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• Weird anglerfish mating strategy may have helped them evolve

  February 1, 2024 Christie Taylor New Scientist

  Tiny male anglerfish fuse their bodies into the larger females, and this strange strategy may have helped the fish diversify widely in the deep sea

• Multiverse Madness!

  February 1, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  from astrophysicist Paul Sutter

• How Flies Control Eyes Size

  February 1, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Getting left-right symmetry doesn’t just happen. It is regulated by specialized machines.

• SETI, artificial intelligence, and existential projection

  February, 2024 Rebecca Charbonneau Physics Today, v.77, n.2, p.36-42

  SETI’s birth during the Cold War may have prompted consideration of existential threats to humanity and proposals for using nuclear bombs to communicate with extraterrestrials.

• Olivine May Have Given Life a Jump Start

  February 1, 2024 Elise Cutts Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  A mineral common throughout the solar system nudges a reaction that produces sugar molecules from formaldehyde.

• At least 37 publications affiliated with Harvard Medical flagged for alleged manipulated results

  February 1, 2024 Mister Retrops Not the Bee

  in the first month of 2024

• Are Memories “Stored” in the Brain?

  February 1, 2024 Michael Egnor Evolution News & Science Today

• What Christof Koch Misunderstands About the Mind and the Brain

  January 31, 2024 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

  In his revealing interview at Closer to Truth, the Allen Institute neuroscientist, though he doubts physicalism, attributed subjective experiences to “brains”

• Mysterious artifacts suggest modern humans and Neanderthals lived side by side for millennia

  January 31, 2024 Andrew Curry Science

  Hunters of our species braved cold, harsh conditions as they pushed into ice age Europe

• Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell?

  January 31, 2024 Paul Sutter ars technica

  Simulations all the way down -- the philosophical debate on the nature of our Universe.

• Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells

  January 31, 2024 Asher Elbein Quanta Magazine

  A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it.

• News Update/Commentary

  Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Europe 45,000 years ago

  January 31, 2024 University of California, Berkeley Science Daily

  Mysterious technocomplex ascribed to Homo sapiens, representing most northerly settlement at that time

• What was it like when dark energy rose to prominence?

  January 31, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Early on, only matter and radiation were important for the expanding Universe. After a few billion years, dark energy changed everything.

• What we know about the stars where NASA will hunt for alien life

  January 31, 2024 Jonathan O’Callaghan New Scientist

  Scientists have analysed the stars that an upcoming NASA telescope will target in its search for biosignatures, narrowing down the candidates for those that could host potential extraterrestrial life

• Modern humans were already in northern Europe 45,000 years ago

  January 31, 2024 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  DNA from bones found in a cave in Germany has been identified as from Homo sapiens, showing that our species endured frigid conditions there as they expanded across the continent

• Ancient DNA solves the mystery of who made a set of stone tools

  January 31, 2024 Nick Petrić Howe and Shamini Bundell Nature

  Analysis of stone tools and DNA reveals when modern humans reached northern Europe, and why human brain cells grow so slowly.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago

  January 31, 2024 Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, et al. Nature

  The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe is associated with the regional disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens

• Stone tools in northern Europe made by Homo sapiens 45,000 years ago

  January 31, 2024 William E. Banks Nature

  DNA analyses of skeletal fragments from a site in Germany provide evidence that humans, rather than Neanderthals, were responsible for a particular stone-tool industry called the Lincombian–Ranisian–Jerzmanowician.

• Ancient DNA Shows Neanderthals and Denisovans Descending from Noah in the Line Ham

  January 31, 2024 Marshall Jordan Answers Research Journal, v.17, p.43-61

• Amazonia, Fitness Landscapes, and Fibonacci Numbers

  January 31, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

  Hidden, Now Revealed

• Astrophysicist: “We Do Not Yet Know How, Where, or Why Life First Appeared”

  January 31, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago

  January 31, 2024 Nicholas J. Conard and Veerle Rots Science Advances, v.10, n.5

  Evidence for the manufacture and use of fiber technology such as rope and twine is rare in the Paleolithic, despite the widely held view that such artifacts were in regular use during the Pleistocene.

• Scientists Attempt an Honest Look at Why We Trust Science Less

  January 30, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Contemplating the depressing results of a recent Pew survey, a molecular biologist and a statistician take aim at growing corruption in science

• Moss project takes step toward first artificial plant genome

  January 30, 2024 Mitch Leslie Science

  Chinese team makes partially synthetic version of spreading earthmoss chromosome, aiming to harness plant for industry

• The Seeming Impossibility of Life

  January 30, 2024 Paul M. Sutter Universe Today

  The number of near misses, false starts, and legitimate disasters that have befallen our species since the day we took our first upright steps all those generations ago is too large to count

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists pinpoint growth of brain's cerebellum as key to evolution of bird flight

  January 30, 2024 Johns Hopkins Medicine Science Daily

  Evolutionary biologists report they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons along with studies of dinosaur fossils to help answer an enduring question in biology: How did the brains of birds evolve to enable them to fly?

• Viewpoint: Whitewash

  January 30, 2024 Andrew Porterfield and Jon Entine Genetic Literacy Project

  How four obstructionist journals and their academic enablers are corrupting reporting on the science of chemicals and crop biotechnology

• A bold new take on quantum theory could reveal how reality emerges

  January 30, 2024 Tom Rivlin New Scientist

  At the smallest scales, everything is made out of a cloud of quantum possibilities. A new idea attempts to explain how our everyday world comes from this, using the laws of thermodynamics

• The journey to understand previously unknown microbial genes

  January 30, 2024 Jakob Wirbel, Ami S. Bhatt, and Alexander J. Probst Nature

  The analysis of DNA sequences sheds light on microbial biology, but it is difficult to assess the function of genes that have little or no similarity to characterized genes. Here, scientists discuss this challenge from genomic and microbial perspectives.

• Dembski and Ruse Look Back on 20 Years of Debate

  January 30, 2024 Subboor Ahmad Evolution News & Science Today

  and a Special Anniversary

• The Poverty of the Stimulus

  January 30, 2024 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

  Artificial General Intelligence

• Dembski: Does the Squawk Around AI Sound Like the Tower of Babel?

  January 30, 2024 Mind Matters

  Well then, maybe that’s just what it is, he argues, in a new series of short essays

• News Update/Commentary

  ‘Genomic time machine' reveals secrets of our DNA

  January 30, 2024 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Science Daily

  Researchers reveal a novel method to uncover bits of our genetic blueprint that come from ancient genetic parasites, offering fresh insights into human evolution and health.

• The improbable origins of life on Earth

  January 29, 2024 Paul M. Sutter phys.org

  We do not yet know how, where, or why life first appeared on our planet. Part of the difficulty is that "life" has no strict, universally agreed-upon definition.

• Strange virus-like replicators discovered in the human gut

  January 29, 2024 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  A previously unknown type of replicating agent named “obelisks” has been found in genomic data from stool samples -- but we know little about what these entities do

• ‘Wildly weird’ RNA bits discovered infesting the microbes in our guts

  January 29, 2024 Saima Sidik Nature

  Rod-shaped structures named ‘obelisks’ are even smaller than viruses but can still transmit instructions to cells.

• Intelligent Design’s Reverse Chameleon-ism

  January 29, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  From Political Scientist John West

• Ronald Reagan’s Deeply Personal Argument for Intelligent Design

  January 29, 2024 John G. West Evolution News & Science Today

• Science does not describe reality

  January 29, 2024 Bas van Fraassen iai News

  The limits and benefits of explanation

• Were Neanderthals Religious?

  January 29, 2024 Robert N. McCauley Psychology Today

  Archaeological evidence for Neanderthal proto-religiosity continues to mount.

• Why is trust in scientific research at an all time low?

  January 29, 2024 Henry Miller and S. Stanley Young Genetic Literacy Project

  An aphorism called the “Einstein Effect” holds that, “People find nonsense credible if they think a scientist said it.” We agree, and it’s a major concern as trust in science is near an all-time low.

• Leading Neuroscientist Wavers on Physical View of Consciousness

  January 29, 2024 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

  On Closer to Truth, Christof Koch said last month, “Consciousness cannot be explained only within the framework of space and time and energy, but we need to postulate something additional”

• The AI revolution

  January 29, 2024 David Thomas Creation Ministries International

  What does it mean for you?

• Blog Post

  Plagiarism and Data Falsification as Performance Enhancers in Higher Education

  January 29, 2024 Bill Dembski

  Academic Steroids

• 'Obelisks': Entirely New Class of Life Has Been Found in the Human Digestive System

  January 29, 2024 Tessa Koumoundouros Science Alert

  These mysterious bits of genetic material have no detectable sequences or even structural similarities known to any other biological agents.

• News Update/Commentary

  Cosmic building blocks of life discovered through the electron microscope

  January 29, 2024 University of Münster Science Daily

  A team of researchers has examined the so-called Winchcombe meteorite and demonstrated the existence in it of nitrogen compounds such as amino acids and heterocyclic hydrocarbons

• News Update/Commentary

  Old area in the brain turns out to be more important than expected

  January 29, 2024 Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Science Daily

  Researchers have discovered that a brain area preserved through evolution, called the superior colliculus, is more crucial for vision than we thought.

• News Update/Commentary

  How did humans learn to walk? New evolutionary study offers an earful

  January 29, 2024 New York University Science Daily

  The inner ear of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape reveals clues about the evolution of human movement

• News Update/Commentary

  Researchers map genome for cats, dolphins, birds, and dozens of other animals

  January 29, 2024 Johns Hopkins University Science Daily

  Data will have ‘huge implications' for understanding human health and evolution

• How to Debunk Darwinian Bunk

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

  These scientists don’t even understand their own theory. They personify evolution!