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• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Advanced two- and three-dimensional insights into Earth's oldest stromatolites (ca. 3.5 Ga): Prospects for the search for life on Mars

  November 4, 2022 K. Hickman-Lewis, et al. Geology, v.51, n.1, p.33-38

• Neuroscientist Takes Aim at Yuval Noah Harari's Claims Re Humans

  November 4, 2022 Mind Matters

  Behavioral neuroscientist Darshana Narayanan says that much of what Harari writes “sacrifices science for sensationalism” and is “riddled with errors”

• Researchers: More Intelligent Jays Show More Self-Control

  November 4, 2022 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The researchers say that the same relationship holds true for cuttlefish, chimpanzees, and humans

• We can't know if the universe had a beginning

  November 4, 2022 George Ellis and Alexis Papazoglou iai News

  An interview with cosmologist George Ellis

• Does consciousness change the rules of quantum mechanics?

  November 4, 2022 Elizabeth Fernandez Big Think

  Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.

• Three places on Earth where life might have started

  November 4, 2022 Ross Pomeroy Big Think

  Hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean, shallow ponds on the surface, and subterranean systems below impact craters are the likeliest locations.

• Animal Magic: Awesome Adaptations by Design

  November 4, 2022 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  From elephant fingers to ants’ feet, nature is filled with wonders of engineering.

• Desmostylia, and the Problem of Horizontal Tooth Displacement

  November 4, 2022 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Video

  Should we abandon the multiverse theory?

  November 3, 2022 Sabine Hossenfelder, Roger Penrose, Michio Kaku YouTube

  What is driving the mulitverse theory? Are the multiverse stories only a sticky-plaster solution to the Big Bang theory problem?

• Can cosmic inflation be ruled out?

  November 3, 2022 Sarah Collins University of Cambridge

  Astrophysicists say that cosmic inflation -- a point in the Universe’s infancy when space-time expanded exponentially, and what physicists really refer to when they talk about the ‘Big Bang’ -- can in principle be ruled out in an assumption-free way.

• Learning May Be the Key to the Evolution of Consciousness

  November 3, 2022 Ralph Lewis Psychology Today

  Capacity to learn by flexible association may define and drive consciousness.

• On apologising for the historical sins of science

  November 3, 2022 William Reville Irish TImes

  Galton is remembered most for eugenics, the study of human inheritance with the aim of improving the human species through selective breeding

• Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA Discovered in Ancient South Americans

  November 3, 2022 Isaac Schultz Gizmodo

  Two archaeological sites in Brazil are revealing the genetic ancestry of some of the continent’s earliest humans.

• Butterfly Variation

  November 3, 2022 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Six Evolutionary Clichés and How to Answer Them

  November 3, 2022 Harry F. Sanders, III and Troy Lacey Answers in Genesis

  On National Cliché Day, we take a look at some of the most commonly used but wrong “examples of evolution.”

• Design Detection in the New York Times -- The Issue of Science Fraud

  November 3, 2022 Paul Nelson Evolution News & Science Today

• Water was both essential and a barrier to early life on Earth

  November 2, 2022 Nicolás M. Morato The Conversation

  microdroplets are one potential solution to this paradox

• Sex, not violence, could’ve sealed the fate of the Neanderthals

  November 2, 2022 Laura Baisas Popular Science

  More evidence emerges that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made love and not war thousands of years ago.

• News Update/Commentary

  Cellular mechanisms explain differences in species biology and help us understand their evolution

  November 2, 2022 University of Eastern Finland Science Daily

  The researchers used the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) and the mountain hare (Lepus timidus) as model organisms in their study.

• News Update/Commentary

  500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle

  November 2, 2022 University of Oxford Science Daily

  An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle in the evolution of life on earth, revealing what the first animals to make skeletons looked like.

• Ocean Bacteria Reveal an Unexpected Multicellular Form

  November 2, 2022 Carrie Arnold Quanta Magazine

  Marine bacteria normally seen as single cells join together as a “microscopic snow globe” to consume bulky floating carbohydrates.

• What’s Up with Hoatzin?

  November 2, 2022 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The origin of the hoatzin still baffles evolutionists: It is the strangest and most enigmatic bird species in the world

• The shape-shifting blobs that shook up cell biology

  November 2, 2022 Elie Dolgin Nature

  More than a decade ago, scientists started finding peculiar droplets inside cells. Now researchers are trying to work out how these ubiquitous beads form and what they do.

• A Closer Look at the Science of Purpose

  November 2, 2022 Stephen J. Iacoboni Evolution News & Science Today

• Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human

  November 2, 2022 Diana Kwon Scientific American

  Scientists demonstrate that crows are capable of recursion -- a key feature in grammar. Not everyone is convinced

• Placebos Demonstrate Power of the Human Mind

  November 2, 2022 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Faith, Science, and Nonreligious Identity Formation Among Male Kenyan Youth

  November 1, 2022 Kevin Muriithi Ndereba Zygon

  there has been a rising cohort of Africans who are increasingly identified as nonreligious or atheist or agnostic. This research presents a qualitative analysis of the sociocultural factors that affect or influence these minority identities

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Arguments against the stereochemical theory of the origin of the genetic code

  November, 2022 Massimo Di Giulio Biosystems

  the stereochimical theory of the origin of the genetic code is innatural because is based on mechanisms that do not ensure with certainty the maintenance of the amino acid-codon (or -anticodon) correspondence

• Study: Loss of Half the Brain Doesn't Mean No Word, Face Contact

  November 1, 2022 Mind Matters

  Researchers astounded: Contrary to theory, in a recent study, the single remaining brain hemisphere supported both word and face reading functions

• Can We Rewire Our Brains To Be More Fluent in Math?

  November 1, 2022 Mind Matters

  An artsy who flunked math -- but later became an electrical engineering prof -- says yes

• Do Epigenetic Changes Influence Evolution?

  November 1, 2022 Katarina Zimmer The Scientist

  Evidence is mounting that epigenetic marks on DNA can influence future generations in a variety of ways. But how such phenomena might affect large-scale evolutionary processes is hotly debated.

• “I Think, Therefore It Must Be True,” Part 2: The Science of Certainty

  November 1, 2022 at reasons.org Uncommon Descent

• Commentary: The benefits of being a maverick

  November, 2022 Tomasz Durakiewicz Physics Today, v.75, n.11

  Thomas Kuhn, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, coined the term “paradigm” as an agreed-upon state of knowledge and then went on to describe how that state is ruined as exceptions accumulate.

• Learning To Better Understand the Language of Algae

  November 1, 2022 at phys.org Uncommon Descent

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The hierarchical basis of serial homology and evolutionary novelty

  November 1, 2022 James DiFrisco, Alan C. Love, and Günter P. Wagner Journal of Morphology

  Given the pervasiveness of gene sharing in evolution and the extent of homology across the tree of life, why is everything not homologous with everything else?

• Opinion: The Problem with Researchers Hoarding Resources

  November 1, 2022 Jose Valdez and Sandeep Sharma The Scientist

  For too long, some scientists have acted like Gollums of the ivory tower, guarding precious study sites, model organisms, and even entire fields of inquiry.

• Commentary: The benefits of being a maverick

  November, 2022 Tomasz Durakiewicz Physics Today, v.75, n.11, p.10-11

• News Update/Commentary

  More than one way to build a black bird

  November 1, 2022 Cornell University Science Daily

  For a species of flycatcher in the Solomon Islands, scientists have so far found two genetic pathways leading to the same physical outcome: all-black feathers. This change was no accident. It was a result of nature specifically selecting for this

• News Update/Commentary

  Sites in the brain where RNA is edited could help to better explain neurodevelopment and disease

  November 1, 2022 Mount Sinai Hospital / School of Medicine Science Daily

  Researchers have catalogued thousands of sites in the brain where RNA is modified throughout the human lifespan in a process known as adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing

• What Are the Chances?

  November 1, 2022 Calvin Smith Answers in Genesis

  Betting your life on ‘unintelligent design’

• How a Grasshopper Gave Up Sex, Took Up Cloning

  November 1, 2022 Dan Robitzski The Scientist

  Meet the grasshopper that has reproduced asexually for a quarter of a million years -- without acquiring undue numbers of harmful mutations.

• The missing plan for alien first contact

  November 1, 2022 Tamlin Magee BBC

  Humans are still searching for signs of intelligent alien life on other planets -- but how would we react towards it if we ever did make contact?

• AlphaFold’s new rival? Meta AI predicts shape of 600 million proteins

  November 1, 2022 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Microbial molecules from soil, seawater and human bodies are among the planet’s least understood.

• Crooked star clusters may be a sign that Einstein’s gravity is wrong

  November 1, 2022 Leah Crane New Scientist

  Astronomers have found an unexpected asymmetry in stars escaping from their clusters, and it can't be easily explained by our standard theories of gravity

• Human Origins: All in the Family

  November 1, 2022 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Search for Habitable Planets Is a Design Detection Exercise

  November 1, 2022 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Without Hemoglobin, How Do Icefish Survive the Cold? By Design

  November 1, 2022 Emily Reeves Evolution News & Science Today

• John Lennox: Dante, Glaucus, and Transhumanism

  October 31, 2022 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• What Does AI in Education Mean for Critical Thinking Skills?

  October 31, 2022 Gary Smith Mind Matters

  Students, as reported at Motherboard, are increasingly using GPT-3 and other text-generator programs to write essays for them

• Mammal Skulls and Evidence of Creation?

  October 31, 2022 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science