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• How an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth

  April 20, 2025 Robin McKie The Guardian

  Extraterrestrial rocks, recently delivered by a space probe, could answer the big questions about alien lifeforms and human existence

• Strange Bacteria That Can't Live Alone Hint at Early Steps to Complex Life

  April 20, 2025 Jess Cockerill Science Alert

  All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives -- except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB), that is.

• Mind Rules, Not Matter, Biologists Say -- in Journal Article

  April 20, 2025 Mind Matters

  They argue that simple natural processes cannot explain embryological development. Instead, biology is directed by cognition

• A Neurosurgeon Makes the Neuroscience Case for Free Will

  April 20, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Michael Egnor is concerned about the serious social implications of denying free will

• Are “Mind” and “Brain” the Same Thing?

  April 20, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today

• The Nearly Unfathomable Complexity of Even a Mouse’s Brain

  April 19, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Mapping a small part of a mouse's brain required 1.6 petabytes of data, which is equivalent to 22 years of nonstop high-definition video

• Did Scientists Really Detect Evidence of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b?

  April 19, 2025 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Curiosity rover finds largest carbon chains on Mars from 3.7 billion-year-old rock

  April 19, 2025 Ben Turner and Jess Thomson Live Science

  NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced by biological processes.

• News Update/Commentary

  Unlocking the genetic basis of adaptive evolution

  April 18, 2025 Utah State University Science Daily

  study reveals complex chromosomal rearrangements in a stick insect

• Have they been here?

  April 18, 2025 Ravi Kopparapu and Jacob Haqq Misra Aeon

  When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space. But alien life might be closer than you think

• Claims of alien life are overhyped -- and miss the real accomplishment

  April 18, 2025 Chris Lintott New Scientist

  Whenever there’s even a slight chance that an exoplanet shows signs of biological activity, people understandably get excited -- but it’s never been aliens, and we shouldn’t jump to conclusions, not this time or the next

• Hot methane seeps could support life beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet

  April 18, 2025 James Dinneen New Scientist

  Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting environments on frozen worlds in our solar system and beyond

• The Nature of Mind, Free Will, and Human Uniqueness: A Deep Dive

  April 18, 2025 Mind Matters

  The book Minding the Brain sparks some interesting discussions about what is really unique about the human mind

• Video

  What the James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed about the Universe

  April 18, 2025 Danny Faulkner YouTube

  The James Webb Space Telescope is one incredible feat of engineering. We will discuss how the early results coming from this telescope have disproven evolutionary theories about the origin and history of the universe

• ‘Useless' female organ discovered over a century ago may actually support ovaries

  April 17, 2025 Jess Thomson Live Science

  The rete ovarii, a poorly understood structure connected to the ovaries, may be much more essential to ovarian function than scientists initially thought.

• Seven Amazing Adaptations That Helped Prehistoric Reptiles Thrive at Sea

  April 17, 2025 Riley Black Smithsonian Magazine

  From Massive Eyes to Shark-Like Tails ... The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and the ability to birth live young

• Skepticism greets claims of a possible biosignature on a distant world

  April 17, 2025 John Timmer ars technica

  It's really difficult to get a clear sign of life on an exoplanet.

• Signs of life on a distant planet?

  April 17, 2025 Alexandra Witze Nature

  Not so fast, say these astronomers ... Bold claims of ‘biosignature’ molecules trigger an outpouring of scepticism.

• How quantum mechanics changed science forever

  April 17, 2025 Marij van Strien The Institute of Art and Ideas

  Rationality, anarchy, and bad science

• Astronomers claim strongest evidence of alien life yet

  April 17, 2025 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living organisms -- but researchers say we must interpret the results cautiously

• How Do Individual Cells Make Decisions?

  April 17, 2025 Mind Matters

  They have no brains but they solve problems for a purpose and make decisions. Claiming they “evolved” to do so doesn’t answer the question

• New Article Calls for a Philosophical Revolution in Biology

  April 17, 2025 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

  Placing Mind Over Matter

• Science Subsidy Trap

  April 16, 2025 Cameron English American Council on Science and Health

  Why Public Research Funding Needs to End

• Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system

  April 16, 2025 Hannah Devlin The Guardian

  Astrophysics team say observation of chemical compounds may be ‘tipping point’ in search for extraterrestrial life

• Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

  April 16, 2025 Carl Zimmer New York Times

  Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

• Could the ancient Greeks have invented quantum theory?

  April 16, 2025 Jacob Aron New Scientist

  There were hints that the world may be quantum long before the development of quantum mechanics in 1925 -- could we have come up with this revolutionary theory hundreds or even thousands of years earlier?

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists find evidence that overturns theories of the origin of water on Earth

  April 16, 2025 University of Oxford Science Daily

  Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface by analyzing a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to understand the origin of hydrogen.

• Video

  Researchers find major clue to consciousness

  April 16, 2025 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  We still don’t know what “consciousness” actually means. But in a new study, researchers have used the equations of quantum mechanics to determine a brain’s “criticality,” a measure which allows them to separate waking brains from sleeping ones.

• Video

  Here's Why Most Life on Earth is Still Simple

  April 16, 2025 Richard Dawkins YouTube

  Carolyn Porco is a renowned planetary scientist and science communicator best known for leading the imaging science team on NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn, where she played a pivotal role in major discoveries

• Video

  The Design Dilemma: Why Biology Doesn’t Add Up Without It

  April 16, 2025 Institute for Creation Research YouTube

  ICR’s Theory of Biological Design. It’s a bold, refreshing take that challenges the old evolutionary models and offers a new lens to understand life, complexity, and the remarkable systems built into every living thing.

• Scientists Dare To Hint That the Mind Can’t Just Be the Brain

  April 16, 2025 Mind Matters

  They start with astonishing facts about the brains of caterpillars and worms and end up discussing human near-death experiences

• Now Pushing at the Mind-Brain Equation

  April 16, 2025 Daniel Witt Evolution News & Science Today

  Biologist Michael Levin Is at It Again

• Crystal clues on Mars point to watery and possibly life-supporting past

  April 16, 2025 Queensland University of Technology phys.org

  compelling evidence of multiple mineral-forming events just beneath the Martian surface -- findings that bring scientists one step closer to answering the profound question: did life ever exist on Mars?

• Beanbag genetics

  April 15, 2025 Zachary B. Hancock Aeon

  Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance

• Scientists are Clueless on the Origins of Life

  April 15, 2025 James Tour Heterodox Academy

  This event kicks off a lecture series called “Does God Exist?" which will explore one of the most difficult to discuss topics in a public academic forum.

• What does quantum theory really tell us about the nature of reality?

  April 15, 2025 Daniel Cossins New Scientist

  For 100 years, quantum theory has painted the subatomic world as strange beyond words. But bold new interpretations and experiments may help us to finally grasp its true meaning

• News Update/Commentary

  Foraging on the wing: How can ecologically similar birds live together?

  April 15, 2025 Penn State Science Daily

  New study uses modern molecular and evolutionary techniques to reassess a foundational, 67-year-old study in warblers

• Science’s best answer to “where did the Universe come from?”

  April 15, 2025 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Perhaps no existential question looms larger than that of our ultimate cosmic origins. At long last, science has provided the answers.

• Laugh Lines: Latest Lame Legends for Darwin

  April 15, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The funniest stories are those by Darwinians who take themselves seriously

• Reptilian Renaissance: How Did Reptiles Develop Intelligence?

  April 15, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Scientists used to think reptiles were dumb but then they looked more closely

• Video

  Theories of Consciousness

  April 15, 2025 Michael Baggot YouTube

  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.

• The Ship of Theseus: The Mystery of Personal Identity

  April 15, 2025 Mind Matters

  If all your parts are slowly replaced, in what sense are you still you? A Mind Matters podcast discussion explores that

• A Cell Makes “Decisions”

  April 15, 2025 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

  But if It’s Following a Material Blueprint, How Does It Do That?

• Palaeontologist, author and TV presenter who traced continents through fossils

  April 15, 2025 Derek E. G. Briggs Nature

  Richard Fortey obituary: The fossil expert found love at first sight with trilobites.

• Book

  New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis: Advances in the Origins Debate

  April, 2025 John H. Walton IVP Academic

  Updating and expanding upon his previous work on origins, this riveting volume marks the eighth entry in his bestselling Lost World Series | See Also Amazon

• Understanding bones from the remote wilderness of Wyoming

  April 14, 2025 Alexia Austin Nature

  Digging in overlooked regions has opened up a world of discovery for palaeontologist David Lovelace.

• “There is only one interpretation of quantum mechanics"

  April 14, 2025 David Deutsch and Charlie Barnett The Institute of Art and Ideas

  The bad philosophy derailing quantum mechanics

• Another Example of a Transcriptional Hierarchy

  April 14, 2025 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

  Sporulation

• Is an Ancient Extinct Tree-Dweller Our Relative?

  April 14, 2025 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• At Quanta: High Bird Intelligence Developed on a Different Path

  April 14, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  High intelligence developing on different paths is consistent with convergent evolution. It’s also consistent with design in nature