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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why ‘The Selfish Gene' almost never was
May 20, 2026 New Scientist
Fifty years ago, a draft of Richard Dawkins’s first book landed on book editor Michael Rodgers’s desk -- and life was never the same
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The Human Body Isn’t Perfect
May 20, 2026 Sci Tech Daily
It Was Improvised by Evolution
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More on Colossal’s futile efforts to “de-extinct” ancient giant birds
May 20, 2026 Why Evolution Is True
After announcing that it would “de-extinct" the Woolly Mammoth, and that it had in fact “de-extincted” the Dire Wolf, the company Colossal Biosciences is now making big noises about its effort to bring back extinct big birds
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Why the tooth fairy is important for theoretical physics
May 20, 2026 Big Think
Theoretical physics is notorious for wild ideas that seem, at first, to be nonsensical fantasies. That's where the tooth fairy comes in.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists solve 320-million-year mystery of reptile bone armor
May 20, 2026 Science Daily
Ancient reptile armor didn’t evolve just once -- and Australian goannas may have pulled off evolution’s ultimate comeback.
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News Update/Commentary
Lost for 150,000 years: Rainforest discovery upends human history
May 20, 2026 Science Daily
For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments for early survival. But a groundbreaking discovery in West Africa is rewriting that story.
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Early Eukaryotes Used Oxygen at the Seafloor
May 20, 2026 The Scientist
Combining fossil and geochemical analysis, researchers showed that eukaryotic cells were already complex and aerobic 1.7 billion years ago, pushing back the dawn of eukaryogenesis.
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Sea Turtle Stampede: Local Event or Global Flood?
May 20, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Rapid burial was clearly essential to preserve more than 1,000 delicate paddle prints -- strong evidence that fast sedimentation occurred here
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News Update/Commentary
T. rex’s tiny arms may have evolved for a surprisingly brutal reason
May 20, 2026 Science Daily
Across multiple dinosaur groups, stronger skulls and crushing jaws evolved alongside shrinking forelimbs, especially in predators hunting enormous prey. Once the bite became deadly enough, the arms stopped mattering.
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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up
May 20, 2026 New Scientist
When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to teach us in today’s genetic age
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Bad Synteny Arguments Claim “No Functional Reason” for Genomic Arrangements
May 20, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Rebutting Multiverses, Meta Laws, and Other Materialist Answers to Fine-Tuning
May 20, 2026 ID the Future
If a friend, family member, or colleague lodges an objection to the fine-tuning argument for intelligent design, are you ready to respond?
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Homo sapiens Meets Neanderthals: The End of a World
May 19, 2026 Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
The arrival of Homo sapiens in the mid-latitudes of Eurasia 48,000 to 45,000 years ago and the disappearance of the Neanderthals some millennia later mark one of the most pivotal episodes in human evolution.
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The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming -- we urgently need guard rails
May 19, 2026 Nature
Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained.
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Could this synthetic egg bring back extinct birds?
May 19, 2026 Nature
Colossal Biosciences says its artificial egg has de-extinction and conservation potential ... Researchers urge caution
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Is materialism holding science back?
May 19, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
For centuries, we’ve assumed that science has banished the transcendent and established that reality is entirely physical. However, increasingly, “emergence” is used to account for everything from consciousness to spacetime
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Biologists Say They Cracked One of Life’s Biggest Mysteries
May 19, 2026
DNA twists one way and not the other, and all the rest of life must fit to this reality. In a new paper, researchers say they know why: It all comes down to physics! The answer could change our understanding of life across the universe.
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AI Got Booed Off the Stage
May 19, 2026 Mind Matters
Graduating seniors don't all approve of the technology's growing presence in society
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Theistic Evolution Book Cites Debunked Icons
May 19, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Inscrutable Dice and Cosmological Fine-Tuning
May 19, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Justin Brierley recently moderated a debate between Stephen Meyer and Phil Halper on the cosmological evidence for theism.
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Evolution vs Design: What the Data Actually Shows
May 18, 2026 James Tour
the discussion explores how life shows remarkable precision and what that might mean for how we understand evolution, design, and the origin of life
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Mathematics is out there
May 18, 2026 Aeon
Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention
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Physicist Overstates the “Gradual” Nature of Human Origins in the Fossil Record
May 18, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Ice core discovery finds volcanic eruptions could cause great global disruption
May 18, 2026 EurekAlert!
New research has precisely dated an eruption from Newberry Volcano and discovered that its ash spread more than 5000 km across the globe, far further than previously thought for an eruption of its size.
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More Challenges to Ediacaran Animal Fossils
May 17, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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What Is Consciousness For?
May 16, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Sixteen Theories Take a Crack at the Question
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Another “Scientific” Attack on Free Will
May 15, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Hello, Materialists, Let’s Weigh and Measure the Mind
May 15, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Darwinists Afflicted by Fear of Validating Outsiders
May 14, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolving nature-based solutions for urban resilience
May 14, 2026 Science, v.392, n.6799, p.701-708
The same stressors that necessitate these nature-based solutions also act as selection agents, yet evolution is rarely considered when designing interventions involving living organisms.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
“Dark” or “Junk”?
May 14, 2026 Genome Biology and Evolution, v.18, n.5, evag104
Functional Roles of Pervasive Transcription in the Human Genome
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John West on Science in the American Founding
May 13, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Debating the Declaration
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Under Aesthetic Arrest
May 13, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Even an Atheist Might Stop and Think
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Did Homo erectus and Denisovans mate?
May 13, 2026 Nature
Tooth proteins hint at ancient trysts ... Genetic analysis suggests interbreeding between two groups of human relatives.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Adaptive cellular evolution in the intestine of hyperdiverse cichlid fishes
May 13, 2026 Nature
Although the evolution of feeding structures has been studied extensively in this context, the nature and extent of adaptations in the digestive tract remain poorly understood.
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Astronomers Find 10,000 Potential New Exoplanets
May 13, 2026 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
To date, astronomers have confirmed the existence of just under 6,300 exoplanets. New research could more than double that number
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Neanderthals treated a dental cavity by drilling into the tooth
May 13, 2026 New Scientist
A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry began at least 59,000 years ago
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Ghost of long-extinct ancestor lives on in people today
May 13, 2026 Science
Ancient Homo erectus teeth from China yield protein variants seen in Denisovans -- and us
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Ice core reveals longest-ever continuous record of Earth’s climate
May 12, 2026 Nature
Data from Antarctica could help to solve the mystery of why ice ages became so brutal.
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Understanding the Atheist’s Mind
May 12, 2026 Mind Matters
Naturalism is the belief that everything in the universe is a blind accident, with no ultimate purpose.
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The Story of Everything Held Over in Theaters in Key Cities Through May 21
May 12, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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“Peptideins”? Give Those Shorties Another Look
May 11, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Is America a Creedal Nation?
May 11, 2026 Discovery Science
America is unique in being founded on a shared set of ideas — especially the Declaration of Independence — which asserts human equality, natural rights, and government by consent.
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AI Will Make the Academic Article Obsolete
May 11, 2026 Chronicle of Higher Education
The fall of the research paper and the rise of the living manuscript.
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Where did the laws of physics come from?
May 11, 2026 New Scientist
I think I've found the answer ... The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but a cosmologist has always questioned their origins. Now, he has a bold new proposal
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The Science of the American Founding Has Been Vindicated
May 11, 2026 Science & Culture Today
John West
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Alien Life Would Challenge Evolution, Not Religion
May 10, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Casey Luskin addresses the subject head-on in an article today at Townhall. He allows that the new images and information could turn out to be a “highly redacted nothingburger.”
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists make stunning discovery that could change our understanding of the Universe
May 8, 2026 Science Daily
the Universe’s fundamental constants -- the deep physical rules that govern everything from atoms to stars -- appear to sit within an incredibly narrow “sweet spot” that allows liquids to flow properly inside living cells.
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An Unexpected Creationist Success
May 8, 2026 Answers in Genesis
The surprising relationship between Native American history and Genesis
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The Origin of Life in the Light of Evolution
May 8, 2026 arXiv