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• News Update/Commentary

  How epigenetics influence memory formation

  July 25, 2024 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Science Daily

  In an important study for understanding how memories are made, scientists show that the flexibility of packaged DNA plays a crucial role in ‘deciding' which neurons are involved in forming a specific memory.

• News Update/Commentary

  Size doesn't matter for mammals with more complex brains

  July 25, 2024 University of Bath Science Daily

  Mammals that have evolved more developed brains tend to have a smaller size difference between males and females of that species, according to new research.

• Heart Attack Doctor: Science Shows That Death Is Not the End

  July 25, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Sam Parnia began by wondering how brain cells can give rise to thoughts. He came to see that the message “from science” was not what he had been led to expect

• On Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks

  July 25, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  the Scientific Literature Supports Stephen Meyer

• News Update/Commentary

  Ancient marine animal had inventive past despite being represented by few species

  July 25, 2024 University of Bristol Science Daily

  Brachiopods were evolving in new directions but this did not turn into evolutionary success in terms of the numbers of species, researchers have found.

• Jurassic fossil juvenile reveals prolonged life history in early mammals

  July 24, 2024 Elsa Panciroli, et al. Nature, v.632, p.815-822

  Living mammal groups exhibit rapid juvenile growth with a cessation of growth in adulthood. Understanding the emergence of this pattern in the earliest mammaliaforms is hindered by a paucity of fossils representing juvenile individuals.

• ‘Gene misbehaviour' widespread in healthy population

  July 24, 2024 Sanger Institute

  New insights into the prevalence and mechanisms of gene misexpression in a healthy population could help in diagnosing and developing treatments for complex diseases.

• Sizes of Galaxies in JWST Data Suggest New Cosmology

  July 24, 2024 Jason Lisle Answers Research Journal, v.17, p.445-457

• Early mammal could help answer one of biology’s biggest question

  July 24, 2024 Nicola Davis The Guardian

  Krusatodon kirtlingtonensis, which lived 166m years ago, ‘a piece of the puzzle’ explaining mammals’ success

• The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life

  July 24, 2024 Veronique Greenwood Quanta Magazine

  When seawater gets cold, it gets viscous. This fact could explain how single-celled ocean creatures became multicellular when the planet was frozen during “Snowball Earth,” according to experiments.

• Book

  The Fascinating Story of Math in a Book You Can Actually Understand

  July 24, 2024 Alec Wilkinson New York Times

  “The Secret Lives of Numbers,” by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell, highlights overlooked contributions to the field by ancient thinkers, non-Westerners and women. | See Also Amazon

• This glowing speck is a freezing exoplanet six times the size of Jupiter

  July 24, 2024 Davide Castelvecchi Nature

  One of the closest extrasolar planets to our Solar System is the most frigid ever to be directly imaged.

• AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense

  July 24, 2024 Elizabeth Gibney Nature

  Researchers gave successive versions of a large language model information produced by previous generations of the AI -- and observed rapid collapse.

• An Inference to Intelligent Design Is Independent of Any Religious Claim

  July 24, 2024 Michael Denton Evolution News & Science Today

  in the case of water

• Stephen Meyer’s Extensive Treatment of Evo-Devo

  July 24, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Directed evolution of material-producing microorganisms

  July 23, 2024 Julie M. Laurent, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  we utilized a high-throughput microfluidic technology that enabled the evolution of a cellulose-producing bacterium toward variants that synthesize 54 to 70% more material than native species

• Forget the Tree of Life, meet the Network of Life

  July 23, 2024 Lucy Jolin and Kat Brown University of Cambridge

  a new model that is about to change everything you think you know about the principles of evolution

• Magic Mushrooms May Have Shaped Our Consciousness

  July 23, 2024 Manasee Wagh Popular Mechanics

  The psychedelic compound psilocybin has played a role in hominid lives and perceptions for millions of years.

• DNA language model GROVER learns sequence context in the human genome

  July 23, 2024 Melissa Sanabria, Jonas Hirsch, Pierre M. Joubert, and Anna R. Poetsch Nature Machine Intelligence

  Deep-learning models that learn a sense of language on DNA have achieved a high level of performance on genome biological tasks. Genome sequences follow rules similar to natural language but are distinct in the absence of a concept of words.

• What a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Mean for Science

  July 23, 2024 Max Kozlov, Mariana Lenharo, Jeff Tollefson, and Nature magazine Scientific American

  As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency

• Want to cook like a Neanderthal? Archaeologists are learning the secrets

  July 23, 2024 Jennifer Ouellette ars technica

  There were distinct patterns of cut marks, bone breakage in cooked vs. uncooked birds.

• News Update/Commentary

  Taco-shaped arthropod fossils gives new insights into the history of the first mandibulates

  July 23, 2024 Royal Ontario Museum Science Daily

  Exceptional fossils show how mandibulates were trapping prey in marine ecosystems 500 million years ago

• News Update/Commentary

  Eyes for Love: male dragonfishes grow larger eyes than the females they seek

  July 23, 2024 Boston College Science Daily

  The eyes of the male dragonfish grow larger for mate seeking, a sexual dimorphism that makes the dragonfish an anomaly in vertebrate evolution, researchers report.

• Eminent Biologist Gerd Müller Responds to Stephen Meyer’s Arguments

  July 23, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  from the Joe Rogan Podcast

• Mammals Master Physics

  July 23, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

  Hippos, Cheetahs, Bats

• Deep-sea discovery calls into question origins of life

  July 23, 2024 Euan Paterson Scottish Association for Marine Science

  A discovery in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean is challenging the scientific consensus of how oxygen is produced and has even called into question how life on Earth began.

• Why did Homo sapiens outlast all other human species?

  July 22, 2024 Mindy Weisberger Live Science

  What's the secret to Homo sapiens' success as a species?

• Scientists discover ‘dark’ oxygen

  July 22, 2024 Katie Hunt CNN

  produced more than 13,000 feet below the ocean surface

• Chimpanzees gesture back and forth quickly like in human conversations

  July 22, 2024 Cell Press EurekAlert!

  “We found that the timing of chimpanzee gesture and human conversational turn-taking is similar and very fast, which suggests that similar evolutionary mechanisms are driving these social, communicative interactions”

• Mystery oxygen source discovered on the sea floor -- bewildering scientists

  July 22, 2024 Davide Castelvecchi Nature

  A chemical reaction could be producing oxygen by splitting water molecules, but its source of energy remains unknown.

• Video

  What Was Lucy’s Impact on Our Understanding of Other Australopith Relatives?

  July 22, 2024 University of California Television YouTube

  In 1974, understanding early human evolution was limited. Lucy's discovery provided insights into one early hominin, while her species, Australopithecus afarensis, revealed broader patterns.

• Video

  God is Returning to Science?

  July 22, 2024 Stephen Meyer YouTube

  Justin Brierley interviews controversial philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, about his recent book “Return of the God Hypothesis". Stephen shares the latest advances in the field of “Intelligent Design"

• Video

  God of the Gaps: A Response

  July 22, 2024 Judaism Demystified YouTube

  William Lane Craig offers a more extended response to the typical “God of the Gaps” objection to belief in God!

• A Billion-Year Evolutionary Tale

  July 22, 2024 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Shock discovery reveals deep sea nodules are a source of oxygen

  July 22, 2024 Madeleine Cuff New Scientist

  Sea-floor nodules raise oxygen levels in the deep ocean, suggesting they may have a valuable role in ecosystems and adding to concerns about the impact of deep-sea mining

• News Update/Commentary

  Ore-some: New date for Earth's largest iron deposits offers clues for future exploration

  July 22, 2024 Curtin University Science Daily

  Research reveals that Earth's largest iron ore deposits -- in the Hamersley Province of Western Australia -- are about one billion years younger than previously believed

• Writing by Hand Is Good for the Brain. What Does That Say About ChatGPT?

  July 22, 2024 Peter Biles Mind Matters

  Nothing can replace pen and paper

• Snowball Earth Is a Death Trap

  July 22, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Evolutionists’ myth of a past “Snowball Earth” that melted has a dead-end problem

• On Intelligent Design, Dr. Dan Appears to Equivocate

  July 22, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today

• Australia’s largest iron ore deposits are 1 billion years younger than we thought

  July 22, 2024 Liam Courtney-Davies The Conversation

  Iron ore is the key ingredient in steel production. Western Australia is home to some of Earth’s largest iron ore deposits. Yet despite the metal’s significance, we still don’t know exactly how and when iron deposits formed within the continent.

• Video

  The Ark and the Darkness

  July 21, 2024 Genesis Apologetics YouTube

  The leading evidences for Noah's Flood!

• The History of Peer Review Is More Interesting Than You Think

  July 21, 2024 Matthew Wills JSTOR Daily

  The term “peer review” was coined in the 1970s, but the referee principle is usually assumed to be as old as the scientific enterprise itself. (It isn’t.)

• More on the Panda’s Thumb: Imperfection or Masterpiece?

  July 21, 2024 Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Evolution & Intelligent Design

  July 20, 2024 Michael Beverly YouTube

  a moderated discussion between Jay Bundy and Michael Behe around the topic of evolution, irreducible complexity, intelligent design, and Darwinism

• What We Can Learn from the Crowdstrike Fiasco

  July 20, 2024 Jonathan Bartlett Mind Matters

  A lot of things that we try to do to remove risk actually make the problem worse — but also less visible

• Tech Hype Watch: Do Chatbots Really Understand Things?

  July 20, 2024 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  Well-known author Robert Wright believes they do but he misunderstands how computers work

• Can Consciousness Exist in a Computer Simulation?

  July 19, 2024 Wanja Wiese Ruhr-Universität Bochum

  which conditions must be met for consciousness to exist. At least one of them can’t be found in a computer.

• Neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik on whether lab-grown brains will achieve consciousness

  July 19, 2024 Emily Cooke Live Science

  So much is still unknown about consciousness, nevermind whether brain organoids will achieve it, explains a leading neuroscientist.

• Video

  What Creates Consciousness?

  July 19, 2024 World Science Festival YouTube

  Renowned researchers David Chalmers and Anil Seth join Brian Greene to explore how far science and philosophy have gone toward explaining the greatest of all mysteries, consciousness -- and whether artificially intelligent systems may one day possess it.

• Video

  New discoveries in human origins

  July 19, 2024 Lee Berger YouTube

  Numerous traces of this species were found in an underground chamber in Dinaledi, leading to the conclusion that it served as a burial site -- a ritual previously thought to be exclusively human. Subsequent evidence of stone tools and even the use of fire