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• Video

  Relax and Unwind with the Reversible Molecular Scissors: DNA Topoisomerases

  June 12, 2024 Logos Research Associates YouTube

  The chromosomes of one human cell stretched to full length and placed end to end would be about 2 meters long. How do our cells keep that polymer from becoming entangled? One major player in this story are the enzymes we know as DNA topoisomerases.

• Blog Post

  We need an Constitutional amendment keeping religion out of science

  June 12, 2024 Jerry Coyne Why Evolution Is True

• The second law of thermodynamics underlies nearly everything. But is it inviolable?

  June 12, 2024 Tom Siegfried Science News

  Two centuries on, scientists are still searching for a proof of its universal validity

• Discovering the Functions of Noncoding Sequence Variants

  June 12, 2024 Niki Spahich The Scientist

  Neville Sanjana explored noncoding genomic regions by combining pooled CRISPR screening and single cell sequencing.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Ancient genomes reveal insights into ritual life at Chichén Itzá

  June 12, 2024 Rodrigo Barquera, et al. Nature

  Here we present genome-wide data obtained from 64 subadult individuals dating to around AD 500–900 that were found in a subterranean mass burial near the Sacred Cenote (sinkhole) in the ceremonial centre of Chichén Itzá.

• Ancient DNA from Maya ruins tells story of ritual human sacrifices

  June 12, 2024 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Children sacrificed at Chichén Itzá have genetic links to people living near the ancient Maya city in Mexico, and hint at the effects of colonial-era epidemics.

• Evidence of consciousness in newborns has implications for their care

  June 12, 2024 Claudia Passos-Ferreira New Scientist

  Babies cannot tell us what they are experiencing, so it is hard to know what they are conscious of. But new research suggesting they perceive the world consciously could change how we care for them

• You Just Don’t Understand Evolution!

  June 12, 2024 Calvin Smith Answers in Genesis

  Just who exactly is it that doesn’t understand what?

• University Skeleton and Brain Collections Fueled Darwinian Racism

  June 12, 2024 Jerry Bergman Answers Research Journal, v.17, p.399-402

  Another Evil Fruit of Evolution Revealed

• Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

  June 12, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• If We Doubt That Plants Have Minds, Are We “Soul-Blind”?

  June 11, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The concept of “plant mind” as a trend in science -- a trend consistent with growing panpsychism -- has begun to worry some researchers

• Video

  How Earth Is Designed for Scientific Discovery

  June 11, 2024 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith 2024 YouTube

  Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez and philosopher Jay Richards discuss the unique ways Earth is designed not just for life, but for scientific discovery.

• The first stars in the universe could have formed surprisingly early

  June 11, 2024 Jonathan O’Callaghan New Scientist

  Huge stars might have formed in the first million years of the universe if there was enough matter clumped together, according to a computer model

• Darwin Devotion Detector

  June 11, 2024 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

  Take the Test Now

• Meet our Autumn 2024 Tinker Visiting Professors

  June 11, 2024 The University of Chicago

  Cristóbal Bellolio Badiola is a prominent scholar in normative political theory, focusing on the liberal tradition and its intersections with science, religion, and populism.

• Science profits most when people of faith feel equally welcomed

  June 11, 2024 Denis R. Alexander and Robert S. White Nature

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists spot more Milky Way-like galaxies in early universe

  June 11, 2024 University of Missouri, Columbia Science Daily

  The study advances our understanding of how galaxies were formed.

• Science and religion have profound differences

  June 11, 2024 Rodrigo Hirata Willemart and Antonio Carlos Marques Nature

  they should be kept apart

• Science profits most when people of faith feel equally welcomed

  June 11, 2024 Denis R. Alexander and Robert S. White Nature

• How Do We Know If Something in Nature Is Purposeful?

  June 11, 2024 Mind Matters

  Jonathan Bartlett considered the question recently in Cambridge’s Behavioral and Brain Sciences journal

• Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy

  June 11, 2024 Paul Sutter ars technica

  They hold the keys to new physics. If only we could understand them.

• Why do we have consciousness? Researchers are deeply divided

  June 11, 2024 Ingrid Spilde Science Norway

  But perhaps everyone is somewhat right? A Norwegian professor is attempting to reconcile the seemingly conflicting theories.

• What “naked" singularities are revealing about quantum space-time

  June 11, 2024 Thomas Lewton New Scientist

  Are points of infinite curvature, where general relativity breaks down, always hidden inside black holes? An audacious attempt to find out is shedding light on the mystery of quantum gravity

• Better Science Without Darwin

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

  Scientists wouldn’t rush to imitate nature if it was poorly designed

• Blog Post

  Climate Science Is About to Make a Huge Mistake

  June 10, 2024 Roger Pielke, Jr.

• 7 potential ‘alien megastructures' spotted in our galaxy are not what they seem

  June 10, 2024 Paul Sutter Live Science

  Scientists recently identified seven stars in the Milky Way that could potentially be gigantic alien structures called Dyson spheres. New research proposes an alternative explanation: Those are just cosmic “hot DOGs" in disguise.

• News Update/Commentary

  Brain's structure hangs in ‘a delicate balance'

  June 10, 2024 Northwestern University Science Daily

  New finding appears to be universal across insects, mammals and humans

• News Update/Commentary

  Elephants have names for each other like people do

  June 10, 2024 Colorado State University Science Daily

  Researchers used machine learning to confirm that elephant calls contained a name-like component identifying the intended recipient, a behavior they suspected based on observation.

• Bacteria evolve to get better at evolving in lab experiment

  June 10, 2024 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  When bacteria were put in alternating environments, some became better at evolving to cope with the changes -- evidence that “evolvability” can be gained through natural selection

• A surprisingly quick enzyme could shift our understanding of evolution

  June 10, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  Biological processes such as DNA replication or cellular structure formation may become more accurate when done as quickly as possible, offering new hints into life's origins

• How to Be a Sapiens, Not Just a Homo

  June 10, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Darwinism cheapens human life, making us pawns of impersonal, uncaring forces

• Scaly Skin on a Feathered Dinosaur?

  June 10, 2024 Brian Thomas Institute for Creation Research

• Return of the God Hypothesis in Poland

  June 10, 2024 Michael Chaberek Evolution News & Science Today

• Why Has Darwin Been Believed?

  June 10, 2024 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Water droplets accelerate formation of mineral nanoparticles essential for life

  June 10, 2024 Anna Demming Royal Society of Chemistry

  Water microdroplets may play a role in the formation of soil.

• Two decades of deep ice cores from Antarctica

  June 10, 2024 Kenji Kawamura and Ikumi Oyabu Nature

  In June 2004, the results of an ambitious Antarctic ice-drilling project brought insight into hundreds of thousands of years of climatic changes. The extraordinary sample still has much to offer climate research -- even as its successor is being drilled.

• Cosmic cloud exposed Earth to interstellar space 3 million years ago

  June 10, 2024 James Woodford New Scientist

  The protective bubble around the sun retreated dramatically after colliding with a freezing interstellar cloud, leaving much of the solar system exposed to radiation that may have shaped our evolution

• How dodo de-extinction is helping rescue the extraordinary pink pigeon

  June 10, 2024 James Dinneen New Scientist

  The same genetic tools being used to resurrect the woolly mammoth and dodo could help many other vulnerable species that have yet to die out

• Video

  Rupert Sheldrake on being cancelled

  June 9, 2024 Rethinking Education YouTube

• Blog Post

  Freeman Dyson’s Disturbing Scientific Theology

  June 9, 2024 John Horgan

  Physicist Freeman Dyson proposed an intriguing solution to the old problem of evil: if God created us, and loves us, why is life so painful?

• Masterpieces of Intelligent Design Portrayed

  June 9, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Illustra Media’s latest short film contains a powerful argument against Darwinian evolution

• Deconstructing Belief in Evolution

  June 9, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  The Mystery of Existence

  June 9, 2024 Willem Drees YouTube

  If all that exists -- everything imaginable, physical and nonphysical -- is ‘something’. Why is there ‘something’ rather than ‘nothing’? Wouldn’t ‘nothing’ be simpler than any sort of ‘something’? It’s the biggest possible question.

• Video

  What Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Mean?

  June 8, 2024 Nick Bostrom YouTube

  That the universe is ‘fine-tuned’ is generally not controversial. The laws of physics have to be ‘just so’ for anything we know, including ourselves, to exist. But why this is so and what this may mean is highly controversial.

• Simulations dampen excitement about liquid water on Mars

  June 7, 2024 James Dean Cornell Chronicle

  Cornell researchers have provided a simple and comprehensive -- if less dramatic -- explanation for bright radar reflections initially interpreted as liquid water beneath the ice cap on Mars’ south pole.

• Alien-Looking Species Seen for First Time Ever in Ocean's Darkest Depths

  June 7, 2024 Michelle Starr Science Alert

  A collection of new species discovered lurking on the seafloor exemplifies exactly how alien this strange world is.

• Does Your Dog Feel “Guilty" When He Rips the Sofa?

  June 7, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Dog expert Zazie Todd says no; when assessing dog emotions, we should think more simply

• How Ancient Philosophers Can Help Design Better Computers

  June 7, 2024 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  The Kubernetes program, for example, steers groups of computers the way, in the ancient image, a navigator steers a ship

• Most Significant Scientific Retraction Ever?

  June 7, 2024 Richard Strom Hot Air

  The paper helped create and sustain the theory that amyloid protein buildups caused the symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease and was one of a number of apparently fraudulent papers written by Sylvain Lesné, a professor at the University of Minnesota

• Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago

  June 7, 2024 Christina Larson Associated Press

  The horse transformed human history -- and now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse.