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• News Update/Commentary

  Fish adjust reproduction in response to predators

  July 19, 2024 University of Texas, Arlington Science Daily

  Some species of fish can evolve their egg-laying habits in response to predators in the area in order to survive, according to new research.

• News Update/Commentary

  New snake discovery rewrites history, points to North America's role in snake evolution

  July 19, 2024 University of Alberta Science Daily

  Ancient snakes unearthed: shedding light on the continent's slithering past

• When Dogs and Pet Pigs Both Heard Humans Cry, What Happened?

  July 19, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Have humans changed dogs’ behavior over thousands of years of domestication?

• Let Him Who Would “Represent" Science Beware...

  July 19, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  James B. Meigs looks at Anthony Fauci’s new book, On Call, asking what happened? What turned the highly esteemed doctor into a scheming authoritarian?

• Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

  July 19, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Urgent action needed as malaria resists key drug

  July 18, 2024 James Gallagher BBC

  Millions of lives are at risk unless urgent and radical action is taken to stop drug-resistant malaria spreading in Africa, scientists warn.

• Are animals conscious? We’re finally realising that many species are

  July 18, 2024 Penny Sarchet New Scientist

  Science is at last confirming what many people have long suspected -- that mammals, birds and perhaps some invertebrates have elements of consciousness

• Will physics ever explain consciousness?

  July 18, 2024 William Reville The Irish Times

  We may be pushing physicalism too far in asking it to account for the mind, as this ignores the primacy of perception

• The Universe is not a closed system

  July 18, 2024 Karim Thébault iai News

  Opening up quantum cosmology

• Dogs might have evolved to read your emotions

  July 18, 2024 Freda Kreier Nature

  Emotional contagion between humans and canines comes from centuries of selective breeding, suggests a comparison with pet pigs.

• News Update/Commentary

  Using AI to scrutinize, validate theories on animal evolution

  July 18, 2024 Ohio State University Science Daily

  Study finds distinct ecologies set amphibian cousins apart

• News Update/Commentary

  Hundreds of new genome sequences fill gaps in the fruit fly tree of life

  July 18, 2024 Public Library of Science Science Daily

  Researchers used a hybrid approach to sequence DNA from individual wild flies and museum specimens

• News Update/Commentary

  Small animals acquire genes from bacteria that can produce antibiotics

  July 18, 2024 Marine Biological Laboratory Science Daily

  A group of small, freshwater animals (bdelloid rotifers) protect themselves from infections using antibiotic recipes ‘stolen' from bacteria, according to new research.

• The Properties of Water Point to Intelligent Design

  July 18, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• Study Finds Life’s Origin “Required a Surprisingly Short Interval of Geologic Time”

  July 18, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• The Odds That Aliens Exist Just Got Worse

  July 17, 2024 Marcia Bjornerud nautil.us

  How geology resolves the Fermi paradox.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Circular at the very beginning: on the initial genomes in the RNA world

  July 17, 2024 Yufan Luo, Minglun Liang, Chunwu Yu, and Wentao Ma RNA Biology, v.21, n.1

  It is likely that an RNA world existed in early life, when RNA played both the roles of the genome and functional molecules, thereby undergoing Darwinian evolution.

• Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life

  July 17, 2024 Hannah Devlin The Guardian

  Separate teams find evidence of phosphine and ammonia, potential biomarkers on planet whose surface reaches 450C

• News Update/Commentary

  Research tracks 66 million years of mammalian diversity

  July 17, 2024 University of Nebraska, Lincoln Science Daily

  New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and species diversity on the North American continent.

• News Update/Commentary

  Ancient viruses fuel modern-day cancers

  July 17, 2024 University of Colorado, Boulder Science Daily

  Therapies to silence ‘endogenous retroviruses' could make cancer treatments work better

• Three Genuine Tells of Junk Science

  July 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today

• The Magician’s Twin

  July 16, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  a conversation with Stephen Meyer, James Orr, and David Berlinski

• Will Religion Survive Alien Contact?

  July 16, 2024 Keith Cooper and Natalie Patane Supercluster

  Would your faith be challenged by the discovery of extraterrestrial life?

• The drugs of the future are in the animals of the past

  July 16, 2024 Max G. Levy Sequencer

  The genomes of extinct creatures like mammoths and giant sloths code for natural antibiotics we’ve never seen. So, now what?

• AI makes human-like reasoning mistakes

  July 16, 2024 PNAS Nexus, v.3, n.7, p.233 EurekAlert!

  Large language models (LMs) can complete abstract reasoning tasks, but they are susceptible to many of the same types of mistakes made by humans.

• Video

  How Earth Was Designed for Technological Advancement

  July 16, 2024 Discovery Science YouTube

  Physicist Brian Miller discusses the amazing ways the universe and the Earth were designed to enable technological advancement. This lecture was taped at the 2024 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith sponsored by Discovery Institute.

• Video

  Sand Injectites: Evidence supporting a young geosphere

  July 16, 2024 Creation Unfolding YouTube

  Ken Coulson uses sand injectites to show that the young-age creationist position has scientific merit

• Moon of Saturn has an equivalent of freshwater rivers and salty oceans

  July 16, 2024 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  The liquid hydrocarbon seas, lakes and rivers on Titan have varying compositions and signs of active tides or currents

• News Update/Commentary

  Ancient microbes offer clues to how complex life evolved

  July 16, 2024 Queen Mary University of London Science Daily

  Microbes shed light on how our single-celled ancestors mixed viral DNA into their own genetic code

• Animals Teach Engineers How to Manage Light

  July 16, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Tricks for light-gathering and sharp focus come from observing nature

• On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation

  July 16, 2024 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Consciousness -- At Odds with the Flesh

  July 16, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Genetic diversity accelerates canine distemper virus adaptation to ferrets

  July 15, 2024 Oliver Siering, et al. Journal of Virology, v.98, n.8

  RNA viruses adapt rapidly to new host environments by generating highly diverse genome sets, so-called “quasispecies.” Minor genetic variants promote their rapid adaptation, allowing for the emergence of drug-resistance or immune-escape mutants.

• Serpents of the people: how a religious festival helps me to monitor snake behaviour

  July 15, 2024 Francesco Martinelli Nature

  Ernesto Filippi tracks the health of captured specimens thanks to a citizen-science project inspired by an ancient ritual.

• Neanderthals Were a Lot More Like Humans than We Realize

  July 15, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Did the Human Heart Evolve from Apes?

  July 15, 2024 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Video

  Is Young-Age Creationism an Embarrassment?

  July 15, 2024 Let's Talk Creation YouTube

  Centuries ago, Augustine of Hippo said it was “disgraceful and dangerous" for a nonbeliever to hear Christians spouting nonsense about science. Today, as young age creationists work to promote their views, many Christians think we're an embarrassment

• A New Neural Network Makes Decisions Like a Human Would

  July 15, 2024 Tess Malone Georgia Institute of Technology

  Humans make nearly 35,000 decisions every day, from whether it’s safe to cross the road to what to have for lunch.

• News Update/Commentary

  New geological datings place the first European hominids in the south of the Iberian Peninsula 1.3 million years ago

  July 15, 2024 University of Barcelona Science Daily

  These results reinforce the hypothesis that humans arrived in Europe through the south of the Iberian Peninsula, through the Strait of Gibraltar, instead of returning to the Mediterranean via the Asian route.

• Human Brain Size Ranks Exceptional

  July 15, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Our brain size relative to body size is unique in the animal kingdom, a new study finds

• When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult

  July 14, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• ‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for alien life

  July 13, 2024 Robin McKie The Guardian

  A conference in the UK this week will outline new developments in a project to look for ‘technosignatures’ of other advanced species

• Video

  Why is Consciousness So Baffling?

  July 13, 2024 Roger Walsh YouTube

  How does consciousness weave its magical web of inner awareness -- appreciating music, enjoying art, feeling love? Even when all mental functions may be explained, the great mystery -- what it ‘feels like’ inside -- will likely remain.

• Mammoth DNA Challenges Assumed Age

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

  Intact chromosomes from a woolly mammoth: can they really be 52,000 years old?

• Sci-Fi Film Explores Idea That Earth's Life Was Seeded from Space

  July 13, 2024 Gary Varner Mind Matters

  Prometheus 2012 offers an intriguing premise: ancient civilizations were told in mysterious ways of a habitable moon in a distant galaxy (Part 1 of 4)

• More than Just “Bare” Design, Nature Reveals Cosmic Genius

  July 12, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  Jonathan Witt

• Video

  Cosmology in Crisis? Confronting the Hubble Tension

  July 12, 2024 Wendy Freedman and Brian Greene YouTube

  How fast is the universe expanding? Two prominent approaches are finding different answers

• Is peer review failing its peer review?

  July 12, 2024 First Principles

• Snowball Earth could have kick-started multicellular life

  July 12, 2024 David Adam Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  The arrival of multicellularity around 700 million years ago was one of the most significant steps in the evolution of life. Yet, it’s not clear why and how this happened.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Onset of coupled atmosphere-ocean oxygenation 2.3 billion years ago

  July 12, 2024 Chadlin M. Ostrander, et al. Nature, v.631, p.335-339

  The initial rise of molecular oxygen (O₂) shortly after the Archaean-Proterozoic transition 2.5 billion years ago was more complex than the single step-change once envisioned.