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• How Earth’s Magnetic Field Bounced Back Just As Complex Life Was Emerging

  September 19, 2022 at Big Think Uncommon Descent

• Scientists have calculated how many ants are on Earth

  September 19, 2022 Dino Grandoni Washington Post

  A new estimate for the sheer number of ants on Earth comes to an “unimaginable” sum, one researcher said

• Impact Crater off the African Coast May Be Linked to Chicxulub

  September 19, 2022 Katherine Kornei Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  The underwater crater, spotted serendipitously in commercial observations of seafloor sediments, is believed to have formed at roughly the same time as the famous Cretaceous-Paleogene impact event.

• Why Philosopher Quentin Smith Saw Belief in God As Unscientific

  September 18, 2022 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Reader Laszlo Bencze looks at his list of reasons for thinking so and offers some thoughtful comments

• Philosopher: “Universe Fine-Tuned for Life" Is Just Folk Belief!

  September 18, 2022 Mind Matters

  Do physicists claim that the universe is fine-tuned for life only when writing for a popular audience -- and not in their professional work?

• The Power of a Cosmic Perspective

  September 18, 2022 J News (UK)

  The idea that the sun, moon, planets and stars affect us personally is called astrology, and it goes way back.

• Video

  Is this Shroud the Burial Garment of Jesus?

  September 17, 2022 Gary Habermas YouTube

  Habermas shares the special qualities of the Shroud of Turin and problems with the most recent Carbon 14 dating

• At Scientific American: Webb Is Breaking the Big Bang Paradigm

  September 17, 2022 Mind Matters

  That cosmic blast has been as much of a cultural and philosophical concept as a scientific one -- hence the angst over challenging findings

• Researchers Claim to Have Found a Rare Dinosaur ‘Mummy' with Some Fossilized Skin

  September 17, 2022 Tessa Koumoundouros Science Alert

  Bits of a fossil discovered jutting out from a Canadian cliff in 2021 could be attached to a rare complete dinosaur skeleton, complete with fossilized skin.

• No, AI did not discover a new type of physics

  September 17, 2022 Tom Hartsfield Big Think

  An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.

• Defining the “Science of Purpose”

  September 17, 2022 at Evolution News Uncommon Descent

• Gogo Darwin: Latest Evo-Hype from Heart Fossil

  September 17, 2022 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  A soft-tissue fossil should shame Darwinians into embarrassed silence, but they’re using it to promote evolution.

• Early Life Learned to Love Oxygen Long Before It Was Cool

  September 16, 2022 Jennifer Schmidt Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Laboratory experiments show that earthquakes may have helped early life evolve in an oxygen-free world.

• News Update/Commentary

  Gut microbes and humans on a joint evolutionary journey

  September 16, 2022 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Science Daily

  Researchers discover simultaneous evolutionary history of gut microbes with their human hosts over hundreds of thousands of years

• News Update/Commentary

  Even smartest AI models don't match human visual processing

  September 16, 2022 York University Science Daily

  How deep-network models take potentially dangerous ‘shortcuts' in solving complex recognition tasks

• Historic Adaptations May Now Make Us Susceptible to Disease

  September 16, 2022 Dan Robitzski The Scientist

  Researchers made the find using an algorithm that purportedly distinguishes between mutations that were selected for and those that came along for the ride by coincidence, a feat that has long eluded scientists.

• Is Sahelanthropus Our Seven-Million-Year-Old Bipedal Ancestor?

  September 16, 2022 Troy Lacey Answers in Genesis

  Could this purported human ancestor even walk upright?

• News Update/Commentary

  Data science reveals universal rules shaping cells' power stations

  September 16, 2022 The University of Bergen Science Daily

  Researchers have used data science and computational biology to show that the same ‘rules' have shaped how mitochondria and chloroplasts have evolved throughout life's history.

• Fossil Friday: Rhenocystis and the Controversial Calcichordate Hypothesis

  September 16, 2022 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

• The Perseverance Rover Is Finding More and More Organic Matter on Mars

  September 16, 2022 at New Scientist Uncommon Descent

• NASA’s Mars rover makes ‘fantastic’ find in search for past life

  September 16, 2022 Alexandra Witze Nature

  Perseverance has collected four rock samples from an ancient river delta where organisms might have thrived.

• Meet the mystery diamond from outer space

  September 16, 2022 Madeline Holcombe CNN

• Palestinian Farmer Discovers Rare Ancient Treasure in Gaza

  September 15, 2022 Fares Akram NBC

  The discovery has set off excitement among archaeologists, and the territory's Hamas rulers are planning a major announcement in the coming days

• News Update/Commentary

  Earth's newest secret: How volcanoes really work

  September 15, 2022 University of California, Santa Barbara Science Daily

  Recent findings from Iceland's Fagradalsfjall eruptions change what we know about how volcanoes work

• Researchers Discover Extinct Prehistoric Reptile That Lived Among Dinosaurs

  September 15, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine

  Discovery sheds light on the tuatara, the last living member of a once-diverse group of reptiles that has almost entirely been supplanted by lizards

• The Perseverance rover is finding more and more organic matter on Mars

  September 15, 2022 Leah Crane New Scientist

  NASA’s Perseverance rover has found a glut of organic molecules on Mars, as well as other materials that make the dry river delta it is now exploring perfect for hunting for signs of life

• DNA clocks suggest ageing is pre-programmed in our cells

  September 15, 2022 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  Looking at DNA in a tissue sample is now all you need to accurately work out the age of almost any mammal, and this reveals something fundamental about ageing

• Scientists are using AI to dream up revolutionary new proteins

  September 15, 2022 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Huge advances in artificial intelligence mean researchers can design completely original molecules in seconds instead of months.

• Frank Drake (1930–2022)

  September 15, 2022 Sarah Scoles Nature

  Radioastronomer who hunted for alien signals and penned the eponymous equation.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Exceptional preservation of organs in Devonian placoderms from the Gogo lagerstätte

  September 15, 2022 Kate Trinajstic, et al. Science, v.377, n.6612, p.1311-1314

• We found the oldest ever vertebrate fossil heart

  September 15, 2022 Kate Trinajstic and John Long The Conversation

  It tells a 380 million-year-old story of how our bodies evolved

• Research Contradicting the LGBT Agenda Shouldn’t be Printed

  September 15, 2022 Ken Ham Answers in Genesis

  Academic Editorial

• News Update/Commentary

  The hemispheres are not equal: How the brain is not symmetrical

  September 15, 2022 Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Science Daily

  Some functions are processed more on the left side, others more on the right. Scientists have now discovered heritable underpinnings of brain asymmetry and how much we share with monkeys.

• Dinosaur Skin Dazzles Scientists

  September 15, 2022 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Skin of a juvenile hadrosaur emerges from a hillside in Canada; is it really 78 million years old?

• Another Prestigious Science Journal Conflates Science with Politics and Pushes for Technocracy

  September 15, 2022 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• RuvAB: Another Elegant Molecular Motor Visualized

  September 15, 2022 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Pioneering Research Using Bacteria Brings Scientists a Step Closer To Creating Artificial Cells with Lifelike Functionality

  September 15, 2022 at Science Daily Uncommon Descent

• Blog Post

  Human Cyborgs are Just the Beginning

  September 14, 2022 Robert W. Malone

  The USG Administrative State believes that Human Augmentation is ‘Imperative’

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Rapid shifting of a deep magmatic source at Fagradalsfjall volcano, Iceland

  September 14, 2022 Sæmundur A. Halldórsson, et al. Nature, v.609, p.529-534

• City life is giving male Australian cane toads longer legs

  September 14, 2022 Jake Buehler New Scientist

  Invasive cane toads that live in Australia’s cities have developed different physical traits from those in the countryside, which may be due to rapid adaptation to urban environments

• Inside the US Supreme Court’s war on science

  September 14, 2022 Jeff Tollefson Nature

  A new ultraconservative supermajority on the United States’ top court is undermining science’s role in informing public policy. Scholars fear the results could be disastrous for public health, justice and democracy itself.

• The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird

  September 14, 2022 Gabriela Haynes Answers Research Journal, v.15, p.285-300

• News Update/Commentary

  Pioneering research using bacteria brings scientists a step closer to creating artificial cells with lifelike functionality

  September 14, 2022 University of Bristol Science Daily

  Scientists have harnessed the potential of bacteria to help build advanced synthetic cells which mimic real life functionality.

• News Update/Commentary

  New method for comparing neural networks exposes how artificial intelligence works

  September 14, 2022 DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory Science Daily

  Adversarial training makes it harder to fool the networks

• News Update/Commentary

  Early gibbon fossil found in southwest China: Discovery fills evolutionary history gap of apes

  September 14, 2022 New York University Science Daily

  A team of scientists has discovered the earliest gibbon fossil, a find that helps fill a long-elusive evolutionary gap in the history of apes.

• Report from Australia: Sharing Design Evidence Down Under

  September 14, 2022 Thomas E. Woodward Evolution News & Science Today

• Big Bang Singularity Resolution in Quantum Cosmology

  September 14, 2022 Karim P. Y. Thébault arXiv

  We evaluate the physical viability and logical strength of an array of putative criteria for big bang singularity resolution in quantum cosmology.

• Three times artificial intelligence has scared scientists -- from creating chemical weapons to claiming it has feelings

  September 13, 2022 Tyler Baum The U.S. Sun

  The artificial intelligence revolution has only just begun, but there have already been numerous unsettling developments.

• Video

  Fighting among the creationists?

  September 13, 2022 Biblical Genetics

  Dealing with disagreements among colleagues

• 70-year-old quantum prediction comes true, as something is created from nothing

  September 13, 2022 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.