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• The world’s largest proteins? These mega-molecules turn bacteria into predators

  December 8, 2023 Ewen Callaway Nature

  A candidate for the largest known protein might help killer aquatic bacteria to devour other microbes -- but it’s not easy to study the behemoths, or prove they’re even real.

• Mice Pass the Mirror Test -- Not a Self-Knowledge Test

  December 7, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Whether an animal recognizes its own image surely has less to do with self-awareness than with the role that sight -- as a sense -- plays in its life

• Can AI Write Screenplays for Films You'd Want To See?

  December 7, 2023 Mind Matters

  That issue was the heart of the Hollywood writers’ strike. How was it resolved? Or WAS it resolved?

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  In Light of Contemporary Physics, Does Physical Reality Have a Cause or Beginning?

  December 7, 2023 Capturing Christianity YouTube

  atheist philosopher Daniel Linford and Christian philosopher Andrew Loke debate

• Culturally determined interspecies communication between humans and honeyguides

  December 7, 2023 Claire N. Spottiswoode and Brian M. Wood Science, v.382, n.6675, p.1155-1158

  Honeyguides, a species of African bird, are well known to guide other species to beehives. Their closest and most successful collaborators are humans.

• Molecular Fossils Shed Light on Ancient Life

  December 7, 2023 Andy Fell University of California, Davis

  Using tools from geology and genetics, researchers are uncovering evidence of a shift in how the first living things ate, based on molecular fossils, organic traces from billion year-old rocks.

• Plant fossils turn out to be turtles in ‘unusual misidentification’

  December 7, 2023 Nicola Davis The Guardian

  Re-examination finds what were taken to be veins of leaves are actually bone growth patterns

• News Update/Commentary

  ChatGPT often won't defend its answers -- even when it is right

  December 7, 2023 Ohio State University Science Daily

  ChatGPT may do an impressive job at correctly answering complex questions, but a new study suggests it may be absurdly easy to convince the AI chatbot that it's in the wrong.

• “Bird-Like'' Tracks Before Birds

  December 7, 2023 Jake Hebert Institute for Creation Research

• News Update/Commentary

  Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era

  December 7, 2023 Indiana University Science Daily

  New model suggests that volcanic eruption combined with ocean detoxification pushed Earth's biology to tipping point

• Pat-a-Pan: Chimp-Bonobo Myth Debunked

  December 7, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Everyone has been told that chimps are aggressive and bonobos are cooperative. It’s not true.

• The Interactome Multiplies Specified Complexity

  December 7, 2023 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• People, not the climate, caused the decline of the giant mammals

  December 7, 2023 Jeppe Kyhne Knudsen Aarhus University

  For years, scientists have debated whether humans or the climate have caused the population of large mammals to decline dramatically over the past several thousand years. A new study from Aarhus University confirms that climate cannot be the explanation.

• Big Bang observatory tops wish list for big US physics projects

  December 7, 2023 Davide Castelvecchi Nature

  Report also supports projects of unprecedented scale to study dark matter, neutrinos and the Higgs boson.

• Neuroscience Must Be Dualist, Whether or Not “Science" Allows It

  December 6, 2023 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

• Video

  Flood Expert Finds Evidence for Noah’s Flood

  December 6, 2023 Creation Ministries International YouTube

  If there really was a global flood -- as the Bible has always said -- then there should be abundant evidence of that fact, right?

• Earth may have had all the elements needed for life within it all along

  December 6, 2023 Shichun Huang and Wenzhong Wang The Conversation

  contrary to theories that these elements came from meteorites

• First map of human limb development reveals unexpected growth processes

  December 6, 2023 Wellcome Sanger Institute

  Scientists reveal unprecedented insights into human limb development, including the many intricate processes that govern their formation.

• Why didn’t gamma radiation prevent life on Earth from starting?

  December 6, 2023 Evrim Yazgin Cosmos Magazine

• Response to “The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird”

  December 6, 2023 Matthew McLain, Marcus Ross, Matt Petrone, Noël Lay, and Matthew Speights Answers Research Journal, v.16, p.577-593

• ‘The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird’

  December 6, 2023 Gabriela Haynes Answers Research Journal, v.16, p.595-634

  Reply to the Response to

• Book

  New Book on Scopes Trial Exposes Racism

  December 6, 2023 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  This is the first book documenting the fact that the Scopes Trial was, at its heart, about racism

• Nature’s Wonder -- A Tale of Two Scientists

  December 6, 2023 Stephen Dilley Evolution News & Science Today

• A Few Thoughts on the Cronin-Tour Debate

  December 6, 2023 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

• Here’s What We Know About Neanderthals So Far

  December 6, 2023 Tim Vernimmen Smithsonian Magazine

  Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast

• Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era

  December 6, 2023 Devin Voss Indiana University

  New model suggests that volcanic eruption combined with ocean detoxification pushed Earth’s biology to tipping point

• Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’

  December 6, 2023 Jeff Tollefson Nature

  Polar ice, coral reefs and other Earth systems could cross irrevocable thresholds soon, but urgent action could stave off the worst effects.

• Humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?

  December 6, 2023 Dyani Lewis Nature

  Ancient humans painted scenes in Indonesian caves more than 45,000 years ago, but their art is disappearing rapidly. Researchers are trying to discover what’s causing the damage and how to stop it -- before the murals are gone forever.

• Why the Turing Test Is Becoming Obsolete

  December 5, 2023 Mind Matters

  Chatbots can easily pass the test without doing any thinking at all

• News Update/Commentary

  Can signs of life be detected from Saturn's frigid moon?

  December 5, 2023 University of California, San Diego Science Daily

  Researchers have shown unambiguous laboratory evidence that amino acids transported in the ice plumes of Saturn's moon, Eceladus, can survive impact speeds of up to 4.2 km/s

• News Update/Commentary

  Mice pass the mirror test, a classic indicator of self-recognition

  December 5, 2023 Cell Press Science Daily

  When the researchers marked the foreheads of black-furred mice with a spot of white ink, the mice spent more time grooming their heads in front of the mirror -- presumably to try and wash away the ink spot.

• Well-preserved skin may be from a mummy

  December 5, 2023 Lucien Tuinstra Creation Ministries International

• Fat Star Child Too Big for Mom

  December 5, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Could a mother give birth to a 170-pound baby? That’s what a new exoplanet is like

• Watch It Now: Tour and Cronin at Harvard

  December 5, 2023 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Despite Fine-Tuning, Roger Penrose Is “Agnostic” About Intelligent Design

  December 5, 2023 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Science Today

• Seti: how we’re searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies

  December 5, 2023 Owen Johnson The Conversation

• Intelligent design is much more amazing and valuable than artificial intelligence

  December 5, 2023 Jack Hellner American Thinker

• Cosmology’s crisis needs MOND

  December 5, 2023 Pavel Kroupa and Jan Pflamm-Altenburg iai News

  It takes more than one study to falsify a theory

• “Singularities don’t exist,” claims black hole pioneer Roy Kerr

  December 5, 2023 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?

• How new antimatter science could soon explain the existence of everything

  December 5, 2023 Katie Mack BBC, Science Focus

  Matter comes in many flavours, each with its own unique, intriguing properties.

• Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?

  December 5, 2023 Philip Ball Nature

  Scientists worry that ill-informed use of artificial intelligence is driving a deluge of unreliable or useless research.

• News Update/Commentary

  ‘Shocking' discovery: Electricity from electric eels may transfer genetic material

  December 5, 2023 Nagoya University Science Daily

  electric eels can alter the genes of tiny fish larvae with their electric shock. Their findings help to better understand electroporation, a method by which genes can be transported using electricity.

• Measuring Censorship Is Hard, and Stopping It May Be Harder

  December 5, 2023 Musa al-Gharbi and Nicole Barbaro Inside Higher Ed

  Censorship often comes from scientists themselves, driven by laudable motives

• 2023 saw thrilling space missions and new cosmic mysteries

  December 5, 2023 Leah Crane New Scientist

  The past year gave us thrilling missions to Jupiter and the moon, stunning images that captured the universe like it’s never been seen before, and a few tanatalising cosmic mysteries

• Amber Fossils Suggest Male Mosquitoes Were Once Bloodsuckers

  December 4, 2023 Kate Golembiewski New York Times

  The preserved insects, from a cache of Lebanese resin, appear to be male but have mouth parts that are found only on modern female mosquitoes.

• Tracing the crocodiles’ curious evolutionary family tree

  December 4, 2023 Laura Baisas Popular Science

  Multiple extinct relatives of the crocodile like the Poposaurus lived 237 to 201.3 million years ago.

• Prestigious science journals confirm censored views

  December 4, 2023 Greg Piper Just the News

  masks at best don't reduce COVID infection

• Might There Be No Quantum Gravity After All?

  December 4, 2023 Thomas Galley Physics, v.16

  A proposed model unites quantum theory with classical gravity by assuming that states evolve in a probabilistic way, like a game of chance.

• News Update/Commentary

  More than a meteorite: New clues about the demise of dinosaurs

  December 4, 2023 McGill University Science Daily

  What wiped out the dinosaurs? A meteorite plummeting to Earth is only part of the story. Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions may have ultimately set the stage for the dinosaur extinction

• News Update/Commentary

  Crocodile family tree mapped: New light shed on croc evolution

  December 4, 2023 University of York Science Daily

  Around 250 million years ago, 700 species of reptiles closely related to the modern-day crocodile roamed the earth. Now new research reveals why just 23 species of crocodile survive today.