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• News Update/Commentary

  Study on lamprey embryos sheds light on the evolutionary origin of vertebrate head

  January 10, 2024 University of Fukui Science Daily

  Scientists study developing lamprey embryos to clarify the origin of vertebrate head, paving the way to a better understanding of ancestral vertebrates

• Scientists discover water's existence in building blocks of solar system

  January 10, 2024 WION

• Scientists discover mysterious ‘islands’ in seas of Saturn’s moon are actually organic matter

  January 9, 2024 Vishwam Sankaran Independent (UK)

  Researchers previously thought these were phantom islands caused by waves

• Mysterious radio burst came from group of galaxies in distant universe

  January 9, 2024 Jonathan O’Callaghan New Scientist

  The Hubble Space Telescope has pinpointed the origin of the most distant known fast radio burst, which hit our planet in 2022

• A Biochemist Begins To Sense the Limits of Materialism

  January 9, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  William Reville seems both confident and uncertain at the same time that science can crack the problem of consciousness

• The Hidden Figure Behind Neo-Darwinism -- Hugo de Vries

  January 9, 2024 Bodie Hodge Answers in Genesis

  An examination of occult Marxist indoctrination in our schools

• Evolution’s Chicken and Egg Problem -- Explained

  January 9, 2024 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price

  January 9, 2024 Emily Reeves Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?

  January 9, 2024 Peter Tse YouTube

  For the brain and mind to be the same thing, mind must be entirely the output of brain. This means the mind must be the brain -- literally, identically. If so, then the physical world is likely all that exists.

• Video

  “There’s no evidence for aliens!”

  January 9, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  In this clip, she walks us through the science and the speculations around aliens. But it's not just about little green men or sci-fi movies -- she's digging deep into what finding alien life really means for us and our understanding of life itself.

• Evolutionary feedback from the environment shapes mechanisms that generate genome variation

  January 9, 2024 Lynn Helena Caporale The Journal of Physiology

• News Update/Commentary

  Largest diversity study of ‘magic mushrooms' investigates the evolution of psychoactive psilocybin production

  January 9, 2024 University of Utah Science Daily

  Psilocybe arose much earlier than previously thought -- about 65 million years ago. The analysis revealed two distinct gene patterns, suggesting two independent acquisitions of psilocybin in its evolutionary history.

• Meteorite Analysis Shows Earth's Building Blocks Contained Water

  January 9, 2024 Damanveer Grewal Cal Tech

• New research on microbes expands the known limits for life on Earth and beyond

  January 9, 2024 Corey Binns Stanford News

  Stanford study on microbes in extremely salty water suggests life may survive conditions previously thought to be uninhabitable. The research widens the possibilities for where life may be found throughout our solar system

• Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul

  January 9, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• How online misinformation exploits ‘information voids’ -- and what to do about it

  January 9, 2024 Nature

  In 2024’s super election year, providers of online search engines and their users need to be especially aware of how online misinformation can seem all too credible.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Cognitive paradoxes and brain design

  January 8, 2024 Erkki J. Brändas Journal of Multiscale Neuroscience, v.3, n.1, p.36-52

  It is generally agreed amongst philosophers and neuroscientists that the main obstacle between the science of the brain and the conscious nature of the mind is rooted in an objective-subjective dichotomy.

• Book

  How we remember the dead by their digital afterlives

  January 8, 2024 Margaret Gibson Nature

  REVIEW: The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality by Timothy Recuber (NYU Press, 2023) | See Also Amazon

• How I fuse Western science with Traditional Knowledge

  January 8, 2024 Virginia Gewin Nature

  Indigenous Canadian ecologist Jennifer Grenz abandons colonial restoration dogma to reshape land systems according to community needs.

• The Theory of Evolution in the context of the divine revelations

  January 8, 2024 Muhammad Subhan Qureshi Australasian Muslim Times

  the Darwin Theory was considered as an offence on human dignity by scholars of the monotheistic religions. As a counter-reaction the monotheistic religions developed an antagonistic approach to anything that represented any notion of “evolution”

• Chaos theory and the end of physics

  January 8, 2024 Tim Palmer iai News

  How disorder could unify our theories

• The UFO Movement Sees Otherworldly Growth

  January 8, 2024 Alexander Saeedy Wall Street Journal

  Believers come out of the shadows after congressional hearings; ‘we’re not the people with the tinfoil hats anymore’

• Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging

  January 8, 2024 Viviane Callier Quanta Magazine

  Biologists discovered that mitochondria in different tissues talk to each other to repair injured cells. When their signal fails, the biological clock starts winding down.

• News Update/Commentary

  How did the bushpig cross the strait?

  January 8, 2024 University of Copenhagen Science Daily

  A great puzzle in African mammal biogeography solved by genomics

• Childhood in the Ice Age -- What Was It Like?

  January 8, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Why Logician Kurt Gödel Believed in Life After Death

  January 8, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  He saw human folly as an opportunity to reform and learn, because our souls are immortal whether we like it or not

• Video

  Can Mathematics Explain Evolution?

  January 8, 2024 Aaron Clauset, Martin Nowak, Paul Davies, and Stuart Kauffman YouTube

  If life is a vast space of possibilities, then mathematics can engage with biology. Statistics analyze biological data, and mathematical models improve biological theories. But could the mathematics of biology touch fundamental realities?

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolution is not as random as previously thought

  January 8, 2024 University of Nottingham Science Daily

  the evolutionary trajectory of a genome may be influenced by its evolutionary history, rather than determined by numerous factors and historical accidents

• So, Oral Traditions Can Preserve Eye-Witness Accounts After All

  January 8, 2024 Danny R. Faulkner Answers in Genesis

• Drunk Theory of the Brain Proposed

  January 8, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Humans got big brains from alcohol? What were these evolutionists drinking?

• Video

  Science, too, is based on faith: The Problem of Induction

  January 7, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  How do we know that the laws of nature will continue to do what they have been doing so far? We don't. It's called the “Problem of Induction" and means that ultimately science is also based on faith, faith that the laws of nature will not fail us tomorrow

• Blog Post

  Scientific American proposes policing the language of astronomy

  January 7, 2024 Jerry Coyne Why Evolution Is True

  to make it “beautiful and elegant”, as well as “inclusive” and non-triggering

• The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse

  January 6, 2024 Eyal Frank and Anant Sudarshan University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper

  Evidence from the Decline of Vultures in India

• The Evolution of Photosynthesis Documented by Thylakoids in Fossil Cyanobacteria

  January 6, 2024 Keith Cowing Astrobiology

  Researchers at the University of Liège (ULiège) have identified microstructures in fossil cells that are 1.75 billion years old. These structures, called thylakoid membranes, are the oldest ever discovered.

• Why Don't We Hear So Much About “False Information" Any More?

  January 6, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The new censorship target, “disinformation,” means something profoundly different, and the difference is scary

• Video

  Debating Design

  January 6, 2024 Michael Ruse and William Dembski YouTube

  Subboor Ahmad

• Carnivorous plant traps help scientists explain the evolution of complex ‘composite' traits

  January 5, 2024 University of Bristol phys.org

• What Was It Like To Grow Up in the Paleolithic Era?

  January 5, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  We are learning much about our ancestors’ lives from the less highly publicized finds

• Video

  Atheist Scientist Defends James Tour and Debunks Lee Cronin's Assembly Theory

  January 5, 2024 YouTube

  Harvard Debate Review

• The missing conversation

  January 5, 2024 Lorraine Daston Aeon

  To the detriment of the public, scientists and historians don’t engage with one another. They must begin a new dialogue

• Blog Post

  Bayes’ Theorem

  January 5, 2024 John Horgan

  A while back one of my students, “Frank,” a real smarty-pants, started babbling about something called Bayes’ theorem.

• News Update/Commentary

  The evolution of photosynthesis better documented thanks to fossil cyanobacteria

  January 5, 2024 University of Liège Science Daily

  They push back the fossil record of thylakoids by 1.2 billion years and provide new information on the evolution of cyanobacteria which played a crucial role in the accumulation of oxygen on the early Earth.

• Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

  January 5, 2024 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• In Science, How “Assumed Atheism” Harms Religious Students

  January 5, 2024 Robert Shedinger Evolution News & Science Today

• New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds

  January 5, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Convergence in carnivorous pitcher plants reveals a mechanism for composite trait evolution

  January 4, 2024 Guillaume Chomicki, et al. Science v.383, n.6678, p.108-113

  Traits are constantly changing in populations, but the emergence of a trait that provides a new function is a rarer occurrence. Two studies now examine how such traits arise.

• Evolutionary paths to new phenotypes

  January 4, 2024 Kathryn R. Elmer Science v.383, n.6678, p.27-28

  Ecological model systems inform on innovative traits in plants and animals

• Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins

  January 4, 2024 Maya Wei-Haas Quanta Magazine

  Last spring, scientists retrieved a trove of mantle rocks from underneath the Atlantic seafloor -- a bounty that could help write the first chapter of life's story on Earth.

• News Update/Commentary

  The snail or the egg?

  January 4, 2024 Institute of Science and Technology, Austria Science Daily

  How marine snails switched from laying eggs to giving birth

• Can ChatGPT Reason?

  January 4, 2024 Mike Stopa Sony Interactive Entertainment