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• ‘Frightful' never-before-seen tyrannosaur might be the ‘missing link' in T. rex evolution

  November 28, 2022 Harry Baker Live Science

  Paleontologists have discovered fossils belonging to a newfound species of tyrannosaur, which could fill an important gap in the evolutionary history of T. rex.

• Unique features of octopus create ‘an entirely new way of designing a nervous system’

  November 28, 2022 University of Chicago Medical Center EurekAlert!

• The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements

  November 28, 2022 Kevin Hartnett Quanta Magazine

  Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals -- not the signals themselves.

• A rat without a Y chromosome could be a glimpse of our genetic future

  November 28, 2022 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  Researchers have figured out how the Amami spiny rat lost its Y chromosome, and some believe the same fate may be in store for humans

• Debunking “Professor Dave’s” Hit Piece Against Stephen Meyer

  November 28, 2022 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

• Einstein didn't think time was an illusion

  November 28, 2022 Tim Maudlin iai News

  Relativity doesn't imply a block universe

• Brain Experiment Suggests That Consciousness Relies on Quantum Entanglement

  November 28, 2022 at Big Think Uncommon Descent

• What Motivates Chimpanzee Experts Anyway?

  November 28, 2022 Mind Matters

  Is it the welfare of primates or is it “politics by other means”?

• Video

  Trees of Life: do they exist?

  November 28, 2022 Richard Buggs YouTube

  “Trees of life” are discussed in three senses: (1) Tall woody plants; (2) The Darwinian tree of life; (3) The Biblical tree of life. As QMUL's Professor of Evolutionary Genomics, Richard Buggs compares the evidence for these trees of life.

• Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering

  November 28, 2022 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Science Today

• Did Our Middle Ear Evolve from Fish Gills?

  November 28, 2022 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• A Mystery of Human Eyes May Come Down to Trust

  November 28, 2022 Ross Pomeroy Real Clear Science

• Ancient predator was one of first vertebrates to grow fast while young

  November 28, 2022 Riley Black New Scientist

  The bones of 2-metre-long tetrapod Whatcheeria reveal that it had an early growth spurt -- a trait that was thought to have evolved later

• There's a Weird Link Between Teeth and the Evolution of Pregnancy

  November 27, 2022 Tessa Koumoundouros Science Alert

• Humanism is a heresy

  November 26, 2022 Tom Holland UnHerd

  Confusion is bound to follow the death of God

• The Thought That Stops Thought

  November 26, 2022 Uncommon Descent

• Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: ‘There are quite a few areas where physics blurs into religion’

  November 26, 2022 Killian Fox The Guardian

  To answer life’s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse

• 525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolution

  November 25, 2022 University of Arizona phys.org

• Science Condemns Co-Inventor of the Transistor

  November 25, 2022 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Another racist called out for his racism, yet Charles Darwin, one of the most influential racists in history, gets a pass

• Fake Amber and the Piltdown Fly

  November 25, 2022 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Does a planet need life for fire to burn?

  November 25, 2022 Shane Hanlon AGU podcast

  Think about what types of things burn: wood, grasses, fossil fuels… mostly things that were formed by life. Fire also requires oxygen, which is largely produced by life.

• Science Isn't Even Possible Apart from Non-Material Consciousness

  November 25, 2022 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder tries hard to argue against that conclusion but things do not go well…

• What octopus and human brains have in common

  November 25, 2022 Max Delbrück Center EurekAlert!

• How was the universe created?

  November 25, 2022 Paul Sutter Live Science

  Short answer: We don't really know how the universe was created, though most astrophysicists believe it started with the Big Bang.

• Questions Christians Need to Ask Before Using Brain-Computer Interfaces

  November 25, 2022 Patricia Engler Answers in Genesis

  BCIs could help reverse devastating medical conditions but could also change what it means to be human.

• Finding Language in the Brain

  November 25, 2022 Giosuè Baggio MIT Press Reader

  Psycholinguist sheds light on the thrilling, evolving field of neurolinguistics, where neuroscience and linguistics meet.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The lower Cambrian lobopodian Cardiodictyon resolves the origin of euarthropod brains

  November 24, 2022 Nicholas J. Strausfeld Nature, v.378, n.6622, p.905-909

• Be thankful for an out-of-equilibrium Universe

  November 24, 2022 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That's the best thing that ever happened to us.

• Neandertal cooking -- or thin gruel?

  November 24, 2022 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

• Man-Ape Chasm of Differences

  November 24, 2022 Uncommon Descent

• Video

  Philip Goff and Luke Barnes Defend the Fine-Tuning Argument

  November 23, 2022 Capturing Christianity YouTube

  In this response video, Dr. Luke Barnes (theist, cosmologist) and Dr. Philip Goff (agnostic, philosopher) join me to respond to skydivephil's video entitled, “Physicists & Philosophers reply to The Fine Tuning Argument."

• NASA Stumbles Upon Mysterious Rocks Hiding in Ancient Martian Lake

  November 23, 2022 Doris Elin Urrutia Inverse

  NASA's latest rover to Mars got a close look at rocks that came into contact with water.

• Quantum Physics Axed Materialism. Many Hope the World Won't Know

  November 23, 2022 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder struggles to explain how quantum mechanics is consistent with materialism

• The hunt for the lost ancestral language of Europe and southern Asia

  November 23, 2022 Andrea Valentino New Scientist

  We've long known there was an ancient language that gave rise to English, Bengali and dozens of other tongues -- now we’re on the brink of working out where Proto-Indo-European was spoken

• Oldest army ant found in 35-million-year-old Baltic amber

  November 23, 2022 Christa Lesté-Lasserre New Scientist

  An unexpected discovery in a piece of amber stored at Harvard University since the 1930s reveals that army ants once lived in Europe

• A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from Siberian permafrost

  November 23, 2022 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  Seven viruses from the Siberian permafrost have been revived and replicated themselves in the lab -- including the oldest revived so far

• Modern humans evolved a ‘selfish' X chromosome after Africa exodus

  November 23, 2022 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  The chromosome may contain regions that promote their DNA's spread by killing sperm that carry Y chromosomes. However, Y chromosomes may have evolved counter mechanisms over time

• Oldest cooked leftovers ever found suggest Neanderthals were foodies

  November 23, 2022 Linda Geddes The Guardian

  Pancake/flatbread with a ‘nutty’ taste is first evidence of complex cooking and food culture

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Cooking in caves: Palaeolithic carbonised plant food remains from Franchthi and Shanidar

  November 23, 2022 Ceren Kabukcu, et al. Antiquity

• Duplicated Gene Helps Bats Survive “Arms Race” with Viruses

  November 23, 2022 Dan Robitzski The Scientist

  Bats are known for staying healthy even while harboring viral infections. Now, research sheds light on how their unusual immune system evolved.

• News Update/Commentary

  Human evolution wasn't just the sheet music, but how it was played

  November 23, 2022 Duke University Science Daily

  Brain, gut and immune system were fine-tuned after split from common ancestor of chimpanzees

• News Update/Commentary

  Genome studies uncover a new branch in fungal evolution

  November 23, 2022 University of Alberta Science Daily

  New research helps to resolve evolutionary origins of the ‘platypus of fungi'

• “Poor Design”? Actually, the Human Body Is Amazing; Here’s Why

  November 23, 2022 Howard Glicksman and Steve Laufmann Evolution News & Science Today

• Captcha: How Fooling Machines Is Different from Fooling Humans

  November 22, 2022 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  Automated censorship is intended to protect against a tidal wave of spam but it could certainly have other uses…

• JWST reveals first evidence of an exoplanet’s surprising chemistry

  November 22, 2022 Jonathan O'Callaghan Nature

  Ground-breaking observations by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal clouds and chemical reactions on a world outside our Solar System.

• Why Noah's Ark will never be found

  November 22, 2022 National Geographic

  For more than a century, people have sought the Old Testament vessel that survived the biblical deluge. Archaeologists say it's a fool's errand.

• Video

  Billions of Ways to Die!

  November 22, 2022 Discovery Science YouTube

  Every day, your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. In the book, Your Designed Body, systems engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman explore this extraordinary system

• Here are 12 of the most exciting prehistoric animal discoveries

  November 22, 2022 Elise Kjørstad Science Norway

  Palaeontologist Jørn Hurum takes us through the highlights of dinosaurs and other extinct animals over the past 20 years.

• Mapping the octopus brain

  November 22, 2022 Bradley van Paridon Advanced Science News

  Understanding how a completely different neural structure achieves the same function as the human brain opens up possibilities for designing new types of AI systems.

• Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement

  November 22, 2022 Elizabeth Fernandez Big Think

  Maybe the brain isn't “classical" after all.