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Language Diversity History Fits Babel
July 24, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The number of human languages has fallen over time from a previous maximum
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Ancient ape fossil in Egypt challenges the story of human origins
July 24, 2026 Science Daily
An ancient ape jaw from Egypt may shift the birthplace of modern apes from East Africa to a surprising new evolutionary crossroads.
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The New Multiverse Theory?
July 24, 2026 Alex O'Connor
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Is “The brain is a computer!” One of Science’s Biggest Mistakes?
July 24, 2026 Mind Matters
If so, the mistake throws a wrench into claims that conscious computers can ever be built
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Misinformation About a Masterpiece
July 24, 2026 Science & Culture Today
An Engineer Responds to a Colleague
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The lost golden age of language diversity
July 23, 2026 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Tens of thousands of languages may have existed between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago -- and their decline began well before European colonial expansion
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The Dogs That Speak: Breakthrough or Illusion?
July 23, 2026 McGill University
On social media, dogs press buttons that talk for them. But can they even make out the words coming out of these speakers?
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4 myths cause us to abandon science.
July 23, 2026 Big Think
Here’s the path back. ... It’s not a gambit. It’s not fraud. It’s not driven by opinion, prejudice, or bias. It's not unchallengeable. And it's more than facts alone.
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Why Consciousness Theories May Not Really Disagree
July 23, 2026 Closer to Truth
From panpsychism and idealism to property dualism, illusionism, and physicalism, he explains why philosophy may be uncovering different perspectives on the same underlying reality rather than entirely different answers.
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The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
July 23, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6809, p.387-391
More than four languages are lost every year, and this rate is predicted to increase.
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Orcas surprise researchers by exploding dead sunfish
July 23, 2026 Mind Matters
Into thousands of pieces. They may be doing it for fun but they can eat the pieces.
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Work on unifying laws of physics wins maths prize
July 23, 2026 New Scientist
Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients of the Fields medal 2026
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Physical Beauty, Mathematical Beauty, Scientific Beauty
July 23, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Faster Chemistry Is Not the Same as Life
July 23, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Hey Octopus, How Did You Get to Be So Smart?
July 23, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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High School Science That Teaches an ID Perspective? Yes, Please!
July 22, 2026 ID the Future
Is it possible to integrate the evidence for intelligent design into full-length high school biology and chemistry courses? Of course! Are such courses currently available to homeschool students? Absolutely!
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The Financial Genius Who Funded Hitler’s War Machine Documentary
July 22, 2026 The People Profiles
Discover the incredible, chilling story of the economic mastermind and central banker who engineered Nazi Germany’s economic miracle and financed Adolf Hitler’s war machine.
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Does God Exist? ... on Reality
July 22, 2026 Reasonable Faith
at the Royal Institution, philosopher William Lane Craig, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder and philosopher Slavoj Žižek debate the biggest question of all
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Why Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot" Got It Wrong
July 22, 2026 Discovery Science
By looking at the universal laws of chemistry, he explains why complex life strictly requires a perfect “hand-in-glove" combination of carbon chemistry and liquid water.
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Oldest Amber Ever Found Rewrites What We Know About Plant Evolution
July 22, 2026
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Maybe Being a Loner Helps the Octopus Be Smart?
July 22, 2026 Mind Matters
With the asocial brain hypothesis, researchers ask us to think beyond traditional explanations for why some animals display unexpected intelligence
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People Aren’t Born as Righties or Lefties -- They Develop Hand Dominance with Practice
July 22, 2026 Smithsonian Magazine
Humans do have a biological preference for using one side of their body, which might prime them for using limbs on that side for complex motor tasks like writing -- and honing those skills over time
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Glutamine synthetase … Life’s molecular computer
July 22, 2026 Creation Ministries International
Without this complex ‘computing’ enzyme, absolutely nothing could live.
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Findings Could Herald a Paradigm Shift in Cosmology
July 22, 2026 Real Clear Science
According to our best understanding, the universe is expanding -- and is doing so at an accelerating rate.
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A Non-Equilibrium Radiocarbon Calibration Model Based on Post-Diluvian Atmospheric Recovery
July 22, 2026 Answers Research Journal, v.19, p.95-116
Conventional radiocarbon dating relies on the assumption that atmospheric 14C concentration has remained relatively constant throughout earth’s history.
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Argumentation and Surprise Are Best Ways to Do Good Science
July 22, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Papers
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Are Fictionbots Triumphing Over Writers?
July 21, 2026 Mind Matters
At The Spectator, Geoff Bagwell tells us that AI is destined to destroy the creative writing industry as bots take writers’ jobs
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Neanderthals are still getting smarter…
July 21, 2026 Mind Matters
“New fossil finds indicate that early childhood development was surprisingly similar to that of modern humans.”
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Science Tends to Initially Reject the People It Later Calls Great
July 21, 2026 Real Clear Science
Scientists tend to initially resist a paradigm-altering result. The discoverer's work is harshly criticized and they in turn are ostracized.
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The brain is not a computer
July 21, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Thought is emotional, ancient, and not all in the neocortex
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Human Brain Complexity Surpasses Animal Brains
July 21, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Human brains are superior not just in the quantity of neurons, but in the quality
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Evolution of Biological Information
July 21, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Maxwell’s Demon
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DNA and Beyond
July 21, 2026 Science & Culture Today
A Multilayered Revolution
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Parkinson’s Law Is the Key to Understanding Bureaucratic Bloat
July 20, 2026 Mind Matters
The experience of one small university offers a useful example
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Fearsome Cleveland Fossil Is Still a Fish
July 20, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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How to Celebrate Moon Day Monday
July 20, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
In celebration of International Moon Day (July 20), we explore some lesser-known functions of the earth’s moon and how it also points to a young, created earth.
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Neanderthals may have been just as smart as modern human peers
July 20, 2026 Yahoo! News
A new skull-based analysis of Neanderthal brains suggests that these ancient hominins’ range of intelligence largely overlapped with our own
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The Story of Everything
July 20, 2026 ID the Future
Is there clear and present scientific evidence that life and the universe were purposefully designed?
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Horowitch and Harrington Chime in on the “Post-literate Society”
July 20, 2026 Mind Matters
Is the age of longform reading truly over?
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Children and Monkeys Share a Common Understanding of Geometry
July 20, 2026 Carnegie Mellon University
A new study provides the first evidence that baboons and macaques share the same geometric intuitions present in young children, overturning prior research.
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Strange paraparticles could be reality’s missing ingredient
July 20, 2026 New Scientist
Neither matter nor force, paraparticles would be something else entirely. Fresh hints that they exist are raising hopes that they could explain reality at its deepest level
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Astronomers Determine that Exoplanets Around Barnard's Star are Extremely Uninhabitable
July 20, 2026 Universe Today
Bernard's Star, a relatively low-mass M-type (red dwarf) star located less than 6 light-years from Earth, is the Solar System's closest neighbor after Alpha Centauri.
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The limited value of wet–dry cycles to produce large peptides prebiotically
July 20, 2026 Creation Ministries International
Origin of life researchers appeal to a wet-dry cycle for more favourable conditions for peptide formation. But is the cycle they model realistic?
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The Organisms That Make Earth’s Harshest Places Home
July 20, 2026 Quanta Magazine
Extremophiles that thrive in the most unforgiving environments aren’t just biological curiosities. Understanding their resilience has many implications.
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More Evidence that Origin of Life Requires Intelligent Design
July 20, 2026 Science & Culture Today
“SpudCell”
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Who, Exactly, Is the Subject of Evolutionary Psychology?
July 19, 2026 Mind Matters
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and science writer Denyse O’Leary offer some thoughts about why the discipline does not make sense
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With AI, It’s Verify. Then Verify the Verification
July 19, 2026 Mind Matters
Advice for AI Natives
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists just discovered a lost branch of Australia’s marsupials
July 19, 2026 Science Daily
rewriting part of the story of how the continent's unique mammals evolved. The discovery challenges the idea that Australia's marsupials all came from a single straightforward ancestral lineage.
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Have Scientists Built a Cell from Scratch?
July 19, 2026 Answers in Genesis
According to recent news headlines, the curiously named SpudCell can feed, grow, reproduce, and undergo selection.
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The Mind-Blowing Math Behind the Human Wrist
July 18, 2026 Discovery Science
an award-winning precision engineer delivers a comprehensive rebuttal to secular claims that the human body is full of poor design flaws