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• NASA’s Mars rover probes ancient shorelines for signs of life

  March 13, 2024 Paul Voosen Science

  Plans for Perseverance to explore past crater rim may be in jeopardy

• Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting

  March 13, 2024 Alexandra Witze Nature

  Astrophysicist Avi Loeb says that an interstellar meteor showered Earth with particles. At a planetary-science conference this week, researchers begged to differ.

• Atheism’s Four Horsemen -- Where Are They Now?

  March 13, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• At Chronicle of Higher Ed: Critical Thinking Isn't Just Chat

  March 13, 2024 Mind Matters

  Gary Smith and Jeffrey Funk test Big Tech’s chatbots for critical thinking skills before an academic audience -- with sobering but often hilarious results

• Is Our World, Post-1950, Really a Geological Epoch?

  March 13, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Some earth scientists lobby for calling the past 75 years the Anthropocene epoch, giving it equal importance with the 16-million-year Upper Jurassic

• Video

  Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?

  March 13, 2024 Christof Koch YouTube

  If the question is “What brought all into existence?” the answer is “Consciousness”. Some say this is a ‘cosmic consciousness’ of which our personal consciousness is a small part. Others believe that the ultimate consciousness is God.

• The humiliating truth behind Harvard astronomer’s “alien” spherules

  March 13, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here's the sober truth.

• We May Have “Misunderstood the Universe," Nobel Prize Winner Says

  March 13, 2024 Noor Al-Sibai Futurism (The Byte)

• Rethinking space and time could let us do away with dark matter

  March 13, 2024 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  Most physicists believe that only a quantum theory of gravity can fully explain mysteries of the universe like dark matter, but now an idea called “post-quantum gravity" is demonstrating an alternative approach

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The evolution of menopause in toothed whales

  March 13, 2024 Samuel Ellis, et al. Nature

• Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting

  March 13, 2024 Alexandra Witze Nature

  Astrophysicist Avi Loeb says that an interstellar meteor showered Earth with particles. At a planetary-science conference this week, researchers begged to differ.

• Ancient malaria genome from Roman skeleton hints at disease’s history

  March 13, 2024 Tosin Thompson Nature

  Genetic information from ancient remains is helping to reveal how malaria has moved and evolved alongside people.

• Whales make waves in the quest to discover why menopause evolved

  March 13, 2024 Rebecca Sear Nature

  Why do several species of whale experience menopause, and why does the phenomenon occur at all? Analysing whale data might help to answer these questions and shed light on why menopause evolved in humans.

• News Update/Commentary

  Sulfur and the origin of life

  March 13, 2024 University of Arizona Science Daily

  A new study shines a spotlight on sulfur, a chemical element that, while all familiar, has proved surprisingly resistant to scientific efforts in probing its role in the origin of life.

• JWST Sets Record for Early Mature Galaxies

  March 13, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The James Webb Space Telescope sees mature stars and galaxies too early for big bang theory

• Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate

  March 13, 2024 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Mysterious ‘unparticles' may be pushing the universe apart

  March 13, 2024 Andrey Feldman Live Science

  New theoretical research suggests that a mysterious form of matter called “unparticles" could be the driving force behind the expansion of the universe.

• Loathed by scientists, loved by nature: sulfur and the origin of life

  March 13, 2024 Penny Duran and Daniel Stolte University of Arizona

  A University of Arizona-led study shines a spotlight on sulfur, a chemical element that, while all familiar, has proved surprisingly resistant to scientific efforts in probing its role in the origin of life.

• A New Discovery Reveals Why Darwin’s ‘Living Fossil’ Keeps Defying Evolution

  March 13, 2024 Tim Newcomb Popular Mechanics

  As the world evolved rapidly around them, gars weirdly just stayed the same. Now we know why.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A Critical Examination of the Standard Cosmological Model

  March 12, 2024 Robert Nyakundi Nyagisera, et al Astronomy, v.3, n.1, p.43-67

  Toward a Modified Framework for Explaining Cosmic Structure Formation and Evolution

• Video

  Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Consciousness?

  March 12, 2024 Nancey Murphy YouTube

  That the universe is fine-tuned for life, with multiple physical laws required to be within small ranges, is generally accepted. But can we then make the additional argument that the universe is somehow required to contain consciousness?

• About the Claim That Chatbot Claude 3 Showed Self-Awareness ...

  March 12, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Has anyone noticed the resemblance between the conviction that an AI project thinks like a human and that extraterrestrials are visiting us?

• Grappling Honestly with Science's Blind Spot

  March 12, 2024 Mind Matters

  An astrophysicist, a theoretical physicist, and a philosopher all walk into a bar and say, “At the heart of science lies something we do not see that makes science possible” Um… yes!

• Video

  Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Consciousness?

  March 12, 2024 Nancey Murphy YouTube

  That the universe is fine-tuned for life, with multiple physical laws required to be within small ranges, is generally accepted. But can we then make the additional argument that the universe is somehow required to contain consciousness?

• Scientists have replicated Earth's earliest form of evolution in the lab

  March 12, 2024 Peter Hess Daily Mail (UK)

  A minor theory of the creation of life just got a major boost in new experiments. The ‘RNA World' hypothesis proposed that Earth had RNA before life existed. Scientists have now shown that RNA could have existed and evolved before life.

• Is life based on a seeming violation of Newton’s law in molecular interactions?

  March 12, 2024 Pennsylvania State University

  Interactions between molecules that are not equal and opposite can occur naturally, researchers demonstrate

• A Leap Towards Building Synthetic Organisms

  March 12, 2024 Laura Tran The Scientist

  Douglas Blackiston’s frog-fueled research seeks to push the boundaries of understanding developing organisms.

• News Update/Commentary

  Gene flow in giraffes and what it means for their conservation

  March 12, 2024 University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science Science Daily

  Giraffes, with their bizarre body plan, have always held a special place in the minds of evolutionary biologists. In a new study whole-genome sequencing data investigated the evolutionary processes occurring within giraffes.

• News Update/Commentary

  Researchers expand our understanding of how the body and brain communicate

  March 12, 2024 University of North Carolina Health Care Science Daily

  Researchers investigating how the brain processes the incoming stream of information from the heart and lungs, discovered that specific neurons in the thalamus are involved in processing cardiac and respiratory signals.

• From Jacques Monod, a Grim Message for Humanity

  March 12, 2024 Stephen J. Iacoboni Evolution News & Science Today

• Is It Becoming Acceptable to Speak of Biological Systems and Processes in Terms of Design?

  March 12, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Aliens in the Garbage

  March 11, 2024 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

• Hominin population bottleneck coincided with migration from Africa during the Early Pleistocene ice age transition

  March 11, 2024 Giovanni Muttoni and Dennis V. Kent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  Two scenarios, one based on modern genomic data and the other on the chronology of hominin sites, indicate population bottlenecking in the Early Pleistocene.

• How Is Intentionality Embedded in the Universe?

  March 11, 2024 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  All efforts to extinguish intentionality and morality only serve to further establish their inescapable reality

• Surprisingly Colorful Fossil Snail Shells

  March 11, 2024 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Pink Dancing Hippos: Don't Tell ChatGPT-4 Not To Do Something

  March 11, 2024 Robert J. Marks Mind Matters

  Can OpenAI fix this flaw in GPT4? Absolutely. Time will tell if they do or not.

• If AI Speeds Up Science, Does It Risk Squashing Some Parts?

  March 11, 2024 Mind Matters

  A Yale anthropologist and a Princeton psychologist warn of the dangers of overreliance on AI in science

• Video

  What is Biological Information?

  March 11, 2024 Closer To Truth YouTube

  information is essential for analyzing data and testing hypotheses. But what is information in molecular genetics and neuroscience? What in evolution, population genetics, and levels of selection? Why is computational biology transformational?

• We don’t need a quantum gravity

  March 11, 2024 Isaac Layton iai News

  Why we shouldn't quantize spacetime

• News Update/Commentary

  Nasa’s Webb, Hubble telescopes affirm universe’s expansion rate, puzzle persists

  March 11, 2024 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Science Daily

  The puzzle is that the current rate of the expansion of the universe is faster than what astronomers expect it to be, based on the universe's initial conditions and our present understanding of the universe's evolution.

• Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

  March 10, 2024 Mind Matters

  At Closer to Truth, British philosopher and pastor Keith Ward provides an example to host Robert Lawrence Kuhn

• Video

  How Complexity and Emergence Create a Cosmos?

  March 10, 2024 Denis Alexander YouTube

  The universe began as a simple hot bath of particles and forces. How then the vast diversity of things we find on earth today? Much depends on the principles of ‘complexity’ and ‘emergence’. What are they? How does each work and how do they work together?

• When did humans start wearing clothes?

  March 10, 2024 Ashley Hamer Live Science

  Clothes don't survive the way artifacts made of stone, bone and other hard materials do, so scientists have to get creative to answer this question.

• Video

  Does Science Disprove Christianity?

  March 10, 2024 Stephen Meyer YouTube

  Meyer helps us understand the role philosophy plays in how scientists analyze evidence and reflects on the anti-supernatural bias among many in the scientific community. He also helps us understand the difference between Evolution and Intelligent Design.

• Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?

  March 10, 2024 Bruce L. Gordon Essentia Foundation

  The Return of Idealism

• ‘Monumental’ experiment suggests how life on Earth may have started

  March 9, 2024 Mark Johnson Portland Press Herald

• Video

  The String Theory Wars and What Happened Next

  March 9, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  String theory became extremely controversial during what's been dubbed the “String Wars” about 20 years ago. Then it kind of disappeared. What happened? What were the string wars? And what are string theorists doing now?

• Video

  What Does Quantum Theory Mean?

  March 9, 2024 Christopher Isham YouTube

  Quantum theory may be weird, but quantum theory is truly how the microworld works. What does all this weirdness mean? How to go from microworld weirdness to macroworld normalcy? Will we ever make sense out of quantum mechanics?

• ‘Monumental' experiment suggests how life on Earth may have started

  March 9, 2024 Mark Johnson Washington Post

• Controversial new theory of gravity rules out need for dark matter

  March 9, 2024 Hannah Devlin The Guardian

  Exclusive: Paper by UCL professor says ‘wobbly’ space-time could instead explain expansion of universe and galactic rotation