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• This is what a Neanderthal conversation would have sounded like

  June 3, 2024 Steven Mithen Psyche

  Neanderthals had language, but it differed from ours in an important way that could help explain our superior art and tech

• Human culture is changing too fast for evolution to catch up

  June 3, 2024 Jose Yong The Conversation

  here’s how it may affect you

• How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

  June 3, 2024 Jacklin Kwan New Scientist

  Strange solids called temporal metamaterials finally make it possible to investigate the controversial idea of quantum friction – and push special relativity to its limits

• Early Mature Galaxy Record Surpassed Again

  June 3, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The James Webb Space Telescope keeps finding large galaxies earlier than theory permits

• “Move Along, Nothing to See Here”

  June 3, 2024 Jonathan Witt Evolution News & Science Today

  What Happens When You Challenge a Dominant Narrative

• 52,000 years of woolly rhinoceros population dynamics reveal extinction mechanisms

  June 3, 2024 Damien A. Fordham, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  Using a computationally intensive modeling approach and extensive paleontological and ancient DNA information, we reveal how and why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct at a fine spatiotemporal resolution.

• It's Not “Myths" That Cause Distrust in Science But Sad Truths

  June 2, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  An astrophysicist, hoping to shore up public trust, means well but gets the problems all wrong

• Astronomers Watch as Planets Are Born

  June 1, 2024 Meredith A. MacGregor Scientific American

  High-resolution images of the debris disks around stars are revealing how solar systems form

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The vertebrate retina: a window into the evolution of computation in the brain

  June, 2024 Tom Baden Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, v.57

  Vertebrate retinal circuits including many specific neuron types are highly conserved. Different species exhibit key circuit adaptations for their specific visual ecology. Retinal computations represent a complexity sweet spot and are readily interrogated

• News Update/Commentary

  An unlikely hero in evolution: Worms

  June 1, 2024 Johns Hopkins University Science Daily

  One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity -- a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species -- may have worms to thank

• Humans Are Magnificent

  May 31, 2024 Johannes Hartl Plough

  A philosopher defends humanity against its detractors.

• Bacterial defense system defies central DNA dogma

  May 31, 2024 Monique Brouillette Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  It’s among the most well-known rules in modern biology: Genetic information flows in one direction, from DNA to RNA to protein. But a recent discovery complicates and adds nuance to this so-called central dogma.

• “Evolutionary” Analysis of Childhood Is Just Speculation

  May 31, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• New genetic cause of intellectual disability potentially uncovered in ‘junk DNA'

  May 31, 2024 Emily Cooke Live Science

  Mutations in “junk DNA" could be responsible for rare genetic cases of intellectual disability

• Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang

  May 31, 2024 Steve Nadis Quanta Magazine

  By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe’s first moments.

• World record broken for living thing with most DNA

  May 31, 2024 Helen Briggs BBC

  tiny fern smashes world record

• The Big Bang Simplified

  May 31, 2024 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Science Today

• Time may be an illusion created by quantum entanglement

  May 31, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  The true nature of time has eluded physicists for centuries, but a new theoretical model suggests it may only exist due to entanglement between quantum objects

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Imbalanced speciation pulses sustain the radiation of mammals

  May 30, 2024 Ignacio Quintero, et al. Science, v.384, n.6699, p.1007-1012

  Mammals have drawn particular research attention because of their huge level of morphological variation. Until recently, most believed that dinosaur decline at the end of the Cretaceous opened niches for mammals to fill, resulting in a burst of speciation

• Even the smartest AI likely won’t be “alive.” Here’s why.

  May 30, 2024 Adam Frank Big Think

  33 years ago, the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen offered an answer to the question “Is life computable?”

• Free Will: Never Let Mere Atoms Near a Keyboard

  May 30, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  No free will -- and therefore no responsibility -- may sound more “cool” than free will but we had better be careful about what we admire

• Early Earth’s magnetic field strength was similar to today’s

  May 30, 2024 Isabelle Dumé Physics World

  This finding, from University of Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, suggests that the planet’s magnetic field was relatively strong 3.7 billion years ago -- a fact with important consequences for early microbial Earthlings.

• Landslides Are Increasingly Deadly, but Difficult to Predict

  May 30, 2024 Ahmad Arif Kompas Media Nusantara

  A powerful landslide hit a mountainous area in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, Friday (24/5/2024). Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of landslides, but until now these disasters have been difficult to mitigate.

• The universe’s biggest explosions made some of the elements we are composed of

  May 30, 2024 Robert Brose The Conversation

  But there’s another mystery source out there

• Justin Brierley and a “Mind Behind Matter”

  May 30, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  Listen

• Can Mathematics Describe Our Innermost Life When Words Fail?

  May 30, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  What if the researchers end up with a number that means nothing while the experience itself remains a barely describable personal event?

• On the Cure for Loneliness and Inner Ring Syndrome

  May 30, 2024 Peter Biles [about Arthur Brooks and C. S. Lewis] Mind Matters

  The modern world is a lonely place. So what are you going to do about it?

• Coevolution with hosts underpins speciation in brood-parasitic cuckoos

  May 30, 2024 N. E. Langmore, et al. Nature, v.384, n.6699, p.1030-1036

  Using modeling, the authors found that particularly virulent species had higher speciation rates than less virulent ones. They also looked at the DNA and morphology of bronze cuckoos, finding that assortative mating was occurring

• Centromeres Mutate More Rapidly Than Expected

  May 30, 2024 Kamal Nahas The Scientist

  After sequencing centromeres in humans and other primates, researchers found that they vary greatly across species and potentially contribute to aging and disease.

• Richard Dawkins’s Unlikely Nemesis

  May 30, 2024 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

  Leading the charge against the selfish gene model is one of Richard Dawkins’s own doctoral examiners at Oxford, the renowned physiologist Denis Noble.

• How the Christian Civil Rights Movement Defeated Social Darwinism and Eugenics

  May 30, 2024 John Zmirak Evolution News & Science Today

• Animals Using Healing Plants Is Old News, Says Classics Prof

  May 29, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Adrienne Mayor tells us that ancient and Indigenous peoples learned herbal medicine in part by observing animals

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Developmental biology of Spiralicellula and the Ediacaran origin of crown metazoans

  May 29, 2024 Weichen Sun, et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, v.291, n.2023

  The early Ediacaran Weng'an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) provides a rare window onto the period of Earth history in which molecular timescales have inferred the initial phase of crown-metazoan diversification.

• With Neither Brains nor Brawn, Jellyfish and Relatives Developed Subcellular Weapons Instead

  May 29, 2024 Hannah Thomasy The Scientist

  Anna Klompen explained how cnidarian stinging cells harpooned their way into her heart and could help answer fundamental questions in biology.

• Darwinism Devalues Humanity

  May 29, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Like beasts, we only evolved to survive, say evolutionists. We have no inherent worth.

• Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps

  May 29, 2024 Jonathan Witt Evolution News & Science Today

• Ancient Egyptian skull shows oldest known attempt at treating cancer

  May 29, 2024 Chen Ly New Scientist

  Cut marks on a 4000-year-old skull suggest ancient Egyptian doctors tried to treat a man with nasopharyngeal cancer

• Quantum time travel: The experiment to ‘send a particle into the past'

  May 29, 2024 Miriam Frankel New Scientist

  Time loops have long been the stuff of science fiction. Now, using the rules of quantum mechanics, we have a way to effectively transport a particle back in time -- here’s how

• Trillions of Cicadas Sing of Intelligent Design

  May 29, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Book

  Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenges of Evolution and the Natural Sciences

  May, 2024 Hans Madueme Baker Academic

  The conflict between the natural sciences and Christian theology has been going on for centuries. Recent advances in the fields of evolutionary biology, behavioral genetics, and neuroscience have intensified this conflict | See Also Amazon

• If Humans Were Just Animals, We Would Not Help Animals

  May 28, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Whether we like it or not, the gulf fixed between humans and other animals is what makes it possible for us to reject cruelty to animals

• Attention: Mind Matters News Has Been Prebunked!

  May 28, 2024 Richard W. Stevens Mind Matters

  ChatGPT-4 produced attacks on Mind Matters News, aimed at people who had never heard of it (prebunking), based only on the About page and the Introduction

• Dinosaurs needed to be cold enough that being warm-blooded mattered

  May 28, 2024 Elizabeth Rayne ars technica

  Two groups of dinosaurs moved to cooler climes during a period of climate change.

• News Update/Commentary

  Genetic mosaicism more common than thought

  May 28, 2024 European Molecular Biology Laboratory Science Daily

  Blood stem cells from healthy people carry major chromosomal alterations, suggesting we are all genetic mosaics

• News Update/Commentary

  A unified account of Darwinism's varieties

  May 28, 2024 University of Chicago Press Journals Science Daily

  A new article examines the question of what Darwinism is and how its nonscientific uses relate to the scientific theory of evolution.

• News Update/Commentary

  Florida fossil porcupine solves a prickly dilemma 10-million years in the making

  May 28, 2024 Florida Museum of Natural History Science Daily

  An exceptionally rare fossilized porcupine skeleton discovered in Florida has allowed researchers to trace the evolutionary history for one of North America's rarest mammals.

• Intelligent Design in Action: Pattern Matching in Archaeology

  May 28, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Interstellar Travel: Fantasy or Destiny?

  May 28, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Scientists uncover a multibillion-year epic written into the chemistry of life

  May 28, 2024 Tokyo Institute of Technology EurekAlert!

  Study demonstrates that just a handful of "forgotten" biochemical reactions are needed to transform simple geochemical compounds into the complex molecules of life

• Keep an open mind on faster-than-light ‘tachyons’

  May 28, 2024 Ian Crawford Nature

  as the source of quantum entanglement