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The Wow! Signal and a Project in Design Detection
September 14, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Why Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design Must Fail
September 14, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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$1M award for scholars who try to tell the truth?
September 13, 2026 Mind Matters
… At last --- Outspoken hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and Harvard economist Roland Fryer have teamed up to offer the Carob Trust Prize for Academic Courage, to honor “social scientists who face unjustified attacks.”
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Fallout from the Cambridge Jason Arday debacle
September 13, 2026 Mind Matters
was anything learned?
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News Update/Commentary
Physicists can’t agree on how the Universe works
September 13, 2026 Science Daily
One area of stronger agreement stood out: 68% said the Big Bang does not necessarily represent the beginning of time.
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Did Scientists Just Witness a Key Step in the Origin of Complex Life?
September 13, 2026 Answers in Genesis
Evolutionists have several problems explaining the origin of life. One is explaining how complex cells evolved from simple cells.
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Scientists Resurrect 160-Million-Year-Old Molecules
September 13, 2026 Sci Tech Daily
with Surprising Power Against Superbugs
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Challenges for reproducibility in species delimitation
September 12, 2026 Systematic Biology
Species richness is a foundational metric for comparing biodiversity among clades and regions in ecology, evolution, and conservation. As the biodiversity crisis accelerates, taxonomists face increasing pressure
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Experiment Tested Out-of-Body Experiences
September 12, 2026 Science Alert
Two Reported Seeing Things Scientists Can't Explain
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Anti-Beauty Objects Are an Assault on Our Minds
September 11, 2026 Mind Matters
Whatever happened to beautiful architecture, paintings or all things artistic?
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AI Could Kill Us All? Yes, So Could Old Age. Take a Deep Breath…
September 11, 2026 Mind Matters
Assessing the current AI hysteria includes asking “Who do all these apocalyptic claims benefit?”
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Those Demons at the Core -- a Novel
September 11, 2026 Mind Matters
Dr. Geoffrey Simmons’s taut new thriller, Oppenheimer’s Demon, envisions a nuclear threat aimed at the city
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Earliest alligator flourished in the wake of the dinosaur extinction
September 11, 2026 New Scientist
Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America
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Discussing the Origin of Information
September 11, 2026 ID the Future
The conversation is now seven years old, so it’s a good time to dust it off and share it with those who may have missed it or forgotten about it.
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Automatic Transmission Gears Found in Human Legs
September 11, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new paper uses the word “gears” to describe how legs mechanically shift when speed increases
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Dinos Meet Carl Sagan and a Marriage on the Rocks
September 11, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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LLMs can't do frontier science because they can't invent new language
September 11, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Why AI models make bad scientists
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“Who Benefits from Apocalyptic Claims?”
September 11, 2026 Science & Culture Today
AI Hysteria: Take a Deep Breath and Ask
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Literary Devices or Historical Revision? Genre Criticism Examined
September 10, 2026 Bible and Theology Matters
Did the Gospel writers change historical events to make a theological point? Or can the differences between the Gospels be explained through normal historical reporting and paraphrase?
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Unexpected: Plants Undermine Materialist Consciousness Theory?
September 10, 2026 Mind Matters
Plant scientist Calvo’s critique of neuron-based theories appears not to be hippie panpsychism; he is asking hard science questions
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What primates tell us about the evolutionary origins of keeping pets
September 10, 2026 New Scientist
Keeping pets seems to be fairly recent behaviour in the timeline of human evolution. Columnist turns to the latest research on primates to understand how long we’ve had the impulse to adopt furry friends
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Exquisite 66-million-year-old bird feather preserved in dinosaur dropping
September 10, 2026 New Scientist
A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisitely preserved in the fossilised dropping
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Paleogenomics and habitat modeling reveal temperate Eurasian origins of woolly rhinoceroses
September 10, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6816, p.1122-1127
As is the case for other Ice Age megafauna, our understanding of the woolly rhinoceros has been shaped by samples found primarily in extremely cold climates.
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Is Life Itself a State of Matter?
September 10, 2026 MIT Press Reader
We can explain solids, liquids, and gases -- but how nonliving matter self-assembles into life remains one of science’s great mysteries.
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Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age
September 10, 2026 knowable magazine
Missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations like string played a huge role in the daily lives of our ancestors. Researchers are working to weave together new insights from the traces they left behind.
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Exceptionally Preserved Bird Feathers Found in 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Coprolite
September 10, 2026 Sci News
Paleontologists in Montana have discovered remarkably preserved feathers of an ancient aquatic bird inside a fossilized dinosaur dropping, offering rare insight into why certain birds survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs
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Oppenheimer’s Demon Is “9/11 Times a Thousand”
September 10, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Article on Human Joints Reflects Growing Recognition of Design in Biology
September 10, 2026 Science & Culture Today
New Stuart Burgess Article
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News Update/Commentary
Have we found alien life? Hundreds of scientists weigh in
September 9, 2026 Science Daily
Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced.
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A Neuroscientist Just Challenged One of the Brain's Biggest Assumptions
September 9, 2026 Science Alert
You may think you made a decision to read this article, but did you, really?
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Seeds Come Pre-Loaded for Fast Action
September 9, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
All the metabolic proteins and molecular machines are ready-made in seeds, ready to roll into high gear
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The Hidden Scientific Flaws in Secular Cosmology Models
September 9, 2026 ID the Future and Discovery Science
breaks down key arguments surrounding cosmological fine-tuning, the origin of the universe, and how foundational worldviews shape scientific interpretations.
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Which students think shouting down a speaker is okay?
September 9, 2026 Mind Matters
When they were presented with the statement about “blocking other students from attending a campus speech”, 22% of respondents said that action was sometimes or always acceptable.
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News Update/Commentary
400,000-year-old teeth reveal a hidden link in human evolution
September 9, 2026 Science Daily
That variant may have passed from Homo erectus into Denisovans and eventually reached modern populations in Southeast Asia and Oceania.
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Earliest evidence of habitual drug use found in teeth in Indonesia
September 9, 2026 New Scientist
Strange, rounded grooves in prehistoric teeth are thought to have been made by regularly sucking whole betel nuts to extract a pain-relieving compound. This marks the earliest known example of probable substance addiction
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Why our common ancestor with chimpanzees keeps getting further away
September 9, 2026 New Scientist
The more we learn about chimpanzees, the more they resemble us -- but the further back in time our shared ancestor seems to be. Columnist explores how both can be true
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Lost quantum traces could reveal dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider
September 9, 2026 New Scientist
Particle collisions are inherently quantum, but much of that character is lost when we turn them into classical data. Sarah Alam Malik explores whether preserving more of it could help us spot signs of dark matter and other new physics
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Denisovan tools from cave in China show how mysterious humans lived
September 9, 2026 New Scientist
A site in China is just the third to give us an insight into the way the enigmatic Denisovans lived. The archaeology at the site suggests the ancient humans were skilled hunters, although their stone tools were relatively simple
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Priors & Proof: Unpacking the Meyer/Halper Debate
September 9, 2026 ID the Future
Are the Big Bang and the evidence for the fine-tuning of the universe evidence that supports theistic belief or undermines it?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Ancient proteins identify various Denisovan remains from Southwest China
September 9, 2026 Nature
More than a decade of multidisciplinary research has identified a collection of cranial, facial and dental remains of Denisovans from across Asia, providing insight into their cranial capacity, appearance, diet and evolutionary history.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Denisovans from southwestern China and their subsistence strategies
September 9, 2026 Nature
Growing fossil and genomic evidence has substantially advanced our understanding of Denisovans’ evolutionary history, yet their technological behaviours and subsistence strategies remain poorly documented.
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Who were the Denisovans?
September 9, 2026 Nature
Rich trove of fossils and tools paints new picture ... Objects found in a cave in southwestern China suggest that these enigmatic ancient humans were accomplished hunters.
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Oddball fossils suggest that the first insects were a mixed bunch
September 9, 2026 Nature
As the most diverse class of animals, insects have dominated terrestrial ecosystems for the past 320 million years. However, the origins of this successful group have faded into the abysses of geological time.
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Applications for Intelligent Design
September 9, 2026 Science & Culture Today
The Marvel of a Seed
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Study Shows Limits of “Precise” Gene Editing in Human Embryos
September 9, 2026 Columbia University
new cutting-edge techniques can accurately edit genes in human embryos -- giving scientists indispensable tools for understanding human development -- but has also uncovered important risks that currently preclude the use of the techniques in the clinic
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Political world erupts as AI researchers warn of ‘extinction’ threat
September 9, 2026 Washington Post
Anthropic has built its reputation as the safety-minded AI company. But some of its own researchers fear the race it has joined could end with humanity’s destruction.
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This Cave in China Just Rewrote 120,000 Years of Denisovan History
September 9, 2026 Gizmodo
The findings include bones and tools that hint at the ancient human relative's biology, diet, and lifestyle.
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Upcoming webinar on the new Catholic encyclical on AI
September 8, 2026 Mind Matters
Magnifica Humanitas (25 May 2026), Leo’s first encyclical, which he presented to the Vatican in person focuses on “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.”
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Discussion elicits wide interest among Spanish speakers
September 8, 2026 Mind Matters
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News Update/Commentary
Dark energy debunked? Cosmic acceleration may be an illusion
September 8, 2026 Science Daily
A new analysis of more than 1,700 supernovae is questioning whether the universe is really accelerating at all.