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• Video

  Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait, what?

  January 29, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  I was rather surprised when I recently learned that the British science communicator and ex-particle physicist Brian Cox supposedly debunked the Big Bang with a creation story, no less than in a BBC documentary. I had a look at the clip

• The Improbable Origins of Life on Earth

  January 28, 2024 Paul M. Sutter Universe Today

  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.

• The Cancel Culture Mob Comes for the Evolutionary Biologists

  January 28, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Science is as dependent on the concept of public truth as the great religions are. In an age when private truth is rapidly gaining in power, it is just as vulnerable as religion.

• Video

  Dark matter is not “bunk science"

  January 28, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  But I still don't believe it exists

• Explore Inside a Migrating Salmon’s Nostril

  January 28, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Awesome circuitry is animated in Illustra Media’s latest short film

• The Creation Exceeding the Creator

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

  Artificial General Intelligence

• From a small town in Wales, a scientific sleuth has shaken Dana-Farber

  January 27, 2024 Andrew Joseph Stat news

  and elevated the issue of research integrity

• Science Wager: Extraterrestrials Will Be Spotted Within 15 Years

  January 27, 2024 Mind Matters

  An astrobiologist had made the bet with a planetary scientist, after they whittled down ET theories to two possibilities: They’re hiding or they’re not out there

• Five Trends That Help Us Make Sense of Space Science Today

  January 27, 2024 Mind Matters

  multiverse; searching for life elsewhere; extraterrestrial life appears scarce; fine-tuning of Earth; grave problems with current cosmology

• ‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes

  January 26, 2024 Elizabeth Pennisi Science

  Analysis of sequence databases reveals novel circular RNA genomes belonging to “obelisks”

• Are Researchers Taking Mystical Experiences More Seriously Now?

  January 26, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Scientists are beginning to view altered states of consciousness -- including mystical experiences, meditative states, and near-death experiences -- with interest. That is, they are studying them, not just trying to explain them away.

• Bacteria Have Memories? Well, That's What Some Researchers Found ...

  January 26, 2024 Mind Matters

  Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have found that bacteria can store and pass on memories of past actions -- such as creating infections in humans -- for about four to seven generations

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Changing fitness effects of mutations through long-term bacterial evolution

  January 26, 2024 Alejandro Couce, et al. Science, v.383, n.6681

  The benefits and costs of mutations that undergo natural selection can change depending on genetic interactions with subsequent mutations.

• Soda Lakes: The Missing Link in the Origin of Life?

  January 26, 2024 University of Washington Sci Tech Daily

• Scientists propose an updated time scale scheme of the Earth's moon

  January 26, 2024 Science China Press phys.org

  The moon's evolutionary history is divided into three distinct phases based on the temporal interplay of exogenic and endogenic processes in altering the moon.

• Why Animals Don't Really Have Anything Much To Say

  January 26, 2024 Mind Matters

• Are Humans Fundamentally Different from AI?

  January 26, 2024 Avi Loeb Medium

• The Science Journals That Will Publish Anything

  January 26, 2024 Jonathan Jarry McGill University

  Predatory journals are real but how we talk about them can be misguided

• Early Life Was Radically Different Than Today

  January 26, 2024 Paul M. Sutter Universe Today

  All modern life shares a robust, hardy, efficient system of intertwined chemicals that propagate themselves. This system must have emerged from a simpler, less efficient, more delicate one.

• Darwinian Storytelling Dumbs Down Media

  January 26, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  How silly can does an evolutionary story have to get before reporters revolt?

• The Abrupt Origin of Insectivore Mammals

  January 26, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Earth's oldest rocks reveal diverse microbial ecosystem dating 3B years

  January 25, 2024 Mrigakshi Dixit Interesting Engineering

  Researchers stumbled upon evidence of microbial populations in possibly the oldest rock samples going back more than three billion years.

• Video

  Did Our Universe Have a Beginning?

  January 25, 2024 George Smoot III YouTube

  Everything in the universe has a beginning, but how can the universe as a whole have a beginning? Does the cosmos come with a start date? Does a universal commencement make sense? What would it possibly mean? And what if there are multiple universes?

• Can AI Really Start Doing Evil Stuff All by Itself?

  January 25, 2024 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  We need to first talk to the man in the mirror before we go around blaming transistor circuit boards for what’s wrong in the world

• Mainstream Dinosaur Extinction Doubts

  January 25, 2024 Jake Hebert Institute for Creation Research

• Scientists Spar Over What a Netflix Science Documentary Should Be

  January 25, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Should “Ancient Apocalypse” be relabeled “science fiction” if archeologists don’t think the documentary writer’s claims are valid?

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Accelerated evolution of chosen genes

  January 25, 2024 Rory L. Williams and Chang C. Liu Science, v.383, n.6681, p.372-373

  Orthogonal replication enables rapid continuous biomolecular evolution in Escherichia coli

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Establishing a synthetic orthogonal replication system enables accelerated evolution in E. coli

  January 25, 2024 Rongzhen Tian, et al. Science, v.383, n.6681, p.421-426

  Mutations introduced when copying the genomic DNA of an organism can be selected for if they provide an advantage to the offspring, but high levels of mutation in the genome can cause catastrophic defects and are selected against.

• What reality does quantum theory describe? QBism has a radical answer

  January 25, 2024 Adam Frank Big Think

  Explore how QBism reframes science by placing the observer at the heart of quantum reality.

• The white hole illusion

  January 25, 2024 Geraint F. Lewis iai News

  The Big Bang was not a white hole

• Scientists Are Finally Taking Altered States of Consciousness Seriously

  January 25, 2024 Marc Wittmann MIT Press Reader

  If we want to understand our consciousness, we must not be afraid to break new ground.

• West Virginia May Allow the Teaching of Intelligent Design in Classrooms

  January 25, 2024 Ken Ham Answers in Genesis

• Are Trees Well Designed?

  January 25, 2024 Emily Reeves Evolution News & Science Today

  Paper Digest

• Black-hole observations solve cosmic-ray mystery

  January 25, 2024 Davide Castelvecchi Nature

  Data from an African observatory show that jets from a collapsed star are capable of producing some of the Galaxy’s fastest particles.

• Video

  Famous Scientist Confronted with Logical Case for God

  January 24, 2024 William Lane Craig and Roger Penrose YouTube

  the two sat down together 4 years ago to talk about God & the Origin of the Universe and, as was expected, the conversation was epic! This clip features one of my favorite sections of that conversation

• Video

  Philosophy of Extraterrestrial Life & Diverse Intelligences

  January 24, 2024 Richard Dawkins YouTube

  What could life be as we don’t know it? Three transitions. Non-life to life. Life to intelligent life. Intelligent life to technological civilization. Fermi’s Paradox: with at least 10 to the 22nd power planets in the universe, the evidence for alien life

• How Quantum Theory Related to Consciousness

  January 24, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Experimental physicist Rob Sheldon explains the background to Hameroff and Penrose’s contested quantum consciousness theory, which is beginning to be tested

• Citizen Scientist Forrest Mims Tells His Remarkable Life Story

  January 24, 2024 Mind Matters

  In his new book “Maverick Scientist,” he details the ups and downs of an extraordinarily productive life in science, with few credentials to hide behind

• New pieces in the puzzle of first life on Earth

  January 24, 2024 Manuel Reinhardt Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

  Research team discovers complex microbial communities in ecosystems over 3 billion years ago

• A shallow lake in Canada could reveal how life on Earth began

  January 24, 2024 Robert Lea space.com

  Soda lakes may resemble Darwin's ‘warm little ponds' where life on Earth got started.

• News Update/Commentary

  Chemists use the blockchain to simulate over 4 billion chemical reactions essential to the origins of life

  January 24, 2024 Cell Press Science Daily

  a team of chemists have asked computers to generate the largest network ever created of chemical reactions which may have given rise to prebiotic molecules on early Earth

• Sunlight on the Puzzle of Prebiotic RNA?

  January 24, 2024 Carl Linnaeus Evolution News & Science Today

• Microbes that gave rise to all plants and animals became multicellular 1.6 billion years ago, tiny fossils reveal

  January 24, 2024 Elizabeth Pennisi Science

  Early eukaryotes found in ancient Chinese rock formation offer a “grand vision of life”

• News Update/Commentary

  Research of water droplet interfaces that offer the secret ingredient for building life

  January 24, 2024 Purdue University Science Daily

  Scientists have experimental evidence that the key step in protein formation can occur in droplets of pure water.

• How Life Differs from Matter: It Intentionally Uses Information

  January 24, 2024 Mind Matters

  Astrophysicist Adam Frank asks an interesting question: Does biology move more information per second than technology? Life, he says, is fundamentally different from matter and energy in that it intentionally uses information:

• The Scientific Literature on GMOs and Pesticides Is Being Distorted

  January 24, 2024 Robert Wager Real Clear Science

• Darwinian Materialism Is Destroying Science

  January 24, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The rejection of Biblical morality has consequences in due time

• Brain as a Quantum System

  January 23, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

  Theory Gets New Traction

• A Bird’s-Eye View of a Technicolor World

  January 23, 2024 Emily Anthes New York Times

  Scientists have devised a new video system that reveals how animals see color, and us.

• The hagfish genome and the evolution of vertebrates

  January 23, 2024 Ferdinand Marlétaz, et al. Nature

  As the only surviving lineages of jawless fishes, hagfishes and lampreys provide a critical window into early vertebrate evolution