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Every Theory of Consciousness
July 2, 2026 Closer to Truth
materialism, panpsychism, idealism, monism, dualism, quantum theories, theological, ...
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Synthetic biology may finally be ready to solve life's biggest mystery
July 2, 2026 New Scientist
What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to SpudCell, the most sophisticated attempt at creating an artificial life form yet
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We Created Life! Er, Wait a Minute…
July 2, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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On Our 250th Anniversary, There Is a Battle for America’s Soul
July 2, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration
July 2, 2026 Noema Magazine
We will never know for sure if AI can be conscious. A neuroscientist argues that we shouldn’t wait for proof to decide how to treat it.
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Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
July 2, 2026 Quanta Magazine
Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ones are true.
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How Empathetic Rats Are
July 2, 2026 Ruhr University Bochum
A rat first frees a cagemate rat and then shares food with it. Is this animal just as empathetic as humans?
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists stunned as bumble bees solve a classic intelligence test
July 2, 2026 Science Daily
Bumble bees just solved a classic problem-solving challenge -- and they figured it out completely on their own.
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You Do Not Have a Lizard Brain
July 2, 2026 McGill University
Carl Sagan is partly to blame for the widespread belief that we all have a lizard brain inside of us.
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Modern life may be outpacing the human mind
July 2, 2026 EurekAlert!
The human brain evolved for a world of familiar faces, immediate threats and small social groups. But the world around us is changing far faster than human biology can keep pace.
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Evolutionary Theory of Aging: Light or Shadow?
July 2, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Life is the only phenomenon we know that continually resists decay. Perhaps that should make us wonder whether life was built for life rather than for death.
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Aboard a Submarine to Explore a Living Cell
July 2, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Paper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papers
July 1, 2026 Nature
Potentially fraudulent papers often cite each other and could be inflating the impact factor of journals in which they are published.
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This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade.
July 1, 2026 New York Times
Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can be turned into life.
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Modern neuroscience is rediscovering an idea Freud had 130 years ago
July 1, 2026 Science Daily
A new paper argues that today's leading theory of the brain -- as a prediction machine constantly anticipating the world -- closely mirrors ideas psychoanalysis has explored for more than a century.
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Scientists Made a Cell with Most of the Hallmarks of Life
July 1, 2026 New York Times
From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.
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Plagiarism and Defamation -- Two More Bad Things LLMs Are Good At
July 1, 2026 Mind Matters
The authors’ and publishers’ copyright claims against the chatbot developers are only one of the legal problems the industry faces
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How Working Memory May Give Rise to Consciousness
July 1, 2026 Real Clear Science
You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your keys.
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Scientists should recognize their own political biases to build public trust
July 1, 2026 Nature
Public trust in science can’t be sustained by the support of narrow constituencies at one end of an ideological spectrum.
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The complex truth about trust in science
July 1, 2026 Nature
Confidence in science has not collapsed, but scientists have urgent problems to address.
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Togetherness: How co-operation built the world
July 1, 2026 Nature
Science journalist Rowan Hooper joins us to talk about symbiosis and the importance of organisms working together.
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Have people stopped trusting science?
July 1, 2026 Nature
The data tell a surprising story ... Some say there’s a global crisis of trust -- but research reveals where the real problems lie.
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Six ways to put the public at the heart of science and policy
July 1, 2026 Nature
Trust in elite institutions is on the wane globally. Building public participation into research and government advice can turn the tide.
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How FAIR data are helping to build trust in science
July 1, 2026 Nature
The FAIR guidelines laid a solid foundation for ensuring data accessibility and reproducibility. A decade on, researchers are thinking beyond them.
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Now, Even Some Evolutionists Say New Thinking Is Needed
July 1, 2026 Hill Faith
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Did God Create Reality?
July 1, 2026 The Royal Institution
major conversation between four strikingly different thinkers -- Christian philosopher, Hindu scholar, philosopher, and agnostic thinker
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We’re not the most successful human species
July 1, 2026 New Scientist
Homo sapiens have been around for about 300,000 years. Often, our big brains and intelligence are credited with making us the most successful species to have ever walked on Earth, but that isn’t entirely true.
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For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides
July 1, 2026 Quanta Magazine
Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before -- proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the lab.
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Algorithms vs Souls: The Use of AI in Global Missions
July 1, 2026 ID the Future
AI is having impact everywhere. But what about global outreach initiatives? And specifically Christian missions? How are those in the mission field using artificial intelligence?
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Lab-created ‘SpudCell’ marks ‘stunning’ step toward building life from scratch
July 1, 2026 Science
A synthetic cell can now grow and divide -- but it’s still far from alive
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The microRNA Mystery Evolution Struggles to Explain
June 30, 2026 James Tour
The discussion challenges naturalistic origin scenarios by focusing on genome burden, misregulation, protein infrastructure, and population-genetics hurdles.
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Did People in The Middle Ages Really Believe the Earth Was Flat?
June 30, 2026 ZME Science
In this version of alternate history, Columbus set sail on his epic voyage to the Americas to prove to the world that the Earth was not flat.
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Teeth smaller than a fingertip reveal our first primate ancestor
June 30, 2026 Science Daily
Teeny fossil teeth from Colorado are rewriting the earliest chapter of primate -- and human -- origins.
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A Philosophical Debate: Is Theism Coherent?
June 30, 2026 NT Podcast
Swinburne defends the traditional Christian conception of God. Huemer argues that the notion of a being possessing infinite degrees of power and knowledge faces significant difficulties.
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Babies are born with the neural foundations for maths
June 30, 2026 New Scientist
Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate sense of numbers
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Biology Figured Out Nanofluidics First
June 30, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How liquids, and water in particular, behave at scales of a few nanometers is one of the big gaps in modern physics
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Flood Sediments, Slides, and Ice Age Sculptures
June 30, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
Glacier National Park
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Celebrate America 250 -- With the Science of the American Founding
June 30, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Polar Bears Thrive across the Arctic by Adaptive Flexibility
June 30, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Misinterpreting Teleology
June 30, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism
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The Zygote Code and Other Mysteries
June 30, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Mammoth Structure Found in Deep Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe
June 30, 2026 Science Alert
A massive structure detected in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved.
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The Twin Pillars of Constitutional Thought
June 29, 2026 Discovery Science
how America’s founders were shaped by a richly theistic, largely Christian worldview that emphasized both human dignity (as bearers of God’s image) and human depravity
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Is There a Mind Behind the Universe?
June 29, 2026
A Classroom-Ready Eighth-Grade Dialogue About the Universe, Life, Design, God, and the Multiverse
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Tiny ancient fish fossil with preserved brain offers clues to early fish evolution
June 29, 2026 University of Chicago
CT scans of a 300-million-year-old minnow reveal well-preserved neural tissues, suggesting that the interior of the skull can be used to study the size and structure of early fish brains.
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Take a Tour of the Cell in an Incredible Shrinking Submarine!
June 29, 2026 ID the Future
What if you could climb aboard an incredible shrinking submarine and travel into the heart of a living cell?
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Childbirth is not uniquely difficult to humans
June 29, 2026 University College London
The tight fit of a baby’s head through a mother’s birth canal, which causes great difficulty in childbirth, is not unique to humans, as previously understood.
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Startling Brain Activity Under Anesthesia Challenges Our Understanding of Consciousness
June 29, 2026 Science Alert
A new study of brain cells in the hippocampus shows that people under general anesthesia can process language in real time and even learn to recognize sounds.
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Humans sleep the least of all apes
June 29, 2026 New Scientist
is it the secret to our success? ... Sleep is essential, yet humans have evolved to need so little of it. An evolutionary anthropologist discovered surprising ways to get a better night’s rest
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What Breaks a Cell’s Ribs Can Make It Stronger
June 29, 2026 Quanta Magazine
The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it manage the strain?