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• Claim: Language Originated in Hand Gestures

  February 5, 2023 Uncommon Descent

  How Do We Know?

• Are Crows Really As Smart As 7 Year Old Children?

  February 5, 2023 Uncommon Descent

• Scientists grew mini human guts inside mice

  February 4, 2023 Emily Mullin ars technica

  Tiny organoids with working immune systems mimic the function of the GI tract.

• Q&A: What if Immune Cells Don’t Actually Detect Viruses and Bacteria?

  February 3, 2023 Dan Robitzski The Scientist

  The Scientist spoke with Jonathan Kagan about his idea that immune cells respond to “errors” made by unsuccessful pathogens, not the pathogens themselves.

• Centuries-Old Archive Reveals Far-Flung Impacts of Major Eruptions

  February 3, 2023 Shannon Banks Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Weather records preserved by staff and students at Williams College reveal cool spells in New England after volcanic blasts in Indonesia and South Asia.

• What Can't A.I. Do? Quite a Lot, Actually

  February 3, 2023 Peter Biles Mind Matters

  NYT columnist David Brooks makes a list of uniquely human skills that students should develop in college

• Have any of Earth’s creatures stopped evolving?

  February 3, 2023 David Warmflash Genetic Literacy Project

• What are white holes, and do they really exist?

  February 3, 2023 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  In General Relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?

• Dogma-defying bacteria package DNA in unusual ways

  February 3, 2023 Heidi Ledford Nature

  Some bacteria appear to encase their genomes in proteins called histones -- which weren’t thought to exist in bacterial cells.

• Book

  On the Origin of Speciesism, Part 2

  February 3, 2023 J. Y. Jones Creation-Evolution Headlines

  REVIEW: Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism Is Pushing Planetary Boundaries by Brian Swartz and Brent D. Mishler, eds. (Springer, 2022). | See Also Amazon

• The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)

  February 3, 2023 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• How do you make a mummy?

  February 2, 2023 Gabrielle Nolin NBC News

  A new study sheds light on the embalming process -- and the ancient trade links that made it all possible.

• Dallas Conference: What Does “The Science” Really Say about Faith?

  February 2, 2023 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Dubious Views on Octopus Evolution

  February 2, 2023 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Book

  On the Origin of Speciesism, Part 1

  February 2, 2023 J. Y. Jones Creation-Evolution Headlines

  REVIEW: Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism Is Pushing Planetary Boundaries by Brian Swartz and Brent D. Mishler, eds. (Springer, 2022). | See Also Amazon

• NASA Persecution Case Reaches a Grim Anniversary

  February 2, 2023 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• ChatGPT is great -- you’re just using it wrong

  February 2, 2023 Jonathan May The Conversation

  It doesn’t take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake.

• The good reasons scientists are so hostile to new ideas

  February 2, 2023 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here's why we don't buy it.

• Unbalanced Allele Expression Associated with Mutation, Disease

  February 2, 2023 Natalia Mesa The Scientist

  A study identifies nearly 3,000 genes where one allele tends to be expressed more than the other, but the findings ignited controversy in the field.

• There is no problem of consciousness

  February 2, 2023 Riccardo Manzotti iai News

  Consciousness is hidden in plain sight

• Fossils Explain the Evolution of Earth Life During the Early Cambrian Period

  February 1, 2023 Keith Cowing Astrobiology

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The Cambrian cirratuliform Iotuba denotes an early annelid radiation

  February 1, 2023 ZhiFei Zhang, Martin R. Smith, and XinYi Ren Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v.290, n.1992

  The principal animal lineages (phyla) diverged in the Cambrian, but most diversity at lower taxonomic ranks arose more gradually over the subsequent 500 Myr. Annelid worms seem to exemplify this pattern

• A Manufactured New Sin: Speciesism

  February 1, 2023 J. Y. Jones Creation-Evolution Headlines

  A new thought crime takes direct aim at Genesis and human exceptionalism

• By Design: Storytelling Reveals Human Exceptionalism

  February 1, 2023 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• ChatGPT Violates Its Own Model

  February 1, 2023 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  Based on these exchanges, we can at least say the chatbot is more than just the ChatGPT neural network

• News Update/Commentary

  319-million-year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal

  February 1, 2023 University of Michigan Science Daily

  The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain.

• News Update/Commentary

  The bubbling universe: A previously unknown phase transition in the early universe

  February 1, 2023 University of Southern Denmark Science Daily

  What happened shortly after the universe was born in the Big Bang and began to expand? Bubbles occurred and a previously unknown phase transition happened, according to particle physicists.

• Geneticists Light Up Debate on Salmon Conservation

  February 1, 2023 Christie Wilcox The Scientist

  Splitting Chinook salmon into two groups based on their DNA could aid conservation efforts. But some researchers argue that this would be a misuse of the data.

• Could a hidden variable explain the weirdness of quantum physics?

  February 1, 2023 Marcelo Gleiser Big Think

  We have searched and searched but have never found one.

• 3 new studies indicate a conflict at the heart of cosmology

  February 1, 2023 Don Lincoln Big Think

  The Universe isn't as “clumpy" as we think it should be.

• Theistic Evolution Is Not the Real Problem!

  February 1, 2023 Terry Mortenson Answers in Genesis

  The billions of years timeline undergirds the secular attack on the Bible.

• Neanderthals hunted enormous elephants that fed 100 people for a month

  February 1, 2023 Clare Wilson New Scientist

  The extinct straight-tusked elephant was even larger than modern African elephants, making it unclear if Neanderthal hunters could take one down, but a newly analysed trove of bones suggests it was possible

• Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences

  February 1, 2023 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator

  February 1, 2023 Hoover Institution YouTube

  In this wide-ranging conversation, they point out the flaws in Darwin’s theory and the increasing amount of evidence uncovered by a rigorous application of the scientific method that points to an intentional design and creation of the physical world.

• Mistaken fossil rewrites history of Indian subcontinent for second time

  February 1, 2023 Eric Hamilton University of Florida

• Neanderthals lived in groups big enough to eat giant elephants

  February 1, 2023 Andrew Curry Science

  Meat from the butchered beasts would have fed hundreds

• Fish fossil unfolds clues to vertebrate brain evolution

  February 1, 2023 Hugo Dutel and Matteo Fabbri Nature

  A 319-million-year-old fossil provides the oldest known evidence of preserved vertebrate brain tissue. This specimen offers insights into the brain evolution of ray-finned fishes, the most diverse group of living vertebrates.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the ray-finned fish brain

  February 1, 2023 Rodrigo T. Figueroa, et al. Nature

  Here we report brain and cranial nerve soft-tissue preservation in Coccocephalus wildi, an approximately 319-million-year-old ray-finned fish.

• The Milky Way in spellbinding detail and more -- January’s best science images

  February 1, 2023 Emma Stoye Nature

  The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

• Blinded by a Defunct Theory

  January 31, 2023 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  The “interaction problem" is everywhere we look in physics, but the dogma of materialism remains

• DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks

  January 31, 2023 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  Artificial intelligences need specific training to excel at a task, but now a more generally intelligent one from DeepMind has performed as well as humans in a virtual world test

• News Update/Commentary

  With rapidly increasing heat and drought, can plants adapt?

  January 31, 2023 University of California, Berkeley Science Daily

  One plant that successfully invaded deserts was already adapted to life on arid rock outcrops

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universe

  January 31, 2023 University of Chicago Science Daily

  Analysis combines Dark Energy Survey, South Pole Telescope data to understand evolution of universe

• How Scientific Is ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Science?

  January 31, 2023 Henry I. Miller and S. Stanley Young American Council on Science and Health

  its luster has become tarnished by greed -- the desire of the research community to tap into research funds, the pressure on scientists to publish or perish, and publishers of scientific journals seeking to maximize profits

• Unidentified aerial annoyance: Full disclosure or dubious UFO nonsense?

  January 31, 2023 Leonard David space.com

  Whatever is at play here, organizations are taking close encounters with weirdness seriously.

• ‘Less clumpy’ universe may suggest existence of mysterious forces

  January 31, 2023 Hannah Devlin The Guardian

  Survey could mean there is a crucial component missing from so-called standard model of physics

• ‘De-Extinction’ Company Will Try to Bring Back the Dodo

  January 31, 2023 Isaac Schultz Gizmodo

  Colossal Biosciences also intends to resurrect the thylacine and woolly mammoth -- an ambitious agenda, considering no extinct species has ever been brought back.

• New Engineering Ideas from Biology

  January 31, 2023 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Does This Mineral Indicate Oxygen on Mars?

  January 30, 2023 Elise Cutts Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Manganese oxides are thought to be a signature of atmospheric oxygen. But on the Red Planet, recent results suggest they might be more of a red herring.

• Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars

  January 30, 2023 Jonathan O'Callaghan Quanta Magazine

  Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope may have just glimpsed them.