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• Tiny, ‘fairy-like’ robots that could replace dying bumblebees: ‘Superior to its natural counterparts’

  March 20, 2023 Becca Inglis MSN - Microsoft

  Researchers in Finland have developed small, fairy-like robots that can fly, which could help to pollinate vital crops across the globe.

• A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator

  March 19, 2023 Robin McKie The Guardian

  Thomas Hertog worked with cosmologist on a new book after he shared his doubts about A Brief History of Time

• The early universe was crammed with stars 10,000 times the size of our sun

  March 19, 2023 Paul Sutter space.com

  When the universe's first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth's sun, new research suggests.

• Laws of cause and explanation

  March 18, 2023 Shaun Doyle Creation Ministries International

• Skeptic Argues Free Will Is Real

  March 18, 2023 Uncommon Descent

• Book

  The age-old debate continues: are science and religion compatible?

  March 18, 2023 David Wootton The Spectator

  REVIEW: Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion by Nicholas Spencer (Oneworld, 2023) | See Also Amazon

• News Update/Commentary

  Fossil site is ‘Rosetta Stone' for understanding early life

  March 17, 2023 University of Edinburgh Science Daily

  Researchers who analyzed the 400 million-year-old cache, found in rural north-east Scotland, say their findings reveal better preservation of the fossils at a molecular level than was previously anticipated.

• Fact Check: Imagining Darwin’s Abolitionism

  March 17, 2023 Robert Shedinger Evolution News & Science Today

• How Could Sex Evolve?

  March 17, 2023 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Still baffling after all these years: a new PNAS article reinforces the difficulty of explaining the evolution of sex

• The Abrupt Origin of Ichthyosaurs

  March 17, 2023 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• What is life? Scientists still can’t agree.

  March 16, 2023 Brian Resnick Vox

  Science writer Carl Zimmer explains why this question has been so hard to answer.

• Free Will Is Real

  March 16, 2023 Stuart T. Doyle Skeptic (Reading Room)

• At light speed, Einstein’s equations break down and nothing makes sense

  March 16, 2023 Don Lincoln Big Think

  Everything everywhere all at once.

• ‘Terminator zones’ on distant planets could harbor life

  March 16, 2023 UCI astronomers University of California, Irvine

  These in-between regions could be prime sites for liquid water

• “Sacred Cause”? Reconsidering Charles Darwin as Abolitionist

  March 16, 2023 Robert Shedinger Evolution News & Science Today

• GPT-4 is here: what scientists think

  March 16, 2023 Katharine Sanderson Nature

  Researchers are excited about the AI -- but many are frustrated that its underlying engineering is cloaked in secrecy.

• How stem cells make a human brain

  March 16, 2023 Heidi Ledford Nature

  Technical “tour de force” allows researchers to trace the family tree of crucial brain cells.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Evolutionary transitions from camouflage to aposematism

  March 16, 2023 Karl Loeffler-Henry, et al. Science, v.379, n.6637, p.1136-1140

  Using bright coloration to warn predators off of toxic prey, or aposematism, presents a conundrum in evolution. How do brightly colored organisms survive long enough to warn predators when they are easier to predate than their cryptic peers?

• The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging from Large AI Models

  March 16, 2023 Stephen Ornes Quanta Magazine

  Large language models like ChatGPT are now big enough that they’ve started to display startling, unpredictable behaviors.

• The strongest evidence for a Universe before the Big Bang

  March 16, 2023 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there's one piece of evidence we can't ignore that shows otherwise.

• News Update/Commentary

  Cellular waste removal differs according to cell type

  March 16, 2023 University of Bonn Science Daily

  Study identifies different types of so-called lysosomes

• News Update/Commentary

  How fishermen benefit from reversing evolution of cod

  March 16, 2023 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Science Daily

  Under long-term fisheries management, evolutionary change, that has resulted in smaller maturation sizes, can be reversed profitably.

• Peer-Reviewed Paper Cites Stephen Meyer to Critique Darwinian Evolution

  March 16, 2023 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Longest dinosaur neck on record was six times longer than a giraffe's

  March 15, 2023 Chris Stokel-Walker New Scientist

  We only have a few fossil bones of Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, but researchers have estimated its neck length by analysing its vertebrae and comparing them with those from related dinosaurs

• Let’s Sing the Body Electric

  March 15, 2023 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

  Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass expressed feeling spiritually electrified by the perfections of the human body.

• OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world

  March 15, 2023 Benj Edwards ars technica

  “ARC's evaluation has much lower probability of leading to an AI takeover than the deployment itself."

• Fauci and Collins Owe the Country an Apology

  March 15, 2023 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• Our universe is suspiciously unlikely to exist -- unless it is one of many

  March 15, 2023 Martin Rees The Conversation

  The multiverse

• It’s Not a Stretch: This Dinosaur Had a 50-Foot Neck

  March 15, 2023 Jack Tamisiea New York Times

  Researchers developed a new estimate of the neck length of Mamenchisaurus, which foraged for foliage more than 150 million years ago in what is now China.

• “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”

  March 15, 2023 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  Peer-Reviewed Paper

• The truths in physics are dependent on falsehoods

  March 14, 2023 Elay Shech iai News

  Truth in physics is scale and context dependent

• The ‘Rapunzel’ virus: an evolutionary oddity

  March 14, 2023 Marissa Locke Rottinghaus American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  Extremely long tail provides window into how bacteria-infecting viruses assemble

• Monkey-Made “Tools” Cast Doubt on High Intelligence in Early Hominids

  March 14, 2023 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Ichthyosaurs Did Not Evolve, They Appeared Suddenly

  March 14, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Evolutionists have a new falsification to deal with and it packs a double punch

• Newly revealed ancient galaxies generate excitement

  March 14, 2023 Eleni Petrakou Physics Today

  Peering at some of the universe’s oldest galaxies, the JWST finds that they were surprisingly numerous, massive, and organized.

• Scientists Identify Chemical Reaction That May Have Triggered Life on Earth

  March 14, 2023 David Nield Science Alert

  There was a critical point early in Earth's history when chemical reactions among the mix of organic molecules began to be powered from within, forming something we might start to think of as biological.

• From the archive: Saturn, and Charles Darwin shares animal stories

  March 14, 2023 Charles Darwin Nature

  Snippets from Nature’s past.

• Asteroid collision shows how much amateur astronomers have to offer

  March 14, 2023 Nature, v.615, p.374

  Astronomy, like other scientific fields, continues to benefit from working scientists collaborating with amateur colleagues.

• Dizzy apes give clues on human drive for mind-altering experiences

  March 13, 2023 Marcus Perlman University of Birmingham

  Great apes' spinning behaviours could provide clues about the role of altered states for the origins of the human mind.

• The James Webb Space Telescope Demolishes the Big Bang Hypothesis

  March 13, 2023 John Gideon Hartnett Bible Science Forum

  Apparently the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has now observed and identified 6 new massive “primordial” galaxies, 10 times the size of the Milky Way galaxy but only half a billion years after the alleged big bang start of the Universe.

• Parasite Drove Natural Selection in Amazonian Indigenous Groups

  March 13, 2023 Natalia Mesa The Scientist

  The findings could help researchers understand why some individuals are more vulnerable to deadly Chagas disease.

• An Indication of Order and Design in Nature

  March 13, 2023 Jonathan K. Corrado Institute for Creation Research

  The Hexagon

• Our View of Intelligent [Human] Life Upended by Tools Find?

  March 13, 2023 at VICE Uncommon Descent

• The physicist betting that space-time isn't quantum after all

  March 13, 2023 Joshua Howgego New Scientist

  Most experts think we have to tweak general relativity to fit with quantum theory. Physicist Jonathan Oppenheim isn't so sure, which is why he’s made a 5000:1 bet that gravity isn’t a quantum force

• Oldest ichthyosaur fossil hints they evolved before mass extinction

  March 13, 2023 Riley Black New Scientist

  Ichthyosaur bones found in 250 million-year-old rock hint that these swimming reptiles may have appeared before Earth’s biggest mass extinction and survived

• The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big Deal

  March 13, 2023 Katrina Miller Wired

  A new experiment pulled off the most precise measurement of an electron’s self-generated magnetic field -- and the universe’s subatomic model is at stake.

• These bones could rewrite the history of life

  March 13, 2023 Ingrid Spilde Science Norway

  Everyone believed that the mighty ichthyosaurs arose in the wake of the Earth's biggest catastrophe. But a new Norwegian discovery suggests instead that these ancient lizards already existed -- and survived the inferno 252 million years ago.

• Shadows in the Big Bang Afterglow Reveal Invisible Cosmic Structures

  March 13, 2023 Zack Savitsky Quanta Magazine

  Cosmologists are using secondary signatures from the cosmic microwave background to map the universe’s hidden matter.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Earliest Triassic ichthyosaur fossils push back oceanic reptile origins

  March 13, 2023 Benjamin P. Kear, et al. Current Biology, v.33, n.5, p.R178-R179

• Evolution’s Tall Tale -- The Giraffe Neck

  March 13, 2023 Jonathan Witt Evolution News & Science Today