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• The Remarkable Medicines Wild Animals Find in Nature

  May 24, 2022 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The “animals’ pharmacy” mainly aims at treating parasites and wounds using plants and insects

• Life’s First Peptides May Have Grown on RNA Strands

  May 24, 2022 Yasemin Saplakoglu Quanta Magazine

  RNA and peptides coevolving in the primordial world might have jointly served as a precursor to the modern ribosome.

• The struggle to find the origins of time

  May 24, 2022 Sten Odenwald Astronomy magazine

  What is time? Why is it so different from space? And where did it come from? Scientists are still stumped by these questions -- but working harder than ever to answer them.

• News Update/Commentary

  Hubble reaches new milestone in mystery of universe's expansion rate

  May 24, 2022 NASA/Goddard Science Daily

  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has calibrated more than 40 ‘milepost markers' of space and time to help scientists precisely measure the expansion rate of the universe -- a quest with a plot twist.

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists discover gene plays critical role in embryo development

  May 24, 2022 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Science Daily

  Developing drugs that affect the function of the Cnpy4 gene, which is involved in human embryo development, may provide potential new treatment options for diseases, including cancer.

• Video

  Insights from Geology on the Design of Our Planet for Life

  May 24, 2022 Casey Luskin Discovery Science

  The Good Earth

• Dawkins' Weasel Program vs the Information Life Acquires en Route

  May 23, 2022 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  To demonstrate what is wrong with fully naturalist assumptions like those of Richard Dawkins’ Weasel program, I developed Weasel Libs, modeled on Mad Libs

• Another Claim by Origin-of-Life Researchers Dissolves on Inspection

  May 23, 2022 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

• 4 categories of pseudoscience -- and how to talk to people who believe in them

  May 23, 2022 Scotty Hendricks Big Think

  Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.

• Kind, Species, and What’s in a Name?

  May 23, 2022 Harry F. Sanders, III Answers in Genesis

  How biblical kinds differ from modern species, a history of speciation models, and why the biblical model better explains the natural world

• News Update/Commentary

  Neurons: How RNA granules grow and shrink

  May 23, 2022 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München Science Daily

  Scientists have shown that small aggregates function as temporary RNA repositories, which are regulated by neural activity.

• Cosmologists Reverse Their Dogmas

  May 23, 2022 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Oops! The Previous Astronomical Conclusions May Be Wrong: The universe’s expansion may not continue forever, but “could stop expanding ‘remarkably soon’.”

• News Update/Commentary

  A family of termites has been traversing the world's oceans for millions of years

  May 23, 2022 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University Science Daily

  A comprehensive family tree, based on DNA sequences, has revealed that drywood termites have made at least 40 oceanic journeys over the last 50 million years to reach far flung landmasses.

• Ghostly ‘Mirror World’ Might Be Cause of Cosmic Controversy

  May 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent

• Information and Nature

  May 23, 2022 Eric Hedin Uncommon Descent

• Spontaneous Appearance of Life and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

  May 23, 2022 article by David Snoke Uncommon Descent

• Interview: Symmetry is a guide to reality

  May 23, 2022 Michio Kaku iai News

  Famed futurist and co-founder of String Field Theory. He is professor of theoretical physics at CUNY and author of, among other books, The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything.

• A Nearly 8,000-Year-Old Human Skull Was Found in the Minnesota River

  May 23, 2022 Allison Prang Wall Street Journal

  Kayakers discovered the skull; authorities initially thought it might be from a missing person; ‘we were not expecting that news’

• Dark Ages? Three Myths about Christianity and Science

  May 22, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today

• Gene-Edited Hamsters Did Not Behave As Expected

  May 22, 2022 Uncommon Descent

• Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention; But How?

  May 22, 2022 at Evolution News Uncommon Descent

• Debate: Theism vs. Naturalism

  May 22, 2022 Uncommon Descent

  Which is a better account of reality?

• Pentagon Aims to Reduce “Stigma” Around Reporting UFOs

  May 21, 2022 Mind Matters

  The UAPs (formerly UFOs) could be undocumented weather phenomena, returned space junk, or advanced surveillance craft that hostile powers are not telling the United States about. Or…

• Could the Dinosaurs Have Had a Now-Lost Civilization?

  May 21, 2022 Mind Matters

  Geoscientist Dirk Schultze-Makuch asks us to be sure why we believe it couldn’t be true. Not as simple as it first appears…

• Are All Those Codes Used by Cells Really “Codes”?

  May 21, 2022 Uncommon Descent

• Epigenetics: Editing Epigenome Decreased Alcoholism In Rats

  May 21, 2022 Uncommon Descent

• On the Closest We Have to a Theory of Everything

  May 21, 2022 Sabine Hossenfelder Uncommon Descent

• Who was the first human?

  May 21, 2022 Belinda Smith ABC News (Australia)

  Identifying them is tricky, but it was not our species, Homo sapiens

• Why Most Neuroscientific Theories of Consciousness Are Wrong

  May 21, 2022 Marc Wittmann Psychology Today

  The importance of extended time consciousness.

• Theistic Implications of the Multiverse

  May 21, 2022 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  Stephen Meyer writing at The Daily Wire examines the rise of the Multiverse -- in popular culture, inspired by the imaginings of scientists.

• Viruses: are they aliens that shaped our genetic destiny and could there be any fossilised on Mars?

  May 21, 2022 Richard A. Lovett Cosmos Magazine

  Research suggests early viral gene movers made evolution “infectious”

• Even Neurons Have Rich Clubs and Poor Clubs

  May 20, 2022 Mind Matters

  Both -- doing different jobs -- are essential to the brain’s functioning

• News Update/Commentary

  New research shows no evidence of structural brain change with short-term mindfulness training

  May 20, 2022 University of Wisconsin, Madison Science Daily

  A team found flaws in previous research that purported to show meditation could alter the brain's structure.

• News Update/Commentary

  Killer T vs. memory -- DNA isn't destiny for T cells

  May 20, 2022 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Science Daily

  Scientists have uncovered how one type of T cell creates two genetically identical, but functionally different, daughter cells.

• Female mice release banana-scented urine when pregnant to deter males

  May 20, 2022 Alice Klein New Scientist

  Pregnant and lactating female mice release a banana-smelling chemical in their urine that is thought to stress out males so they don’t commit infanticide

• In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

  May 20, 2022 Evolution News Uncommon Descent

• In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

  May 20, 2022 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Some Species Thought To Be Extinct May Simply Be “Lost”

  May 20, 2022 Uncommon Descent

• New Complexities Discovered in How Plants Protect Themselves Against Microorganisms

  May 20, 2022 Uncommon Descent

• Video

  Biology, Belief and Covid

  May 20, 2022 Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins YouTube

  They discuss their journeys towards and away from faith, Covid, genetics, evolution, the origin of the universe, evil, morality and God in a wide ranging conversation with Justin Brierley.

• Did Small Brains Doom the Mammoth and the Giant Armadillo?

  May 20, 2022 Mind Matters

  A recent study showed that survivors had brains that were 53% larger, which was perhaps useful in avoiding predators

• Kant’s religion of reason and the reinterpretation of Genesis 1–3

  May 20, 2022 Martin Duboisée de Ricquebourg Creation Ministries International

• News Update/Commentary

  Ghostly ‘mirror world' might be cause of cosmic controversy

  May 19, 2022 University of New Mexico Science Daily

  The Hubble constant is the rate of expansion of the universe today. Predictions for this rate are significantly slower than the rate found by our most precise local measurements. This discrepancy is one that many cosmologists have been trying to solve

• In Life, Not One Code but Many

  May 19, 2022 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• New Learning Model for Brain Overturns 70 Years of Theory

  May 19, 2022 Mind Matters

  The new model, if confirmed, could change the way algorithms are developed

• He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He's Collecting Unemployment.

  May 19, 2022 Suzy Weiss Bari Weiss

  Behind the fall of David Sabatini, ‘one of the greatest scientists' of his generation.

• Fossil imprints from oceans of the past

  May 19, 2022 Jorijntje Henderiks Science

  Imprints of fossil coccoliths discovered in black shales reveal that calcifying microalgae remained prominent producers during previous extreme ocean conditions.

• Astronomers question if the first picture of a black hole is accurate

  May 19, 2022 Leah Crane New Scientist

  The Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a black hole showed a distinctive ring feature, but a reanalysis of their data has raised concerns over whether that ring of light is real

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Catalytic Synthesis of Polyribonucleic Acid on Prebiotic Rock Glasses

  May 19, 2022 Craig A. Jerome, et al. Astrobiology

  Reported here are experiments that show that ribonucleoside triphosphates are converted to polyribonucleic acid when incubated with rock glasses similar to those likely present 4.3-4.4 billion years ago on the Hadean Earth surface

• Researchers Fuel a Microprocessor Using Power from Seaweed

  May 19, 2022 Mind Matters

  When they photosynthesize, algae produce a current that can be captured and used to power a small device