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• Origin of dinosaur-ending asteroid possibly found. And it's dark.

  August 8, 2021 Mara Johnson-Groh Live Science

• The Brain Can Be Split But the Mind Can't

  August 8, 2021 Mind Matters

  Neuroscientist Roger Sperry found that splitting the brain in half does not split consciousness in half. It just gives you a rather interesting, but very subtle set of perceptual disabilities

• Dark matter: one last push to crack the biggest secret in the universe

  August 8, 2021 Robin McKie The Guardian

  Scientists are pinning hopes on elaborate detectors to track the elusive material that holds galaxies together

• Video

  “Is Dark Matter Real?"

  August 7, 2021 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  The ‘Golden Webinars in Astrophysics' series seeks to bring forefront research in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology to the public in the English and Spanish language.

• Cat Genome Looks and Behaves “Remarkably Like Ours”

  August 7, 2021 The Atlantic Uncommon Descent

• Skull Found in 1933 Belongs to “Our Closest Relative” “Species”

  August 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent

  researchers now believe

• Lizards Evolved for Life in Trees at Least 100 Times

  August 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent

  Talk about convergent evolution

• If We Find Life on Exoplanets, Some of It Might Be “Crabs"

  August 6, 2021 Mind Matters

  Over millions of years, many crustaceans gradually grew to look more and more like crabs, a process called convergent evolution

• Don’t Call It a Supervolcano

  August 6, 2021 Mary Caperton Morton Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Living in Geologic Time: Scientists dismantle the myths of Yellowstone.

• Psyche asteroid is packed full of precious metals

  August 6, 2021 Ryan Morrison Daily Mail (UK)

  could be worth more than $10,000 quadrillion, new surface temperature measurements confirm

• Eleven Different Varieties of Spiders Feed on Snakes

  August 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Noncoding RNA Improves Symptoms in Mice with Metabolic Disorder

  August 6, 2021 Abby Olena The Scientist

  A long noncoding RNA from humans appeared to help the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase work better in a mouse model of phenylketonuria, the disorder characterized by reduced activity of that enzyme.

• Organic blobs built in lab may be small step towards synthetic life

  August 6, 2021 Danielle Sedbrook New Scientist

• The Extinct Species Within

  August 6, 2021 Christie Wilcox The Scientist

  The genomes of living animals are littered with DNA from long-gone relatives, providing a lens on evolution, past extinctions, and perhaps even solutions to agricultural problems.

• How the Story Lost Its Just-So

  August 6, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  When recast into more empirically rigorous language, Darwinian just-so stories become engineering design accounts

• News Update/Commentary

  Protein complex SMC ensures the dynamics of holocentromeres

  August 6, 2021 Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Science Daily

  A research team has now used modelling to investigate how the centromere changes dynamically in the course of a cell division in some species.

• God Hypothesis: The Problem of Background Knowledge

  August 6, 2021 Elizabeth Whately Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  A microRNA network is the putative mediator of reductive stress in the heart

  August 6, 2021 University of Alabama, Birmingham Science Daily

  Understanding how reductive stress is controlled may help personalize treatment of heart failure patients, leading to better outcomes

• Transposable elements shape the evolution of mammalian development

  August 5, 2021 Anna D. Senft and Todd S. Macfarlan Nature Reviews Genetics, v.22, p.691-711

• Talking to science deniers and sceptics is not hopeless

  August 5, 2021 Lee McIntyre Nature

  Fears of backfire effects are overblown, and advice to listen and interact still stands.

• How Philosopher John Locke Turned Reality into Theater

  August 5, 2021 Mind Matters

  His “little theater in the mind” concept means that you can’t even know that nature exists. It may just be a movie that’s being played in front of your eyes

• Reviewing Sapiens -- Back to the Guy Who Lost His Faith Over Harari

  August 5, 2021 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Blog Post

  The Misinformation Trifecta

  August 5, 2021 Steven Novella Neurologica

• Sponge-like Fossil Could Be Earth's Earliest Known Animal

  August 5, 2021 Max Kozlov Nature, v.596, p.19

  Canadian fossil could rewrite the history of animal life -- but some palaeontologists are not convinced.

• News Update/Commentary

  Sticky toes unlock life in the trees

  August 5, 2021 Washington University, St. Louis Science Daily

  Biologists analyzed data from 2,600 lizard species worldwide and discovered that, while hundreds of different types of lizards have independently evolved arboreal lifestyles, species that possessed sticky toepads prevailed.

• Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate

  August 5, 2021 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Did Longer Days on Early Earth Set the Stage for Complex Life?

  August 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• How the earth's rotation helped the earliest forms of life to diversify

  August 4, 2021 Ashley Strickland CNN

• Video

  Panel Discussion on Joshua Swamidass' Book, The Genealogical Adam & Eve

  August 4, 2021 Reasonable Faith YouTube

  In November of 2020, Dr. Craig participated in a virtual panel critique for the Evangelical Philosophical Society.

• Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras

  August 4, 2021 Michael Marshall New Scientist

• Cell Biologists Describe a “Beautiful, Flawless Machine”

  August 4, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  All life depends on the Kinetochore. It hasn’t evolved for a “billion years.”

• News Update/Commentary

  137 human genomes from the Middle East fill gaps in human history

  August 4, 2021 Cell Press Science Daily

  Whole-genome sequencing efforts around the world have offered important insights into human diversity, historical migrations, and the relationships between people of different regions -- but scientists still don't have a complete picture

• Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus

  August 4, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today

• Watch: The Multiverse Is Some Scientists’ “God of the Gaps”

  August 4, 2021 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• From Scientific American, Another Bedtime Story for Atheists

  August 4, 2021 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Understanding “Information” -- A Key to the Intelligent Design Debate

  August 4, 2021 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• On Science’s God of the Gaps

  August 4, 2021 Kirk Durston Uncommon Descent

• Jordan Peterson Interviews Larry Krauss on Scientism

  August 4, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Why Is an Elaborate System for Keeping Populations in Check Supposed To Be “Evolutionary Chaos”?

  August 4, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Why Do We Have to Die?

  August 4, 2021 Aaron Hirsh nautil.us

  The question of mortality can be answered by these calculations.

• How Did Descartes Come To Make Such a Mess of Dualism?

  August 3, 2021 Mind Matters

  Mathematician René Descartes strictly separated mind and matter in a way that left the mind very vulnerable

• Harvestman genome helps explain how arachnids got grasping legs

  August 3, 2021 Christa Lesté-Lasserre New Scientist

• News Update/Commentary

  After 60 years, scientists find the missing link in our body’s blood pressure control

  August 3, 2021 University of Virginia Health System Science Daily

  Researchers have determined the location of natural blood-pressure barometers inside our bodies that have eluded scientists for more than 60 years.

• Reviewing Sapiens: An Evolutionary Deconstruction of Human Rights

  August 3, 2021 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  How sex cells get the right genetic mix -- An interdisciplinary approach solves a century-old puzzle

  August 3, 2021 John Innes Centre Science Daily

  A new discovery explains what determines the number and position of genetic exchanges that occur in sex cells, such as pollen and eggs in plants, or sperm and eggs in humans.

• Alien Dreams: The Surprisingly Long History of Speculation About Extraterrestrials

  August 3, 2021 Wade Roush The MIT Press Reader

  The idea that other worlds might be home to alien beings has been part of our thought for as long as we have been looking skyward.

• Giraffes Turn Out To Be a Complex Social Species

  August 3, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Neanderthals Were Painting in a Cave 65,000 Years Ago

  August 3, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• The Natural Barometer for Healthy Blood Pressure Found

  August 3, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Over 1,000 earthquakes rattle Yellowstone in July in ‘doozy’ of month

  August 3, 2021 Maddie Capron Idaho Statesman

  It was “quite a doozy” of a month for earthquakes in Yellowstone -- but there’s no reason to panic, geologists said.