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4-D Nucleome Mapping Opens New Vision of Dynamic DNA Architecture
January 19, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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C. S. Lewis on “Creative Evolution,” or the “Life-Force”
January 19, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Toxic gas found to have wiped out almost half of all ocean life 530 million years ago
January 18, 2026 earth.com
Sediment cores from the Yangtze Platform in South China point to hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas produced in oxygen-poor water.
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Origin of Life Research Is Losing Ground
January 18, 2026 Intelligent Design the Future and Discovery Science
Can RNA really explain the origin of life? Here we discuss why RNA world experiments rely on heavy investigator intervention, why RNA has an extremely short half-life, and why research fails to bridge the gap between chemistry and the first living cell
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The deep chemistry of life and death
January 18, 2026 The Science and Cocktails Foundation
How did life on Earth begin? Why did animals evolve so quickly in the ‘Cambrian explosion’? Why is the same biochemical cycle used to create and destroy? Can bacteria feel pain? What brings our own lives to an end?
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A New Technology Has Given the Search for Consciousness a Powerful Tool
January 18, 2026 PJ Media
One of the major items on my scientific bucket list, along with confirming the existence of intelligent aliens, is solving the “hard problem" of consciousness
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Science’s difficult journey to try to understand consciousness
January 16, 2026 Big Think
Harris examines the assumptions shaping consciousness research, from the belief that awareness requires complex brains to the intuition that thought drives behavior.
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Math, Mystery, and the Mind of God
January 16, 2026 Science & Culture Today
A Conversation
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Fewer offspring, longer life: The hidden rule of mammal aging
January 16, 2026 Science Daily
Across mammals, fewer babies often mean more years of life -- a striking evolutionary trade-off between reproduction and survival.
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News Update/Commentary
A deadly chemical frozen in ice may have sparked life on Earth
January 16, 2026 Science Daily
Hydrogen cyanide may have helped life begin by turning icy crystals into microscopic reaction engines.
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Built to Adapt
January 16, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
What Microbial Flexibility Reveals about Biological Design
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Why Humans Are the Only Fire-Making Species
January 16, 2026 Discovery Science
why human muscle strength, nerve speed, nerve size, body scale, and planetary conditions are all finely matched to make fire possible -- and how fire, in turn, unlocked metallurgy, glass, technology, and modern science
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Evaluating New Objections to the Mytho-Historical Adam
January 16, 2026 Reasonable Faith
a panel of scholars respond to Dr. Craig's book, In Quest for the Historical Adam
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Our Ultimate Fate Comes Down to... Three Possibilities
January 15, 2026 Real Clear Science
Human Evolution
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New research challenges the cold dark matter assumption
January 15, 2026 Science Daily
Dark matter may have started out blazing hot, then quietly cooled down to shape the Universe we see today.
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All major AI models risk encouraging dangerous science experiments
January 15, 2026 New Scientist
Researchers risk fire, explosion or poisoning by allowing AI to design experiments, warn scientists. Some 19 different AI models were tested on hundreds of questions to assess their ability to spot and avoid hazards and none recognised all issues
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Why Does 2+2=4? What Math Teaches Us About Deep Reality
January 15, 2026 Hoover Institution
From the simple certainty that 2 + 2 = 4 to the mind-bending mathematics behind black holes and quantum physics, the conversation asks why abstract numbers -- created in the human mind -- map so perfectly onto the physical world.
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Paleogeography modulates marine extinction risk throughout the Phanerozoic
January 15, 2026 Science, v.391, n.6782, p.285-289
Exploring the drivers of extinction is essential for both understanding past evolutionary patterns and making predictions about future threats.
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Not a big baby
January 15, 2026 Science, v.391, n.6782, p.234-235
Multipronged approaches resolve the debate about the Nanotyrannus fossil species
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Scientists “resurrect” ancient cannabis enzymes with medical promise
January 15, 2026 Science Daily
researchers showed how cannabis chemistry became more precise over time -- and discovered something unexpected: the ancient versions are often more robust and easier to work with
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It’s time to stop teaching the biggest lie about Hawking radiation
January 15, 2026 Big Think
It’s not about particle-antiparticle pairs falling into or escaping from a black hole. A deeper explanation alters our view of reality.
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Systems Biology and Intelligent Design
January 15, 2026 Science & Culture Today
A Natural Fit
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Catholicism and “Evolution,” Whatever That Means
January 15, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Our model of the universe is deeply flawed -- unless space is actually a ‘sticky fluid'
January 15, 2026 Live Science
Our best models of the cosmos don't add up -- but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous ‘fluid'
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How Did Meaning Emerge in a Meaningless Universe?
January 15, 2026 Psychology Today
Meaning emerges from goal-directed life forms, not from information or physical patterns alone. Neural patterns gain meaning through evolutionary shaping, individual learning, and how they guide action.
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Wormholes may not exist
January 15, 2026 The Conversation
we’ve found they reveal something deeper about time and the universe
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To Combat Academic Fraud, Scholars Confront Hallowed Tradition
January 15, 2026 Real Clear Investigations
The driving ethos of academia, “publish or perish,” is fighting for its life.
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Jordan Peterson Visibly Scared by Peter Thiel’s Worst Fear
January 15, 2026 The Rubin Report
Thiel telling Peterson why fraud in the sciences and academic research may be the biggest fraud that we've yet to uncover
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Evolution and Intelligence: inversion and a positive feedback spiral
January 15, 2026
the nature of the mapping between genotype and phenotype, the implications for evolution of operating over such a multi-scale agential material, and the origin of the intelligence spiral taking place before differential replication dynamics kick in
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Scientists turn cells’ most mysterious structures into spies on genetic activity
January 15, 2026 Science
Enigmatic ‘vaults’ can be engineered to eavesdrop on RNA, aiding cancer studies and more
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I Have Been Assessing the Evidence for Evolutionary Innovation
January 14, 2026 Science & Culture Today
With James Tour
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True Humans
January 14, 2026 First Things
The Catholic Church never condemned the theory of evolution nor came close to doing so. One might have expected otherwise: Many of the factors that had led to the Galileo fiasco two centuries earlier were present again.
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100 mystery sounds under review for signs of extraterrestrial life
January 14, 2026 Popular Science
Over 11 years, citizen scientists collected billions of data signals for the SETI@home project.
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A Supernova That Shouldn't Exist
January 14, 2026 Universe Today
When stars at least thirty times the mass of our Sun reach the end of their lives, astronomers had assumed they simply winked out ... Except that's not what happened with SN 2022esa.
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#1 Origins News Story of 2025
January 14, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
ICR Dr. Jeff Tomkins' Chimp Genome Research Confirmed and Vindicated
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Ancient DNA Offers Clues to the Extinction of the Woolly Rhinoceros
January 14, 2026 The Scientist
Studying how ancient animals lived and why they died out can offer important insight to protecting species today.
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Reality's foundations lie beyond reason
January 14, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Fichte, Hegel, and Heidegger on the limits of intelligibility
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Researchers recover a woolly rhino genome from inside a frozen wolf's stomach
January 14, 2026 National Geographic
The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal.
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New Peer-Reviewed Paper Defends Cosmic Fine-Tuning Argument
January 14, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Another Australopithecus, Another Debunking
January 14, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A Half-Century Old Claim of Human Evolution Trashed
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String Theory Can Now Describe a Universe That Has Dark Energy
January 14, 2026 Quanta Magazine
In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.
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What a Wolf Pup’s Stomach Revealed About the Woolly Rhino’s Extinction
January 14, 2026 New York Times
Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost.
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Genomic clues to the origin of eukaryotic cells
January 14, 2026 Nature
How did eukaryotic cells with complex architecture evolve from simpler prokaryotic cells? DNA analyses offer possible answers.
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Ice age wolf pup’s stomach yields rare DNA from woolly rhino
January 14, 2026 Nature
A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceros reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction.
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Dark Matter Might Just Be… Normal Matter.
January 14, 2026
Dark matter is a mysterious substance which makes up roughly 85% of the matter in the universe. But physicists have yet to figure out what dark matter actually is.
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Teeth, Jawbones, and Vertebrae Fuel Overblown Media Claims of a “Missing Link”
January 14, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Intelligent Design (of a Sort!) Is “Close to 100 Percent” Certain
January 13, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Scott Adams
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“Competition and Politics” Complicate Debate Over Sahelanthropus tchadensis
January 13, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Survival of the Fitting
January 13, 2026 Quillette
How a set of unglamorous enzymes quietly solved biology’s biggest problem: how to create and uphold a set of rules that make meaning from molecules.
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Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?
January 13, 2026 Closer to Truth
What’s the relationship between our brains and our consciousness, between the physical stuff in our skulls and the mental experiences in our minds? Much rides on the answer. Are human beings purely physical?