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Could a new approach to AI finally deliver artificial general intelligence?
August 3, 2026 New Scientist
AI chatbots can describe reality in words, but don’t truly understand cause and effect in the real world. Now, a fresh kind of machine intelligence that does just that is emerging
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When DNA Stop Signs Change Their Message
August 3, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Early snakes explored life underground, on land and at sea
August 3, 2026 University of Helsinki
Snake origins were more dynamic than expected. An exceptionally preserved fossil from Brazil shows that the first snakes tried out several different habitats early in their evolution.
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A dental lens on human evolution
August 3, 2026 Physics Today
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Do distant galaxies refute the big bang?
August 3, 2026 Creation Ministries International
The James Webb Space Telescope has produced images of the most distant galaxies we’ve ever observed. Does this new evidence clearly refute the big bang and support biblical creation? Or is the truth more nuanced?
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Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
August 3, 2026 Quanta Magazine
AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erdős problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understand how AI might change the rest of math.
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Why Are So Many Intellectuals Returning to Christianity?
August 2, 2026 The Dr. Kevin Klar Show
more voices are acknowledging that Christianity offers a compelling explanation for reality, morality, meaning, and the human condition
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Michael Behe Was Right: Darwin’s Black Box at 30
August 2, 2026 Discovery Science
August 2, 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by biochemist Michael Behe.
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Does the Fossil Record Match Darwin's Theory of Evolution?
August 1, 2026 Discovery Science
Darwin's one diagram in Origin of Species shows life branching outward ... The fossil record shows the reverse: major body plans appear first, and the finer categories fill in afterward.
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Evo Devo Evidence for Evolution: Religious Argument Exposed
August 1, 2026 Examining Origins
We're often told that evolution is a scientific theory. But why does a scientific theory rely on religious arguments for its support?
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There Are Two Multi-Trillion Dollar Pseudoscience Scams
August 1, 2026 Manhattan Contrarian
Don't Forget
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Darwin-Drunk Media Competes for Stupid Awards
August 1, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
An otherwise good week of science was corrupted by silly stories glorifying Darwin’s Stuff Happens Law
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Despite Being Abandoned, the Static Universe Still Merits Study
August 1, 2026 Real Clear Science
The notion of a static universe wasn't always fringe. Albert Einstein himself first applied general relativity to a static model, introducing his cosmological constant to hold it there.
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Why Darwin’s discredited rival may be proved right 200 years later
August 1, 2026 Telegraph (UK)
Professors back Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory that organisms pass on physical changes to their offspring
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Earth Sits in the Best Seat in the Galaxy
July 31, 2026 Discovery Science
how Earth’s habitability correlates directly with scientific discovery: Arthur Eddington’s 1919 solar eclipse test that confirmed Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and Earth's location in the Galactic Habitable Zone.
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Astronomer Reads His Solar Eclipse Poem “Totality”
July 31, 2026 ID the Future
written to commemorate the total solar eclipse that occurred in April 2024
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists found two mysterious ‘ghost’ ancestors hiding in our DNA
July 31, 2026 Science Daily
Two long-lost human relatives are still hiding in our DNA, revealing a far more tangled evolutionary past than anyone knew.
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Colleges and Universities: Still on a Road to Nowhere
July 31, 2026 Mind Matters
One cost-saving proposal has been to eliminate courses with ten or fewer students, irrespective of what the course is teaching
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Your Dog Presses a Button and … Poof! He Can Speak?
July 31, 2026 Mind Matters
We’ve always wanted to talk to the animals but perhaps we are fooling ourselves again
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SETI Researchers Are Expanding the Search Beyond the ‘Water Hole’
July 31, 2026 DeBrief
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What Academics Actually Think
July 31, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Higher Priorities and Silent Support for Design
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Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?
July 31, 2026 Quanta Magazine
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists found evolution repeating itself in the Galápagos Islands
July 30, 2026 Science Daily
Galápagos daisies show evolution repeating its best ideas with different genetic tools.
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When mammals crossed between continents
July 30, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6810, p.458-459
The Great American Biotic Interchange informs the dynamics of modern species invasions
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A 10-million-year biogeographic holding pen primed the Great American Biotic Interchange
July 30, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6810, p.532-536
For millions of years after the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, South America was disconnected from other landforms, a time period that has been referred to as its “splendid isolation.”
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Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas
July 30, 2026 Science
“Landmark” paper finds disease originated with European contact
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Tiny fossils crack a Cretaceous cold case
July 30, 2026 EurekAlert!
Ancient ocean acidification triggered one of the ocean’s most severe extinctions
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What if the brain does not create consciousness?
July 30, 2026 Science Daily
Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all. He argues that materialism has yet to solve this “hard problem”
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Physicist Spun Our Data for the Religious Right. 6 Errors Exposed
July 30, 2026 Phil Halper
He got the numbers wrong, misrepresented the questions we actually asked, and contradicted a claim he made before. Don't be fooled, he's promoting a narrative for the religious right and sacrificing science in the process.
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Modern Cosmology Is All Wrong
July 30, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Oxford cosmologist shares multiple evidences that don’t conform to standard Big Bang cosmology
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Recovering signatures of archaic hominin introgression using ancestral recombination graphs
July 30, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6814
Since the sequencing of Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes, extensive gene flow between archaic hominins and humans has become increasingly apparent.
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Everyone alive may carry DNA from a ‘ghost lineage’ of human ancestors
July 30, 2026 Yahoo! News
Scientists analyzing modern genomes may have found a long-lost branch of the human family tree
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Monkeys sometimes have ‘pets’ like humans
July 30, 2026 Popular Science
And it may explain why we love ours so much.
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Did Art Really Invent Humanity -- as Opposed to the Other Way Around?
July 30, 2026 Mind Matters
It’s an intriguing concept, and a welcome departure from more pedestrian claims
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Why the most central law in cosmology may need to be broken
July 30, 2026 New Scientist
The cosmological principle is the foundation of modern cosmology -- but its usefulness doesn’t necessarily make it true
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Helium in Exoplanet's Atmosphere
July 30, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
Apparent Evidence of Youth
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Darwin Devolves (Again)
July 30, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Circular Thinking and the Debilitating Assumptions
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Why Aliens Won’t Solve the Origin of Life on Earth
July 29, 2026 ID the Future
Does invoking aliens to explain the origin of life on Earth solve the problem of biological information, or does it simply kick the can down the road?
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When Does Someone Gain the Right to Life?
July 29, 2026 Closer to Truth
personhood depends on psychological capacities such as memory, and why that framework leads to controversial conclusions
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Life beyond stellar death for an unusual exoplanet
July 29, 2026 Physics Today
Researchers have characterized the atmosphere of a massive gas planet closely orbiting a white dwarf to better understand how it survived the shutdown of its star.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Earliest siphuncle-bearing cephalopod from the early Cambrian
July 29, 2026 Nature
Modern cephalopods are unique among molluscs in ancestrally possessing a chambered, gas- and fluid-filled shell, the internal septa of which are penetrated by a siphuncle.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A global view of human centromere variation and evolution
July 29, 2026 Nature
Centromeres are essential chromosomal regions that ensure accurate chromosome segregation during cell division, yet their highly repetitive sequence has historically hindered their complete assembly and characterization.
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Amazonian earthwork survey indicates ancient population was much larger than thought
July 29, 2026 Nature
Aerial laser-scanning data reveal that, from ad 100 to ad 300, an area spanning less than 3% of the Greater Amazonia region probably supported between 1.25 million and 3 million people and contained more than 20,000 human-made earthworks.
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The first known cephalopod was only a millimetre long and lived about 520 million years ago
July 29, 2026 Nature
The locomotion of modern cephalopods, such as squid and cuttlefish, relies on buoyancy control achieved mainly by a specialized structure called a siphuncle.
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Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization
July 29, 2026 Nature
Discovery of almost 400 structures may help to redefine the true scale of the Aquiry civilization
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Comparative primate analysis shows that humans are not unique in having a tight cephalopelvic fit at birth
July 29, 2026 Nature Ecology & Evolution
Human childbirth is regarded as uniquely difficult among primates, due to a tight cephalopelvic fit thought to result from an evolutionary trade-off between adaptations to bipedal locomotion and increasing brain size.
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40,000-year-old bird carvings provide clues to how ice age humans flourished
July 29, 2026 Nature
Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia
July 29, 2026 Nature
Numerous geometric earthworks have been found in southwestern Amazonia, evidence of a monument-building precolonial civilization
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Dinosaurs May Have Been Literally Charbroiled After the Asteroid Impact
July 29, 2026 Nautilus
A new study reignites the global firestorm debate
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AI reveals explosive bursts in bird evolution
July 29, 2026 Science Daily
Songbirds appear to have evolved through rare explosions of change separated by long periods of slower development. Many bursts lined up with major climate shifts, suggesting that environmental upheaval can reshape life.