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• Origin of Life Dustup: Once Again, We Discover Why We Love Inference Review

  October 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• Ethan Siegel at Forbes on “Finally” Making the United States a “Scientific Nation”

  October 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• At Gizmodo: 24 Planets Might Be Better Places To Live Than Earth

  October 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• Rob Sheldon Responds to Nature’s Decision To Go Political

  October 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent

  Are they really scientists or just political hacks?

• (Reformed) New Scientist Takes Horizontal Gene Transfer Seriously

  October 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• Researcher: We Need a New Theory of Everything, One With No “Things”

  October 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• The search for the origin of life: From panspermia to primordial soup

  October 6, 2020 New Scientist

• They Say This Is an Information Economy. So What Is Information?

  October 1, 2020 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  How, exactly, is an article in the news different from a random string of letters and punctuation marks?

• We need a new Theory of Everything

  October 6, 2020 Tim Andersen medium.com

• Is America Finally Ready To Become a Scientific Nation?

  October 6, 2020 Ethan Siegel Forbes

• Scientists find intact brain cells in skull of man killed in Vesuvius eruption nearly 2,000 years ago

  October 5, 2020 Rory Sullivan and Sharon Braithwaite CNN

• Scientists find promising ‘superhabitable' planets that may be ‘better' than Earth

  October 5, 2020 Amanda Kooser cnet.com

  The search for paradisiacal exoplanets is on.

• The Molecular Biologist Who Exposed the Soviet Union

  October 6, 2020 Sean B. Carroll The Atlantic

  Jacques Monod saw chance as one of the “secrets of life,” an idea he used to tear down all sorts of dogmas.

• Video

  The Fitness of Nature for Mankind featuring Biologist Michael Denton

  October 7, 2020 Discovery Science YouTube

  Renowned author and biologist Michael Denton gives a new expression to what he calls the “medieval synthesis” of knowledge about life, now enjoying a “Reconquista” thanks to modern science.

• Elsevier journal disavows, but does not retract, paper on intelligent design

  October 7, 2020 Retraction Watch

• This Year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors a Revolution

  October 7, 2020 Walter Isaacson New York Times

  With Crispr, two scientists turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race.

• ‘Prince of panspermia’ has a paper retracted, and sues Springer Nature

  October 6, 2020 Retraction Watch

  A neuroscientist has lost a 2019 paper claiming that Venus may hold life seeded from Earth.

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing

  October 7, 2020 Katherine J. Wu, Carl Zimmer, and Elian Peltier New York Times

  Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna developed the Crispr tool, which can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with high precision.

• T. Rex Skeleton Brings $31.8 Million at Christie’s Auction

  October 6, 2020 Zachary Small New York Times

  A 40-foot-long dinosaur fossil named Stan was the headliner at an auction of Impressionist and Modern art worth more than $300 million.

• News Update/Commentary

  New study rebuts 75-year-old belief in reptile evolution

  October 6, 2020 Harvard University Science Daily

  a better understand of the evolution of these cold-blooded vertebrates contradicts a widely held theory that major transitions in evolution always happened in big, quick (geologically speaking) bursts, triggered by major environmental shifts

• News Update/Commentary

  Toothless dino's lost digits point to spread of parrot-like species

  October 6, 2020 University of Edinburgh Science Daily

  A newly discovered species of toothless, two-fingered dinosaur has shed light on how a group of parrot-like animals thrived more than 68 million years ago.

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolution of the Y chromosome in great apes deciphered

  October 6, 2020 Penn State Science Daily

  Researchers reconstruct the ancestral great ape Y and show its rapid evolution in bonobo and chimpanzee

• Doctor’s Diary: The Wonder of Your Body’s Genetic Instructions

  October 5, 2020 Geoffrey Simmons Evolution News & Science Today

• Lennox Versus Dawkins: “Science and Religion as Alternative Explanations”?

  October 3, 2020 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Is Information a Naturally Occurring Phenomenon?

  October 4, 2020 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Rapper MC Hammer Embraces Intelligent Design

  October 5, 2020 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Cambrian Explosion May Have Involved New Genes

  October 6, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• Bechly: The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis

  October 7, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today

• End of Tenure Forecast. What About Academic Freedom?

  October 6, 2020 Uncommon Descent

• Human, Mouse, and Fly Brains All Use the Same Basic Mechanisms

  October 3, 2020 Mind Matters

  The study of brains in recent decades has yielded a very different picture from the patterns we might have expected

• Researchers: The Aliens Exist But They Are Sleeping ...

  October 3, 2020 Mind Matters

  And we wake them at our peril

• Pigeons Can Solve the Monty Hall Problem. But Can You?

  October 5, 2020 Robert J. Marks Mind Matters

  The dilemma pits human folk intuition against actual probability theory, with surprising results

• Why Does “Evolution Theory" Trivialize Everything It Touches?

  October 4, 2020 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  A pair of evolutionary anthropologists try their hand at dealing with existential grief, anxiety, and depression

• Algorithm discovers how six simple molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks

  September 30, 2020 Patrick Hughes Chemistry World

  Program shows how micelles, catalysts and self-replicating chemical systems emerge from abiotic precursors

• Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for black hole discoveries

  October 6, 2020 Emma Reynolds and Katie Hunt CNN

  that revealed the ‘darkest secrets of the universe'

• Exploring the ‘Evidence for Evolution’ … in 1970

  October 6, 2020 Paul Price Creation Ministries International

• How Trump damaged science -- and why it could take decades to recover

  October 5, 2020 Jeff Tollefson Nature

  The US president’s actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and undermined science and scientific institutions.

• Life on Venus? Scientists hunt for the truth

  October 2, 2020 Jonathan O'Callaghan Nature

  Interest in Earth’s hellish neighbour explodes after the detection of phosphine, a potential marker of life.

• Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Black Holes

  October 6, 2020 Dennis Overbye and Derrick Bryson Taylor New York Times

  The prize was awarded half to Roger Penrose for showing how black holes could form and half to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering a supermassive object at the Milky Way’s center.

• Early Humans Were Using Fire 300,000 Years Ago to Forge Superior Stone Tools

  October 5, 2020 George Dvorsky Gizmodo

• Neuroscientists discover a molecular mechanism that allows memories to form

  October 5, 2020 Anne Trafton MIT News

  Modifications to chromosomes in “engram” neurons control the encoding and retrieval of memories.

• A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection

  October 5, 2020 Shayla Love Vice

  Professors are starting to orient Charles Darwin within a rich history of people from all cultures who have grappled with the mechanisms of life.

• In Search for a Planet Better than Earth

  September 18, 2020 Dirk Schulze-Makuch, René Heller, and Edward Guinan Astrobiology

  Top Contenders for a Superhabitable World

• Can Dark Matter Really Explain The Universe’s Structure?

  October 2, 2020 Ethan Siegel Forbes

• The Surgisphere Scandal: What Went Wrong?

  October 1, 2020 Catherine Offord The Scientist

  The high-profile retractions of two COVID-19 studies stunned the scientific community earlier this year and prompted calls for reviews of how science is conducted, published, and acted upon. The warning signs had been there all along.

• News Update/Commentary

  Woodpeckers' drumming: Conserved meaning despite different structure over the years

  October 2, 2020 University of Zurich Science Daily

  How do animals produce and perceive biological information in sounds? To what extent does the acoustic structure and its associated meaning change during evolution?

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolution: Shifts in mating preference

  October 6, 2020 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Science Daily

  In their efforts to identify the genetic basis for differences in mate choice that keep two co-existing species of butterfly separate, evolutionary biologists have identified candidate genes associated with divergence in visual mating preferences.

• News Update/Commentary

  Shattering expectations: Novel seed dispersal gene found in green millet

  October 5, 2020 Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Science Daily

  Road trips result in the first shattering gene found in a wild population

• News Update/Commentary

  How malaria parasites withstand a fever's heat

  October 5, 2020 Duke University Science Daily

  Findings could lead to ways to maximize our existing antimalarial arsenal

• News Update/Commentary

  Nobel Prize in Physics 2020: Discoveries about black holes

  October 6, 2020 Nobel Foundation Science Daily

  This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded ‘for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity' and ‘for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.'