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Photo: Bret Weinstein, by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Editor’s note: Welcome to an Evolution News tradition: a countdown of our Top 10 favorite stories of the past year, concluding on New Year’s Day. This article was originally published on June 21, 2024. Our staff are enjoying the holidays, as we hope that you are, too! Help keep the daily voice of intelligent design going strong. Please give whatever you can to support the Center for Science and Culture before the end of the year! Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying are well-known evolutionary biologists (and husband and wife) with…

Newsletter Signup – Under Article / In Page”*” indicates required fields It’s the holiday season, and what’s better to do than cuddle up in bed and watch a movie? We want to make sure you’re not missing out on some binge-worthy biotech movies this December.So, we have created a watchlist just for you. Here are some biotech movie recommendations to keep you entertained during the holidays!Gattaca (1997)Set in a future society in which most children are conceived in vitro and disease is predetermined using genetic selection techniques, Gattaca tells the story of one of the last naturally conceived children. Born…

The final webinar of 2024 featured two early-career researchers working on gene regulation and will be chaired by Development’s Senior Editor, Alex Eve. Madalena M. Reimão Pinto (Biozentrum) Talk Gabriel Aughey (University College London) Talk and Q&A (2 votes)Loading… ADVERTISEMENT: Halo, sobat pencinta slot! pernahkah mendengar istilah “slot demo”? Kalau tidak, siap-siap jatuh hati dengan program ini. raja slot adalah mesin slots yang selalu kasih win. Yup, slot-slot ini bisa dibilang sebagai andalannya tuk membawa come back cuan. but, cemana sih tekniknya nemuin slot demo yang benar? Tenang Bro, kita bahas tenang saja di tempat ini Game tergacor waktu ini…

A comparison of the fast-growing fish-eating Baltic herring (Slåttersill in Swedish) and slow-growing plankton-eating spring- and autumn-spawning Baltic herring. Credit: Leif Andersson/Uppsala University Atlantic and Baltic herring are typical plankton-eating fish of central importance for the northern Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea ecosystems. A new study published in Nature Communications led by scientists from Uppsala University (Sweden) documents the discovery of the evolution of genetically distinct, fish-eating herring in the Baltic Sea, a young water body that has only existed since the end of the last glaciation. Atlantic and Baltic herring have a key role in the ecosystem, acting as…

Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeidler. At Universe Today, Mark Thompson reports that two physicists, Nemanja Kaloper and Alexander Westphal, believe that they have come up with a way to determine whether the universe has been “designed to support life”: The paper, published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics was authored by Nemanja Kaloper from the University of California and Alexander Westphal from the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron. They propose for the first time, a way that the principle can be experimentally tested.  “Has the Universe Been Designed to Support Life? Now We Have a Way to Test It!” December 9, 2024. The paper is open access. Here’s…

Throughout human evolution, body and facial hair have notably diminished, yet eyelashes have remained a distinguishing feature. The physiological or functional purpose of eyelashes-;traditionally thought to be for catching dust or filtering air, etc.-;has long been debated. However, a team of Chinese researchers has recently elucidated the characteristics of human eyelashes. Their study reveals that eyelashes consist of a hydrophobic, curved, flexible fiber array, featuring surface micro-ratchets and a macro-curvature approximating the Brachistochrone curve. This structure enables eyelashes to rapidly and directionally expel incoming liquid, thereby preserving clear vision. The hydrodynamic advantages of eyelashes, particularly their ability to expel unwanted liquids from the eye to maintain visual clarity, have…

Image: David Hume, by Allan Ramsay, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. On a new episode of ID the Future, philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer concludes his conversation with Praxis Circle’s Doug Monroe. In this last section of a multi-part interview, Dr. Meyer explains why theistic evolution — the belief that God used the evolutionary process to create — is an incoherent position to take on the origin and development of life. There’s no need, Meyer says, to attempt to reconcile theistic belief with a dying theory. Meyer also discusses the topic of miracles. He thinks David Hume’s argument against miracles…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the evolution of Homo sapiens, including key chromosomal rearrangements and specific gene variants that contributed to the development of current modern human traits. Findings challenge traditional models that attribute certain genetic innovations exclusively to modern Homo sapiens. Similarities observed in both modern and archaic human genomes suggest many hallmarks of the Homo sapiens genetic landscape arose before the lineages split. Homo sapiens evolved through a series of significant genetic events. A population bottleneck approximately 900,000 years ago is thought to…

Citation: Bérard M, Merlini L, Martin SG (2024) Proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses reveal that TORC1 is reactivated by pheromone signaling during sexual reproduction in fission yeast. PLoS Biol 22(12): e3002963. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002963Academic Editor: Sarah E. Zanders, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, UNITED STATES OF AMERICAReceived: September 25, 2024; Accepted: December 2, 2024; Published: December 20, 2024Copyright: © 2024 Bérard et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Data Availability: Proteomic and phosphoproteomic datasets are…

Contrast between idealized homogeneous and realistic heterogeneous metapopulations. Credit: SOKENDAI, AIST, OIST The evolution of pathogens has received attention in a wide range of scientific fields, such as epidemiology, demography, and evolutionary ecology. Understanding pathogen evolution is particularly urgent for rapidly evolving pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2, which has spread globally since 2019. Classical evolutionary theory states that virulence evolves to maximize a pathogen’s basic reproduction ratio, i.e., the average number of secondary infections caused by one infected host. This approach provides insights into how pathogen virulence evolves under tradeoffs with other epidemiological parameters such as the rates of infection and…