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• Science and the legal rights of nature

  May 19, 2023 Yaffa Epstein, et al. Science

  Laws that establish legal rights for nature are being pursued in a growing number of countries to protect the environment. The success of these rights-of-nature laws can depend in large part on how scientific concepts and expertise have been used

• Time is an object

  May 19, 2023 Sara Walker Aeon

  Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories

• Octopuses and squid are masters of RNA editing while leaving DNA intact

  May 19, 2023 Tina Hesman Saey Science News

  These changes could explain the intelligence and flexibility of shell-less cephalopods

• The myth of value-free science

  May 19, 2023 Melanie Challenger iai News

  What do scientists owe us?

• When do humans become conscious -- in the womb or after birth?

  May 19, 2023 Tim Bayne Big Think

  Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.

• How to Write Imperfect Nonsense Using Evolution: Cheat

  May 19, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Evolutionary theory, with its Stuff Happens Law, makes nonsense more probable than sense

• The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic

  May 19, 2023 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• The Ultimate Defense of Substance Dualism

  May 19, 2023 Peter Biles Evolution News & Science Today

  Coming Soon

• FAQ: The Cambrian Explosion Is Real, and It Is a Problem for Evolution

  May 19, 2023 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  The 5 core principles of life

  May 19, 2023 Big Think YouTube

  Nobel Prize-winner Paul Nurse

• Blog Post

  Breaking Google Bard

  May 18, 2023 Bill Dembski

  I’ve finally started playing around with Google Bard. With self-referential sentences, it seems even more at sea than ChatGPT. Here is an exchange from 5/18/23

• Does Iron Toast Union Rescue Long Ages?

  May 18, 2023 Brian Thomas Institute for Creation Research

  On the one hand, biochemists perform decay rate studies that show biochemicals cannot last a million years in the best of conditions. On the other hand, paleontologists keep finding biochemicals in fossil bones deemed tens of millions of years old.

• Electron is perfectly spherical

  May 18, 2023 Jonathan Sarfati Creation Ministries International

  Real particle physics refutes big bang dogma

• New Animal Cell Organelle Discovered

  May 18, 2023 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  As design becomes more complex, evolution becomes less likely

• Intelligent Design in Weather

  May 18, 2023 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

  The “Perfect Day” Conspiracy

• Humans were making fires at least 250,000 years ago in Europe

  May 18, 2023 Heriot-Watt University phys.org

  Early humans in Europe were making and controlling fire at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland have found.

• We’re effectively alone in the Universe, and that’s OK

  May 18, 2023 Paul Sutter ars technica

  Solitude is not a curse -- it urges us to explore the mysteries of our galaxy and beyond.

• A surprise new “theory of everything” involves the symmetry between order and disorder

  May 18, 2023 Denis Noble Big Think

  There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.

• Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?

  May 18, 2023 Brian Gallagher nautil.us

  Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.

• Once again, ideology distorts science

  May 18, 2023 Jerry Coyne Why Evolution Is True

  the editor-in-chief of Scientific American flubs big time, wrongly asserting that sparrows have four sexes

• Scientists find oldest known evidence of humans in Europe using fires to cook

  May 18, 2023 Nicola Davis The Guardian

  Prehistoric hearths found near Madrid date back about 250,000 years, with nearby tools showing food traces

• Human-evolution story rewritten by fresh data and more computing power

  May 18, 2023 Jude Coleman Nature

  Humans did not emerge from a single region of Africa, suggests a powerful modelling study. Rather, our ancestors moved and intermingled for millennia.

• News Update/Commentary

  Fossil of mosasaur with bizarre ‘screwdriver teeth' found in Morocco

  May 18, 2023 University of Bath Science Daily

  Along with other recent finds from Africa, it suggests that mosasaurs and other marine reptiles were evolving rapidly up until 66 million years ago, when they were wiped out by an asteroid along with the dinosaurs and around 90% of all species on Earth.

• News Update/Commentary

  Scales or feathers? It all comes down to a few genes

  May 18, 2023 Université de Genève Science Daily

  Specifically modifying gene expression causes feathers to replace scales in the chicken

• News Update/Commentary

  Perfection: The Enemy of Evolution

  May 18, 2023 Duke University Science Daily

  Freedom to miss the optimal mark opens a wide range of new designs over time

• Did life evolve more than once?

  May 18, 2023 Jordi Paps The Conversation

  Researchers are closing in on an answer

• In First Detection of Gravitational Waves, Timing Was Everything

  May 17, 2023 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

• ChatGPT can’t think -- consciousness is something entirely different to today’s AI

  May 17, 2023 Philip Goff The Conversation

  There has been shock around the world at the rapid rate of progress with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence created with what’s known as large language models (LLMs).

• When Political Dogma Replaces Medical Truth

  May 17, 2023 Ian Kingsbury City Journal, New York

  The peer-review process is consistently failing to stop bad scholarship on gender medicine.

• What did the earliest animals look like?

  May 17, 2023 Robert Sanders University of California, Berkeley

  Scientists have long debated whether comb jellies or sponges are the sister group to all other animals. A detailed comparison of the chromosomes finally resolves the question.

• New Research Using DNA Changes Origin of Human Species

  May 17, 2023 Karen Nikos-Rose University of California, Davis

  New Model for Human Evolution Suggests Homo sapiens Arose From Multiple Closely Related Populations

• Comb jellies, not sponges, might be the oldest animal group after all

  May 17, 2023 James Dinneen New Scientist

  An argument that has been raging among biologists for over a decade -- whether comb jellies or sponges were the first group to split off from the common ancestor of all animals -- has a new twist, thanks to an analysis of genetic patterns

• The “inflaton” could shed light on the mystery of the early Universe

  May 17, 2023 Marcelo Gleiser Big Think

  We can reasonably say that we understand the history of the Universe within one-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. That's not good enough.

• Chromosomal comparisons reveal comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals

  May 17, 2023 Nature

  Analyses of chromosome organization across diverse animals provide evidence that a group of marine creatures called comb jellies are the sister clade of all other animals, bringing to bear new methods to answer a long-standing evolutionary question.

• The evolution of fast-growing coral reef fishes

  May 17, 2023 Alexandre C. Siqueira, Helen F. Yan, Renato A. Morais, and David R. Bellwood Nature

  Individual growth is a fundamental life history trait, yet its macroevolutionary trajectories have rarely been investigated for entire animal assemblages. Here we analyse the evolution of growth in a highly diverse vertebrate assemblage

• Religion and educational mobility in Africa

  May 17, 2023 Alberto Alesina, Sebastian Hohmann, Stelios Michalopoulos, and Elias Papaioannou Nature

  In this study, we examine the educational progress across faiths throughout postcolonial Africa, home to some of the world’s largest Christian and Muslim communities.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A temperate Earth-sized planet with tidal heating transiting an M6 star

  May 17, 2023 Merrin S. Peterson, et al. Nature

  Temperate Earth-sized exoplanets around late-M dwarfs offer a rare opportunity to explore under which conditions planets can develop hospitable climate conditions.

• Changes in education levels across generations in Africa are linked to religion

  May 17, 2023 Melina R. Platas Nature

  Census data from across Africa reveal that religion is a strong predictor of whether a child is likely to complete more or less education than their parents. The analysis calls into question current approaches to closing education gaps.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals

  May 17, 2023 Darrin T. Schultz, et al. Nature

• JWST shows an ancient galaxy in stunning spectroscopic detail

  May 17, 2023 Benjamin Thompson and Nick Petrić Howe Nature

  New insights into the structure of an early galaxy

• Comb Jellies Take the Lead Over Sponges!

  May 17, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Comb jellies pull ahead in an endless game to earn the title Last Common Ancestor of All Animals

• The Dawkins Test Returns an Answer

  May 17, 2023 Jonathan Witt Evolution News & Science Today

  Intelligent Design

• News Update/Commentary

  Homo sapiens likely arose from multiple closely related populations

  May 17, 2023 University of California, Davis Science Daily

  In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence, researchers have uncovered a new model of human evolution -- overturning previous beliefs that a single population gave rise to all humans

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa

  May 17, 2023 Aaron P. Ragsdale, et al. Nature, v.617, p.755-763

  Despite broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, considerable uncertainty surrounds specific models of divergence and migration across the continent. Progress is hampered by a shortage of fossil and genomic data

• Video

  The (Crazy) State of Origin-of-Life Research

  May 16, 2023 Sean McDowell YouTube

  Are we getting closer to discovering how life first emerged? Will scientists be able to create life in a lab in our lifetimes? Dr. James Tour is a chemist and nanotechnologist who has been following origin-of-life research closely for years.

• Blog Post

  The Role of Plausibility in Science

  May 16, 2023 Steven Novella NeuroLogica

• The Journal Nature Falls for Autism Pseudoscience

  May 16, 2023 Stuart Vyse Skeptical Inquirer

• Opposing scientists find no clear evidence for gender bias in academic science

  May 16, 2023 Ross Pomeroy Big Think

  The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.

• We can’t avoid a singularity inside every black hole

  May 16, 2023 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Yes, “the laws of physics break down" at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.

• Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add -- and That Matters

  May 16, 2023 Stephen J. Iacoboni Evolution News & Science Today