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• Theory and experiment disagree on alpha particles

  May 12, 2023 Heather M. Hill Physics Today

  Electron-scattering experiments on excited helium nuclei open questions about the accuracy and sensitivity of state-of-the-art nuclear models.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Micrometeoroid infall onto Saturn’s rings constrains their age to no more than a few hundred million years

  May 12, 2023 Sascha Kempf, et al. Science

• Joseph L. Graves as the “Black Darwin”? Think Again

  May 12, 2023 Robert Shedinger Evolution News & Science Today

• What Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory of the Cosmos Reveals

  May 12, 2023 Thomas Hertog Singularity Hub

  About the Origins of Time and Life

• Neanderthal Skeleton Discovery Changes What We Know About Human Evolution

  May 11, 2023 Aristos Georgiou Newsweek

• Using Intelligent Design to Train ChatGPT to Lay Aside Bias

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

• Book

  The Design Inference, 2nd Edition, 25th Anniversary Edition

  May 11, 2023 Bill Dembski

  The second edition of The Design Inference will be out in September 2023, exactly 25 years to the month after the first edition appeared in print.

• 9 useless body parts that humans no longer need

  May 11, 2023 Peter Kotecki and Frank Olito Business Insider

  Useless body parts include the appendix, the tail bone, and the muscle fibers that produce goose bumps.

• Advanced Life Should Have Already Peaked Billions of Years Ago

  May 11, 2023 Evan Gough Universe Today

  A new study focusing on black holes and their powerful effect on star formation suggests that we, as advanced life, might be relics from a bygone age in the Universe.

• Astronomers capture largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed

  May 11, 2023 Hannah Devlin The Guardian

  Fireball ‘100 times the size of the solar system’ thought to have been caused by gas being sucked into supermassive black hole

• Lab-grown monkey embryos reveal in 3D how organs begin

  May 11, 2023 Gemma Conroy Nature

  At 25 days old, specimens could be the oldest primate embryos ever grown outside the womb.

• God’s Grandeur: Some Resources to Explore

  May 11, 2023 Ann Gauger Evolution News & Science Today

• Thank God for Quantum Mechanics

  May 11, 2023 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• It matters who does science

  May 11, 2023 H. Holden Thorp Science

  the public has been taught that scientific insight occurs when old white guys with facial hair get hit on the head with an apple or go running out of bathtubs shouting “Eureka!” That’s not how it works, and it never has been.

• News Update/Commentary

  How bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics

  May 11, 2023 University of East Anglia Science Daily

  Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem of global significance. The rise of resistant ‘superbugs' threatens our ability to use antimicrobials like antibiotics to treat and prevent the spread of infections caused by microorganisms.

• Human adaptation to diverse biomes over the past 3 million years

  May 11, 2023 Elke Zeller, et al. Science, v.380, n.6645, p.604-608

• A macroevolutionary pathway to megaherbivory

  May 11, 2023 Oscar Sanisidro, et al. Science, v.380, n.6645, p.616-618

  After the extinction of large dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous, many mammals underwent a rapid increase in size. Several hypotheses for this change have been put forward

• Why not scientism?

  May 11, 2023 Moti Mizrahiis Aeon

  Science is not the only form of knowledge but it is the best, being the most successful epistemic enterprise in history

• Darwin’s Dirty Secret Lives On

  May 11, 2023 John G. West and Eric M. Wallace Christianity Today

  A recent book on evolutionary theory fails to reckon with the social side of natural selection.

• Historian Agrees: Darwin and Eugenics Led to the Holocaust

  May 11, 2023 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Historians are finally coming clean about how Darwinism birthed eugenics which spawned the Holocaust

• How fast is the Universe really expanding?

  May 11, 2023 Brad E. Tucker The Conversation

  Multiple views of an exploding star raise new questions

• Constraints on the Hubble constant from supernova Refsdal’s reappearance

  May 11, 2023 Patrick L. Kelly, et al. Science, v.380, n.6649

  The Hubble constant measures the expansion rate of the Universe, but different methods give inconsistent values.

• News Update/Commentary

  Nature favors creatures in largest and smallest sizes

  May 10, 2023 McGill University Science Daily

  Life comes in all shapes and sizes, but some sizes are more popular than others

• News Update/Commentary

  A journey to the origins of multicellular life

  May 10, 2023 Georgia Institute of Technology Science Daily

  Long-term experimental evolution in the lab

• News Update/Commentary

  Crops evolved by swapping genetic modules between cells

  May 10, 2023 New York University Science Daily

  Comparing individual cells across corn, sorghum, and millet reveals evolutionary differences among these important cereal crops

• News Update/Commentary

  African rhinos share retroviruses not found in Asian rhinos or other related species

  May 10, 2023 Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Science Daily

  Rhinoceros are found in Africa and Asia. Until recently, evidence suggested that throughout their evolutionary history, gamma-retroviruses such as Murine leukemia virus had not colonized their genomes, unlike most other mammalian orders.

• 40 Years Ago: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning

  May 10, 2023 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

• Video

  Has Humanity Forgotten God?

  May 10, 2023 Stephen Meyer YouTube

  2023 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith

• The Obstetrics Dilemma

  May 10, 2023 Fazale Rana Reasons to Believe

  and the Design of the Human Birthing Process

• Stephen Hawking and I created his final theory of the cosmos

  May 10, 2023 Thomas Hertog The Conversation

  here’s what it reveals about the origins of time and life

• This new genome map tries to capture all human genetic variation

  May 10, 2023 Antonio Regalado MIT Technology Review

  It’s called a pangenome, and it could explain the DNA that makes each of us unique.

• What is the human pangenome and why do we need it?

  May 10, 2023 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  A sequence for the human genome was first published in 2001, but this original reference doesn't reflect the full genetic diversity of humanity -- something a new “pangenome" attempts to solve

• How we could discover quantum gravity without rebuilding space-time

  May 10, 2023 Jon Cartwright New Scientist

  In the search for a theory that unites general relativity and quantum physics, many have tried to rethink space-time. But what if space-time emerges naturally, like a hologram?

• Emergence: The mysterious concept that holds the key to consciousness

  May 10, 2023 Michael Brooks New Scientist

  A better understanding of emergent phenomena like the wetness of water, where the properties of a system can't be explained by those of its constituent parts, could unravel some big mysteries

• Why symmetry is so fundamental to our understanding of the universe

  May 10, 2023 Michael Brooks New Scientist

  The symmetries of matter are deeper and stranger than they first appear, and they have driven many of the biggest breakthroughs in particle physics. But have we exhausted their usefulness?

• Why the mind-body connection is vital to understanding consciousness

  May 10, 2023 Caroline Williams New Scientist

  The key to solving the hard problem of consciousness could lie in the body not the brain, with our gut and heart being key players in building our conscious experience

• First human ‘pangenome’ aims to catalogue genetic diversity

  May 10, 2023 Layal Liverpool Nature

  Researchers release draft results from an ongoing effort to capture the entirety of human genetic variation.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A draft human pangenome reference

  May 10, 2023 Wen-Wei Liao, et al. Nature, v.617, p.312-324

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity

  May 10, 2023 G. Ozan Bozdag, et al. Nature

• Patient M: The man who started seeing the world backwards after being shot in the head

  May 10, 2023 Manuel Ansede El País

  A study returns to the case of a soldier injured during the Spanish Civil War who inspired doctor Justo Gonzalo’s theory of the human brain

• Why the origins of life remain a mystery -- and how we will crack it

  May 10, 2023 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  To explain how life on Earth began, the big challenge is to identify the molecules and processes that enable non-living chemical systems to become more complex

• Why virtual particles don’t exist but do explain reality -- for now

  May 10, 2023 Abigail Beall New Scientist

  So-called virtual particles aren't particles at all. Some argue that they are merely mathematical figments, and that we need to find a better way to understand particle interactions

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity

  May 10, 2023 G. Ozan Bozdag, et al. Nature, v.617, p.747-754

  While early multicellular lineages necessarily started out as relatively simple groups of cells, little is known about how they became Darwinian entities capable of sustained multicellular evolution.

• Geoscientists Unearth New Insights Into Life’s Evolution 800 Million Years Ago

  May 9, 2023 Virginia Tech SciTech Daily

• The 4 Major Moons of Uranus May Have Underground Oceans -- and Possibly Life Inside

  May 9, 2023 Jackie Appel Popular Mechanics

  What else could be down there?

• News Update/Commentary

  Earth's first animals had particular taste in real estate

  May 9, 2023 University of California, Riverside Science Daily

  Study shows first evidence of Ediacaran-Period habitat selection

• The Brains of Modern Dog Breeds Are Larger Than Those of Ancient Breeds

  May 9, 2023 Elte Institute of Biology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common

  May 9, 2023 Jeffrey Brainard Science

  But new tools show promise in tackling growing symptom of academia’s “publish or perish” culture

• Scientists discover secret ‘symmetries' that protect Earth from the chaos of space

  May 9, 2023 Anna Demming Live Science

  A new analysis of chaos in the solar system reveals how planetary collisions are avoided over billions of years.

• Memories may be stored in the membranes of your neurons

  May 9, 2023 John Katsaras, Charles Patrick Collier, and Dima Bolmatov The Conversation