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• Paper Trail

  January 18, 2024 Frederik Joelving Science

  In the latest twist of the publishing arms race, firms churning out fake papers have taken to bribing journal editors

• Video

  How Do We Know What We Know?

  January 18, 2024 Louis Caruana YouTube

  What is knowledge? What is belief? How is belief justified? What justifies us in believing what we believe? Is justified belief knowledge? These questions constitute “epistemology” -- the theory of knowledge.

• Learn About Uncanny Synchronicity Behind the Comprehensibility of the Cosmos

  January 18, 2024 Melissa Cain Travis Evolution News & Science Today

  in Dallas

• Video

  God is a Delusion

  January 18, 2024 Alex O'Connor YouTube

  Oxford Union Speech

• Nearby galaxy's giant black hole is real, ‘shadow' image confirms

  January 18, 2024 Daniel Clery Science

  To zoom in, Event Horizon Telescope wants to add more radio dishes to its network -- and go to space

• New Findings About Our Mysterious “Second Brain"

  January 18, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  It wasn’t long ago that researchers were hardly aware of the way the digestive system functions as a second brain.

• Humans first reached China thousands of years earlier than we thought

  January 18, 2024 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  A fresh look at an archaeological site in northern China that was excavated in the 1960s has confirmed Homo sapiens was present there about 45,000 years ago

• Life in the Universe: It’s either everywhere or nowhere

  January 18, 2024 Dirk Schulze-Makuch Big Think

  Two scientists recently wagered a bottle of whiskey. The bet? Whether we'll find evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life in the next 15 years.

• What was it like when the first living worlds formed?

  January 18, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Life became a possibility in the Universe as soon as the raw ingredients were present. But living, inhabited worlds required a bit more.

• Why animals shrink explained with new evolution theory

  January 18, 2024 University of Reading

• Cosmic strings can break -- and when they do, they shake the universe

  January 18, 2024 Paul Sutter Live Science

  Many models of the universe predict the existence of countless invisible strings stretching across space. New research finds a way these strings might snap -- and how we could feel the fallout.

• News Update/Commentary

  How does one species become many?

  January 18, 2024 McGill University Science Daily

  A global team of biologists has compiled nearly two decades of field data for more than 3,400 Darwin's finches in the Galapagos Islands to identify the relationship between beak traits and the longevity of individual finches.

• Where do Poisonous Invasive Plants Fit in God's Creation?

  January 18, 2024 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Peer Review May Be Beyond Reform

  January 18, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  A window into plant evolution: The unusual genetic journey of lycophytes

  January 18, 2024 Boyce Thompson Institute Science Daily

  these plants have maintained a consistent genetic structure for over 350 million years, a significant deviation from the norm in plant genetics.

• Video

  What Things are Conscious?

  January 17, 2024 Eric Schwitzgebel YouTube

  Consciousness is the great mystery of inner awareness. Where does it exist? Humans, obviously. Animals? Which animals? Chimps, elephants, dolphins, dogs? Termites, snails, amoeba, bacteria? What about non-biological intelligences like supercomputers

• Dogged by climate change and human hunters, a mammoth's life is written in her tusks

  January 17, 2024 Michael Price Science

  Elma's travels offer rare glimpse into the challenges that drove her species to extinction

• Philosopher Explains How We Can Know That Consciousness Is Real

  January 17, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Last Friday, YouTube philosophy channel Closer to Truth aired an interview with analytical philosopher Galen Strawson on the question “Is consciousness an illusion?”

• Artificially Smart: Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education

  January 17, 2024 Jonathan Swindell Mind Matters

  Understanding needs to remain the metric by which students are evaluated

• A Case Study in Why Peer Review May Be Unreformable

  January 17, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  McIntosh and Hudson Vitale illustrate, by their very zeal to eliminate pro-life researchers, the built-in corruption of the peer review process

• Did the Black Death shape the human genome? Study challenges bold claim

  January 17, 2024 Ewen Callaway Nature

  An ancient-DNA study of medieval Cambridge found no sign of genes that helped people to survive the plague, casting doubt on an earlier study.

• The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works?

  January 17, 2024 Mariana Lenharo Nature

  There are dozens of theories of how the brain produces conscious experience, and a new type of study is testing some of them head-to-head.

• Can quantum hints in the brain revive a radical consciousness theory?

  January 17, 2024 George Musser New Scientist

  With anaesthetics and brain organoids, we are finally testing the idea that quantum effects explain consciousness -- and the early results suggest this long-derided idea may have been misconstrued

• Universal process that wires the brain is consistent across species

  January 17, 2024 Emily Cooke Live Science

  A new modeling study helps confirm that key connections in the brain are formed in the same way across different animal species, likely including humans.

• News Update/Commentary

  Machine learning reveals sources of heterogeneity among cells in our bodies

  January 17, 2024 Institute for Basic Science Science Daily

  The findings of this research are expected to have far-reaching effects, such as improvement in the efficacy of chemotherapy treatments, or set a new paradigm in the study of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

• Incompleteness Theorems Point to a Hidden Realm

  January 17, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Leave no stone unturned in search for an explanation of consciousness

  January 17, 2024 New Scientist

  A solid theory of human consciousness eludes us, which is why seemingly fringe ideas such as those that rely on quantum effects in the brain are still worth pursuing

• More Fossils Show Stasis, Not Evolution

  January 17, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Where’s the evolution? In these creatures, fossils show complex parts already working.

• In Prestigious Journal, Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction

  January 16, 2024 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Biology and The Design Inference

  January 16, 2024 William Dembski Discovery Science

  Mathematician and philosopher William Dembski discusses how biology is “chock full of design," drawing on insights from the new expanded edition of his book The Design Inference

• No, the James Webb Space Telescope hasn’t found life out there -- at least not yet

  January 16, 2024 Eric Berger ars technica

  There is a robust debate ongoing in the scientific community.

• News Update/Commentary

  Cryo-microscopy reveals nano-sized copy machine implicated in origin of life

  January 16, 2024 Aarhus University Science Daily

  RNA is thought to have sparked the origin of life by self-copying. Researchers have now revealed the structure of an ‘RNA copy machine' through cryo-EM. This breakthrough sheds light on a primordial RNA world.

• News Update/Commentary

  Feeding mode of ancient vertebrate tested for first time

  January 16, 2024 University of Bristol Science Daily

  A feeding method of the extinct jawless heterostracans, among the oldest of vertebrates, has been examined and dismissed by scientists, using fresh techniques.

• Book

  The Evolution of Biological Information: How Evolution Creates Complexity, from Viruses to Brains

  January, 2024 Christoph Adami Princeton University Press

  Why information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand the evolution of complexity in nature | See Also Amazon

• Video

  Why Did Our Universe Begin?

  January 16, 2024 Saul Perlmutter YouTube

  That the universe began seems astonishing. What brought it about? What forces were involved? How did the laws of nature generate the vast expanse of billions of galaxies of billions of stars and planets in the structures that we see today?

• Fighting Pseudoscience with Empathy? Try a Little Humility First ...

  January 16, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The accusation of “pseudoscience,” under the current science regime, has often become little more than an elite-driven smear against inconvenient data

• News Update/Commentary

  Pacific kelp forests are far older that we thought

  January 16, 2024 University of California, Berkeley Science Daily

  32-million-year-old fossil holdfasts show kelp far predate animals we see in kelp forests today

• The Sense of Smell Seems Almost Magical

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

  Smell is far more complex than believed, new research shows

• Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

  January 16, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• How a forgotten physicist’s discovery broke the symmetry of the Universe

  January 15, 2024 Suzie Sheehy Nature

  When Rosemary Brown identified a strange particle decay 75 years ago, it set events in motion that would rewrite the laws of physics.

• Was the Big Bang a white hole?

  January 15, 2024 Alon Retter iai News

  The timeless origin of the universe

• Does the Brain Constrain the Mind Instead of Creating It?

  January 15, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  There is no systematic, science-based reason today to think that’s not true and plenty of evidence suggests that it is

• Video

  New book ‘Eve' dispels myths about human evolution and details female body's role

  January 15, 2024 PBS News Hour YouTube

  Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? A new book argues for a better understanding of our origins with critical implications for our present.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Non-avian dinosaur eggshell calcite can contain ancient, endogenous amino acids

  January 15, 2024 Evan T. Saitta, et al. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.365, p.1-20

• Do People Who Speak Different Languages Think Differently?

  January 15, 2024 Mind Matters

  For centuries, linguists found that an intriguing, attractive idea but there is no clear evidence for it

• Internet Pollution -- If You Tell a Lie Long Enough ...

  January 15, 2024 Gary Smith Mind Matters

  LLMs can generate falsehoods faster than humans can correct them

• Key moment in the evolution of life on Earth captured in fossils

  January 15, 2024 Curtin University EurekAlert!

  Curtin-led research has for the first time precisely dated some of the oldest fossils of complex multicellular life in the world, helping to track a pivotal moment in the history of Earth when the seas began teeming with new lifeforms

• Big Bang Cosmology Still in Crisis

  January 15, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The lumpiness problem keeps getting worse, and most of reality remains unknown to science.

• Evidence of Common Design in a Magnetic Compass

  January 15, 2024 Eric Cassell Evolution News & Science Today

  in bats and other animals

• Can Animals Evolve Fast Enough to Keep Up with Climate Change?

  January 15, 2024 Brian Owens Hakai magazine