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• The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution

  December 13, 2023 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  In 2023, archaeologists found evidence of architecture and art beginning earlier than we thought, and uncovered data that rewrites our ideas of how much power women had in ancient societies

• Human intelligence: how cognitive circuitry, rather than brain size, drove its evolution

  December 13, 2023 Robert Foley and Marta Mirazon Lahr The Conversation

  It’s one of the great paradoxes of evolution. Humans have demonstrated that having large brains are key to our evolutionary success, and yet such brains are extremely rare in other animals.

• News Update/Commentary

  Using next-gen CRISPR tool, scientists create unprecedented molecular map of human immune response

  December 13, 2023 Gladstone Institutes Science Daily

  scientists have created an intricate map of how the immune system functions, examining the detailed molecular structures governing human T cells using the next-generation CRISPR tool known as base editing.

• News Update/Commentary

  Cell types in the eye have ancient evolutionary origins

  December 13, 2023 University of California, Berkeley Science Daily

  Though vertebrates vary widely in the number of retinal cell types, most seem to have a common origin

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists unveil complete cell map of a whole mammalian brain

  December 13, 2023 NIH/National Institute of Mental Health Science Daily

  Atlas characterizes over 32 million cells across the mouse brain

• New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond

  December 13, 2023 Yasemin Saplakoglu Quanta Magazine

  Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversity, with many thousands of subtly different types of cells in the human brain alone.

• 2023 was the year that artificial intelligence went mainstream

  December 13, 2023 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  From ChatGPT to Gemini, this year was dominated by large language models and other AIs becoming everyday tools used by millions of people

• Rampant Speculation Rules Science Media

  December 13, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Science reporters routinely speculate about things they can’t possibly know

• Ten people (and one non-human) who helped shape science in 2023

  December 13, 2023 Nature

  An AI pioneer, an architect of India’s Moon mission and the world’s first global heat officer are some of the people behind this year’s big stories.

• Are tiny black holes hiding within giant stars?

  December 13, 2023 Adam Mann Science

  Phenomenon could account for universe’s mysterious dark matter

• News Update/Commentary

  Enzymes can't tell artificial DNA from the real thing

  December 13, 2023 University of California, San Diego Science Daily

  Researchers are exploring how to add letters to the genetic alphabet to make never-before-seen proteins

• Sleeping and Waking -- A Designer’s Gift

  December 13, 2023 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Quorum Sensing: A Clever Trick by Microbes

  December 13, 2023 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Darwin falsified yet again

  December 12, 2023 Philip C YouTube

  Darwinian processes are found to be grossly inadequate to generate a new protein protein binding site, much less are they adequate for explaining the staggering integrated complexity now being revealed for the protein interactome network.

• Why Does the Proposal for Chimp-Human Hybrids Keep Coming Back?

  December 12, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  From David Barash’s perspective, the humanzee’s suffering is rendered worthwhile precisely because it enables the denigration of other human beings

• The 1st life in the universe could have formed seconds after the Big Bang

  December 12, 2023 Paul Sutter Live Science

• On Questioning the Design of Evolution

  December 12, 2023 Erkki Vesa Rope Kojonen academia.edu

  a new account of the compatibility of evolution and design arguments

• The future of AI: The 5 possible scenarios, from utopia to extinction

  December 12, 2023 Michael Brooks New Scientist

  How will the rise of artificial intelligence ultimately pan out for society? We sketch the most likely outcomes, including a world where AIs solve all our problems and another in which they wipe us out

• Strange alien worlds suggest Earth could survive the death of the sun

  December 12, 2023 Stuart Clark New Scientist

  We thought there was no chance our world could survive the fiery death of the sun in another 5 billion years. Now sightings of strange “orphan planets" might force us to rewrite the story

• The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science

  December 12, 2023 Meredith F. Small New Scientist

  Some 550 years ago, a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro set out to create a world map. Rather than myth and religion, it was based on solid evidence for the first time

• What the Ottomans did for science -- and science did for the Ottomans

  December 12, 2023 Ehsan Masood Nature, v.624, p.248-250

  A hundred years after the birth of modern Turkey, a monumental research project is uncovering the untold story of science and technology during six centuries of the Ottoman Empire.

• More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 -- a new record

  December 12, 2023 Richard Van Noorden Nature

  The number of articles being retracted rose sharply this year. Integrity experts say that this is only the tip of the iceberg.

• Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024

  December 12, 2023 James Woodford New Scientist

  A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain

• Why are there no flightless bats? We're closing in on an answer

  December 12, 2023 Graham Lawton New Scientist

  A careful look at the few bats that can walk on the ground -- including the common vampire bat -- is helping us understand why evolution has yet to produce a flightless bat

• News Update/Commentary

  Migratory bats can detect Earth's magnetic field

  December 12, 2023 University of Oldenburg Science Daily

  Study indicates that these animals, like birds, are sensitive to the angle of magnetic inclination

• How Researchers Smuggle Design into Their Theories

  December 12, 2023 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

  Cronin-Tour at Harvard

• Sleep -- Designed for Our Good

  December 12, 2023 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• Stone Age Pioneers: Homo erectus’ High-Altitude Life 2 Million Years Ago

  December 11, 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science Sci Tech Daily

• Asteroid pieces brought to Earth may offer clue to life’s origin

  December 11, 2023 Joel Achenbach Washington Post

  Before Earth had biology, it had chemistry. How the one followed from the other -- how a bunch of boring molecules transformed themselves into this special thing we call life -- is arguably the greatest unknown in science.

• Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms

  December 11, 2023 Charlie Wood Quanta Magazine

  Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest otherwise.

• Inconsistency Turns Up Again for Cosmological Observations

  December 11, 2023 Mijin Yoon Physics, v.16

  A new analysis of the distribution of matter in the Universe continues to find a discrepancy in the clumpiness of dark matter in the late and early Universe, suggesting a fundamental error in the standard cosmological model.

• Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists

  December 11, 2023 Gemma Conroy Nature

  Some researchers publish a new paper every five days, on average. Data trackers suspect not all their manuscripts were produced through honest labour.

• Were Neanderthals soulful inventors or strange cannibals?

  December 11, 2023 Rebecca Wragg Sykes Nature

  To understand the true otherness of Neanderthals, researchers must rethink the meaning they give to their archaeological finds, argues a new book.

• Fossil Leaf Miners

  December 11, 2023 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• How Scientific Materialism Begot Woke Ideology

  December 11, 2023 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

• Stephen Meyer and Spencer Klavan on the Book of Nature

  December 11, 2023 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  Is There an Author?

• The oldest black hole ever observed, dating to dawn of universe

  December 10, 2023 Hannah Devlin The Guardian

  Exclusive: astronomers surprised at size of 13bn-year-old object, which raises new questions about where black holes came from

• Early Humans Chose Their Toolmaking Rocks with Care

  December 9, 2023 Mind Matters

  Different types of flint were useful for different purposes 70,000 to 30,000 years ago

• Can the Simplest Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

  December 8, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “overwhelmingly white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs

• Video

  Exposing Discovery Institute Part 8

  December 8, 2023 Professor Dave Explains YouTube

  Moving right along through the DI roster of loser apologists, we get to Jonathan Wells

• Video

  Is Consciousness Entirely Physical?

  December 8, 2023 Christof Koch YouTube

  if consciousness is the output of the physical brain by itself, however complex, then consciousness as physicalism would defeat those who believe, or hope for, the existence of nonphysical realities

• Blog Post

  Woke Ideology as Scientific Materialism’s Legitimate Offspring

  December 8, 2023 Bill Dembski

• COP28 vs Science

  December 8, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The UN climate conference is making world-shattering decisions based on questionable scientific inference

• Cretaceous Insect Chimera Illustrates a Design Principle

  December 8, 2023 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design?

  December 8, 2023 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  Consider the Bacterial Flagellum

• Video

  Dinosaurs

  December 8, 2023 Marcus Ross YouTube

  We discuss how the fossil record can be reconciled with a young earth creationist point of view, predators before the fall, Behemoth and Leviathan, dragons, the serpent of Genesis 3 and much more!

• Tyrannosaur’s Stomach Contents Have Been Found for the First Time

  December 8, 2023 Jeanne Timmons Scientific American

  The fossilized stomach contents of a tyrannosaur have been found for the first time, revealing what the fearsome predator ate

• ‘Dark force' theory could solve 2 open cosmic mysteries

  December 8, 2023 Robert Lea space.com

  “Now there is an intriguing possibility that dark matter may be more complex and vibrant than we expected."

• News Update/Commentary

  Genetic mutations that promote reproduction tend to shorten human lifespan

  December 8, 2023 : University of Michigan Science Daily

  A study based on a review of genetic and health information from more than 276,000 people finds strong support for a decades-old evolutionary theory that sought to explain aging and senescence.

• News Update/Commentary

  New genes can arise from nothing

  December 8, 2023 University of Helsinki Science Daily

  Researchers described a mechanism that creates DNA palindromes of small regulatory genes. Under suitable circumstances, these palindromes evolve into microRNA genes.