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• Einstein was right about the way matter plunges into black holes

  May 16, 2024 Leah Crane New Scientist

  For the first time, astronomers have observed the area right at the edge of a black hole where matter stops orbiting and plunges straight in at near light speed

• Astrobiology as a Drug

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

  More extreme doses are required to keep the public addicted to their false hopes

• Reflections on Casey Luskin’s Debate with “Dr. Dan”

  May 16, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• Colossal volcanic eruptions made some dinosaurs more like chickens

  May 15, 2024 Noa Leach BBC (Science Focus)

  In a strange turn of events, researchers think that prehistoric global warming caused some dinosaurs to turn warm-blooded.

• AI helps understand complex orangutan communication

  May 15, 2024 Evrim Yasgin Cosmos Magazine

  It is well-known that orangutans are incredibly intelligent. Now scientists are beginning to unlock the mysteries of these remarkable great apes’ communication.

• A wave of retractions is shaking physics

  May 15, 2024 Sophia Chen MIT Technology Review

  Grappling with problematic papers and poorly documented data, researchers and journal editors gathered in Pittsburgh to hash out the best way forward.

• The origin and long-distance travels of upside down trees

  May 15, 2024 Queen Mary University of London

  Scientists have solved the mystery behind the origin, evolution and dispersal around the world of iconic baobabs.

• News Update/Commentary

  Some mice may owe their monogamy to a newly evolved type of cell

  May 15, 2024 Columbia University Science Daily

  What makes the oldfield mouse steadfastly monogamous throughout its life while its closest rodent relatives are promiscuous? The answer may be a previously unknown hormone-generating cell.

• News Update/Commentary

  First ‘warm-blooded' dinosaurs may have emerged 180 million years ago

  May 15, 2024 University College London Science Daily

  The new study looked at the spread of dinosaurs across different climates on Earth throughout the Mesozoic Era, drawing on 1,000 fossils, climate models and the geography of the period, and dinosaurs' evolutionary trees.

• Microraptor Reconstructed as a Bird

  May 15, 2024 Joel Leineweber Answers Research Journal, v.17, p.317-352

• Astrophysicist: Electricity Can Account for Human Consciousness

  May 15, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Ethan Siegel set out to show that there is no design in the universe and that included reducing consciousness to electricity, with the details still to be ironed out

• Why Biology Will Always Surpass Biomimetics

  May 15, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Humans can learn from nature but can never successfully duplicate nature

• Long-Ago Answered Critiques of Stephen Meyer’s Book

  May 15, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  From a Theistic Evolutionist

• We Need Fewer Scientists, and Fewer Science Journals

  May 14, 2024 Cameron English American Council on Science and Health

  Academic journals, and the researchers who publish in them, are increasingly engaged in naked political advocacy rather than science. It's time we cut off public funding to peer-reviewed publications and reduce the number of academic scientists

• Blog Post

  Gene-Whiz Science Is Dead. Yay!

  May 14, 2024 John Horgan

  For decades, I’ve bashed gene-whiz science, which traces complex traits and disorders -- high intelligence, aggression, alcoholism, schizophrenia, sexual orientation, political orientation, you name it -- back to single genes.

• True Science Is the Christian’s Friend

  May 14, 2024 Michael G. Houts Apologetics Press

  Keep the Goal in Mind

• How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models

  May 14, 2024 Matthew Hutson Nature

  Researchers are striving to reverse-engineer artificial intelligence and scan the ‘brains’ of LLMs to see what they are doing, how and why.

• Balls of lightning and flames from the sky: can science explain?

  May 14, 2024 Nature

  A book cataloguing mysterious events challenges scientists to provide some answers

• Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures

  May 14, 2024 Nidhi Subbaraman Wall Street Journal

  Wiley to shutter 19 more journals, some tainted by fraud

• Oldest known human viruses found hidden within Neanderthal bones

  May 14, 2024 James Woodford New Scientist

  Genetic analysis of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal skeletons has uncovered the remnants of three viruses related to modern human pathogens, and the researchers think they could be recreated

• Billions of Dead Things: Planetary Rings

  May 14, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  They’re dead, and they’re young, too. Rings are no place to look for life.

• Science Team Argues, Consciousness Came Before Life

  May 13, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Can the authors take issue with Darwinian evolution claims while maintaining a materialist stance?

• Hurry Up, Let Me Evolve Already

  May 13, 2024 Peter Biles Mind Matters

  A review of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

• News Update/Commentary

  Insights into protein evolution

  May 13, 2024 Rice University Science Daily

  A research team has unveiled a breakthrough in understanding how specific genetic sequences, known as pseudogenes, evolve.

• News Update/Commentary

  World's largest hummingbird is actually two species

  May 13, 2024 Cornell University Science Daily

  Surprise discovery found ‘hiding in plain sight'

• News Update/Commentary

  New insights into the mechanisms of chromosome segregation errors

  May 13, 2024 Hubrecht Institute Science Daily

  from research on centromere structure

• News Update/Commentary

  Island birds more adaptable than previously thought

  May 13, 2024 University of Texas, Arlington Science Daily

  Island species may tolerate changes better than mainland animals

• Giant structure in space challenges understanding of the universe

  May 13, 2024 Evrim Yazgin Cosmos Magazine

  About 9.2 billion light-years from Earth is a colossal structure which has confounded astronomers. The discovery might upend current cosmological theories.

• An updated perspective on teleonomy

  May 13, 2024 Jonathan Bartlett Behavioral and Brain Sciences, v.47

  The analysis of proxy failure provides a good starting point for interdisciplinary discussions. Here, the discussion of teleonomy is extended and updated to include more recent discourse on the topic.

• The First Two Cells in a Human Embryo Contribute Disproportionately to Fetal Development

  May 13, 2024 Shelby Bradford The Scientist

  A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus.

• Inside the Wild Ways Many Creatures Make Milk

  May 13, 2024 Riley Black Smithsonian Magazine

  Mammals aren’t the only animals that provide nutritious secretions for their young

• Human embryos embrace asymmetry to form the body

  May 13, 2024 Sara Reardon Nature

  The cells generated by the very first division of the fertilized egg make a lopsided contribution to the body’s organs and tissues.

• Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent Design Argument

  May 13, 2024 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

• From the “Junk DNA” Files

  May 13, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie, Richard Sternberg, and Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?

• Did humans evolve to chase down prey over long distances?

  May 13, 2024 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  Outrunning prey over long distances is an efficient method of hunting for humans, and it was widely used until recently, according to an analysis of ethnographic accounts

• Mercury Pollution and Mass Extinction: Tracing Toxic Legacies from Earth’s Volcanic Past

  May 12, 2024 Utrecht University Sci Tech Daily

  New research shows that mercury pollution from volcanism caused prolonged ecological disturbances and plant stress for over a million years following the end-Triassic mass extinction.

• Video

  The Theory of Evolution: A 3 Minute Summary

  May 12, 2024 Snap Summaries YouTube

  If you're curious about how life on Earth has evolved over billions of years and want to understand the science that explains our biological diversity, this summary is for you!

• The Dark Universe: Why we're about to solve the biggest mystery in science

  May 12, 2024 Alexandra Amon BBC - Science Focus

  A researcher searching for the missing part in our theory of matter reveals how we'll find it.

• In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet

  May 12, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Darwin vs Irreducible Complexity

  May 11, 2024 Jon Perry -- Genetics & Evolution Stated Casually YouTube

  Why evolution by natural selection remains unshaken

• Extraterrestrials Are Clearly a Matter of Faith, Not Science

  May 11, 2024 Mind Matters

  We can be quite sure that “They’re not out there” will never be the default hypothesis, as astrophysicist Ethan Seigel hopes

• Video

  What is Causation?

  May 11, 2024 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong YouTube

  In a ‘billiard-ball world’ of Newtonian science, causation was obvious -- things had to touch each other in space and a cause always had to precede an effect. But quantum mechanics destroys such notions. What then is causation?

• Metals: From Stars to Cells

  May 10, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Arts Major Cracks Hard Math Through Practice, Practice, Practice

  May 10, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  She became an engineering prof that way. The war on math is certainly not over but the warriors may be starting to find themselves on the back foot

• Orangutan Heals Wound Using Leaves -- and Triggers Big Media Event

  May 10, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The orangutan is not the first or only animal to self-medicate. Birds and elephants do it too

• News Update/Commentary

  How the brain is flexible enough for a complex world

  May 10, 2024 Picower Institute at MIT Science Daily

  without being thrown into chaos

• News Update/Commentary

  Cellular activity hints that recycling is in our DNA

  May 10, 2024 University of California, Santa Cruz Science Daily

  New research shows that ‘spliceosomes' might reinsert problematic gene sequences after removing them

• How Does the Brain Think?

  May 10, 2024 Jennifer Robinson Discover magazine

  Thinking builds neural networks, which is why practice improves performance

• Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced alien civilisations

  May 10, 2024 Jonathan O’Callaghan New Scientist

  Sufficiently advanced aliens would be able to capture vast quantities of energy from their star using a massive structure called a Dyson sphere. Such a device would give off an infrared heat signature -- and astronomers have spotted 60 stars that match

• The Tradition of British Natural Theology

  May 10, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  Meyer and Klavan