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A moment of sanity: The Leiden Declaration on AI
June 5, 2026 Mind Matters
“Alberto Burneko, a prominent blogger and co-founder of Defector, suggested that Andreessen’s conversations with LLMs had sucked him into a rabbit hole with the delusional belief that LLMs are human.”
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If glaciers have rights, why don’t they have responsibilities?
June 5, 2026 Mind Matters
a new journal article advocating the glacier rights cause -- part of the overall movement toward assigning what appear to be human rights to non-living things
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Novels: Did someone stay up late? Or is it just AI?
June 5, 2026 Mind Matters
Ballard, the author, denies personally using AI, claiming that an editor she hired to go over the book when she originally self-published it was responsible for using AI instead.
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Cambrian Explosion Remains the Gift that Keeps on Giving
June 5, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Scientists Ask, “Is Materialism Holding Science Back?”
June 5, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm
June 5, 2026 Nature
The ‘base editing’ technique that researchers used is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry that it will spur a rush to commercialize the approach.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists are seriously asking if bees and ChatGPT are conscious
June 5, 2026 Science Daily
Researchers are increasingly focusing on the internal mechanisms of brains and computers, concluding that today's AI is likely not conscious while leaving open the possibility for both conscious insects and future machines.
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The Hidden Universe Secretly Shaping Our Lives: Noncoding RNA
June 5, 2026 Answers in Genesis
The remarkable importance and applications of ncRNA in gene regulation
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Alien hunters update guidance on sharing news of possible intelligent life
June 5, 2026 The Guardian
Experts stress need for transparency while aiming to prevent premature announcements and protect scientists
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The delusion of a particle-only universe
June 5, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
The world is more than its building blocks
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Cosmic Bombardment Created Potential for Prebiotic Chemistry
June 5, 2026 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Frequent impacts from asteroids and planetesimals in Earth’s earliest days shaped the planet’s crust and created environments that may have supported prebiotic chemistry, and possibly even early life.
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What Is the Real Unit of Selection?
June 5, 2026 Closer to Truth
the famous debate over the “unit of selection” actually combines several fundamentally different questions about evolution, adaptation, reproduction, and biological interaction
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New Problems for Solar System Evolution
June 5, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Rather than continuing to force the evidence into a purely naturalistic framework, scientists should follow the evidence wherever it leads
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Hagfish fossils reveal stepwise eye simplification before near-total vision loss
June 5, 2026 phys.org
Hagfish, unusual eel-like fish that have a skull but no vertebral column, are known to possess highly simplified eyes.
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Caught in the act: a gene jumps into the void
June 4, 2026 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
The direct observation of a jumping gene provides the first evidence that genes can transfer from one species to another -- from predator to prey.
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A provocative view of evolution turns 50
June 4, 2026 Science, v.392, n.6802, p.1027
The Selfish Gene continues to challenge readers half a century later
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Homo cooperans: Understanding the nature of human cooperation
June 4, 2026 Science, v.392, n.6802
How prevalent is cooperation, and is it shaped by culture, individual traits, or assumptions about strangers’ willingness to also cooperate?
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Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees
June 4, 2026 Science, v.392, n.6802, p.1046-1049
Recent research has revealed that bumble bees are much more cognitively advanced than previously thought: They play with balls, count, recognize faces, and even feel rhythm.
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The last astronomers
June 4, 2026 Science
Amid a flood of AI advances, astrophysicists are questioning the soul of their field
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Philosopher: Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain
June 4, 2026 Mind Matters
Memory is a function of time, not place, says Oxford's Victoria Trumbull
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Life at the Limits of the Possible
June 4, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover the master clock that controls biological growth and development
June 4, 2026 Science Daily
A newly discovered genetic clock acts as the master timekeeper for development, orchestrating crucial bursts of gene activity throughout a worm’s growth.
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Singularities inside black holes are truly unavoidable
June 4, 2026 Big Think
Yes, “the laws of physics break down" at singularities. But relativity itself would have to be wrong for black holes to not possess them.
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New species of dinosaur probably glided on four “wings”
June 4, 2026 Field Museum, Chicago
A fossil bed in northwestern China is littered with the remains of hundreds of prehistoric birds -- including some whose broken bones were crushed into pellets
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Blog Post
On the myth of AI consciousness -- and what it means
June 4, 2026 Unreported Truths
A great science-fiction writer blows away the farfetched (but hugely profitable) fantasy that artificial intelligence engines have genuine insight into themselves -- or existence.
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Nuclear survivor trees
June 4, 2026 Creation Ministries International
These remarkable trees continue to flourish despite the effects of atomic bombing, a resilience that attests to a Designer.
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How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring changed the world in 1962
June 4, 2026 New Scientist
Rachel Carson’s look at the dire effects of industrial and agricultural pollution birthed the modern environmental movement when it was first published -- and remains as crucial a read today
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Scientists Edit Human Embryo Genes with Startling Precision
June 4, 2026 New York Times
Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long alarmed bioethicists.
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Let’s De-Darwinize Today’s Science News
June 4, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Useless Darwinese pollutes the science news. Let’s detoxify it and enjoy what scientists are actually finding, free of evo-spin.
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Rewriting the Origin of Spiders and Horseshoe Crabs ... Again
June 4, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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How theoretical physics went wrong and why universities don’t encourage originality
June 4, 2026 London Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Rejecting current approaches such as string theory and inflation, he talks about his proposal for a simpler cosmology that makes testable predictions.
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Bumblebees use tools to solve complex problems -- despite not being trained to do so
June 4, 2026 Scientific American
Bumblebees appear to be capable of coming up with creative solutions to new problems to get a sugary reward -- and their strategies include cheating
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Can a Loving God Use Evolution?
June 3, 2026 Premier Unbelievable?
What does evolution mean for Christian faith? John Nelson hosts a thoughtful dialogue between a molecular biologist and a returning guest on one of the deepest questions in science and theology.
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The God & Time Debate
June 3, 2026 Reasonable Faith
Justin Brierley is joined by a Christian philosopher and an atheist theologian to discuss the question: ‘Is Christian theism compatible with our best understanding of the nature of time?'
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Most Christian Innovators Have Not Read the Pope’s Letter
June 3, 2026 Mind Matters
Confession time. When I first heard that Pope Leo XIV had released an encyclical on artificial intelligence, I assumed it would be another warning document.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
High-fidelity modular skeletons authenticate a Cambrian origin for Bryozoa
June 3, 2026 Nature
The major animal body plans originated during the Cambrian explosion, yet the phylum Bryozoa has remained a conspicuous exception to this pattern.
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Why a synthetic human genome is still worth building
June 3, 2026 Nature
A decade on from the launch of an ambitious project, it’s time to revisit the reasons for constructing a human genome from scratch.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The Phylodynamic Threshold of Measurably Evolving Populations
June 3, 2026 Molecular Biology and Evolution, v.43, n.6
The molecular clock is a fundamental tool for understanding the time and pace of evolution, requiring calibration information alongside molecular data.
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JWST proves that black holes really do come before galaxies
June 3, 2026 Big Think
It's the Universe's ultimate chicken-and-egg question: what came first, the galaxy or the black hole? One Little Red Dot proves the answer.
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What Is Coevolution?
June 3, 2026 Answers in Genesis
Is coevolution a problem for biblical creationists?
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Black holes could ‘leak' long enough to become white holes that weigh no more than a flea's egg
June 3, 2026 space.com
“We found that the lifetime of black holes is much longer than previously thought."
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World’s largest scorpion revealed from 415-million-year-old fossils
June 3, 2026 University of Manchester
Giant scorpion lived tens of millions of years before other famous “giant” arthropods, reshaping ideas about how and why early arthropods grew so large
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Explore the mind-bending and paradoxical art of M. C. Escher
June 3, 2026 New Scientist
A new retrospective of the artist beloved by mathematicians opens this week. Get up close to the art with our interactive story.
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Searching for Aliens Is More Like Archaeology
June 3, 2026 Real Clear Science
For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been guided by one hopeful assumption: somewhere in the galaxy, another civilization may be trying to reach us.
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Why Meaning Overcomes the Materialist View
June 3, 2026 Science & Culture Today
One way to ascertain that the materialistic worldview falls short is that it fails to describe the world we experience.
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“Brain as a Computer” Metaphor Rebooted
June 3, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
While the brain is certainly more and other than a computer, it is also not less than one.
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The Physics of Alien Life Would Necessitate Intelligent Design
June 2, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Christianity Is Trending...But Is It True?
June 2, 2026 Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics
Is there actual evidence that supports the truth of the Christian faith, or are we forced to live a lie because the alternative is unbearable?
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What looked like simple red stains turned out to be Britain's oldest cave art
June 2, 2026 Times of India
Inside a limestone cave on the Gower Peninsula in south Waves, eleven parallel horizontal lines of red pigment have been sitting on a cave wall for roughly 17,100 years
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This fish species survived 100,000 years without males
June 2, 2026 BBC
Scientists thought it should be long dead -- but it's thriving