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• How the Human Genome Project revolutionised biology

  April 8, 2023 The Economist

  Twenty years on, the field has changed beyond recognition

• Video

  How Rock Layers & Fossils DISPROVE Evolution

  April 7, 2023 Answers in Genesis YouTube

  Andrew Snelling's presentation reveals that the assertion made by atheists about rock layers and fossils disproving the Bible is misguided. In fact, rock layers and fossils actually disprove the theory of evolution.

• Are there planets that are better for life than Earth?

  April 7, 2023 Chris Impey New Scientist

  Philosophers have long debated whether Earth is the best of all worlds. More powerful telescopes are finally giving us a better chance of answering this question, writes astronomer

• Do Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Point Toward the First Life?

  April 7, 2023 James M. Tour Evolution News & Science Today

• A Wandering Mind is Part of Our Evolution

  April 7, 2023 Sara Novak Discover magazine

  Our minds may have been the key to our survival. Learn the evolution and psychology of the wandering mind.

• New effort IDs the genes that made the mammoth

  April 7, 2023 Jeanne Timmons ars technica

  Shaggy fur, cold tolerance, and cancer resistance may all be in the genes.

• SciComm Student Credibility Ranking Shows Future Science Journalism May Be in Trouble

  April 7, 2023 Hank Campbell science2.0

  TED and TikTok

• News Update/Commentary

  How to see the invisible

  April 7, 2023 Princeton University Science Daily

  Using the dark matter distribution to test our cosmological model

• Fascism’s History Offers Lessons about Today’s Attacks on Education

  April 7, 2023 Eden McLean Scientific American

  Moves in Florida to control public education mirror past fascist strategies in ways that are disquieting for American democracy, a historian argues

• Understanding the difference between the mind and the brain

  April 7, 2023 Dom Byrne Nature

  Neuroscientist Chantel Prat is keen to understand why, despite a growing awareness of diversity and its importance, we still sometimes struggle to accept different perspectives.

• Making sense of the sacred

  April 6, 2023 Alex Gomez-Marin Science, v.380, n.6640, p.44

  A physicist attempts to reconcile inspiring experiences with materialistic beliefs

• Obligate chimerism in male yellow crazy ants

  April 6, 2023 H. Darras, et al. Science, v.380, n.6640, p.55-58

• Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first

  April 6, 2023 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Males of the notorious yellow crazy ant carry a mixture of genomes, a phenomenon unseen in other animals.

• “Cryptic Transcription”: How Aging Cells Express Fragments of Genes

  April 6, 2023 Kamal Nahas

  Aging cells with weakened gene regulation spuriously transcribe RNAs, but their impact on health and longevity still needs to be examined.

• Astrobiology: The Rise and Fall of a Nascent Science

  April 6, 2023 Lawrence M. Krauss Quillette

  Premature claims, distorted results, and ‘decolonizing’ the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

• Blog Post

  New Type of Black Hole Discovered

  April 6, 2023 Steven Novella NeuroLogica

• Scientists Say They Created ‘Embryo-Like' Structures from Monkey Stem Cells

  April 6, 2023 Ed Cara Gizmodo

  Researchers in China implanted the structures in three surrogate monkeys, but they did not become viable fetuses

• How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics

  April 6, 2023 Charlie Wood Quanta Magazine

  In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. Physicists get around this by just ignoring certain parts of the equations -- an approach that provides approximate answers

• News Update/Commentary

  Blind dating in bacteria evolution

  April 6, 2023 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Science Daily

  Reconstructed protein sequences in cyanobacteria reveal that protein interactions can evolve without direct selection pressure

• Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

  April 6, 2023 Guillermo Gonzalez Evolution News & Science Today

• Astronomers use secondary eclipses to study exoplanet atmospheres

  April 6, 2023 Jennifer Sieben Physics Today

  It’s easy to celebrate when a phenomenon is detected, but sometimes it’s equally exciting not to see a strong signal.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Rapid, buoyancy-driven ice-sheet retreat of hundreds of metres per day

  April 5, 2023 Christine L. Batchelor, et al. Nature, v.617, p.105-110

• News Update/Commentary

  How were amino acids formed before the origin of life on Earth?

  April 5, 2023 Okayama University Science Daily

  they are one of the key building blocks of life

• News Update/Commentary

  Complex assembly process involved in DNA virus replication

  April 5, 2023 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Science Daily

  In a twist on the question, ‘Which came first, the chicken or the egg?', scientists have long faced a similar question about how human adenovirus replicates: ‘Which comes first, assembly of the viral particle, or packaging of the viral genome?'

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

  April 5, 2023 Peter V. Markov, et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology

• Medieval accounts of eclipses shine light on massive volcanic eruptions

  April 5, 2023 Jeff Tollefson Nature

  Descriptions of lunar eclipses by monks and other scholars help scientists to pinpoint effects of ancient eruptions.

• Giant black-hole pair from the early Universe gives clues to how galaxies form

  April 5, 2023 Nick Petrić Howe and Shamini Bundell Nature

  Researchers see most distant pair of supermassive black holes yet observed, and assessing an AI's ability to interpret heart images.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Rapid, buoyancy-driven ice-sheet retreat of hundreds of metres per day

  April 5, 2023 Christine L. Batchelor, et al. Nature

  Rates of ice-sheet grounding-line retreat can be quantified from the spacing of corrugation ridges on deglaciated regions of the seafloor, providing a long-term context for the approximately 50-year satellite record of ice-sheet change.

• How rapidly can ice sheets retreat?

  April 5, 2023 Nature Briefings

  Landforms across the mid-Norwegian sea floor reveal that a former ice sheet retreated at up to 600 metres per day at the end of the last ice age. Pulses of similarly rapid retreat could soon be observed across flat-bedded areas of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

• The 3 key steps to overthrowing a scientific theory

  April 5, 2023 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Leading a scientific revolution is easy: you just have to succeed where the current theory fails while equaling its successes. Good luck!

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  An orphan protein drove the ecological expansion of nitrogen fixation

  April 5, 2023 Bruno Cuevas Zuviria, et al. bioRxiv

• Blog Post

  Partisan Science is Bad for Science and Society

  April 5, 2023 Matt Burgess and Roger Pielke Jr. Heterodox

  It has become common in the last decade for top scientific journals and scientific institutions to become involved in political advocacy, but when science becomes partisan, public trust decreases.

• Animal Mutation Rates Reveal Traits That Speed Evolution

  April 5, 2023 Yasemin Saplakoglu Quanta Magazine

  The first large-scale comparison of mutation rates gives insights into how quickly species can evolve.

• Quantum mysticism is a mistake

  April 5, 2023 Philip Moriarty iai News

  How physics gave rise to quantum mysticism

• Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

  April 5, 2023 Rob Sheldon Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  New cyber software can verify how much knowledge AI really knows

  April 4, 2023 University of Surrey Science Daily

  With a growing interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems worldwide, researchers have created software that is able to verify how much information an AI farmed from an organization's digital database.

• An extraordinary gamma-ray burst lives up to its nickname

  April 4, 2023 Allison Gasparini Physics Today

  A cosmic explosion called the “brightest of all time” is a 1-in-10 000-year occurrence, new research suggests.

• Charles Darwin’s annotations to Erasmus Darwin’s ‘The Temple of Nature’

  April 4, 2023 Eva Guadalupe Hernández-Avilez and Rosaura Ruiz-Gutiérrez Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, v.10

  From one Darwin to another

• News Update/Commentary

  Elephants as a new model for understanding human evolution

  April 4, 2023 Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Science Daily

  Human culture and language may be the result of ‘self-domestication': an evolutionary process that leads to less aggressive and more prosocial individuals. A research team argues that elephants may also be self-domesticated.

• Life may have survived far north of equator during ‘Snowball Earth’

  April 4, 2023 Adam Mann Science

  Ancient deep freeze might have been less bleak and prolonged than previously believed

• A new measurement could change our understanding of the Universe

  April 4, 2023 Sarah Perrin École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

• Can We Trust Peer Review Journals?

  April 4, 2023 Stuart Vyse Skeptical Inquirer

• Is dark matter the most powerful wave in the universe?

  April 4, 2023 Kimberly Hickok Symmetry magazine

  Dark matter could consist of particles so ultralight, they behave more like waves.

• The James Webb Space Telescope Turns Its Attention to Exoplanets

  April 4, 2023 Danny R. Faulkner Answers in Genesis

  And the News Isn’t Good for Finding Earthlike Planets

• How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

  April 4, 2023 Stephen C. Meyer Evolution News & Science Today

  Qualified Agreement

• God's Protein Pump

  April 3, 2023 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Is Science Returning to Mysticism?

  April 3, 2023 Leonard Brand Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Mysticism can take many forms in science. It can be god-of-the-gaps, or it can be refusal to consider the possibility of immaterial causes

• In Belgium, Subjectivity Triumphs Over Biology

  April 3, 2023 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• Cracking the creation of life

  April 3, 2023 Nick Lane and Omari Edwards iai News

  The question of ‘why?’ has often been seen as a dirty one in biochemistry. In this interview, Nick offers us an exciting account which not only starts to reveal how we all came to be but addresses some core philosophical problems.

• Video

  Evolution is stupid

  April 3, 2023 Eliezer Yudkowsky and Lex Fridman YouTube

  Yudkowsky is a researcher, writer, and philosopher on the topic of superintelligent AI.