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• Bees and chimpanzees learn from others what they cannot learn alone

  March 6, 2024 Alex Thornton Nature

  It has been argued that human culture rests on a unique ability to learn from others more than we could possibly learn alone in a lifetime. Two studies show that we share this ability with bumblebees and chimpanzees.

• Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research

  March 6, 2024 Lisa Messeri and M. J. Crockett Nature

  Scientists are enthusiastically imagining ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) tools might improve research. Why are AI tools so attractive and what are the risks of implementing them across the research pipeline?

• Ancient skin sported intricately patterned scales

  March 6, 2024 Maksim V. Plikus Nature

  The discovery of 285-million-year-old fossils of intricately patterned animal scales indicates that evolutionary tinkering of armoured skin started at the dawn of life on dry land as aquatic vertebrates adapted for terrestrial survival.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  East-to-west human dispersal into Europe 1.4 million years ago

  March 6, 2024 R. Garba, et al. Nature

  Stone tools stratified in alluvium and loess at Korolevo, western Ukraine, have been studied by several research groups since the discovery of the site in the 1970s.

• Oldest stone tools in Europe hint at ancient humans’ route there

  March 6, 2024 Giorgia Guglielmi Nature

  Dating of artefacts found at a site in western Ukraine suggests that archaic humans had entered Europe’s eastern gate by 1.4 million years ago.

• Yet Another Engineering Innovation from Cuttlefish

  March 6, 2024 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

• A Swimming Dinosaur? Maybe Not, Study Says

  March 6, 2024 Kenneth Chang New York Times

  A new paper challenges the idea that the large, carnivorous Spinosaurus dived after prey rather than wading and plucking it out of the water.

• ‘Cosmic clock’ dates earliest human presence in Europe

  March 6, 2024 Katie Hunt CNN

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D imaging

  March 6, 2024 David C. Blackburn, et al. BioScience (Oxford Academic)

  The openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network

• Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity

  March 5, 2024 Emily Sandico Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  ‘Attenborough's strange bird' was the first in its kind without teeth

  March 5, 2024 Field Museum Science Daily

  a branch of the bird family tree went extinct 66 million years ago and this strange bird is another puzzle piece that helps explain why some birds and dinosaurs went extinct and others survived

• News Update/Commentary

  Tiny worms tolerate Chornobyl radiation

  March 5, 2024 New York University Science Daily

  exposure to chronic radiation from Chornobyl has not damaged the genomes of microscopic worms living there today which suggests that these worms are exceptionally resilient.

• Our solar system's ocean moons may be habitable -- and their icy shells could hold proof

  March 5, 2024 Tereza Pultarova space.com

  Scientists think a process observed in Antarctic ice shelves must be at play on Europa and Enceladus.

• Programmer: How We Know Computers Won't Surpass the Human Mind

  March 5, 2024 Winston Ewert Mind Matters

  we can only devise a “halting detector” less powerful than the ones our own minds have

• Video

  What's the Meaning of Consciousness?

  March 5, 2024 Alva Noë YouTube

  That consciousness exists almost everyone agrees. What consciousness means -- that’s where arguments and disputations arise. Can consciousness be a random accident, selected by evolution, the ‘foam on the waves’ of brain activity. But consciousness seems

• Video

  Webinar on The Design Inference

  March 5, 2024 Bill Dembski and Winston Ewert YouTube

  In a dramatically expanded new edition, Dembski and co-author Ewert show how Dembski’s method of design detection has stood the test of time, and they demonstrate its applicability to biology, cosmology, and daily life.

• Does Darwinism Meet the Tests of a True Theory?

  March 5, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• The Stuff Happens Law in Geology

  March 5, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  “Then something happened,” say geologists who weren’t there and didn’t witness anything

• The Comet Strike Theory That Just Won’t Die

  March 5, 2024 Zach St. George New York Times

  Mainstream science has done its best to debunk the notion, but a belief in a world-changing series of prehistoric impacts continues to gain momentum.

• Why can’t researchers agree about consciousness?

  March 5, 2024 Jose Luis Perez Velazquez Nature

  Because it’s all in the mind

• Book

  The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

  March, 2024 Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson MIT Press

  A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible. | See Also Amazon

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  RNA-catalyzed evolution of catalytic RNA

  March 4, 2024 Nikolaos Papastavrou, David P. Horning, and Gerald F. Joyce Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

• The ocean vents where life on Earth likely began

  March 4, 2024 Ross Pomeroy Big Think

  In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.

• Neuroscientist: Human Brain More Complex Than the Models Show

  March 4, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The weird “homunculus” -- the way the brain maps the body -- was pioneer neurosurgeons’ best guess nearly a century ago

• Programmers: Why Materialism Can't Explain Human Creativity

  March 4, 2024 Eric Holloway and Robert Marks Mind Matters

  why it’s unlikely that the mind that enables human creativity is merely the product of animal evolution

• Mystery of Moths' Warning Sound

  March 4, 2024 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Video

  The Multiverse is REAL

  March 4, 2024 David Deutsch YouTube

  visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford

• Video

  A New Challenge for Lee Cronin

  March 4, 2024 James Tour YouTube

  Live at Champion Forest

• News Update/Commentary

  A model for the evolution of intelligence

  March 4, 2024 McGill University Science Daily

  Study finds ability to solve food puzzles is the only predictor of innovation, brain size in wild birds

• How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life's origins

  March 4, 2024 Joshua Howgego New Scientist

  What did NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to sample Bennu discover? Mission leader Dante Lauretta says the asteroid could hold clues about how life began

• Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought

  March 4, 2024 Leah Crane New Scientist

  The ocean on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is one of the best places we have found to search for alien life, but it might have less oxygen than researchers had thought

• Modeling the origins of life: New evidence for an ‘RNA World'

  March 4, 2024 Salk Institute phys.org

• Is Earth the only Goldilocks planet?

  March 4, 2024 Klaus R. Brasch Astronomy magazine

  Some scientists believe the universe is teeming with life. Others aren’t so sure.

• Oolers Beat Dead RNA Horses

  March 4, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Evolutionists find it hard to let go of implausible stories. They keep them alive with all their “might.”

• Oldest known animal sex chromosome evolved in octopuses 380 million years ago

  March 4, 2024 Carissa Wong Nature

  Result reveals for the first time how some cephalopods determine sex.

• Orgelian Specified Complexity

  March 4, 2024 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

• Where did India’s people come from? Massive genetic study reveals surprises

  March 4, 2024 Michael Price Science

  Analysis confirms Iranian influx, but also finds genes from Neanderthals and a mysterious human ancestor

• These gars are the ultimate ‘living fossils’

  March 4, 2024 Amanda Heidt Science

  Fish’s genomes are so static that groups whose last common ancestor lived during the time of the dinosaurs can produce fertile hybrids today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The genomic signatures of evolutionary stasis

  March 4, 2024 Chase D. Brownstein, et al. International Journal of Organic Evolution

• The Impact of the Chicxulub Asteroid

  March 3, 2024 Hugh Ross A View from the Right

  the impact (in both senses of the term) of the Chicxulub asteroid, which struck the Yucatán Peninsula and caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction.

• Video

  How functional is the human genome? Part 1

  March 3, 2024 Biblical Genetics YouTube

  Is the human genome highly functional or mostly junk? This is a question that is not only being asked in the creation-evolution debate; it is a question raging in the ivory tower as well.

• Can Informational Realism Help Sort Out the Mind-Body Problem?

  March 3, 2024 Mind Matters

  According to William Dembski, informational realism asserts that the ability to exchange information is the defining feature of reality

• Video

  Do We Need Quantum Gravity?

  March 2, 2024 Roger Penrose and Eric Weinstein YouTube

  Brian Keating --- Are singularities real? Or are we just fooling ourselves? And if they’re not real, why do we need a theory of quantum gravity?

• On the Trail of the Denisovans

  March 2, 2024 Carl Zimmer New York Times

  DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet -- perhaps even in the Pacific islands.

• Video

  Will the origin of life ever be uncovered?

  March 2, 2024 Kate Adamala, Addy Pross, and Chrisantha Fernando YouTube

  Institute of Art and Ideas

• Video

  Black holes might be dark stars with layers: New solution found

  March 2, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  Do black holes even exist? You might think the evidence is overwhelming. But in a new paper, physicists have shown that Einstein's theory of space-time allows another option, it's that black holes might be layers of shells with dark energy inside.

• Video

  Does Consciousness Cause the Cosmos?

  March 2, 2024 Lothar Schafer YouTube

  Not only is consciousness the deepest reality, but also it brought into existence the totality of reality. This would mean that mind, the mental, is fundamental and primary, while the entire physical universe is derivative and secondary.

• Do New Findings Make Fine-Tuning of the Universe Harder to Deny?

  March 2, 2024 Mind Matters

  To judge from this episode of Closer to Truth, cosmologists like Alan Guth are finding it harder than ever to rule out intelligent design of the universe

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The time of appearance of the genetic code

  March, 2024 Massimo Di Giulio BioSystems, v.237

  I support the hypothesis that the origin of the genetic code occurred simultaneously with the evolution of cellularity. That is to say, I favour the hypothesis that the origin of the genetic code is a very, very late event in the history of life on Earth.

• The connection between Darwin’s finches and bacterial flagellar motors

  March, 2024 Mohammed Kaplan Physics Today, v.77, n.3, p.28-33

  The evolution of specialized biological tools used by organisms tells a story about the environments that shaped them.