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• A Recent Big Bang Debate: Sheer Politeness Underscores Shakeup

  October 8, 2022 Mind Matters

  Takehome point: “Everyone would be keen to abandon the theory if there’s a better alternative, nobody’s married to the Big Bang theory”

• From Neanderthal genome to Nobel prize: meet geneticist Svante Pääbo

  October 7, 2022 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Nature asked the pioneer of ancient-DNA research about some of his greatest discoveries.

• The Remarkable Deceitfulness of Birds -- But Is It Really Deceit?

  October 7, 2022 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The birds themselves are not agents making a moral choice to deceive; they are carrying out a behavior pattern they have inherited

• Did the Court Really Say Bees Are Fish?

  October 7, 2022 Richard W. Stevens Mind Matters

  And would an AI-run court -- which some propose -- make a different decision? Not here because California law allows the interpretation

• Everything he thought he knew about SSRIs is wrong

  October 7, 2022 Hilary Brueck MSN

  says a psychiatry researcher who taught his students depression was caused by a ‘chemical imbalance' in the brain

• Has a Pterosaur Ancestor Been Found?

  October 7, 2022 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Looking more closely at a fossil found 115 years ago, evolutionists visualize it running, sprouting wings and flying into the sky

• News Update/Commentary

  Microbial enzymes are the key to pectin digestion in leaf beetles

  October 7, 2022 Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Science Daily

  A research team shows in a new study how leaf beetles could successfully use new and previously indigestible food sources in the course of evolution. The insects acquired enzymes from microorganisms via horizontal gene transfer

• Game Over? Nick Lane Wants Another Inning

  October 7, 2022 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  3D map reveals DNA organization within human retina cells

  October 7, 2022 NIH/National Eye Institute Science Daily

  Scientists shed light on how genetic architecture determines gene expression, tissue-specific function, and disease phenotype in blinding diseases

• Fossil Friday: Moniopterus -- Snake, Beetle, or Mollusk?

  October 7, 2022 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

• Secrets that Give Sea Lions and Jellyfish Their Edge as Swimmers

  October 6, 2022 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Understanding Intelligent Design

  October 6, 2022 Subboor Ahmad YouTube

  The Humpty-Dumpty Experiment and What It May Mean

• Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets explained within biblical history

  October 6, 2022 Michael J. Oard Creation Ministries International

• Scientists Uncover Major Pathway Cells Use to Mend Leaky Lysosomes

  October 6, 2022 Holly Barker The Scientist

  Damaged lysosomes are repaired by a lipid-based signaling pathway dubbed PITT that could be targeted to treat neurodegenerative disease, its discoverers say.

• How philosophy turned into physics -- and reality turned into information

  October 6, 2022 Peter Evans The Conversation

• Pancreatic Cell Cilia Wiggle to Control Insulin Release

  October 6, 2022 Shafaq Zia The Scientist

  Tiny hairlike structures on pancreatic cells have long been considered static sensors. Now, researchers say they move and help regulate insulin secretion.

• Darwin and the Loss of the Enlightenment Paradigm

  October 6, 2022 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Quantum physics forces us to make really weird choices

  October 6, 2022 Adam Frank Big Think

  Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.

• How noncoding RNAs began to leave the junkyard

  October 6, 2022 Vivien Marx Nature Methods

  The research community focused on noncoding RNAs keeps growing. Skepticism about the field has some history.

• News Update/Commentary

  Discovering new cancer treatments in the ‘dark matter' of the human genome

  October 6, 2022 University of Bern Science Daily

  Researchers have developed a screening method to discover new drug targets for cancer treatment in the so-called ‘Dark Matter' of the genome. They applied their method to non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC),

• How Dormant Bacteria Calculate Their Return to Life

  October 6, 2022 at phys.org Uncommon Descent

  The Thinking Undead

• Pterosaurs may have evolved from tiny, fast-running reptiles

  October 5, 2022 Carolyn Gramling Science News

  Fossils found in Scotland in 1907 are illuminating the origin of the first flying vertebrates

• Have scientists FINALLY unlocked the origin of life???

  October 5, 2022 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

• Did magnetism shape the universe? An epic experiment suggests it did

  October 5, 2022 Stuart Clark New Scientist

  The idea that magnetism helped shape the universe has been dismissed by scientists for decades, but now new experiments involving plasma that is hotter than the sun are prompting a rethink

• One Sequence, Many Variations

  October 5, 2022 Van Andel Institute The Scientist

  Andrew Pospisilik explores the epigenetic changes that give organisms the plasticity to change in response to their environments.

• Two eye-opening new books delve into the world of animal communication

  October 5, 2022 Chris Stokel-Walker New Scientist

  Tom Mustill's How to Speak Whale and Karen Bakker's The Sounds of Life explore what we know about the way life on Earth communicates, from whales to coral reefs. They are both must-reads

• News Update/Commentary

  Birdsong reveals rare hybrid coupling 10 million years in the making

  October 5, 2022 Penn State Science Daily

  A team of researchers was able to use a combination of genomic sequencing and song analysis to identify a rare hybrid bird, whose ancestors haven't shared the same breeding location or lineage for 10 million years.

• News Update/Commentary

  A new route to evolution: How DNA from our mitochondria works its way into our genomes

  October 5, 2022 University of Cambridge Science Daily

  Scientists have shown that in one in every 4,000 births, some of the genetic code from our mitochondria -- the ‘batteries' that power our cells -- inserts itself into our DNA, revealing a surprising new insight into how humans evolve.

• Massive asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also created ‘monstrous’ mile-high tsunami

  October 5, 2022 Alex Mitchell New York Post

• News Update/Commentary

  Triassic specimen found to be early relative of pterosaurs a century after its discovery

  October 5, 2022 University of Birmingham Science Daily

  A new study of a tiny Triassic fossil reptile first discovered over 100 years ago in the north east of Scotland has revealed it to be a close relative of the species that would become pterosaurs -- iconic flying reptiles of the age of the dinosaurs.

• Erasmus Darwin and Credible Denial

  October 5, 2022 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Molecule-Building Innovators Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  October 5, 2022 Yasemin Saplakoglu Quanta Magazine

  The chemists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless were recognized for their development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

• What Can Zircons Tell Us About the Evolution of Plants?

  October 5, 2022 Alka Tripathy-Lang Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  The versatile mineral could contain evidence of the evolution of land plants and their effect on the sedimentary system.

• The Human Brain Rewires Itself in Middle Age

  October 5, 2022 Mind Matters

  After we hit forty, our brains integrate more and compartmentalize less

• What Did Neanderthals Think About?

  October 5, 2022 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The Neanderthal Mind Explored: Research shows that Neanderthals were our physical and mental brothers and sisters

• The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Spawned a Monster Tsunami

  October 4, 2022 Isaac Schultz Gizmodo

  The impact created fast-moving waves nearly 3 miles high, a new study finds.

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  Ka'ab Ibn Malik (ra): The Greatest Story of Repentance | The Firsts

  October 4, 2022 Omar Suleiman Yaqeen Institute

  The eloquent poet who was silenced, then elevated through his story to be the most narrated about repenter in the history of Islam.

• Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose

  October 4, 2022 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  A series of chemistry experiments suggest that a molecule that provides energy for all living cells, called ATP, could have been forged in geothermal vents in the ocean or created in freshwater ponds

• News Update/Commentary

  Random defense: Cells play ‘molecular roulette' to determine how body fights disease

  October 4, 2022 Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Science Daily

  A new discovery about how cells make antibodies has revealed the surprisingly random way the body's immune system defends against infection and disease.

• News Update/Commentary

  Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered global tsunami that scoured seafloor thousands of miles from impact site

  October 4, 2022 University of Michigan Science Daily

  The miles-wide asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped out nearly all the dinosaurs and roughly three-quarters of the planet's plant and animal species.

• News Update/Commentary

  Laughing gas in space could mean life

  October 4, 2022 University of California, Riverside Science Daily

  Scientists are suggesting something is missing from the typical roster of chemicals that astrobiologists use to search for life on planets around other stars -- laughing gas.

• NASA Goes Loony: Moon Formed in Mere Hours?

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

  Is it clickbait? NASA is claiming the moon formed within hours after a collision

• Jay Richards: Myths, Metaphysics, and Artificial Intelligence

  October 4, 2022 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Darwin and the “New Atheists”

  October 4, 2022 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  The False Science Behind Origin of Life Research

  October 4, 2022 James Tour YouTube

• Video

  Richards Addresses Whether AI Machines Will Replace Most Human Workers

  October 4, 2022 Discovery Science YouTube

  Jay Richards discusses the growing fear that Artificially Intelligent (AI) machines will replace most human workers. Drawing on his book The Human Advantage, Richards argues that humans retain special qualities that cannot be replaced by “smart machines."

• What’s next for ancient DNA studies after Nobel Prize honors groundbreaking field of paleogenomics

  October 4, 2022 Mary Prendergast The Conversation

• The Hyper-Specialization of University Researchers

  October 4, 2022 Jeffrey Funk and Gary Smith Mind Matters

  So many papers are published today in increasingly narrow specialties that, if there is still a big picture, hardly anyone can see it

• Is Consciousness Really a Memory System for Our Interactions with Reality?

  October 4, 2022 Tim McMillan The Debrief

  New research says maybe.

• Armed Forces in the Cell Keep DNA Healthy

  October 4, 2022 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today