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• News Update/Commentary

  Brain evolution is linked to competition, study in fish suggests

  October 20, 2022 University of Texas, Arlington Science Daily

  Biologists find correlation between competitive environments and larger brain size

• Researchers Report Decoding Thoughts from fMRI Data

  October 20, 2022 Grace van Deelen The Scientist

  A method appears to be the first to noninvasively reconstruct language from brain activity.

• Mammalian Oocytes Store mRNA in Newly Found Membraneless Structure

  October 20, 2022 Alejandra Manjarrez The Scientist

  The findings answer the longstanding question of where these cells hold the mRNA needed to cope with the transcriptional halt preceding meiosis.

• Trending: Things Evolved “Earlier Than Thought”

  October 20, 2022 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  CEH has often reported organisms supposedly evolving “earlier than thought.” This pushes evolution into a time crunch.

• Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2

  October 20, 2022 Valentin Bruttel, Alex Washburne, and Antonius VanDongen bioRxiv

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Origin of Chirality in the Molecules of Life

  October 20, 2022 J. A. Cowan and R. J. Furnstahl ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

  the origin of enantiomeric selectivity is analyzed from the viewpoint of the “RNA World” model, based on the autocatalytic turnover of glyceraldehyde as a precursor for simple sugars, and in particular ribose, as promoted by the formose reaction

• Comatose People Can Have “Covert Consciousness"

  October 19, 2022 Mind Matters

  Claassen and Edlow found that the brain patterns of a woman who could not respond physically to commands showed that she recognized them

• Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine’

  October 19, 2022 Charlie Wood and Merrill Sherman Quanta Magazine

  The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.

• From Tolerant to Anti-creationist and Anti-intelligent Design

  October 19, 2022 Jerry Bergman Answers in Genesis

  The American Scientific Affiliation

• Why modifying gravity doesn’t add up

  October 19, 2022 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  The Universe gravitates so that normal matter and General Relativity alone can't explain it. Here's why dark matter beats modified gravity.

• First known Neanderthal family discovered in Siberian cave

  October 19, 2022 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Ancient DNA from closely related individuals offers fresh insight into Neanderthals’ lives and social structures.

• Bubonic plague left lingering scars on the human genome

  October 19, 2022 Heidi Ledford Nature

  Genes that might have aided survival during the Black Death are now linked to autoimmune disorders.

• Ancient DNA reveals rapid natural selection during the Black Death

  October 19, 2022 David Enard Nature

  Human DNA from the Middle Ages reveals that natural selection occurred at pace in survivors of a bubonic plague pandemic, perhaps leaving their descendants at increased risk of autoimmune diseases.

• Discovery of 119-m.y.-old genes alters understanding of how parasitic DNA impacts evolution

  October 19, 2022 Stowers Institute for Medical Research Science Daily

  New research has uncovered a selfish gene family that has survived for over 100 million years -- 10 times longer than any meiotic driver ever identified -- casting new doubt on established beliefs on how evolution tackles these threatening sequences.

• News Update/Commentary

  The most precise accounting yet of dark energy and dark matter

  October 19, 2022 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Science Daily

  Analyzing more than two decades' worth of supernova explosions convincingly bolsters modern cosmological theories and reinvigorates efforts to answer fundamental questions.

• News Update/Commentary

  Tardigrades: Microscopic creatures' amazing durability

  October 19, 2022 University of Wyoming Science Daily

  Researchers discovered how a sugar called trehalose works with proteins to allow tardigrades to survive a severe lack of water.

• Peer Review Flaws Revealed by Massive Number of Retractions

  October 19, 2022 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Does peer review help ensure validity? A major scientific publisher is retracting over 500 peer-reviewed papers

• Don’t Even Go There

  October 19, 2022 James Lee City Journal (a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research)

  The National Institutes of Health now blocks access to an important database if it thinks a scientist’s research may enter “forbidden” territory.

• The Medical World's Greatest Discovery Was Once Condemned As ‘Misinformation'

  October 19, 2022 John F. Harnes History, Rinse, & Repeat

• Bionic Hands? Not an Improvement on Mechanical Hooks!, Says User

  October 18, 2022 Mind Matters

  Right now, says a woman born without a left hand, electronic prostheses don’t function as well as mechanical extensions

• The next stage of cosmic microwave background research

  October 18, 2022 Madeleine O’Keefe Symmetry magazine

  With CMB-S4, scientists hope to connect a sandy desert with a polar desert -- and revolutionize our understanding of the early universe.

• Humans are 8% virus

  October 18, 2022 Aidan Burn The Conversation

  how the ancient viral DNA in your genome plays a role in human disease and development

• An ideology-infused paper on how to teach college biology

  October 18, 2022 Jerry Coyne Why Evolution Is True

• The Extragalactic Alien Hunt

  October 18, 2022 Keith Cooper and Jada Merritt Supercluster

  Back when SETI began, we expected intelligent extraterrestrials to make things easy for us.

• The surprising role death plays in the stability of ecosystems

  October 18, 2022 Laura Spinney New Scientist

  Ecologists have started to recognise the competition between younger and older generations within the same species, with some startling conclusions about nature’s requirement for mortality

• ‘Earliest’ ancestor of cephalopods

  October 18, 2022 Lucien Tuinstra Creation Ministries International

  Where is the evolution?

• News Update/Commentary

  The Mona Lisa effect: How eyespots deter predators that approach from different directions

  October 18, 2022 Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Science Daily

  Chicks are intimidated by eyespots that appear to gaze at them, providing an explanation for why eyespots are often symmetrical

• Evolution Is Not a Person

  October 18, 2022 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Ascribing thoughts and purposes to evolution is a logical fallacy. At its core, natural selection has no foresight or direction.

• Video

  On the Transhumanist Claim AI Will Turn Humans into Gods

  October 17, 2022 Discovery Science YouTube

  John Lennox discusses the threats and benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), especially the claim by transhumanists that AI will create a race of god-like super-humans. Lennox compares the claims to his Christian understanding of the future of humanity

• Mathematicians Discover the Fibonacci Numbers Hiding in Strange Spaces

  October 17, 2022 Leila Sloman Quanta Magazine

  Recent explorations of unique geometric worlds reveal perplexing patterns, including the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio.

• Physics can't deal with reality's complexity

  October 17, 2022 Nancy Cartwright iai News

  A dappled world needs a dappled science

• Mitochondrial DNA Sneaks into Nuclear Genome

  October 17, 2022 Holly Barker The Scientist

  Genetic material pilfered from mitochondria may seal cracks in our genetic code, a study suggests.

• The Long and Winding Road to Eukaryotic Cells

  October 17, 2022 Amanda Heidt The Scientist

  Despite recent advances in the study of eukaryogenesis, much remains unresolved about the origin and evolution of the most complex domain of life.

• Fine-Timing as Evidence of Intelligent Design

  October 17, 2022 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Is Consciousness a “Controlled Brain Hallucination"? No.

  October 17, 2022 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

  Anil Seth explains away consciousness away using fashionable terms like that. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I know from clinical experience that he is wrong

• How Can We Tell a Genius from a Really Smart Person?

  October 16, 2022 Mind Matters

  Members of Mensa, a club for people with high IQ, think that the difference is exceptional creativity

• Why It's Difficult for Science to Answer Some Basic Questions

  October 16, 2022 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Are we reaching the edge of the things science can tell us?

• Scientists Reconstruct the Genome of the 180-Million-Year-Old Common Ancestor of All Mammals

  October 15, 2022 University of California, Davis Sci Tech Daily

  UCD scientists help reveal the genome of the common ancestor of all mammals

• How Frogs and Fish “Count”

  October 15, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today

• Does Conway’s ‘Game of Life’ support abiogenesis?

  October 15, 2022 Shaun Doyle Creation Ministries International

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Towards a characterization of metaphysics of biology

  October 15, 2022 Vanesa Triviño Synthese

  metaphysics for and metaphysics in biology

• Dynamic oxygen levels may have accelerated animal evolution 

  October 14, 2022 University of Leeds

  Oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are likely to have “fluctuated wildly” one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the development of early animals, say researchers.

• Researchers Are Zeroing in on Animal Number Sense

  October 14, 2022 Mind Matters

  We’re beginning to find out more about how animals that don’t really “think” much can keep track of numbers, when needed

• Scientists Resurrect Ancient Rubiscos to Understand Their Evolution

  October 14, 2022 Alejandra Manjarrez The Scientist

  A team proposes that the addition of a small accessory subunit to the carbon-fixing enzyme was key to improving its catalytic properties and specificity to CO₂.

• Information Sharing Is Not Evolution

  October 14, 2022 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Scientists are finding that organisms can use libraries of functional information obtained from one another.

• News Update/Commentary

  Study finds unexpected protective properties of pain

  October 14, 2022 Harvard Medical School Science Daily

  Work in mice illuminates how pain neurons shield the gut from damage

• Theory in Crisis? Some Cautionary Words

  October 14, 2022 Jonathan Wells Evolution News & Science Today

• Eurotamandua -- Anteater or Not Even Close?

  October 14, 2022 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Astronomers just spotted the most powerful flash of light ever seen

  October 14, 2022 Tereza Pultarova space.com

  The gamma-ray burst was also the nearest ever detected.

• Reductionism As a Dead End in Neuroscience -- Captured in an Essay

  October 13, 2022 Mind Matters

  From the evidence that he presents, Anil Seth could at most show that animal consciousness is more complex than previously thought