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• Sabine Hossenfelder Reassures Us That Schrodinger’s Cat Is Still Not Dead

  March 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• More on the “Smaller Prey” Theory of How Human Brains Got So Big

  March 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Non-Darwinian Biology Teachers Need To Be Targeted for “Professional Development”

  March 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Chaitin's Discovery of a Way of Describing True Randomness

  March 12, 2021 Mind Matters

  He found that concepts from computer programming worked well because, if the data is not random, the program should be smaller than the data

• News Update/Commentary

  Traces of Earth's early magma ocean identified in Greenland rocks

  March 12, 2021 University of Cambridge Science Daily

  New research led by the University of Cambridge has found rare evidence -- preserved in the chemistry of ancient rocks from Greenland -- which tells of a time when Earth was almost entirely molten.

• Wikipedia's Bias Meets a Free-Speech Alternative

  March 12, 2021 Caitlin Bassett Mind Matters

  The famously free encyclopaedia’s pages on abortion, communism, and historical figures reveal a left-leaning bias

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Structural and functional characterization of a putative de novo gene in Drosophila

  March 12, 2021 Andreas Lange, et al. Nature Communications

• Genetics Proves Absurdity of Whale Evolution

  March 12, 2021 Stephen Bartholomew, Jr. Answers in Genesis

• In Memoriam: John C. Polkinghorne (1930-2021)

  March 12, 2021 Templeton Prize

• Many Deep-Sea Microbes Invisible to Mammalian Immune System

  March 12, 2021 Abby Olena The Scientist

  In a new study, human and mouse cells recognized only one in five bacterial species collected from more than a mile below the Pacific Ocean’s surface.

• Lamprey Larvae Are Not Vertebrate Ancestors

  March 12, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Another case of Haeckel-like recapitulation turns out to be false. Lamprey larvae are not relics of our ancestors.

• News Update/Commentary

  How protein essential for male fertility emerged

  March 12, 2021 University of Münster Science Daily

  Researchers have analysed the evolutionary history of how a protein -- which is essential for the fertility of male fruit flies and emerged from previously non-coding DNA became functional and took on a relatively stable structure.

• Deplatforming Isaac Newton

  March 12, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• We May Never Find Life on Mars -- And That Could Be a Good Thing

  March 12, 2021 Dirk Schulze-Makuch Air & Space (Smithsonian)

  Perseverance, the Fermi Paradox, and the Great Filter

• We Don’t Live in a Multiverse Because the Concept Makes No Sense

  March 12, 2021 Michael Egnor Evolution News & Science Today

• Early Mars fluctuated between long periods of cold and short periods of warmth

  March 12, 2021 Leah Burrows Harvard School of Engineering

  Model helps constrain circumstances under which life could have emerged on Mars

• Stephen Meyer: Why You Should Pre-Order Return of the God Hypothesis Now

  March 12, 2021 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• 2023 ICC Call for Papers

  March 11, 2021 Steve Gollmer International Conference on Creationism

• What fueled humans' big brains?

  March 11, 2021 Stephanie Pappas Live Science

  Controversial paper proposes new hypothesis

• Science and Creationism in Serious Colleges

  March 11, 2021 Steve Pettit Wall Street Journal

  Dr. Swamidass’s unilateral demands for a “principled compromise” and “higher standards” for Christian colleges and accrediting associations do not center on science, as he misleadingly claims, but rather on scientific models and the evidence for them.

• Archaea microbes fold, twist and contort their DNA in extreme ways

  March 11, 2021 Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Science News

  The maneuvers could help these single-celled organisms get easy access to their genes

• The science of terrible men

  March 11, 2021 Kathryn Paige Harden Aeon

  The pioneers of social genetics were racists and eugenicists: should we give up on the science they founded altogether?

• Seventeen “Extinct” European Plant Species Found Alive

  March 11, 2021 Katarina Zimmer The Scientist

  Plant species officially reported to be lost are in fact persevering in the wild, in seed banks or botanical gardens, or as other species now recognized to be taxonomic synonyms.

• Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect

  March 11, 2021 Natalie Wolchover Quanta Magazine

  Spurred on by quantum experiments that scramble the ordering of causes and their effects, some physicists are figuring out how to abandon causality altogether.

• News Update/Commentary

  How critical part of lung forms at cellular level

  March 11, 2021 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Science Daily

  Knowing which cells are involved in the formation of healthy lung tissue at birth may provide a basis for therapies that help regenerate a critical portion of the lung

• News Update/Commentary

  Eye color genetics not so simple, study finds

  March 11, 2021 King's College London Science Daily

  Researchers have identified 50 new genes for eye color in a study involving the genetic analysis of almost 195,000 people across Europe and Asia.

• In the Name of “Academic Freedom,” a Scientist Calls for Punishing Creationists

  March 11, 2021 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• BBC Cell Film Pays Tribute to Design in Nature Without Knowing It

  March 11, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Tree Fern, Once Considered “Evolutionary Dead-End,” Turns Out To Have Been Advanced

  March 11, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Josh Swamidass on the Need To Single Out and Punish Creationists

  March 11, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Lamprey Larvae Do NOT Resemble the Early Animal “That All Vertebrates Evolved From”

  March 11, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• News Update/Commentary

  How the habitability of exoplanets is influenced by their rocks

  March 11, 2021 University of Bern Science Daily

  The weathering of silicate rocks plays an important role to keep the climate on Earth clement. Scientists investigated the general principles of this process. Their results could influence how we interpret the signals from distant worlds

• Record number of asteroids seen whizzing past Earth in 2020

  March 11, 2021 Alexandra Witze Nature

  Despite pandemic disruption, astronomers detected thousands of previously unknown near-Earth asteroids last year.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Significant non-existence of sequences in genomes and proteomes

  March 10, 2021 Grigorios Koulouras and Martin C. Frith Nucleic Acids Research

• A Bloodsucking Fish May Not Be the Vertebrate Ancestor We Thought

  March 10, 2021 Isaac Schultz Gizmodo

• Snowflakes as You’ve Never Seen Them Before

  March 10, 2021 Kenneth Chang New York Times

  Whether made with setups using sapphire and carbon fiber or an old mitten and a standard camera, these photographic approaches allow close-ups of the tiny masterpieces formed when snow falls.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Non-ammocoete larvae of Palaeozoic stem lampreys

  March 10, 2021 Tetsuto Miyashita, Robert W. Gess, Kristen Tietjen, and Michael I. Coates Nature

• News Update/Commentary

  Long-accepted theory of vertebrate origin upended by fossilized lamprey larvae

  March 10, 2021 Canadian Museum of Nature Science Daily

  These ancient, jawless, eel-like fishes have long provided insights into vertebrate evolution. The analysis of the fossils counters the established view that the larvae of modern lampreys are a holdover from the ancestors of living vertebrates.

• News Update/Commentary

  Placenta is a dumping ground for genetic defects

  March 10, 2021 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Science Daily

  A study of the genomic architecture of the human placenta confirms that the normal structure of the placenta is different to any other human organ and resembles that of a tumor, harboring many of the same genetic mutations found in childhood cancers.

• Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?

  March 10, 2021 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

  Specifically, if your head were transplanted, would your soul go with it?

• Quantum weirdness isn’t weird -- if we accept objects don’t exist

  March 10, 2021 Carlo Rovelli New Scientist

  We can grasp the truth about the quantum world, as long as we abandon our most cherished assumption about what’s real and what’s not

• “It Evolved” Is Not Science

  March 10, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Secular scientists have a bad habit of carelessly appealing to evolution as a default explanation for everything.

• To Build a Body Plan, Start with a Plan

  March 10, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today

• Yet Another Myth About How Humans Came To Walk Upright

  March 10, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life is Rare

  March 10, 2021 Andrew E. Snyder-Beattie, Anders Sandberg, K. Eric Drexler, and Michael B. Bonsall Astrobiology, v.21, n.3

• Scientists Create Self-Replicating Chemicals to Help Explain the Origins of Life

  March 10, 2021 Mordechai Rorvig Motherboard (Tech by Vice)

  An enduring question about how we got here is how a vat of primordial chemicals might have turned into life. Now, scientists are attempting to pull it off themselves.

• News Update/Commentary

  Long-accepted theory of vertebrate origin upended by fossilized lamprey larvae

  March 10, 2021 Canadian Museum of Nature Science Daily

  The analysis of the fossils counters the established view that the blind, filter-feeding larvae of modern lampreys (ammocoetes) are a holdover from the ancestors of living vertebrates.

• At LiveScience: Dark Matter Could Morph into Ordinary Matter Via “Gravity Portals”

  March 10, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• A Psychologist Weighs in on the Neanderthal Extinction

  March 10, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Horizontal Gene Transfer in Vertebrates: A Fishy Tale

  March 10, 2021 Laurie A. Graham and Peter L. Davies Trends in Genetics

  The recent assembly of the herring genome suggests this fish acquired its antifreeze protein gene by horizontal transfer and then passed a copy on to the smelt.