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• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists uncover the brain’s hidden learning blocks

  November 28, 2025 Princeton University Science Daily

  Brains outperform AI by snapping together reusable “cognitive Legos” to adapt instantly to new tasks.

• News Update/Commentary

  A strange ancient foot reveals a hidden human cousin

  November 28, 2025 Arizona State University Science Daily

  New fossils reveal a second hominin species living beside Lucy -- walking differently, eating differently, and thriving in its own evolutionary niche.

• News Update/Commentary

  Hidden mitochondrial DNA damage may be a missing link in disease

  November 28, 2025 University of California, Riverside Science Daily

  Sticky mitochondrial DNA damage may be a hidden trigger behind cellular stress, inflammation, and major diseases.

• Super-Rare ‘Hybrid' Blood Type Discovered in Just 3 People

  November 27, 2025 Michelle Starr Science Alert

• ‘Lucy' Was Neighbors with an Even Older Human Ancestor, Fossils Reveal

  November 27, 2025 Tessa Koumoundouros Science Alert

  A jumble of bones and teeth confirms two species of human ancestor lived side by side over 3.3 million years ago in Ethiopia's Afar Rift.

• The universe is a puzzle that fits together only one way

  November 27, 2025 J. B. Manchak Institute of Art and Ideas

  Why you can't step into the same celestial river twice

• Video

  The Photosynthesis Machine That Shouldn’t Exist

  November 27, 2025 Discovery Science

  Explore the mind-blowing engineering inside photosynthesis -- from Photosystem II, the enzyme that produces nearly all oxygen on Earth, to ATP synthase spinning 130 times per second.

• Does Quantum Mechanics Help Us Make Sense of the Soul?

  November 27, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Quantum mechanics seems to be the game-changer that Albert Einstein (1879–1955) feared it would be. It is certain to liven up discussions about the soul

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago

  November 27, 2025 M. De Martino, et al. Science, v.390, n.6776

  De Martino et al. generated low- to medium-coverage genomes for 87 ancient, museum, and modern cats

• The cat diaspora out of Africa

  November 27, 2025 Jonathan B. Losos Science, v.390, n.6776, p.881-882

  Ancient DNA illuminates the origin and spread of the domestic cat

• NASA's Bennu asteroid contains life's ingredients

  November 27, 2025 Jacopo Prisco CNN

  Scientists found tryptophan, the ‘sleepy’ amino acid, in an asteroid. Here’s what it means

• Origin story of domestic cats rewritten by genetic analysis

  November 27, 2025 James Woodford New Scientist

  Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in China a different species of cat lived alongside people much earlier

• Ancient DNA offers clues about mysterious prehistoric settlement in China

  November 26, 2025 Yu Dong and Ripan S. Malhi Nature

  Using genomic data, researchers have uncovered the origins and cultural practices of the people of Shimao, a 4,000-year-old fortified settlement in northern China.

• Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified

  November 26, 2025 Fred Spoor Nature

  Fossils newly discovered in Ethiopia indicate that previously unidentified foot bones belong to the ancient human relative Australopithecus deyiremeda.

• Did cannibal stars and boson stars populate the early universe?

  November 26, 2025 Physical Review D. Physics World

  In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have collapsed to form bizarre objects called cannibal stars and boson stars.

• Why dark matter is still one of the biggest open problems in science

  November 26, 2025 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein New Scientist

  We can't see dark matter directly, so studying it pushes the boundaries of our creativity as scientists. How exciting

• Transposable Elements Could Help Resolve the Tree of Life

  November 26, 2025 Shelby Bradford The Scientist

  Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate difficult evolutionary lineages.

• Easter Island statues may have been built by small independent groups

  November 26, 2025 James Woodford New Scientist

  Mapping of the main quarry on Easter Island where giant statues were carved has uncovered evidence that the monuments may not have been created under the direction of a single chief

• Pandas use tools to scratch thanks to a strange evolutionary quirk

  November 26, 2025 Joshua Rapp Learn New Scientist

  Captive giant pandas have been seen breaking off twigs and bamboo pieces to scratch hard-to-reach spots, using a crude opposable thumb that other bears don’t have

• Ancient human foot bones shed light on how two species coexisted

  November 26, 2025 James Woodford New Scientist

  Scientists have finally assigned foot bones found in 2009 to an ancient human species, and the move suggests that different types of hominins lived close by in harmony

• Physicist proposes new consciousness theory that explains NDEs

  November 26, 2025 Mind Matters

  Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria Strømme. Instead, she claims that it exists as a fundamental field -- a ‘building block’ of the universe.

• Skeptic Michael Shermer’s (Non)-Vision of the Soul

  November 26, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Responding to Michael Egnor at COSM 2025, he said that the soul is an explanation but not a good explanation for our relationship to our bodies

• Fraud Hunters: Sniffing Out Bogus Science

  November 26, 2025 Vince Bielski Watts Up With That?

  Molecular biologist Mike Rossner, who has committed his life to following the science, now finds himself playing an unexpected if urgent role -- exposing the fraud of his fellow scientists.

• Biochemist Michael Behe lectures on Darwinian evolution at Cornell University

  November 26, 2025 Wintery Knight

  here are his main arguments: 1) irreducible complexity and 2) Darwinian mechanisms cannot create new forms over time

• Life Is Just Matter with Meaning

  November 26, 2025 Andy Tomaswick Universe Today

  What are the physics of life? That is more than just a philosophical question -- it has practical implications for our search for life elsewhere in the galaxy.

• Science Is in Decline. What Are the Causes?

  November 26, 2025 Mind Matters News The Stream Christian TV

  Retractions of published research papers have increased 500%, while the Big Five science publishers continue to make huge profits.

• Moonseed Evolution or Another Looney Tune?

  November 25, 2025 John Wise Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The evolutionary paradigm requires a seamless story, so the story must supply the seam

• A Close Look at Free Will

  November 25, 2025 Kirk Durston Science & Culture Today

  What Should Our Default Position Be?

• What Hitler’s DNA and the dire wolf teach us about science

  November 25, 2025 Chemical & Engineering News

  A recent documentary on Hitler’s DNA and the supposed de-extinction of the dire wolf have both sparked widespread backlash from scientists

• Video

  Why Humans Can’t Be Replicated by AI

  November 25, 2025 George Montanez Discovery Science

  from the 2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

• Video

  Do Fossils Really Support Evolution? Experts Say No

  November 25, 2025 Discovery Science

  experts explain why so many major groups (animals, birds, insects, mammals, even early humans) appear abruptly in the fossil record without the gradual transitions Darwin predicted

• We may need a fourth law of thermodynamics for living systems

  November 25, 2025 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  The laws of thermodynamics don't accurately account for the complex processes in living cells -- do we need a new one to accurately measure the ways living systems are out of equilibrium?

• This Fossil Is Rewriting the Story of How Plants Spread across the Planet

  November 25, 2025 Taylor Mitchell Brown Scientific American

  An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified -- and is changing the story of how plants took root on land

• Google offers new way to check for AI deepfakes

  November 25, 2025 Mind Matters

  We’ve run a number of stories on the problem of AI-generated deepfakes -- the problems they create, the panic they generate, and the legislation that can result.

• What if all that hate is just a few angry people with keyboards?

  November 25, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  law prof Glenn Reynolds discusses a policy change at X that revealed a fact that many suspected but could not prove. Many loud voices poisoning public discussion are not the people they claim to be.

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists reveal a hidden alarm system inside your cells

  November 25, 2025 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Science Daily

  Ribosomes don’t just make proteins -- they can sense when something’s wrong. When they collide, they send out stress signals that activate a molecule called ZAK.

• Scientists may have finally ‘seen' dark matter for the 1st time

  November 25, 2025 Robert Lea space.com

  “This signifies a major development in astronomy and physics."

• The Real Reason Zebras Were Never Domesticated Like Horses

  November 25, 2025 Tibi Puiu ZME Science

  Humans spent centuries trying to tame zebras -- but nature made sure they’d always stay wild.

• Robot Fail Highlights Human Coordination

  November 24, 2025 Sarah Buckland-Reynolds Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Despite the rapid progress in artificial intelligence, AI systems continue to fall far short of human dexterity and fine-motor capability

• The Electromagnetic Force

  November 24, 2025 Eric Hedin Science & Culture Today

  A Thing of Beauty

• A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life

  November 24, 2025 Jake Buehler Quanta Magazine

  The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.

• Despite Exceptionally Well-Preserved Namibian Fossils, Ediacaran Mystery Remains

  November 24, 2025 David Coppedge Science & Culture Today

• Darwin’s Divinized Conception of Nature

  November 24, 2025 Neil Thomas Science & Culture Today

  Destroyer or Nurturer?

• Where do all the animal skeletons go?

  November 24, 2025 Ingrid Schou Science Norway

  “A dead animal is like a feast for other life," says researcher.

• How far back in time can the naked eye see?

  November 24, 2025 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  Every observation out into deep space is also a look back in time.

• Sperm's evolutionary origins go back before multicellular animals

  November 24, 2025 James Woodford New Scientist

  Analysis of the DNA and proteins of a range of animals has revealed that sperm’s molecular toolkit arose in our single-celled ancestors, perhaps more than a billion years ago

• A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

  November 24, 2025 Ciarán Gilligan-Lee New Scientist

  Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum cause and effect could bridge the gap

• Video

  Why Darwinism Will Eventually Collapse

  November 24, 2025 Michael Behe Intelligent Design the Future

  Failed ideas tend to eventually crumble under the weight of contrary evidence. Is modern evolutionary theory heading for the same fate?

• AI Tools Unravel Thoughts, Actions, and Neuronal Makeup

  November 24, 2025 Sneha Khedkar The Scientist

  At the 2025 Society for Neuroscience meeting, scientists discussed how artificial intelligence can aid fundamental discoveries and have a clinical impact.

• Are Human Beings Machines? Surgeon and Historian Go Head-to-Head

  November 24, 2025 Caitlin Cory Mind Matters

  At COSM 2025, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and Skeptic Magazine editor Michael Shermer faced off on some of the most critical questions of our lives