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All known Homo naledi skeletons seem to be female
June 24, 2026 New Scientist
An analysis of tooth proteins suggests all 23 Homo naledi individuals found in the Rising Star cave in South Africa were female, which strengthens the case that they were placed there deliberately
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“Dark Matter Might Have Additional Interactions That Are Hidden"
June 24, 2026 The Debrief
Physicists Are Searching for a Mysterious “Dark Force"
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Breakthrough study confirms solar storms can alter weather on Earth within hours
June 24, 2026 Independent (UK)
Even discrete solar storms can cause intense and rapid changes to our planet’s atmosphere
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NASA rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars
June 24, 2026 The Guardian
Perseverance identifies organic carbon molecules in rocks on riverbed that carried water billions of years ago
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One stringy thought causes inflationary cosmologists to lose sleep
June 24, 2026 Big Think
When it comes to the big question of our cosmic origins, inflation is our leading theory. But did string theory ultimately cause inflation?
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News Update/Commentary
The universe may be hiding conscious minds stranger than we can imagine
June 24, 2026 Science Daily
Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness could arise in many different forms of life, even in beings built from radically different materials than those found on Earth.
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Fashion and Faith in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
June 24, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Morality Is Unintelligible Without Free Will
June 24, 2026 Science & Culture Today
A Reply to Jerry Coyne
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Beyond DNA: Evidence for Intelligent Design at the Frontier of Biology
June 24, 2026 ID the Future
Epigenetics and the Architect: Evidence of Design at the Frontier of Biology
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Genetic diversity of late Neanderthals in northwestern Europe
June 24, 2026 Nature, v.655, p.409-417
Archaeological, osteological and genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals lived in small groups; however, less is known about whether these groups were part of isolated communities or belonged to larger, well-connected populations.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Spatially distributed complex organic matter detected in an ancient river valley in Jezero crater, Mars
June 24, 2026 Science Advances, v.12, n.26
Using a Raman spectrometer onboard the Perseverance rover, we report the heterogeneous distribution of organic carbon within mudstones located in an ancient river valley on Mars.
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What Is the Origin Story of Language?
June 23, 2026 Discover magazine
Our Ancient Ancestors May Have Developed Communication Rapidly ... in a sudden jump rather than over time
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News Update/Commentary
Hidden bird species discovered in Japan after DNA reveals a stunning secret
June 23, 2026 Science Daily
The finding marks Japan’s first new bird species discovery in more than 40 years and highlights how modern genetic tools are uncovering hidden biodiversity that would otherwise go unnoticed.
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News Update/Commentary
This four-winged dinosaur may have terrorized Earth's earliest birds
June 23, 2026 Science Daily
The four-winged glider, a close cousin of Velociraptor, helps reveal how early birds and their dinosaur relatives shared the same ancient landscape.
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Skynet Goes Live
June 23, 2026 Mind Matters
The most amazing computer in the universe is still your own brain
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Most humans do not want insect burgers at all
June 23, 2026 Mind Matters
Truth be told
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A new theory of consciousness can include AI
June 23, 2026 Mind Matters
there are 325 theories of consciousness on offer today. Which just shows how little we even know about the topic
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A Fantastic Voyage into the Cell
June 23, 2026 Science & Culture Today
20,000 Bots Under the Sea
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The Terrifying Reason Flightless Dinosaurs Grew Feathers
June 23, 2026 PBS Eons
The question of what non-flying dinosaurs were doing with their feathered wings -- and why they originally evolved in the first place -- has been a mystery since they were discovered.
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Were Neanderthals really so different from us?
June 23, 2026 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
New fossil finds indicate that early childhood development was surprisingly similar to that of modern humans.
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Young Earth vs Old: A Better Way?
June 23, 2026 Gavin Ortlund
Ortlund and Ross discuss differing interpretations of the Genesis 1, the age of the earth, the historicity of Adam and Eve, and how to have healthy conversations around creation.
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Nobel Prize under fire: is dark energy real?
June 23, 2026
In 2011, three physicists won the Nobel Prize for showing that the expansion of the universe speeds up, which is usually attributed to a mysterious type of energy called “dark energy”. But last year, though, ...
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New Microcurrents Found that Stir the Ocean
June 23, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
AI technologies detect previously unobserved currents, showing ecological balance processes at scales formerly unknown
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Epigenetics and the Architect: Evidence of Design at the Frontier of Biology
June, 2026 Discovery Institute
the sheer intricacy of the genome/epigenome system are reinvigorating an ancient idea -- that living things look designed because they are | See Also Amazon
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Artificial Intelligence Is Still Quite ‘Dumb'
June 22, 2026 Real Clear Science
Novella described how he gave ChatGPT a very basic prompt: “If I want to wash my car and the carwash is 100 meters away, should I walk or drive there?”
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Wings of Beauty: Designed Detail in Butterflies
June 22, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Genes Tell No Tales About Language Evolution
June 22, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The better we understand the machinery of life, the more intricate it becomes -- and the more the evolutionary narrative begins to look like a theoretical jury-rigging
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DNA’s Partner in the Dance of Life
June 22, 2026 ID the Future
a second revolution in biology that is currently unfolding beyond the initial discovery of the DNA double helix
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Blog Post
Why Morality Was Never Going to Evolve One Step at a Time
June 22, 2026
The Missing Rung ... Is “incremental morality" even possible? I don't think so.
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New Book Unveils Design at Biology’s Frontier
June 22, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Epigenetics and the Architect
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Long-Held Idea that Our Ancestors Simply Got Bigger Over Time
June 22, 2026 Sci News
New Study Challenges the idea
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Can String Theory Be Explained with No Strings Attached?
June 22, 2026 Physics, v.19
Using a “bootstrap” approach, researchers show that a small set of assumptions may naturally lead to a string-theory description of certain high-energy processes.
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Amyloid world -- the impossible requirement for identical prebiotic peptides in high concentration
June 22, 2026 Creation Ministries International
Origin of life researchers continue to propose new ideas in the hope of finding a plausible beginning for evolution. But the science strongly opposes this.
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A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
June 22, 2026 Quanta Magazine
Recent observations suggest that dark energy is changing over time. Theorists wonder if dark matter is, too.
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Junking the Myth of Human/Chimp Similarity
June 22, 2026 Discovery Science
how the common claim that humans are about 99% genetically similar to chimpanzees is misleading
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The Spooky Precision of Math: A Metaphysical Problem Physics Can't Answer
June 22, 2026 Discovery Science
The discussion traces remarkable historical synchronicities where mathematicians anticipated the structural frameworks required for major scientific breakthroughs decades before the physics could be observed.
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Science Writer Takes Aim at Many Universes Theory
June 21, 2026 Mind Matters
Phillips sees it as a materialist dodge. But a proposed alternative is definitely not your everyday theory either
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Covert Consciousness Poses Bioethical Dilemmas
June 21, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Why only humans sleepwalk
June 21, 2026 Popular Science
It's a trait evolution forgot to get rid of.
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News Update/Commentary
Think human anatomy is finished? Scientists say think again
June 21, 2026 Science Daily
As researchers explore anatomical differences between individuals, it’s becoming clear that the body is far more complex -- and less fully understood -- than textbooks suggest.
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Scientific Publishers Are Ripping Off Taxpayers
June 20, 2026 Real Clear Science
It's Time to Change the Status Quo
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Earth’s early life was terrible at sex
June 20, 2026 BBC
Sexual reproduction only began to improve when early animals began facing more stress and competition
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The film that will make you believe in God
June 20, 2026 The Telegraph (UK)
Can science explain everything? Prime Video’s ambitious documentary The Story of Everything suggests the answer may be a complicated one
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Real Star of the World Cup: The Human Foot
June 20, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Why This Film Has Materialists So Upset
June 20, 2026
Critics hated The Story of Everything -- but did they actually answer the evidence? ... the movie addresses three major questions: the origin of the universe, the fine-tuning of the cosmos, and the origin of life.
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News Update/Commentary
The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics
June 20, 2026 Science Daily
dramatic climate shifts, rather than warmth, played a major role in driving primate evolution and expansion. The discovery reshapes our understanding of how our own lineage began.
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News Update/Commentary
The secret language behind animal cooperation
June 20, 2026 Science Daily
whether finding food, cleaning parasites, or gaining protection. New research suggests these interspecies “conversations” are flexible, evolved, and far more important to life in nature than scientists once realized.
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The Evaporating Promise of AGI: An Economist’s View
June 19, 2026 ID the Future
the hype around artificial general intelligence (AGI) and AI’s impact on the market
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Hope from Science and New Polling on America’s Creed
June 19, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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News Update/Commentary
DNA time stamps reveal the strawberry’s surprising origins
June 19, 2026 Science Daily
Researchers have created a new way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of complex plant genomes by analyzing genetic traces left by transposable elements.