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• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Evolutionary functions of consciousness

  November 13, 2025 W. Tecumseh Fitch, Colin Allen, and Adina L Roskies Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, v.380, n.1939

  In this special issue, a group of international experts from a variety of disciplines -- biology, neuroscience, philosophy, and cognitive science -- address the functions of consciousness

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree

  November 13, 2025 Jacob L. Steenwyk and Nicole King Science, v.390, n.6774, p.751-756

  a highly contested debate: whether sponges or comb jellies (ctenophores) were the first lineage to diverge among animals

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Genomic evidence for the Holocene codispersal of dogs and humans across Eastern Eurasia

  November 13, 2025 Shao-Jie Zhang, et al. Science, v.390, n.6774, p.735-740

  Dogs have been a part of human cultures for at least 10,000 years, but we still have much to learn about where these connections emerged and how they were shaped over time.

• James Watson: A flawed titan of science

  November 13, 2025 Jon Cohen Science, v.390, n.6774, p.664-665

  He was involved in figuring out how DNA made RNA and then made proteins. For him the juice was all in the RNA.

• Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty

  November 13, 2025 Melanie Fillios Science, v.390, n.6774, p.672-673

  Quantitative analysis of canid skulls points to an earlier origin of dog diversity

• Book

  Francis Crick’s life and legacy

  November 13, 2025 Adrian Woolfson Science, v.390, n.6774, p.682

  A new biography offers a definitive account of the DNA decoder | See Also Amazon

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem reveals rapid complexification of Triassic marine communities

  November 13, 2025 Aubrey J. Roberts, et al. Science, v.390, n.6774, p.722-727

  The end-Permian extinction was the largest of Earth’s mass extinctions, with marine environments especially affected.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The emergence and diversification of dog morphology

  November 13, 2025 Allowen Evin, et al. Science, v.390, n.6774, p.741-744

  Dogs were domesticated at least 10,000 years ago, but we know little about their diversity during most of their time with humans.

• How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs

  November 13, 2025 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and how they might have traded them around the world.

• Neanderthals May Never Have Truly Gone Extinct

  November 13, 2025 Carly Cassella Science Alert

  A new mathematical model has explored a fascinating scenario in which Neanderthals gradually disappeared not through “true extinction" but through genetic absorption into a more prolific species

• Tales from the Neanderthal Nights: Why They Really Disappeared

  November 13, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  A new paper offers an assessment that does not need the Neanderthal to be the subhuman whose disappearance is explained by evolution. Arithmetic will suffice

• News Update/Commentary

  New Neanderthal footprints in Portugal reveal a life we never expected

  November 13, 2025 University of Seville Science Daily

  Preserved footprints show Neanderthals actively navigating, hunting, and living along Portugal’s coastline. Their behavior and diet suggest a far more adaptable and socially complex population than once assumed.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  An ancient recombination desert is a speciation supergene in placental mammals

  November 12, 2025 Nicole M. Foley, et al. Nature, v.649, p.1228-1236

  Gene flow between biological species is a common and often adaptive evolutionary phenomenon throughout the tree of life

• ‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations

  November 12, 2025 Davide Castelvecchi Nature

  The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar.

• Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals

  November 12, 2025 Jialin Wei, et al. Nature

  The challenges associated with the transition of life from water to land are profound, yet they have been met in many distinct animal lineages

• Evolution Favors Irrationality

  November 12, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Darwin’s notion of adaptation by natural selection shoots itself in the head again

• Book

  Smart new book takes an axe to the myth of human exceptionalism

  November 12, 2025 Elle Hunt New Scientist

  Christine Webb's provocative and moving book The Arrogant Ape explores our unjustifiable sense of superiority in the living world, laying out the evidence against it | See Also Penguin Random House

• Video

  How to Evaluate Theories of Consciousness

  November 12, 2025 Anil Seth Closer to Truth

  Given the myriad theories of consciousness on offer, how can they be assessed? What criteria should we use to compare and contrast diverse theories?

• Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the man who can tell you

  November 12, 2025 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, who invented the scale, tells New Scientist about his 50-year career in planetary defence

• A Neuroscientist on the Limits of the “Cutting Edge” of His Field

  November 12, 2025 Mind Matters

  As Dr. Joseph Green tells his podcast hosts, although scientists can observe all 302 nematode worm neurons, they cannot fully explain how the worm moves or finds food

• What Qualifies as a Book Ban?

  November 12, 2025 Peter Biles Mind Matters

  If a novel has sold millions of copies and can be easily bought in almost any bookstore, how is it “banned"?

• News Update/Commentary

  A 540-million-year-old fossil is rewriting evolution

  November 12, 2025 Virginia Tech Science Daily

  Salterella’s strange, double-layered shell baffled scientists for decades until modern analysis tied it to jellyfish and coral relatives.

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code”

  November 12, 2025 Queen Mary University of London Science Daily

  Bumblebees have cracked the code of time, revealing big-brain abilities inside their tiny heads.

• The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

  November 11, 2025 David Klinghoffer Science & Culture Today

  For Good or Evil

• What Would it Take to Convince a Neuroscientist That an AI is Conscious?

  November 11, 2025 Ellyn Lapointe Gizmodo

  Before we can test for AI consciousness, we need to understand how consciousness actually emerges, experts say.

• Amber Fossil Discredits Mosquito Evolution

  November 11, 2025 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  What they found was not evidence for evolution at all

• Can Protein Design Outpace Directed Evolution in Recycling Plastic?

  November 11, 2025 Emily Reeves Science & Culture Today

• Where Do Viruses Come From?

  November 11, 2025 Kamal Nahas The Scientist

  Using genomics, evolutionary biologists test several hypotheses on the origin of viruses. New evidence suggests they may have emerged more times than previously thought.

• Video

  “DESI Is Wrong: Dark Energy Isn’t Changing”

  November 11, 2025 Lawrence Krauss Brian Keating

  We explore the hype around quantum gravity, the limits of knowledge revealed by Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, and whether AI can ever truly discover new laws of physics.

• Video

  They Fought to Conceal This Evidence That Shows the Bible Is True

  November 11, 2025 Andrew Snelling Answers in Genesis

  how certain rock layers both contradict the evolutionary timeline and confirm the biblical flood account

• Video

  Did the James Webb Telescope ‘Blow Up' Cosmology?

  November 11, 2025 Priya Natarajan Closer To Truth Chats

  Discover how JWST challenges existing cosmological models, what the early universe looked like in unprecedented detail, and why new data might redefine cosmic history.

• War Between Evolutionary Biologists May Be Looming

  November 11, 2025 Denyse O’Leary Science & Culture Today

• Researchers sometimes “add” copy just to get published

  November 11, 2025 Mind Matters

  In a “publish or perish” world, we shouldn’t be shocked -- especially considering the more serious scandals. But it is worth noting anyway, for what it tells us about the general atmosphere.

• Why are there 350 different theories of consciousness?

  November 11, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  “Is consciousness really suited to be a subject for science if there are 350 different theories?”

• Case Study: How Not to Sue AI for Libel

  November 10, 2025 Richard W. Stevens Mind Matters

  Imagine: A researcher uses ChatGPT to learn more about a pending federal court lawsuit. ChatGPT tells the researcher that your former employer is suing you for committing fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and embezzlement

• Neuroscience: Brain genes behave differently in men vs. women

  November 10, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  When scientists compared the transcriptomes in postmortem tissue samples from hundreds of men and women in 2017, they found surprisingly different patterns of gene activity.

• Fall Colors: For Beauty or for Mere Survival?

  November 10, 2025 John Wise Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Evolutionary thinking assumes that beauty must pay its way, that splendor is tolerated only if it serves survival.

• Will Other Evolutionary Biologists Speak Out About These Misleading Videos?

  November 10, 2025 Science & Culture Today

• Chance in Darwin’s Theory

  November 10, 2025 Neil Thomas Science & Culture Today

  A Matter of Insinuation

• Building the Foundations: The Strong Nuclear Force

  November 10, 2025 Eric Hedin Science & Culture Today

• Video

  Why Intellectuals Are Returning to Christian Faith

  November 10, 2025 Charles Murray The Eric Metaxas Show

  From the fine-tuning of the universe to the evidence for consciousness beyond the brain, how modern science points toward a Creator and why ignoring faith has left our culture spiritually empty.

• Video

  The Origin of Life, Agency & Purpose: Terrence Deacon's Theory

  November 10, 2025 Ben Bayer, Tristan de Liege, and Mike Mazza Ayn Rand Institute

  this episode discusses Jeremy Sherman’s book, Neither Ghost Nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves

• Video

  Stunning Study finds Error in Nobel Prize Discovery

  November 10, 2025 Sabine Hossenfelder

  The 2011 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. A new analysis finds that the conclusion doesn't hold up.

• What the Peppered Moth Taught Us About Evolution

  November 10, 2025 Katie Spalding IFL Science

  “One of the Most Beautiful Experiments in Evolutionary Biology"

• Breakup of ancient supercontinent Nuna created ‘incubators' for complex life

  November 10, 2025 Sascha Pare Live Science

  Ancient supercontinent Nuna's breakup around 1.5 billion years ago set off a chain of events that made Earth more habitable

• News Update/Commentary

  Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a simulation after all

  November 10, 2025 University of British Columbia, Okanagan Science Daily

  Researchers have mathematically proven that our universe cannot be a simulation.

• Book Excerpt: Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?

  November 9, 2025 Giuseppe Sermonti Science & Culture Today

• PhD Data Misuse Sparks Retractions, Ethics Probe, and Lab Fallout

  November 9, 2025 Retraction Watch The Scientist

  A research misconduct case at the University of Melbourne exposed unethical authorship, led to retractions, and cost a PhD student his scholarship and a job offer.

• Video

  What if the CMB Isn't Actually Cosmic?

  November 9, 2025 Patrick Vanraes DemystifySci Podcast

  We talk of cosmic beginnings, of warmth beneath the skies, of radio echoes mistaken for the birth of everything. In that hum, between curiosity and doubt, the cosmos seems to ask who’s really paying attention.

• Design without a designer?

  November 9, 2025 Richard W. Toosey Creation Ministries International

  Coordination is an unsolved problem.