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Microgravity's Effect on Bacteriophages Is Not Evolution
February 2, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
One of Earth’s most abundant lifeforms has a fatal flaw
February 2, 2026 Science Daily
An evolutionary adaptation that allows one ocean bacteria to thrive could prove to be its Achilles Heel as oceans change
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Hominin vistas
February 2, 2026 Core Academy of Science
Last fall, I viewed the Lucy skeleton at the exhibition at the National Museum in Prague, which was a lot of fun.
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Neanderthals and early humans may have interbred over a vast area
February 2, 2026 New Scientist
We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour was much more common than we first thought
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Genome contamination may lead to an overestimation of horizontal gene transfer inferences
February 2, 2026 Nature Communications, v.17
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) through mobile genetic elements (MGEs) is the main driver of the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) between bacterial species.
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When Can I Trust What Scientists Say?
February 2, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Cellular High Tech and Darwin’s Outdated Theory
February 2, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
February 2, 2026 Nature
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
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New chicken-sized dinosaur baffles paleontologists
February 2, 2026 Scientific American
The tiny Foskeia pelendonum was a plant-eating dinosaur with a “weird” anatomy
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We Are Still Learning About the Wonderful Design of Humpback Whales
February 2, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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We're finally learning what it's like to die
February 1, 2026 BBC (Science Focus)
And it's not as bad as you think... What does dying feel like? By studying patients who’ve suffered near-death experiences, scientists are one step closer to finding out what happens in our brains during our last moments
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Does Methodological Naturalism Nullify Evidence for Christianity?
February 1, 2026 Apologetics Press
Skeptics of the Bible sometimes suggest that the claims of Christianity (e.g., the creation of the Universe, the resurrection of Jesus) cannot be supported by any facts from the historical record or by any scientific data
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Scientists discover molecule in space that hints at origin of life
February 1, 2026 CNN
Scientists have discovered the largest organic molecule containing sulfur -- a key ingredient for life -- ever identified in interstellar space. The researchers call the discovery a “missing link”
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The Tonto Deformation: Responding Again to “Peaceful Science” Critics
February 1, 2026 Answers in Genesis
Part 3 of “A Detailed Response to ‘Examining Young Earth Creation Claims About the Grand Canyon’”
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News Update/Commentary
“Existential risk” -- Why scientists are racing to define consciousness
February 1, 2026 Science Daily
As AI advances, scientists warn that failing to understand consciousness could lead to ethical mistakes with consequences far bigger than we’re prepared for.
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Do Spiders Dream of Arachnology Professors?
February 1, 2026 Mind Matters
How did the spider know that the mirror on my car would attract its prey during daytime hours?
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McDiarmid: The Critical Flaw in Thinking AI Can Do Just Anything
January 31, 2026 Mind Matters
At the Chicago Tribune, he asks readers to recognize what is missing from the mix
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Asymmetry with a Purpose: Climatic Oscillations Spread Earth Resources
January 31, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
New analyses of total water storage reveal remarkable synchronicity driven by intricate atmosphere-oceanic interactions
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News Update/Commentary
How gene loss and monogamy built termite mega societies
January 31, 2026 Science Daily
Termites became social superpowers by letting evolution take genes away.
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What is the Philosophical Foundation of Evolution?
January 31, 2026 Examining Origins
Evolution is not supported by scientific evidence. If not science, what is evolution? How does it persist? Join us for this discussion on the metaphysics supporting evolution.
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Our Ocean’s “Natural Antacids” Act Faster Than We Thought
January 30, 2026 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
New evidence from New Zealand suggests that calcium carbonate dissolution occurs not just over millennial timescales, but over annual and decadal ones too.
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Science Fields and Methodology Came from a Christian Worldview
January 30, 2026 Answers in Genesis
Is Christianity incompatible with real science? The development and history of science answer a resounding “no.”
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More than 43,000 years ago, Neanderthals spent centuries collecting animal skulls in a cave
January 30, 2026 Live Science
Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time. ... but archaeologists aren't sure why
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Bacteria Use Information Systems -- But Can Evolution Build Them?
January 30, 2026 Intelligent Design the Future and Discovery Science
the discussion explains why these tightly integrated systems raise serious questions about whether unguided mutation and natural selection can account for their origin, or whether they point to real design in biology
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For “Convergent Evolution,” Darwinists Offer Awkward Explanatory Tinkering
January 30, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Mars Is Not Ready for Humans
January 30, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
While scientists are exploring the use of microbes to revolutionize habitat construction on Mars, big challenges persist
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Can academia handle my religious faith?
January 30, 2026 Nature
Religious faith is a fundamental part of many academics’ identities, but some are nervous of talking about it at work.
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How Did Everything Start from Nothing?
January 30, 2026
We dive into the concept of cosmic inflation, the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum, and the staggering possibility that our entire reality is a “free lunch" governed by the laws of physics.
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Engineered for Extremes
January 29, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
The Hidden Precision of a Salt Lake Survivor
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What Does It Mean to “See” an Electron?
January 29, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Absolute limits do not signal defeat. They define the field within which understanding is possible.
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The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowable quantum secret
January 29, 2026 New Scientist
Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct
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How Homo naledi is changing what we know about death
January 29, 2026 New Scientist
Were these ancient humans performing funerals? Or are we reading too much into the evidence?
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More to Love about Springtails, Those Adorable Gymnasts
January 29, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Atheists Can’t Explain Free Will -- Here’s Why
January 29, 2026 Cold-Case Christianity
This video unpacks why it actually makes sense that we can’t understand everything about God -- and why that’s not a bug in the Christian worldview, but a feature.
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General Relativity Survives a Tough Trial
January 29, 2026 Physics, v.19
An analysis of a record-breaking gravitational-wave detection tests whether general relativity holds under extreme conditions.
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Where Does Information Come From? A Philosophical Debate
January 29, 2026 Intelligent Design the Future and Discovery Science
Drawing on concepts like specified complexity, probability, natural selection, and the law of conservation of information, the conversation examines whether chance and evolutionary processes can account for biological information
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Why a Nuclear Chemist Rejects Billions of Years
January 29, 2026 Standing for Truth
Evidence for a Young Earth ... extrapolation, planetary magnetic fields, soft tissue in supposedly ancient fossils, and carbon-14 in supposedly ancient fossils and minerals
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The Earliest Known Vertebrates Had Four Eyes -- and They Worked a Lot Like Ours Do
January 29, 2026 Smithsonian Magazine
Two of those eyes may have evolved into a part of the brain called the pineal gland
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Cannibalism Among Snakes Is Far More Widespread Than Previously Thought
January 29, 2026 Smithsonian Magazine
Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior in more than 200 species
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development
January 29, 2026 Science, v.391, n.6784
The mechanisms underlying brain development during evolution remain to be fully elucidated.
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Dark matter’s “nightmare scenario” looks more likely than ever
January 29, 2026 Big Think
Our great hope is that today's indirect, astrophysical evidence will someday lead to successful direct detection. What if that's impossible?
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Origin of Life: When Favorite Narratives Unravel
January 29, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Revisiting Atheism’s Creation Myth
January 29, 2026 Science & Culture Today
“The Monster in the Sky”
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Mercury May Not Be “Dead" After All
January 28, 2026 Universe Today
For decades, Mercury has carried the reputation of being a dead, dry planet whose geological story ended long ago.
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Is time a fundamental part of reality?
January 28, 2026 The Conversation
A quiet revolution in physics suggests not
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Life Rebounds Quickly on Volcanoes
January 28, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Recent analysis of microbial succession in an Icelandic volcano undermines evolutionary assumptions
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Harari, Humans, Algorithms, and AI
January 28, 2026 Mind Matters
A futurist’s warning: AI may soon redefine the boundaries of human agency
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JWST finds nine category-defying objects. Have astronomers found their “platypus?”
January 28, 2026 Big Think
Just like animals, galaxies often have bizarre, unusual, or even unique properties. But finding many, all at once, really does raise alarms.
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We're getting closer to growing a brain in a lab dish
January 28, 2026 New Scientist
Clumps of cells known as organoids are helping us to understand the brain, and the latest version comes equipped with realistic blood vessels to help the organoids live longer
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Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we realised
January 28, 2026 New Scientist
Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like Malta and Australia. Doing so meant striking out in unknowable conditions. What do such crossings tell us about ancient minds?