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• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Taking the temperature of punctuated equilibrium on its semicentennial

  September 29, 2025 Margaret M. Yacobucci, Kenneth M. Schopf, and David W. Goldsmith Cambridge University Press

  While punctuated equilibrium is foundational to modern paleobiology, the degree to which paleontologists and evolutionary biologists understand its claims and implications is not clear.

• The 5 biggest mysteries about the origin of our Universe

  September 29, 2025 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  From the Big Bang to a prior period of cosmic inflation, our cosmic origins are clearer than ever. Yet these 5 big mysteries still remain.

• Video

  Epic Exchange: Sy Garte Stands His Ground on evolution

  September 29, 2025 James Tour YouTube

  they discuss tensions between evolutionary theory and Christian faith, surveying new ideas (agency, natural genetic engineering) that challenge strict neo-Darwinism while arguing science and faith need not be at odds.

• Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?

  September 29, 2025 Stuart Clark New Scientist

  Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely

• Reality is not made up of objects

  September 29, 2025 Dennis Dieks Institute of Art and Ideas

  The Quantum Illusion of Objects

• Fossil Confusion in Ethiopia

  September 29, 2025 Jonathan K. Corrado Institute for Creation Research

  Are Evolutionary Trees Built on Toothpicks?

• News Update/Commentary

  This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth

  September 29, 2025 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Science Daily

  While genetically remarkable, the species is increasingly threatened by climate change and human impact.

• News Update/Commentary

  Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet

  September 29, 2025 University of Bern Science Daily

  Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. The study highlights that habitability may hinge on rare chance events.

• Personhood: What it really means to be human

  September 29, 2025 Mind Matters

  Are we more like detachable Lego bricks or like parts of a body? A Mind Matters News podcast with Eric Jones explores this

• What is Going on in the United Kingdom?

  September 29, 2025 Peter Biles Mind Matters

  Things are getting Orwellian across the pond

• Why the Soul Doesn’t -- and Can’t -- Weigh Anything

  September 29, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The question has nothing to do with whether or not the soul exists

• Earth’s Core Is Fine-Tuned for Surface Habitability

  September 29, 2025 Sarah Buckland-Reynolds Creation-Evolution Headlines

  New simulations of the Earth’s core indicate extremely precise conditions for its formation, exposing flaws in cosmological evolutionary theory

• Researchers Decode How Protein Language Models Think, Making AI More Transparent

  September 28, 2025 Andrea Lius The Scientist

  By spreading out tightly packed information in neural networks, a new set of tools could make AI protein models easier to understand.

• RNA: From the Origin of Life to the Future of Medicine

  September 28, 2025 Kamal Nahas The Scientist

  Scientists are exploring how RNA might have jump-started life four billion years ago and how it's now advancing drug development with RNA-based therapies.

• Why Do We Have Laws of Nature -- And Why Aren’t They Different?

  September 28, 2025 Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer Daily Wire

  Gravity pulls. Opposite charges attract. But why?

• Reinventing SETI: Why Our Alien-Hunting Playbook Needs an Upgrade

  September 27, 2025 John Gertz Gizmodo

  BOOK EXCERPT: it’s time to ditch SETI’s old dogmas and rethink how we prepare for first contact

• The current war on science, and who’s behind it

  September 27, 2025 Diana Gitig ars technica

  A vaccine developer and a climate scientist {walk into a bar} write a book.

• Brain Surgeon Shows Why AI Can Never Become Human

  September 27, 2025 Richard W. Stevens Mind Matters

  Spoiler alert: AI requires physical hardware; the mind does not

• Urgent! Math research fraud is widespread

  September 26, 2025 Mind Matters

  A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study highlights shocking distortions

• Even a worm’s brain proves hard to explain

  September 26, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm with a map of how signals travel across those neurons has revealed a surprising number of differences, suggesting that the structure of the brain alone doesn’t explain how it works

• Now It’s Science Fraud in… Mathematics?

  September 26, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today

• Blog Post

  1871 Critic of Darwinism Whose Criticisms Still Pack a Punch

  September 26, 2025 Bill Dembski

  Breathing new life into St. George Jackson Mivart's On the Genesis of Species

• How fast you age may be controlled by a DNA repair boss in your cells

  September 26, 2025 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster

• Blog Post

  The God Lunch

  September 26, 2025 John Horgan

• News Update/Commentary

  Tiny stones rewrite Earth’s evolution story

  September 26, 2025 ETH Zurich Science Daily

  oceans between 1,000 and 541 million years ago held far less organic carbon than previously thought. This discovery challenges long-standing theories linking carbon levels, oxygen surges, and the emergence of complex life.

• Are we looking for consciousness in the “wrong part” of the brain?

  September 26, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

• Where are we located relative to the Big Bang?

  September 26, 2025 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?

• Not a “Turning Point”: Study Finds Homo habilis Was Hunted as Prey

  September 26, 2025 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• This flower smells like dying ants, and flies can’t resist it

  September 25, 2025 University of Tokyo Science Daily

  A dogbane species is found to mimic the smell of injured ants to attract flies that feed on the ants and pollinate the flowers.

• Will the Big Bang Go Pop?

  September 25, 2025 Richard Smith Acton Institute

  Scientists have long been bothered by the idea that the universe had a beginning. But are the new hypotheses being put forward really better science or just wishful thinking?

• Unexpected Roots of a Scientific Idea

  September 25, 2025 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

  Darwin, Faust, and the Alchemist

• What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories?

  September 25, 2025 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Nature Right Pushes Neo-Pagan Mysticism at Highest Academic Levels

  September 25, 2025 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

  September 25, 2025 Hannah Devlin The Guardian

  Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution

• Go to the Ant, Sluggard

  September 25, 2025 John Wise Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Ants are “superefficient” at teamwork, a recent study shows

• David Kipping on how the search for alien life is gaining credibility

  September 25, 2025 Adam Frank Big Think

  Big Think spoke with astronomer David Kipping about technosignatures, “extragalactic SETI,” and being a popular science communicator in the YouTube age.

• Our Universe could be trapped inside a black hole with no way out

  September 25, 2025 Ezzy Pearson BBC

  It's black holes all the way down

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Eight lessons on teaching the origin of life

  September 25, 2025 David Figueiredo de Almeida Cultural Studies of Science Education, v.21, p.61-76

  teaching the origin of life is characterized by extreme complexity, as it involves sensitive cultural and emotional factors during the development of scientific concepts

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans

  September 25, 2025 Xiaobo Feng, et al. Science, v.389, n.6767, p.1320-1324

  It is now well known that there were at one time many Homo lineages. Understanding of the differences among these lineages is largely dependent upon crania

• Book

  What to Expect When You're Dead

  September 25, 2025 Angela Saini Science, v.389, n.6767, p.1299

  REVIEW: What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife by Robert Garland (Princeton University Press, 2025)

• Reconstructed skull gives surprising clues to our enigmatic Ancestor X

  September 25, 2025 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought -- which could completely change our understanding of humanity's evolution

• Video

  A Scientist’s Take on Creation and the Age of Earth

  September 25, 2025 James Tour YouTube

  the “6-day” vs. long-age creation question depends heavily on how the Hebrew word yom (“day”) is used and interpreted

• News Update/Commentary

  Mushrooms evolved psychedelics twice, baffling scientists

  September 24, 2025 Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology Science Daily

  A new study shows that different types of mushrooms use completely different methods to produce the psychoactive substance psilocybin.

• Once Again: Have Astronomers Found the Hypothetical Population III Stars?

  September 24, 2025 Danny R. Faulkner Answers in Genesis

  Again, Astronomy Conforms to Creationary Expectations

• Space-time doesn’t exist

  September 24, 2025 Daryl Janzen The Conversation

  but it’s a useful framework for understanding our reality

• Ant queens clone another species

  September 24, 2025 John Wise Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Revenge of the Clones? One ant species clones another. That challenges Darwinian storytelling.

• The strongest evidence for a Universe before the Big Bang

  September 24, 2025 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there’s one piece of evidence we can’t ignore that shows otherwise.

• Could dark energy be changing over time?

  September 24, 2025 Adam Mann Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v.122, n.39

  Dark energy has been a profound puzzle since its discovery 25 years ago.

• We finally found the hot wind coming out of our black hole

  September 24, 2025 Alex Wilkins New Scientist

  Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, should be sending out hot wind -- they have just caught the first glimpse of it

• How faster-than-light explosions could reveal the universe’s secrets

  September 24, 2025 Jonathan O’Callaghan New Scientist

  Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to understand the mysteries of neutron stars, gamma ray bursts and more