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This ancient pottery holds the earliest evidence of humans doing math
January 13, 2026 Science News
Flower designs on 8,000-year-old pots show “mathematical knowledge,” archaeologists say
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How did birds evolve? The answer is wilder than anyone thought
January 13, 2026 Nature
Discoveries in Jurassic rocks reveal that birds were adept fliers earlier than scientists realized.
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This Technology Exists Everywhere -- And We Ignore It
January 13, 2026 Discovery Science
Imagine a solar panel that tracks the sun, sheds debris, protects itself from damage, and can grow a replacement when broken. That technology already exists, and it’s called a leaf. In this talk, we explore the astonishing engineering of plant leaves
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The Evolution of the Human Brain
January 13, 2026 John Templeton Foundation
In the very, very big picture, the story of a species can feel ponderous and slow. Over generations, mutations accumulate in our DNA
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Aliens might not have the same physics as us
January 13, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Would aliens share our physics?
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Experts Were Wrong About Fossil Deposition
January 13, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
They assumed how bones would move in stream flow conditions. Then some scientists ran experiments.
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Genome Shows Design in 4 Dimensions
January 12, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If Origin of Life is a one-dimensional impossibility from below, the genome now stands as a four-dimensional impossibility from above.
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Our elegant universe: rethinking nature’s deepest principle
January 12, 2026 New Scientist
For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking findings suggest a far stranger idea from quantum theory could be a deeper driving force
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The Source of Human Creativity Is Intelligent Design
January 12, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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New Paper Fails to Settle Debate Over Bipedalism
January 12, 2026 Science & Culture Today
in Sahelanthropus tchadensis
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The Incompetence of Evolution
January 12, 2026
Focusing on controlled, repeatable studies rather than historical inference, they discuss why many evolutionary experiments show rapid adaptation followed by clear constraints, particularly when multiple coordinated changes are required.
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Let’s Talk Young-Earth Creation (Part 2)
January 12, 2026 Kelvin's Faith Unfiltered
What is the emerging “New Creationist” movement? What real progress has been made in recent years? Why does all of this matter for Christians watching the origins debate from the outside?
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News Update/Commentary
Astronomers discover stars don’t spread life’s ingredients the way we thought
January 12, 2026 Science Daily
This raises new questions about how giant stars spread life-essential elements through space. Researchers now suspect dramatic stellar motions or pulsations may play a key role instead.
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We're about to simulate a human brain on a supercomputer
January 12, 2026 New Scientist
The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models will offer unprecedented insights into how our brains work
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Pterosaur Herbivory
January 12, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers
January 12, 2026 The Scientist
Open access publishing has led to researchers paying thousands of dollars to publish their work, limiting funds for research and leaving scientists with hard choices.
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News Update/Commentary
A new theory of gravity could explain cosmic acceleration without dark energy
January 11, 2026 Science Daily
Using an extended version of Einstein’s gravity, researchers found that cosmic acceleration can arise naturally from a more general geometry of spacetime. The result hints at a radical new way to understand the universe
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Paul Nurse on his controversial second term as Royal Society president
January 11, 2026 The Guardian
‘Lots of people don’t want to do it’ -- The Nobel prize winner discusses claims of a ‘boys’ club’, Elon Musk’s fellowship and rightwing attacks on science
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This Dinosaur Really Knew How to Get a Grip
January 11, 2026 New York Times
A fossil of Manipulonyx reshetovi, found in a Mongolian desert, shows how the dinosaur used its specialized claw to snatch eggs.
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Why We Fight Darwinism
January 11, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
One photo can do the work of saying “Ideas Have Consequences” a hundred times, or a thousand times
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News Update/Commentary
3.7-billion-year-old rocks reveal how Earth and the Moon were born
January 10, 2026 Science Daily
Ancient Australian rocks are revealing how a catastrophic cosmic crash helped create the Moon -- and delayed the rise of Earth’s continents.
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Is the Universe Made of Math? Part 1
January 10, 2026 Universe Today
The Unreasonable Tool
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Engineers Look to Fish for Microplastics Filter Design
January 10, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Microplastic filters designed from fish gills are found to be over 99% efficient, surpassing present plastic filter technologies
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Structural insights into the assembly and evolution of a complex bacterial flagellar motor
January 9, 2026 Nature Microbiology, v.11, p.770-785
Here we deploy structural, genetic, biochemical and functional approaches to characterize complex adaptations of the flagellar motor
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Gumby Clocks Keep Darwin Time
January 9, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Rapid evolution does not solve the problem of complexity. It intensifies it.
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Pollen records suggest that early humans thrived in relatively open landscapes
January 9, 2026 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
What sort of landscape was most conducive to human evolution some two million years ago?
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News Update/Commentary
Astronomers find a ghost galaxy made of dark matter
January 9, 2026 Science Daily
Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter-dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists believe it is a “failed galaxy,” a leftover building block from the early Universe that never lit up.
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Tonto Depositional Processes and Rates: Responding Again to “Peaceful Science” Critics
January 9, 2026 Answers in Genesis
Part 2 of “A Detailed Response to ‘Examining Young Earth Creation Claims About the Grand Canyon’”
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Aerial aliens: Why cloudy worlds might make detecting life easier
January 9, 2026 Big Think
Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger spoke with Big Think about how “the colors of life” could leave detectable traces on distant planets.
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New Paper Has Bad News for Popular “Oxygen Theory” of the Cambrian Explosion
January 9, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Replacing Chance with Purpose Is the New Paradigm
January 9, 2026 Science & Culture Today
In Biology
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How did these strange, ancient organisms turn into such remarkable fossils?
January 8, 2026 EurekAlert!
New research in Geology reveals why the 570-million-year-old Ediacaran Biota were so exceptionally preserved
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The Science of God, the God of Science
January 8, 2026 Acton Institute
Contemporary scientific findings not only harmonize with what reason and faith tell us about God but also reflect the very nature of God himself.
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Fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés, Morocco, and crossroads of human evolution
January 8, 2026
Jaws, teeth, and a hyena-chewed femur may be close to the common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern people.
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Infrared Radiation and Pollination Reflects Recent Creation
January 8, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
A hidden world inside DNA is finally revealed
January 8, 2026 Science Daily
DNA’s shape may be just as important as its code -- and scientists are finally learning how to read it.
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Action at a Distance Can Explain Dark Matter, Physicists Show
January 8, 2026
Physicists don’t actually know what the universe is really made of. The currently most popular theory is that most of the universe is made of dark matter, a mysterious type of matter that we can only detect through its gravitational pull on other objects.
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A Case Against Naturalism
January 8, 2026 Revealed Apologetics
an argument against atheistic naturalism
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage
January 7, 2026 Nature
Palaeogenetic evidence suggests that the last common ancestor of present-day humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans lived around 765-550 thousand years ago
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A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe
January 7, 2026 Nature
evolutionary history of European horned dinosaurs
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Of all the quarries: Casablanca fossils reveal African ancestors of Homo sapiens
January 7, 2026 Nature
Surprising fossil finds in a Moroccan quarry reveal 773,000-year-old hominin specimens that are close to the ancestor of modern humans.
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Oldest known poison arrows show Stone Age humans’ technological talents
January 7, 2026 Nature
Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.
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Researchers Just Sampled 1.4-Billion-Year-Old Air -- and It’s Not What They Expected
January 7, 2026 Gizmodo
A “boring" time period may not have been so boring after all.
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Quantum mechanics works, but it doesn't describe reality
January 7, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Predictive power is not a guide to reality
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Moroccan Cave Fossils Yield a Possible Missing Link in Human Evolution
January 7, 2026 New York Times
Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.
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Pregnancy Symptoms Show Protection Is Working
January 7, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists uncover evidence that pregnancy discomforts may act as protective safeguards for the unborn, pointing to providence even in suffering
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Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans
January 7, 2026 New Scientist
The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans
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Yunxian 2 cranium changes human evolution tale (again)
January 7, 2026 Creation Ministries International
Evolutionary history of humanity is beset with dating problems and is constantly being revised by anthropologists who avoid the biblical framework.
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Was Modern Science Born of Christianity?
January 7, 2026 Commonweal
“Apologetics, Christian or other, is always a risky enterprise,” the late Stanley L. Jaki once wrote. “Once caught in apologetic zeal, one can, especially if one is a historian, easily overshoot the target.”
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Jellyfish Snooze Like We Do
January 7, 2026 Science Alert
and it could explain the origins of sleep