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• I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

  May 17, 2025 Geoffrey Simmons Evolution News & Science Today

  Doctor’s Diary

• 150,000-year history of Earth's magnetic field reveals clues about the climate when early humans were spreading out of Africa

  May 16, 2025 Stephanie Pappas Live Science

  The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa.

• Black hole dance illuminates hidden math of the universe

  May 16, 2025 Sharmila Kuthunur space.com

  “The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from."

• News Update/Commentary

  Light-to-electricity nanodevice reveals how Earth's oldest surviving cyanobacteria worked

  May 16, 2025 Queen Mary University of London Science Daily

  Atomic-level snapshot of a 3-billion-year-old photosynthetic assembly shows life nailed the design early

• What Is Lost with the Rise of AI

  May 16, 2025 Wayne Rossiter Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  Very different mammals follow the same rules of behavior

  May 16, 2025 Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Science Daily

  In the natural world -- where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity -- animal behavior is glorious in its variety.

• Homo erectus from the seabed -- new archaeological discoveries in Indonesia

  May 16, 2025 Tom Janssen, Leiden University phys.org

  Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how and where these early humans lived

• Beyond the Double Helix: Strange New DNA Structures Discovered in Ape Genomes

  May 16, 2025 Penn State Sci Tech Daily

  Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two orangutans to predict where DNA sequences might form alternative structures beyond the traditional double helix.

• The Big Bang can't escape its religious beginnings

  May 16, 2025 Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper The Institute of Art and Ideas

  Can you take religion out of cosmology?

• Bad Philosopher Complains About Bad Philosophy in Physics

  May 16, 2025 John Wise Creation-Evolution Headlines

  A philosopher unwittingly illustrates Thomas Kuhn’s view of scientific revolutions by criticizing it.

• News Update/Commentary

  Wild orangutans show communication complexity thought to be uniquely human

  May 16, 2025 University of Warwick Science Daily

  Researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting a much older evolutionary origin.

• Why the Human Mind Is Not and Cannot Be a Meat Computer

  May 16, 2025 Mind Matters

  the theory of computationalism -- the view that the human mind is fundamentally a computer. While this view is popular in both philosophical and scientific circles, the guests agreed that it falls far short of explaining human consciousness.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Tracing the longest human migration through genomic sequencing

  May 15, 2025 Elena S. Gusareva, et al. Science, v.388, n.6748

  From North Asia to South America

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A late Middle Pleistocene lowstand valley of the Solo River on the Madura Strait seabed, geology and age of the first hominin locality of submerged Sundaland

  May 15, 2025 H. W. K. Berghuis, et al. Quaternary Environments and Humans

  The island of Java (Indonesia) is renowned for its Pleistocene hominin-bearing vertebrate fossil sites. Recently, a marine sand extraction work in the Madura Strait, off the coast of Surabaya, hit upon vertebrate-rich sandstones.

• The Danger of Outsourcing Our Brains

  May 15, 2025 Christian Schneider National Review

  Counting on AI to learn for us makes humans boring, awkward, and gullible.

• The Mosasaur: A Giant Sea Dragon

  May 15, 2025 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans

  May 15, 2025 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor -- and potentially changing how we think of the earliest hominins

• AI developer wants to try to translate animal languages

  May 15, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  From Liam Mo and Brenda Goh at Reuters, we learn that China’s largest legal search engine is trying to patent “a system to convert animal vocalisations into human language”

• How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

  May 15, 2025 Kirk Durston Evolution News & Science Today

• Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI

  May 14, 2025 Cathleen O'Grady Science

  Paper mills are also likely contributing to “false discoveries”

• A Massive Brain Study Reveals the Hidden Work Your Mind Does While You Read

  May 14, 2025 Tibi Puiu ZME Science

  How the brain handles letters, words, sentences, and entire texts.

• Early human ancestors used their hands to both climb trees and make tools

  May 14, 2025 Christina Larson Associated Press

  To study how ancient humans used their hands, scientists used 3D scanning to measure and analyze the bone thickness of fingers.

• How ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved to live on land

  May 14, 2025 Christina Larson Associated Press

  The discovery suggests that after the first animals emerged from the ocean around 400 million years ago, they evolved the ability to live exclusively on land much faster than previously assumed.

• Feathered fossil provides clues about how earliest birds first took flight

  May 14, 2025 Hannah Devlin The Guardian

  ‘Beautifully preserved’ Archaeopteryx has tertial feathers that appear to have been key to making it aerodynamic

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan

  May 14, 2025 Jingmai O’Connor, et al. Nature

  Exceptional preservation guided by computed tomographic data make this one of the best exemplars of this taxon, preserving important data regarding skeletal transformation and plumage evolution in the acquisition of flight during early avian evolution

• Track record: unexpectedly early reptile claw prints found

  May 14, 2025 Stuart S. Sumida Nature

  Fossil evidence points to an earlier-than-expected timeline for when reptiles, members of the four-limbed group of animals called tetrapods, began to evolve.

• Fossil claw marks show reptiles arose much earlier than thought

  May 14, 2025 Rita Aksenfeld Nature

  Tracks in Australia seem to be the earliest known prints of amniotes -- a group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution

  May 14, 2025 John A. Long, et al. Nature

  The earliest body fossils of crown-group tetrapods are mid-Carboniferous, and the oldest trackways are early Carboniferous

• Does physics truly have anything to say about consciousness?

  May 14, 2025 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone?

• Black holes, Zeno and the end of reality

  May 14, 2025 William Egginton The Institute of Art and Ideas

  Black holes show space and time are not fundamental

• Human Leg Acts Like a Pogo Stick

  May 14, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Fine tuning shown to produce efficiency and precision in bipedal movement

• News Update/Commentary

  Dark matter formed when fast particles slowed down and got heavy

  May 14, 2025 Dartmouth College Science Daily

  dark matter could have formed in the early universe from the collision of massless particles that lost their energy and condensed -- like steam turning into water -- into cold, heavy particles

• News Update/Commentary

  Fossil tracks show reptiles appeared on Earth up to 40 million years earlier

  May 14, 2025 Flinders University Science Daily

  Scientists have identified fossilized tracks of an amniote with clawed feet -- most probably a reptile -- from the Carboniferous period, about 350 million years ago.

• News Update/Commentary

  Australia's oldest prehistoric tree frog hops 22 million years back in time

  May 14, 2025 University of New South Wales Science Daily

  Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

• Video

  Why atheism is winning

  May 14, 2025 Richard Dawkins The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie

  evolutionary biologist challenges modern dogmas, defends scientific objectivity, and warns against the rise of ideological orthodoxy in society

• Video

  Origin of Life: Micro Lightning Isn’t the Miracle You Think

  May 14, 2025 Rob Stadler James Tour

  critique of recent research on the origin of life, emphasizing that experiments producing organic molecules yield chaotic mixtures (“organic garbage") unsuitable for life's formation

• Video

  Theories of Consciousness

  May 14, 2025 Edi Bilimoria Closer To Truth

  Explore diverse theories of consciousness including materialism, dualism, panpsychism, idealism, and diverse ways of thinking about consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, philosophy, wisdom traditions.

• Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

  May 14, 2025 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

• Could Dark Matter Be Evolving Over Time, and Not Dark Energy?

  May 13, 2025 Brian Koberlein Universe Today

  Although all observations support the expanding Universe model, observations of the early period of the cosmos give a lower rate of acceleration than more local observations. We call it the Hubble tension problem

• Chimps use medicinal plants to treat their wounds

  May 13, 2025 Evan Bush NBC News

  A new study finds humanity's closest living relatives will chew plants and apply makeshift poultices to wounds, and use leaves for a hygienic scrub.

• News Update/Commentary

  Palaeontologists discover 506-million-year-old predator

  May 13, 2025 Royal Ontario Museum Science Daily

  predator from the Burgess Shale of Canada, Mosura fentoni, was about the size of your index finger and had three eyes, spiny jointed claws, a circular mouth lined with teeth and a body with swimming flaps along its sides.

• Another crow first -- crows can detect geometric shapes

  May 13, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  They can detect the ‘odd one out’ in a set of geometric shapes, and have an affinity for geometric regularity -- shapes with consistent features, like squares, as opposed to irregular ones, like rhombuses.

• Video

  The Miracle of Butterfly Metamorphosis

  May 13, 2025 2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith Discovery Science

  the pupal stage must have arisen as a modified preadult (i.e. larval or nymphal) stage and is not a modified adult stage

• Video

  Do Miracles Still Happen? A Harvard-Trained Scholar says YES

  May 13, 2025 Candy Gunther Brown Sean McDowell

  a Harvard-trained professor of religious studies at Indiana University, and author of Testing Prayer, is here to explain the most provocative questions in faith and science: Does prayer still heal?

• Video

  How Can Philosophy Probe Evolutionary Biology?

  May 13, 2025 Elliott Sober, Richard Dawkins, Denis Noble, Michael Ruse, et al. Closer To Truth

  Explore evolution -- its scope and depth. How did life on earth come to be as it is, and how did humans come to be as we are? What are the deep principles driving evolution? What are evolution’s challenges and open questions?

• Molecular Animations Reveal Exquisite Design

  May 13, 2025 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• Bioethics Becomes Just Another Social-Justice Political Movement

  May 13, 2025 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Traces of a Primitive RNA Ring in Current Genomes

  May 12, 2025 Jacques Demongeot Biology, v.14, n.5

  The search for RNA molecules at the origin of life is a major challenge for understanding the primordial stages of evolution. Here, we propose a small RNA that could have served as a catalyst for the formation of the first peptides

• Scientists find hint of hidden liquid water ocean deep below Mars' surface

  May 12, 2025 Jess Thomson Live Science

  By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid water to flood the planet with an ocean thousands of feet deep.

• Comparative Biology, Invincible Ignorance

  May 12, 2025 Michael Behe Evolution News & Science Today

  Dan Stern Cardinale