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• Denisovan DNA may help modern humans adapt to different environments

  July 12, 2024 Sophie Berdugo New Scientist

  Highland and lowland populations in Papua New Guinea have different gene variants derived from Denisovan archaic humans, indicating possible adaptations for lower oxygen levels and higher malaria risk

• Blog Post

  The “Horgan Surface” and “The Death of Proof”

  July 12, 2024 John Horgan

  Behold the Horgan surface! Actually, it is only a pseudo-surface, because it has gaps, as the image below reveals. But the image below that is a genuine surface, the “triply periodic Horgan surface.”

• The chemical roots of consciousness

  July 12, 2024 Addy Pross iai News

  Mind and consciousness have a physical basis

• Has Life on Earth Survived More Than Five Mass Extinctions?

  July 12, 2024 Riley Black Smithsonian Magazine

  Scientists aren’t just arguing whether humans are causing a sixth mass extinction event now, but whether many more occurred in the past

• Blog Post

  Building a Better Definition of Intelligent Design

  July 12, 2024 Bill Dembski

  A proposal for a new information-based definition of intelligent design

• Gobsmacking Study Finds Life on Earth Emerged 4.2 Billion Years Ago

  July 12, 2024 Michelle Starr Science Alert

  Once upon a time, Earth was barren. Everything changed when, somehow, out of the chemistry available early in our planet's history, something started squirming -- processing available matter to survive, to breed, to thrive.

• Humans and Neanderthals Had a Longer, More Intertwined Relationship Than We Thought

  July 12, 2024 Michelle Starr Science Alert

  Neanderthals and modern humans had a fascinatingly intertwined past. We know, from studies of our own DNA, that when the paths of the two species crossed, things could get more than a little steamy.

• We are not machines

  July 12, 2024 Philip Ball Aeon

  Welcome to the new post-genomic biology: a transformative era in need of fresh metaphors to understand how life works

• Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought

  July 12, 2024 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  All life on Earth can trace its origin to LUCA, the last universal common ancestor -- and now it seems this organism may have lived a few hundred million years after the planet formed

• News Update/Commentary

  How the ‘heart and lungs' of a galaxy extend its life

  July 12, 2024 Royal Astronomical Society Science Daily

  Galaxies avoid an early death because they have a ‘heart and lungs' which effectively regulate their ‘breathing' and prevent them growing out of control. If they didn't, the universe would have aged much faster than it has

• News Update/Commentary

  How domestic rabbits become feral in the wild

  July 12, 2024 Texas A&M University Science Daily

  After sequencing the genomes of nearly 300 rabbits from Europe, South America, and Oceania, researchers found that all of them had a mix of feral and domestic DNA. They say this was not what they had expected to find.

• Natural selection drives emergent genetic homogeneity in a century-scale experiment with barley

  July 12, 2024 Jacob B. Landis, et al. Science, v.385, n.6705

  Crops have been radically altered both by artificial selection for traits of interest and by natural selection from being forced to adapt to new environments. However, the speed and overall dynamics of these processes are difficult to determine

• Recurrent gene flow between Neanderthals and modern humans over the past 200,000 years

  July 12, 2024 Liming Li, Troy J. Comi, Rob F. Bierman, and Joshua M. Akey Science, v.385, n.6705

  Our understanding of admixture between humans and Neanderthals has changed dramatically over the past decade and a half. Once thought not to have occurred at all, there is now ample evidence for gene flow

• Video

  Thinking God's Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and Cosmic Comprehensibility

  July 12, 2024 Melissa Cain Travis YouTube

  This lecture was taped at the 2024 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith sponsored by Discovery Institute.

• Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

  July 12, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• The most ancient human genome yet has been sequenced -- and it’s a Denisovan’s

  July 11, 2024 Ann Gibbons Science

  200,000-year-old DNA from Siberian cave shows our elusive, extinct cousins mated repeatedly with Neanderthals

• Video

  William Lane Craig is Wrong About Evolution’s Theology

  July 11, 2024 Darwin's God YouTube

  William Lane Craig says evolution is theologically neutral. This video describes why he is wrong.

• Mitochondria May Have Been Wrongly Accused in DNA Damage

  July 11, 2024 Shelby Bradford The Scientist

  Reactive oxygen species cause mutations to DNA bases that can lead to cancer, but the long-blamed mitochondria could have been wrongfully charged.

• Recent Paleontological Discoveries Are Just What Creationists Predict

  July 11, 2024 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• First fossil chromosomes discovered in freeze-dried mammoth skin

  July 11, 2024 Giorgia Guglielmi Nature

  The 3D arrangement of the DNA in the animal’s cells hints at which genes were active.

• Stunning 3D chromosomes in frozen mammoths may help resurrect the beasts

  July 11, 2024 Richard Stone Science

  “New type of fossil” found in 52,000-year-old carcass

• Neanderthals and modern humans mingled early and often

  July 11, 2024 Ann Gibbons Science

  Ancient DNA study gives a Neanderthal-eye view of prehistory, offers clues to how our cousins vanished

• World science and Indigenous knowledge

  July 11, 2024 Rex Ahdar, et al. Science, v.385, n.6705, p.151-152

• Evolutionary Psychology Refutes Itself

  July 11, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Why intelligent PhD psychologists cannot see this implicates Darwinism as a logic-destroying mind virus

• Can Free Will and Predestination Both Be True?

  July 11, 2024 Robert J. Marks Mind Matters

  Seemingly contradictory arguments can sometimes be resolved from a higher level perspective. Quantum mechanics vs. classical physics provides an illustration

• How Science Can Slowly Morph Into Junk. Or Not.

  July 11, 2024 Mind Matters

  Science can become entangled in many things -- politics and the self-interest of funding sources, for example -- and chatbots will likely make things worse

• Evolutionary Icon, or an Example of Preprogrammed Adaptation?

  July 11, 2024 Emily Reeves Evolution News & Science Today

  Blind Cavefish

• Springs, Glues, and Rocket Launchers in Cell Division

  July 11, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• A roadmap towards the synthesis of Life

  July 10, 2024 Christine Kriebisch, et al. Desafiando a Nomenklatura Cientifica

• Stars hint at an unusual black hole lurking in our Galaxy

  July 10, 2024 Davide Castelvecchi Nature

  Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope point to an elusive intermediate-size black hole in the star cluster ω Centauri.

• Speedy stars blow the cover of hidden black hole

  July 10, 2024 Daryl Haggard and Adrienne Cool Nature

  Fast-moving stars have been discovered in the middle of the nearby star cluster ω Centauri using two decades of Hubble Space Telescope imaging. The stars offer evidence of a long-sought intermediate-mass black hole.

• Multiple plague outbreaks in a Neolithic family give clues to prehistoric population dip

  July 10, 2024 Nature

  A reconstruction of the occurrence of plague in a large family tree from Neolithic Sweden indicates that 12 of 38 family members were infected -- a potential explanation for a mysterious collapse in northern Europe’s population five millennia ago.

• Animals use physics? Let us count the ways

  July 10, 2024 Tom Siegfried knowable magazine

  Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how.

• Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell.

  July 10, 2024 Lindsey Laughlin ars technica

  Scientists struggle to define consciousness, AI or otherwise.

• Why consciousness may have evolved to benefit society rather than individuals

  July 10, 2024 Peter W. Halligan and David A. Oakley The Conversation

  Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement and controversy -- with several rival theories in contention.

• Strange Motion of Neutrons Proves Nature Is Fundamentally Bizarre

  July 10, 2024 Michelle Starr Science Alert

  At the very smallest scales, our intuitive view of reality no longer applies. It's almost as if physics is fundamentally indecisive, a truth that gets harder to ignore as we zoom in on the particles that pixelate our Universe.

• An Internal Contradiction of Lisle’s Anisotropic Synchrony Convention (ASC) Model

  July 10, 2024 Phillip W. Dennis Answers Research Journal, v.17, p.427-433

• Strongest “missing link” in black hole physics discovered at last

  July 10, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  We know of stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but intermediate mass ones have long proved elusive. Until now.

• How a simple physics experiment could reveal the “dark dimension”

  July 10, 2024 Chen Ly New Scientist

  Could the universe's missing matter be hiding in a “dark" extra dimension? We now have simple ways to test this outlandish idea -- and the existence of extra dimensions more generally

• Video

  Creation in the Heavens: Perceiving God’s Glory through Astronomy

  July 10, 2024 Spike Psarris YouTube

  The Bible says that the heavens declare the glory of God. The Universe’s size and scale proclaims the power and majesty of its Creator -- but what else does astronomy reveal about Creation?

• Ape and Human Y Chromosomes Compared

  July 10, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  New genetic differences attributed to evolution, but evolutionary bias ignores designed function

• High Tech Wizards Are Trying to Create a God in Their Own Image

  July 10, 2024 Robert J. Marks Mind Matters

  Some AI industry figures believe in the coming of the Singularity, wherein machines duplicate and then exceed the abilities of man

• Is Panpsychism Putting Francis Crick's Pack of Neurons to Flight?

  July 10, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Science writer John Horgan remembers Crick in the ‘90s when reductionism was riding high in neuroscience. What’s happened since?

• Dissent from Neo-Darwinism Has Passed a “Tipping Point”

  July 10, 2024 Daniel Witt and David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  Oxford Physiologist Denis Noble

• The Wonder of Sunlight

  July 10, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

  Appreciating the Remarkable Coincidences that Make Life Possible

• When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’

  July 9, 2024 Lonni Besançon, Guillaume Cabanac, and Thierry Viéville The Conversation

  A researcher working alone -- apart from the world and the rest of the wider scientific community -- is a classic yet misguided image.

• New Zealand Has a Unique Fossil Record Named FRED

  July 9, 2024 Kate Evans Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  The near-complete database reflects a spirit of trust and collaboration among the country’s scientific community -- but will it last?

• Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

  July 9, 2024 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Science Today

• Darwinism Versus the Second Amendment

  July 9, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Arguments against dark matter in the Bullet Cluster fall apart

  July 9, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  The Bullet Cluster has, for nearly 20 years, been hailed as an empirical “proof” of dark matter. Can their detractors explain it away?