engrossing history of teeth shows their complex role in evolution

  August 14, 2024 Richard Smyth New Scientist

  From birds and bats to horses and great apes, Bill Schutt's seriously fun history of teeth, Bite, explains their role in both shaping evolution and our understanding of it

• Stonehenge’s altar stone was brought all the way from Scotland

  August 14, 2024 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  The nearest source of the altar stone at the centre of Stonehenge has finally been identified -- and it is at least 750 kilometres away in north-east Scotland

• Top astrobiologist explores the possibilities of alien life

  August 14, 2024 Graeme Green New Scientist

  It's time to expect the unexpected, says Natalie Cabrol, one of the world's top astrobiologists and author of an authoritative book on the hunt for life's origins -- and ET

• Hobbit News: Fossil Indicates Homo floresiensis Smaller than Thought

  August 14, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The origin of this people group has nothing to do with evolution

• Geological Habitability Parameters Imply Earth is Special and Advanced Life Extremely Rare

  August 14, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• What Can We Infer About the Source of Life?

  August 14, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Computer Science Prof: The Turing Test Was Not About Intelligence

  August 13, 2024 Mind Matters

  The aim was to pretend intelligence, to fool people. That makes a big difference when we ask whether computers can become intelligent

• Video

  The Bible Does not Teach that the Earth is Flat

  August 13, 2024 Creation Unfolding YouTube

  Although many nominal Christians are flat-earthers, the community is actually quite eclectic. Surprisingly, many conservative, evangelical Christians seem to have been caught up within this growing movement.

• Dawkins and Other Evolutionary Biologists May Be Learning a Hard Lesson

  August 13, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Space telescope data reignite debate over how fast universe is expanding -- and whether ‘new physics' is needed

  August 13, 2024 Daniel Clery Science

  Triple measurement of the Hubble constant using JWST suggests unidentified biases may account for disparate results

• The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology

  August 13, 2024 Liz Kruesi Quanta Magazine

  A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something.

• Study Reveals a Cell-Eat-Cell World

  August 13, 2024 Aparna Nathan The Scientist

  From normal vertebrate development to tumor cell cannibalism, cell-in-cell events occur in many different contexts across the tree of life

• New spin on quantum theory forces rethink of a fundamental physics law

  August 13, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  In the quantum realm, a particle’s properties can be separate from the particle itself, including its angular momentum -- which could require a rethinking of fundamental laws

• When Materialist Assumptions About the Mind Begin To Sound Dated ...

  August 13, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  A 2017 profile of Roger Penrose and his consciousness theory was penned before slow changes and major tumults rocked the discipline -- and it shows

• OOL Research ‘May Have’ Fooled Some People

  August 13, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The phrase “may have” is not scientific. It is a value-laden preference stemming from a prior worldview commitment.

• Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks

  August 12, 2024 Victoria Gill BBC

  The findings come from a new analysis of data from Nasa’s Mars Insight Lander, which touched down on the planet back in 2018.

• Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Until A.I. Got Involved.

  August 12, 2024 Erik Ofgang New York Times

  Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh -- one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field.

• Presence of Liquid Water Most Probable Explanation for Data Collected by Mars Lander

  August 12, 2024 Robert Monroe Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  Researchers infer that stores of water must exist in planet’s crust

• Video

  Science Confirms Biblical Creation | Answering Challenges & Refuting Objections

  August 12, 2024 Jason Lisle YouTube

  You will find thorough answers to many of the common challenges to Creation. These challenges includes distant starlight and dating methods. The viewer will also discover the truth about what the Bible says about the age of the earth and evolution.

• Video

  The Massive Failure of Origin of Life Science

  August 12, 2024 James Tour YouTube

  Has life been created inside of the laboratory? Some scientists say YES, making some believe that God is an unnecessary hypothesis for the existence of life. What does the science actually say?

• Enceladus as a Habitability Test

  August 12, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”

  August 12, 2024 Stephen J. Iacoboni Evolution News & Science Today

• Why We Must Resist Yuval Harari’s “Scientific” Nihilism

  August 12, 2024 Richard Weikart Evolution News & Science Today

  Unalienable Rights, You Say?

• Are the Cosmic Gems the earliest star clusters ever detected?

  August 12, 2024 Lamiya Mowla Nature

  Observations might have uncovered star clusters that existed when the Universe was just 460 million years old. If this timing is accurate, the discovery provides valuable clues about how and when the first stars formed.

• Pompeii archaeologists find bodies of man and woman -- and their treasure

  August 12, 2024 Barbie Latza Nadeau CNN

  The skeletal remains of a man and a woman have been unearthed in Pompeii, along with a cache of coins and precious jewelry, archaeologists say.

• Has the mystery of life’s ‘handedness' finally been cracked?

  August 12, 2024 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  All living creatures use only the left or right-handed forms of certain molecules, and now we might understand why

• Olympics: The Woke Have a Message for Science: Scram

  August 12, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Science no longer has a seat at the High Table. I hope readers will think through the implications of that and what it portends for all of us

• Book

  A Telling of the Scopes Monkey Trial Where Evolution Is Not the Point

  August 11, 2024 Matthew Stewart New York Times

  In “Keeping the Faith,” Brenda Wineapple finds an ongoing battle over the soul of America in a century-old trial. | See Also Amazon

• Not Suffering But Fighting: Dementia As a New Beginning

  August 11, 2024 Mind Matters

  Writers, artists, and many others who must fight the late-life disorder are finding new resources to do so

• An Object Lesson in How Not to Do Science

  August 11, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Blog Post

  Math, God and the Problem of Evil

  August 10, 2024 John Horgan

  This book says the “unreasonable effectiveness” of math is a “miracle.” Hmm, does that mean H-bombs are miracles?

• An Evil Twin Universe Could Be Behind Our Universe's Rapid Expansion

  August 10, 2024 Mike McRae Science Alert

  Maybe gravity starts to misbehave over cosmic scales, or perhaps the roiling of pure emptiness creates some kind of negative pressure we're yet to explain.

• News Update/Commentary

  Bacteria encode hidden genes outside their genome -- do we?

  August 9, 2024 Columbia University Irving Medical Center Science Daily

  A ‘loopy' discovery in bacteria is raising fundamental questions about the makeup of our own genome -- and revealing a potential wellspring of material for new genetic therapies.

• How Sperm Regulate Offspring Health

  August 9, 2024 Deanna MacNeil The Scientist

  A short term high fat diet before fertilization rewires sperm small RNA expression, passing predisposition to metabolic disease onto offspring.