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Pincer movement: fossil pushes origins of chelicerate arthropods back to the Cambrian period
April 1, 2026 Nature
Spiders and scorpions belong to a group called chelicerates, which are arthropods with pincers at the front of their head. Fossil evidence reveals how this group evolved.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists just found DNA “supergenes” that speed up evolution
April 1, 2026 Science Daily
Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at lightning speed
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News Update/Commentary
How squid survived Earth’s biggest extinction and took over the oceans
April 1, 2026 Science Daily
Squid and cuttlefish evolved in the deep sea and survived Earth’s biggest extinction by hiding in oxygen-rich refuges.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Uncovering simultaneous breakthroughs with a robust measure of disruptiveness
April 1, 2026 Science Advances, v.12, n.14
Progress in science and technology is punctuated by disruptive innovation and breakthroughs.
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New Guide to Human Evolution: Survival of the Wittiest
April 1, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Think of how many lives could have been saved by realizing that evolution succeeds with humor
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A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”
April 1, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Here Is Another Genetic Code
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Atheists Say ‘It’s Just Chance’ -- Here’s Why That’s Not an Explanation
April 1, 2026 Cold-Case Christianity
this video investigates the most popular naturalistic explanations for cosmic fine-tuning and shows why each one ultimately fails to explain the incredible precision of our universe
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Why? The Purpose of the Universe
March 31, 2026 John Templeton Foundation
Burnett: Why does it feel almost transgressive to propose that the universe may have a purpose?
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Studies on animal minds suggest consciousness is not computation
March 31, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Mapping the rhythms of mind and matter
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Early Diversity of Rediscovered ‘Sea Monsters’ Surprises Scientists
March 31, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Paleontologists find ‘evidence of a surprisingly diverse community of early ocean predators’, challenging simplistic evolutionary narratives
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America’s Founders and Intelligent Design
March 30, 2026 Discovery Science
the Founders’ firm conviction that nature supplied objective evidence of a Creator. In this video, learn the untold story about the Founders’ belief that nature was intelligently designed.
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Dawkins’s paradox: dissecting the body’s battle to keep selfish genes in check
March 30, 2026 Nature
An essay series by specialists in evolutionary biology, philosophy and more examines the ‘paradox of the organism’.
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Mathematical beauty should not eclipse truth
March 30, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Science needs empiricism
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Why the lack of water on Mars is so mysterious
March 30, 2026 New Scientist
An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows just how little we understand the Red Planet’s hydrological history
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The Shroud of Turin bears DNA from many people, plants and animals
March 30, 2026 New Scientist
Researchers have identified genetic material from a vast range of organisms contaminating the shroud, said to have wrapped Jesus's body, further complicating the question of the cloth's true origin
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Blog Post
Mr. Improbability
March 30, 2026
A silly story to honor March Madness
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Network Technology: Biology Does It Better
March 30, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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In Expanding de Sitter Space, Quantum Mechanics Gets Even More Elusive
March 30, 2026 Quanta Magazine
The basic shape that best describes our expanding universe is also the hardest shape for physicists to understand.
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News Update/Commentary
A surprising new idea about how the Big Bang may have happened
March 30, 2026 Science Daily
A new quantum gravity model suggests the universe’s dramatic birth may have unfolded naturally -- and could soon be tested.
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Hidden Force that Helps Wire the Brain Revealed
March 30, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
This discovery is so significant that it represents a “paradigm shift” in neurobiology -- one that may require textbooks to be rewritten
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What Are Species and Individuals?
March 29, 2026 Closer to Truth
classification is everywhere in modern biology, from proteins to populations, and the real question isn't what the right answer is, but what work a classification is being put to
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Harvard-Trained Scientist Exposes Evolution's Fatal Flaw
March 28, 2026 Biblical Studies and Reviews
This interview centers on a shift within young-earth creationist thought from a historically defensive posture to a more “offensive” approach, driven largely by developments in modern genetics.
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Explanation for why we don’t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails
March 28, 2026 ars technica
Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen.
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How to Unmask the “Convergent Evolution” Magic Trick
March 28, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Convergence is an evasive, circular term for Darwinians who are surprised by unrelated similarities
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Brian Miller on Emotional Intelligence in Science, Scientific Tensions, and More
March 27, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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People Think Evolution Is “Science” Until They See This
March 27, 2026 Answers in Genesis, Canada
For decades, materialist scientists have claimed that life is a product of random chance, yet they now find themselves staring at nanotechnology so sophisticated it puts human engineering to shame.
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We did not evolve alone: The story of our origins
March 27, 2026 New Scientist
Who were the other humans, and why did we outlast them all? This marathon takes a single provocative question and follows it across three acts: the species we shared the planet with; the most mysterious of our lost cousins; and the moment we challenge ...
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Is Time a Figment or an Ordinance?
March 27, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Science lives by discovery, and discovery requires a world that exists without our permission
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The Objective Probability of the Fine-Tuning Evidence
March 27, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Bumblebees Can Do What?!
March 27, 2026
Incredible Discoveries Nobody Expected
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The Evolution of the Human Brain through Shifts in Gene Regulation
March 27, 2026 University of California Television
how did humans acquire their unique characteristics? What allows us to stand upright, while our primate ancestors walked on all fours? What brain alterations drove our increased intelligence and allowed us to perceive our own mortality
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Did Scientists Just Detect an Exploding Black Hole?
March 27, 2026 New York Times
An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon that so far exists only in theory.
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The inner life we’re trading away
March 27, 2026 Big Think
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on why reflective self-consciousness separates us from intelligent machines.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists say we’ve been looking in the wrong place for human origins
March 27, 2026 Science Daily
A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins.
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In Explicating the “Greatest Sentence,” New Book Falls Short
March 26, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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The dawn of modern apes
March 26, 2026 Science, v.391, n.6792, p.1319-1320
An Egyptian fossil places the origin of modern apes in northeastern Afro-Arabia
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Rapid adaptation and extinction in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis
March 26, 2026 Science, v.391, n.6792
For organisms with generation times longer than those in yeast or bacteria, testing the repeatability of evolution in differing environmental conditions takes a great deal of time and resources.
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New framework suggests dark energy could be evolving
March 26, 2026 phys.org
and may be linked to the Hubble tension
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Scientists Discover a New Branch of Life in the Deep Sea
March 26, 2026 Inside Climate News
Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to fast-track deep-sea mining permits there.
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Can you clone a clone forever?
March 26, 2026 Independent (UK)
Landmark 20-year study reveals horrifying verdict ... Scientists cloned 1,206 mice from one female donor over 20 years to test the limits of cloning
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After K–T Extinction Event, Life’s Unexpected Rebound Was “Ridiculously Fast”
March 26, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Mysterious Ancient Ape May Have Evolved a Key Human Trait
March 26, 2026 Science Alert
Around 7 million years ago, a little creature braved wildcats and hyenas to cross the floodplains of Bulgaria -- and she may have done so on two legs.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists found a bug that generates its own heat in freezing cold
March 26, 2026 Science Daily
Snow flies survive freezing by making their own heat and blocking ice.
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Does Ushikuvirus Explain Complex Life?
March 26, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
Giant Virus, Big Claims
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Beetles and Elderberries Show a Beautiful Symbiotic Balance
March 26, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A delicate partnership between elderberries and beetles is described that balances the needs of both organisms
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Do Multiple Universes Surely Exist?
March 26, 2026 Closer to Truth
the multiverse isn't wild speculation. It's the leading scientific direction for explaining why our universe's laws appear fine-tuned for complexity and life.
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Theories are never true, they are only more or less useful
March 26, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Everything you believe is wrong
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Treating Myths as Science
March 26, 2026 Quillette
Indigenous “Ways of Knowing” have no place in British Columbia’s school science curriculum.
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News Update/Commentary
Project Hail Mary meets reality: 45 planets could harbor alien life
March 25, 2026 Science Daily
Using new data from ESA’s Gaia mission and NASA archives, researchers pinpointed worlds in the “habitable zone,” where temperatures could allow liquid water to exist ... some tantalizing possibilities just dozens of light-years away.
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Deep-Time Scientists Inconsistent on Collagen Preservation
March 25, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Researchers complain about poor preservation in artifacts of known history, but excuse dinosaur collagen