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Peer-reviewed Paper
AI-designed viral genomes
August 6, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6811, p.563-564
The generation of functional viral genomes has urgent biosafety and biosecurity implications
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The visual brain hypothesis
August 6, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6811, p.560-561
Virtual models of primate crania support visual system influence on brain size
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Genes of an icon
August 6, 2026 Science
In the DNA of bison, scientists find clues to the animals’ past -- and keys to safeguarding their future
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Explaining Consciousness by Redefining Reality
August 6, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Perhaps the most interesting question is no longer whether consciousness can be explained by matter
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The 85-million-year timeline of human evolution
August 6, 2026 New Scientist
Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human evolution is, stretching back millions of years to when the first primates arose
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OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct
August 6, 2026 Yahoo! News
OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach
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Hot Water, Cracked Rock, but No Life
August 6, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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“Weirdest Theory Yet” for the Cambrian Explosion
August 6, 2026 Science & Culture Today
promoted by a paper
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Michael Behe and Darwin’s Black Box
August 6, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Restoring Our Vision
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Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
August 6, 2026 Science Alert
‘Only One Conclusion'
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Is the Universe truly infinite in size?
August 6, 2026 Big Think
As far as we can tell, there's no limit to how far it goes on; only a limit to how far we can see. Could the Universe truly be infinite?
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Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI
August 6, 2026 The Guardian
Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions
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Video
Neurosurgeon and Engineer Critique a Materialist Theory of Consciousness
August 5, 2026 ID the Future
critique of Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a popular mathematical model that attempts to explain consciousness through computational complexity
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Why did menopause evolve?
August 5, 2026 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v.123, n.32
Researchers are identifying more species that experience menopause, prompting fresh theories about its evolution.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Quantitative reconstruction of the Yiwu Jurassic Forest in Northwest China
August 5, 2026 Science Advances, v.12, n.32
the changing structure and function of forests through geological time remain poorly understood due to the scarcity of in situ fossil forests preserving detailed and physiologically important anatomical characters.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Intermediate stages in the origin of metabolism at a phosphorylating hydrothermal vent
August 5, 2026 Science Advances, v.12, n.32
The origin of life required the emergence of metabolism, an autocatalytic network of enzymatic reactions that synthesize amino acids, nucleotides, and cofactors. At the origin of metabolism, there were no enzymes -- how did it start?
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Culture change: Darwin’s rival Lamarck is back
August 5, 2026 Mind Matters
a significant change in evolution theory: the idea that Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) was right about some aspects of evolution is being taken seriously.
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Why science must reinforce its social contract
August 5, 2026 Nature
Questions of public trust can be addressed only through better communication and research that meets society’s interests.
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News Update/Commentary
80-million-year-old snake brain reveals a surprising evolutionary secret
August 5, 2026 Science Daily
An 80-million-year-old fossil reveals that early snakes explored underground, terrestrial, and marine worlds much earlier than scientists realized.
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News Update/Commentary
567-million-year-old fossils rewrite the dawn of animal life
August 5, 2026 Science Daily
A remarkable Canadian fossil site reveals that animals were moving, reproducing, and evolving complex bodies up to 10 million years earlier than scientists thought.
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Neanderthal gene makes some modern humans taller and more muscular
August 5, 2026 Nature
The ancient genetic variant is most common in people of South and East Asian ancestry.
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What is life?
August 5, 2026 New Scientist
A provocative new book sets out to redefine it ... Melanie Challenger's Alive aims to describe the living world very differently -- by insisting on agency and purpose everywhere.
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False Unanimity at the National Academies
August 5, 2026 Wall Street Journal
A climate report spins an illusion of elite scientific consensus.
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Neanderthal genes may give modern humans’ muscles a boost
August 5, 2026 Yahoo! News
Most of the world’s population carries at least a little Neanderthal DNA
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Were there tiny dinosaurs?
August 5, 2026 EurekAlert!
New study explores one of evolution’s biggest mysteries ... Mathematical models reveal that even the smallest dinosaurs were surprisingly large -- and suggest that flight allowed birds to break the rules
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A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth
August 5, 2026 Smithsonian Magazine
The work challenges the assumption that all life descended from one free-living cell. Instead, it suggests that two microbial lineages, the bacteria and archaea, evolved independently from a primordial, nonliving ancestor
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The Weirdest Theory Yet for Why Life on Earth Suddenly Exploded
August 5, 2026 Gizmodo
It was all thanks to a lot of poop.
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The Geometric Impossibility of Finkel’s “Round Ark”
August 5, 2026 Answers Research Journal, v.19, p.117-135
A Mathematical and Textual Reevaluation of “Simmonds Ark Tablet” Versus the Rectilinear Noah’s Ark
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Evolution of Biological Information
August 5, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Lizards and a “New” Organ
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New Book Probes Evolution as a “Catholic Dilemma”
August 5, 2026 Science & Culture Today
by Chaberek, Greene
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Behe’s Great Work at Age 30
August 5, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Mighty and Meek
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mutations to a gene are linked to wide-ranging benefits
August 5, 2026 Nature
Analysis of one million diverse genomes yields mutations associated with lower risk of diabetes, heart disease and other ‘cardiometabolic’ conditions.
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Deadly volcano that killed 30,000 in minutes reawakens after decades of silence
August 4, 2026 Daily Mail (UK)
Mount Pelée sits on the Caribbean island of Martinique, roughly 1,500 miles southeast of Florida and along heavily traveled air routes connecting the region with the US.
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Video
Physicists Say They’ve Found the Origin of Causality
August 4, 2026
Over the years, physicists have become increasingly enamored with “quantum weirdness,” the many strange features of quantum mechanics that are extremely hard to explain.
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News Update/Commentary
518-million-year-old creature reveals the origins of spider fangs
August 4, 2026 Science Daily
Hidden inside the fossil were pincerlike limbs and preserved soft tissues that help explain how the ancestors of spiders and scorpions evolved into formidable hunters.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists catch a “jumping gene” mid-leap between species
August 4, 2026 Science Daily
Scientists have uncovered a surprising way that “jumping genes” may move between species and speed up evolution.
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Will Evolutionists Ever Admit That Life Never Existed on Mars?
August 4, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
After a long string of failures to find life on Mars many scientists continue, in hope against hope, to search for it.
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The once-impossible black holes that could break thermodynamics
August 4, 2026 New Scientist
The laws of physics seemed to forbid a strange variety of black holes that could have zero temperature. Columnist explores research that shows these strange behemoths can really exist -- and how they could test the limits of thermodynamics
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We Can’t Just Lie About Sex Differences
August 4, 2026 Skeptic
on Evolutionary Psychology, Pseudoscience, and the Politics of Gender
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How an ‘explosion of excrement’ changed Earth's ecosystems forever
August 4, 2026 EurekAlert!
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The Universe May Not Be Accelerating After All
August 4, 2026 Popular Mechanics
And It Could Mean Dark Energy Never Existed ... If the cosmos is lopsided, the foundation of modern cosmology starts to look a little shaky.
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Darwin Was Right: These Plants Are Carnivores
August 4, 2026 New York Times
Scientists have proved that a species of plant covered with sticky hairs is carnivorous, confirming Darwin’s 150-year-old hunch.
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What the Big Mysteries Survey Shows, and What It Does Not
August 4, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Polling the Physicists
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Galloping Flagella and Cilia Railroads
August 4, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Celebrating Darwin’s Black Box
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The Story Behind Darwin’s Black Box
August 3, 2026 Discovery Science
This video tells the story behind the writing of this landmark book, which fundamentally changed the debate over Darwin.
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Enjoy a Reading from the Landmark Book Darwin’s Black Box
August 3, 2026 ID the Future
It’s the book that helped launch the biochemical challenge to Darwinian evolution. It has been hailed as one of the most influential books on science in our lifetime.
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The Superiority of the Design Approach
August 3, 2026 Science & Culture Today
A Level Above
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Video
Do Your Beliefs Have to Follow the Evidence?
August 3, 2026 The Analytic Christian and PhiLIZophy
Philosopher Says No ... we discuss the book, “Must Beliefs and Evidence Agree?"
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‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars
August 3, 2026 Nature
Review mills -- researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests -- are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?
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The secret relationships that govern life on Earth
August 3, 2026 Nature
Books on parasitism and symbiosis inspire wonder at the strange ways in which species’ lives intertwine.