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• News Update/Commentary

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

  May 28, 2024 Tokyo Institute of Technology Science Daily

  Handful of ‘forgotten' biochemical reactions are needed to transform simple geochemical compounds into the complex molecules of life

• Mutations Wire Salmonella to Last

  May 28, 2024 Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga The Scientist

  Genetic changes attenuated Salmonella’s virulence, potentially enabling the bacteria to cause chronic infections in humans.

• Poland’s Intelligent Design Revolution

  May 28, 2024 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Natural selection and evolution: evolving concepts

  May 27, 2024 Andre J. van Wijnen and Eric Lewallen Academia Biology, v.2, n.1

  Current evolutionary models incorporate different adaptive and non-adaptive processes based on molecular genetic changes and how DNA is modified over time

• Recent and extensive volcanism discovered on Venus

  May 27, 2024 David Appell phys.org

  A new analysis of data collected on Venus more than 30 years ago suggests the planet may currently be volcanically active.

• I study artefacts left in prehistoric caves

  May 27, 2024 James Mitchell Crow Nature

  Basran Burhan helped to date the oldest piece of figurative art discovered so far.

• Quantum ‘arrow of time' suggests early universe had no entanglement

  May 27, 2024 Leah Crane New Scientist

  One way to explain why time only moves forward is the quantum arrow of time, and it has major implications for both the universe's early period and its eventual demise

• Is Psychology Heading for Another Big Replication Crisis?

  May 27, 2024 Mind Matters

  The use of Amazon’s MTurk in survey research risks a second scandal in which findings are low quality and can’t be replicated, critics warn

• Video

  What is Consciousness?

  May 27, 2024 Subhash Kak YouTube

  Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers.

• Researchers decode how elephants form “sentences," lending insight to their complex communication

  May 27, 2024 Matthew Rozsa salon.com

  A new study explores multimodal communication tools employed by elephants, underscoring their unique intelligence

• The Conviction That ET Is Out There Survives Every Setback

  May 26, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Because it is only natural to resist the idea that we are alone, the hope of finding extraterrestrials twists science thinking in strange ways

• ‘Enormously exciting’ fossils found in NSW opal field suggest Australia had ‘age of monotremes’

  May 26, 2024 Graham Readfearn The Guardian

  Discovery of ‘echidnapus’ and two more species show the furry egg-layers predated marsupials

• Video

  Is it particle physics or a fairytale?

  May 25, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder, Gavin Salam, Bjørn Ekeberg YouTube

  discussion on whether particle physics is dead or whether it is worth it to continue exploring

• Does a Lack of Empathy Make You More Efficient?

  May 25, 2024 Gary Varner Mind Matters

  Robocop (2014) tests out that thesis when Murphy, now a robocop, is matched against actual robots

• Is the New Natural-Sounding Chatbot GPT4.0 Breaking a Barrier?

  May 25, 2024 Mind Matters

  It depends on what barrier you mean, says philosopher of technology Shannon Vallor. It could harm vulnerable people by convincing them that it is a person

• Scientist Proposes a New Universal Law of Biology That May Explain Aging

  May 25, 2024 Tessa Koumoundouros Science Alert

  Life appears to require at least some instability. This fact should be considered a biological universality, proposes University of Southern California molecular biologist John Tower.

• Blog Post

  The Ironic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

  May 25, 2024 John Horgan

  Quantum mechanics is a hybrid of genuine and ironic science. In its mathematical form, quantum mechanics is the most powerful, precise theory ever discovered; it has withstood countless tests. The theory is ironic in that its meaning is maddening.

• Could Neanderthals Speak? It Depends on Who You Talk To

  May 24, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Theorists who will, sadly, never converse with a living Neanderthal imagine things they could and couldn’t do linguistically

• News Update/Commentary

  Entomologist sheds light on 250-year-old mystery of the German cockroach

  May 24, 2024 Virginia Tech Science Daily

  The genomic analyses of over 280 specimens from 17 countries and six continents, show that this species evolved some 2,100 years ago from an outdoor-living species in Asia.

• News Update/Commentary

  Biologists observe recurring evolutionary changes, over time, in stick insects

  May 24, 2024 Utah State University Science Daily

  An evolutionary biologist reports evidence of repeatable evolution in populations of stick insects.

• Neanderthal-human baby-making was recent -- and brief

  May 24, 2024 Michael Eisenstein Nature

  Analysis of dozens of ancient genomes reveals that close encounters between the two species took place in a narrow time window.

• Hungry deer may have driven tiny plant evolution on Japanese island

  May 24, 2024 Jake Buehler New Scientist

  On Yakushima island, sika deer might have forced flora to shrink as small as a tenth of the size of their mainland counterparts

• Did Giant Dinosaurs Swim Across Oceans?

  May 24, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Did Dr. Dan Make Us Change Our Position on Junk DNA?

  May 24, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Organisational teleology 2.0: Grounding biological purposiveness in regulatory control

  May 24, 2024 Leonardo Bich Ratio: An international journal of analytic philosophy

  This paper critically revises the organisational account of teleology, which argues that living systems are first and foremost oriented towards a goal: maintaining their own conditions of existence.

• A Step Closer to Solving the Fermi Paradox

  May 24, 2024 Katherine Kornei Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Finding evidence of complex life elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy hinges on locating rocky planets with plate tectonics and a mixture of landmasses and oceans, new research suggests.

• COVID Felled Both Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci As Heroes

  May 24, 2024 Mind Matters

  As Wesley J. Smith recounts, more honest researchers were discredited for saying things that Fauci and Collins later admitted to be true

• Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations

  May 23, 2024 Diana A. Liao, et al. Science, v.384, n.6698, p.874-877

  Animals as diverse as birds and bees have been shown to be able to “count, ” and they can discriminate among different numbers of objects or between greater or fewer objects.

• Quantum dialectics

  May 23, 2024 Jim Baggott Aeon

  When quantum mechanics posed a threat to the Marxist doctrine of materialism, communist physicists sought to reconcile the two

• Birth of universe’s earliest galaxies observed for first time

  May 23, 2024 University of Copenhagen

  Using the James Webb Space Telescope, University of Copenhagen researchers have become the first to see the formation of three of the earliest galaxies in the universe, more than 13 billion years ago.

• Crows can ‘count’ similarly to toddlers

  May 23, 2024 Lauren Leffer Popular Science

  It’s the first time scientists have observed the ability outside of humans.

• Creating life from lifeless biomolecules with AI and lab evolution

  May 23, 2024 Cees Dekker and Gijsje Koenderink Delft University of Technology

  “What is life? How does a living cell emerge from lifeless molecules?” ... Dutch scientists aim to build a living synthetic cell from lifeless biomolecules, using laboratory evolution and artificial intelligence for the first time.

• The dangerous illusion of AI consciousness

  May 23, 2024 Shannon Vallor iai News

  The false dawn of machine minds

• Can Viruses Cheat? Cooperate? That's What Sociovirologists Claim

  May 23, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  What does it mean to say that a defective string of genes’s behavior could be self-defeating? Or self-preserving? Where did the “self” come in?

• Science Writer: Maybe We Need Fewer Scientists, Science Journals

  May 23, 2024 Mind Matters

  Cameron English sees a rise in partisan advocacy as part of the problem of increasing retractions in science journals

• Proving Evolution with Imaginary Facts

  May 23, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Need evidence? Make some up. Since evolution is a fact, the evidence must have existed.

• Fly Flight Is More Sophisticated than Imagined

  May 23, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Book

  The Problem of Evil for Atheists

  May, 2024 Yujin Nagasawa Oxford University Press

  This book contends that the problem of evil surpasses its conventional understanding, not only impacting traditional theists but also posing a challenge for atheists and other ‘non-theists’

• Did Robert Maxwell start the censorship of science?

  May 22, 2024 Gloria Moss and Niall McCrae The Conservative Woman

• Blog Post

  Quantum Mechanics, Plato’s Cave and the Blind Piranha

  May 22, 2024 John Horgan

  I was jogging along the Hudson recently, thinking about quantum mechanics, when a creepy memory popped into my head. It dates back to the late 1970s, when I was painting houses in Denver.

• Video

  The Fossil Record and the Christian Worldview

  May 22, 2024 Reasons to Believe YouTube

  A Dialogue between RTB and Discovery Institute

• At Scientific American, Free Will Seems Very Much Alive

  May 22, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The concept is incompatible with their “mind is just the brain” thesis but they can’t let go of it anyway

• News Update/Commentary

  Exploring diversity in cell division

  May 22, 2024 European Molecular Biology Laboratory Science Daily

  New research shows how different modes of cell division used by animals and fungi might have evolved to support diverse life cycles

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Life-cycle-coupled evolution of mitosis in close relatives of animals

  May 22, 2024 Hiral Shah, et al. Nature

  Eukaryotes have evolved towards one of two extremes along a spectrum of strategies for remodelling the nuclear envelope during cell division: disassembling the nuclear envelope in an open mitosis or constructing an intranuclear spindle in a closed mitosis

• Bizarre bacteria defy textbooks by writing new genes

  May 22, 2024 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Bacterial defensive systems scramble the standard workflow of life.

• Excerpt from New DI Press Novel for Young Adults

  May 22, 2024 Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt Evolution News & Science Today

  Eat or Be Eaten | See Also Discovery Institute Press

• Ancient viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders

  May 22, 2024 Rodrigo Duarte and Timothy Powell King's College London

  New research has found that thousands of DNA sequences originating from ancient viral infections are expressed in the brain, with some contributing to susceptibility for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression.

• Why physicists now question the fate of the Universe

  May 22, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  For nearly 25 years, we thought we knew how the Universe would end. Now, new measurements point to a profoundly different conclusion.

• Early humans took northern route to Australia, cave find suggests

  May 22, 2024 James Woodford New Scientist

  An excavation on Timor reveals humans first settled on the island 44,000 years ago, long after the earliest occupation of Australia -- suggesting migration to the latter took another route

• Let There Be Bioluminescence

  May 22, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today