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• The search for the world's ‘missing' genomes

  February 27, 2023 David Cox BBC

  Enormous strides have been made to unravel the secrets of the human genome, so why are we missing the genetic information of most of the planet?

• The Radical Naturalism of Naturalistic Philosophy of Science

  February 27, 2023 Joseph Rouse Topoi

• Our Genomes Are Full of ‘Junk DNA' That Could Be Way More Important Than We Realized

  February 27, 2023 Felicity Nelson Science Alert

  Of three billion base pairs making up the human genome, only 2 percent encodes proteins, leaving 98 percent as useless ‘junk DNA'; its origins, effects, and potential purpose in the evolution of life has attracted attention ever since the 1960s.

• Ancient Proteins Offer New Clues About Origins of Life on Earth

  February 27, 2023 Roberto Molar Candanosa Johns Hopkins University

  In early Earth simulation co-led by researchers at Johns Hopkins, scientists gain insights into how amino acids shaped the genetic code of ancient microorganisms

• Findings provide insights into the surprising evolution of proteins

  February 27, 2023 Charles University phys.org

  why modern proteins use a quasi-universal repertoire of 20 canonical amino acids. The study shows that foldability was likely a critical factor in the selection of the canonical alphabet.

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolutionary history of detoxifying enzymes reconstructed

  February 27, 2023 University of Groningen Science Daily

  Biochemists have succeeded in resurrecting the ancestral genes of five detoxifying enzymes which are present in all tetrapods to show how their divergence in function has occurred.

• News Update/Commentary

  Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxies in early universe

  February 27, 2023 Cornell University Science Daily

  While analyzing data from JWST, astronomers discovered a galaxy previously hidden -- one that surprisingly seems to have already hosted multiple generations of stars despite its young age, estimated at 1.4 billion years old.

• Metaxas, Berlinski: A Match Made in Heaven

  February 27, 2023 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• How the Earth Operates Supply Chains for Life

  February 27, 2023 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  The Origin of Life

  February 27, 2023 Reasonable Faith YouTube

  William Lane Craig is researching the latest developments in Origin of Life studies.

• Video

  Answers in Genesis CALLS OUT Young Earth Creationists for believing in EVOLUTION?

  February 27, 2023 featuring: Marcus Ross YouTube

  Answers in Genesis has recently posted a number of articles attempting to warn people of Young Earth Creationists that believe in evolution. ... Ross wrote many articles for AiG and yet thinks they are strongly misrepresenting “Young Earth Evolutionists"

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The future of evolutionary medicine

  February 26, 2023 B. Natterson-Horowitz, et al. Frontiers in Science

  sparking innovation in biomedicine and public health

• All Living Cells Could Have the Molecular Machinery for a ‘Sixth Sense'

  February 25, 2023 Carly Cassella Science Alert

• Why You Can’t Predict the Future of Religion

  February 25, 2023 Ross Douthat New York Times

• News Update/Commentary

  Insect bite marks show first fossil evidence for plants' leaves folding up at night

  February 24, 2023 Cell Press Science Daily

  Some plants show ‘sleep movements,' folding or raising their leaves each night before opening them again the next day. Now, researchers offer convincing evidence for these nightly movements in fossil plants that lived more than 250 million years ago.

• Video

  On the Christian Origins of Science

  February 24, 2023 Apologetics Roadshow YouTube

  In his recent Daily Wire documentary, “Logos & Literacy," Dr. Jordan Peterson visits the Museum of the Bible and discusses the impact of the Bible on literacy, universities, and science.

• Marvelling at the mystery of consciousness through a scientific lens

  February 24, 2023 Anil Seth Nature

  Neuroscientist and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness describes the multidisciplinary appeal of his research.

• Is There Ambiguity in Creation?

  February 24, 2023 Answers in Genesis

  The idea that God created a young earth that looked old has insurmountable problems.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Macromolecular organic matter in samples of the asteroid (162173) Ryugu

  February 24, 2023 Hikaru Yabuta, et al. Science, v.379, n.6634

  Organic compounds in asteroids and comets contain information about the early history of the Solar System. They could also have delivered organic material to early Earth.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Soluble organic molecules in samples of the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu

  February 24, 2023 Hiroshi Naraoka, et al. Science v.379, n.6634

  Surface material from the near-Earth carbonaceous (C-type) asteroid (162173) Ryugu was collected and brought to Earth by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.

• Why aren't animals as smart as humans?

  February 24, 2023 Ingrid Schou Science Norway

  “Fire may have made human brains larger," researcher says.

• 5 times scientists thought they may have discovered aliens

  February 24, 2023 Morgan McFall-Johnsen Business Insider

  Extraterrestrial life could exist, but mysterious objects in the sky aren't evidence of aliens. ... Scientists have thought they were close to discovering alien life a few times -- none of it via UFOs.

• Could reinterpreting our data eliminate dark energy?

  February 24, 2023 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?"

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Evolution of enzyme functionality in the flavin-containing monooxygenases

  February 24, 2023 Gautier Bailleul, et al. Nature Communications

• News Update/Commentary

  How birds got their wings

  February 24, 2023 University of Tokyo Science Daily

  The origin of a structure in bird wings essential to flight has been found in dinosaurs

• New Model of Chirality Untestable

  February 24, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  It’s one of the biggest mysteries for evolutionary biologists: the origin of handedness in biomolecules. A new solution is all hat and no cattle.

• Scientists Discover a “New” Fourth (Meningeal) Membrane Surrounding the Brain

  February 24, 2023 Howard Glicksman Evolution News & Science Today

• Conference to Explore Cosmic Mind and Divine Action

  February 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today

• Our Brains “Control” How Sick We Get?

  February 24, 2023 Uncommon Descent

• Imagination makes us human

  February 23, 2023 Andrey Vyshedskiy The Conversation

  this unique ability to envision what doesn’t exist has a long evolutionary history

• An asteroid in the laboratory

  February 23, 2023 Keith T. Smith Science, v.379, n.6634, p.782-783

  Small asteroids are leftover material from the formation of the Solar System, so samples of them could provide information on processes that occurred during that early period.

• Global impact and selectivity of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction among sharks, skates, and rays

  February 23, 2023 Guillaume Guinot and Fabien L. Condamine Science, v.379, n.6634, p.802-806

  We know that the end-Cretaceous extinction event drove ecological change and species turnover in terrestrial systems, but we know less about how this event may have altered marine systems.

• Dark energy could lead to a second (and third, and fourth) Big Bang

  February 23, 2023 Paul Sutter Live Science

  Scientists have proposed a way that the universe could stop expanding, ending in a 'Big Crunch' that resets space and time as we know it.

• Earliest Fossil Brain Is Still a Brain

  February 23, 2023 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Finally, Scientists Uncover the Genetic Basis of Fingerprints

  February 23, 2023 James M. Gaines The Scientist

  Much like with a zebra’s stripes or a leopard’s spots, Turing patterns explain how the distinctive patterns of human fingerprints form, a study finds.

• First look at Ryugu asteroid sample reveals it is organic-rich

  February 23, 2023 Bill Steigerwald, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center phys.org

• String theory is dead

  February 23, 2023 Peter Woit and Alexis Papazoglou iai News

• Big dino, little dino: how T. rex’s relatives changed their size

  February 23, 2023 Dyani Lewis Nature

  ‘Impressive’ fossil analysis reveals why some dinosaurs were massive but their cousins were tiny.

• News Update/Commentary

  Discovery of massive early galaxies defies prior understanding of the universe

  February 23, 2023 Penn State Science Daily

  Six massive galaxies discovered in the early universe are upending what scientists previously understood about the origins of galaxies in the universe.

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolution of dinosaur body size through different developmental mechanisms

  February 23, 2023 Ohio University Science Daily

  Scientists puzzling over how such wildly different dinosaur sizes evolved recently found -- to their surprise -- that smaller and larger theropod dinosaurs like these didn't necessarily get that way merely by growing slower or faster.

• News Update/Commentary

  Single gene causes sea anemone's stinging cell to lose its sting

  February 23, 2023 Cornell University Science Daily

  When scientists disabled a single regulatory gene in a species of sea anemone, a stinging cell that shoots a venomous miniature harpoon for hunting and self-defense shifted to shoot a sticky thread that entangles prey instead, according to a new study.

• Nobody Can Explain Early Galaxies

  February 23, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Mature galaxies right near the beginning -- this repeated theme has secular theorists at wit’s end

• Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I

  February 23, 2023 Emily Reeves Evolution News & Science Today

  An Engineering Marvel

• The DNA Code Takes My Breath Away; Here’s Why

  February 23, 2023 Stephen J. Iacoboni Evolution News & Science Today

• Arrows Found in 54,000 Year-Old Cave

  February 23, 2023 Uncommon Descent

• Why “Junk DNA” Sequences Are Not Deleted

  February 23, 2023 Uncommon Descent

  Because Evolution, We Are Told, “Rejects Them”

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Developmental strategies underlying gigantism and miniaturization in non-avialan theropod dinosaurs

  February 23, 2023 Michael D. D'Emic, et al. Science, v.379, n.6634, p.811-814

  Over evolutionary history, many different taxa have evolved very large body sizes. The general consensus has been that an animal grows to a large size based on an increase in growth rate.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The endocast from Dana Aoule North (DAN5/P1)

  February 22, 2023 Emiliano Bruner, et al. American Journal of Biological Anthropology

  A 1.5 million year-old human braincase from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

• The Webb Telescope Spots Six Galaxies That Shouldn't Exist

  February 22, 2023 Jeffrey Kluger Time

  Early galaxies, so the rule goes, were pipsqueaks. Or at least that’s what the rule used to be.

• Animals' ‘sixth sense' is more widespread than previously thought

  February 22, 2023 University of Manchester phys.org