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New theory of gravitational waves holds key to the early universe
September 12, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
Gravitational waves may resolve problems with the Big Bang theory
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When We Lose Religion, We Lose Science
September 11, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Restoring trust in science
September 11, 2025 Science, v.389, n.6765, p.1095
A pair of authors offer a “battle plan” for combating antiscience sentiment
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Behind the scenes of scientific fraud
September 11, 2025 Science, v.389, n.6765, p.1096
A coauthor on a paper with fabricated data reckons with the fallout
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Illusions of AI consciousness
September 11, 2025 Science, v.389, n.6765, p.1090-1091
The belief that AI is conscious is not without risk
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Mass Extinction Confirmed -- Volcanic Winters Cleared the Way for the Rise of Dinosaurs
September 11, 2025 Mother Friendly
Volcanic winters reshaped Earth and made room for swift, adaptable predators to climb the ladder
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The Rise of ‘Conspiracy Physics’
September 11, 2025 Wall Street Journal
Streamers are building huge audiences by attacking academic physics as just another corrupt establishment. Scientists are starting to worry about the consequences.
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient fossils in Ethiopia rewrite the first chapter of human evolution
September 11, 2025 Science Daily
Homo’s earliest fossils show a surprising overlap with Australopithecus, exposing human evolution as a tangled, competitive family tree.
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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist To Speak at COSM 2025
September 11, 2025 Mind Matters
John F. Clauser has helped us understand the quantum world better -- and tangled with climate activists
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Evolution Is Only Persuasive Because of This Feature
September 11, 2025 Theos Theory
Darwinism thrives when details are slim. It is powered by imagination. Design theorist and attorney shares how evolutionary stories only appear plausible as long as we keep them vague.
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Why science is limited and evolution fails
September 11, 2025 Creation Ministries International
We are often told to ‘trust the science’, and that science can explain the origin of life and solve all the world’s problems. Often, science is treated as a religion, known as scientism.
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Interstellar overhype: NASA debunks claim about alien-made comet
September 11, 2025 The Guardian
NASA dismisses theory by Harvard astronomer who suggested an object from beyond the solar system could be a relic from a distant civilization
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10 incredible facts about the Big Bang Theory
September 11, 2025 Big Think
It’s the origin of our entire observable Universe, but it’s still not the very beginning of everything.
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The Complex Lives of Cichlid Fish Parents
September 11, 2025 The Scientist
Cichlids can be protective parents or infanticidal cannibals -- studying these extremes could provide new insights into their evolution.
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Dinosaur egg dated directly for the first time
September 11, 2025 Nature
Laser method could help to pinpoint the age of many fossils, but some palaeontologists say further research is needed to verify the technique.
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How understanding nothingness might just explain everything
September 11, 2025 BBC
There's a big, gaping hole in our understanding of the Universe. Meet the scientists trying to understand it
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ChatGPT Fails to Flag Retracted and Problematic Articles
September 11, 2025 The Scientist
The large language model scored a majority of discredited or retracted articles highly, highlighting that information obtained from AI tools must be verified.
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Newly dated 85-million-year-old dino eggs could improve understanding of Cretaceous climate
September 11, 2025 Frontiers Media
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AI Risks Choking Off New Knowledge
September 10, 2025 Wall Street Journal
A Beltway audience watched as Weil asked Chat-GPT to prepare a memo briefing a fictional senator for the confirmation of Albert Einstein to be energy secretary.
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“Sharkitecture” Displays Intelligent Design in Shark Bones
September 10, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Supported by strong minerals and springs, the shark skeleton is optimized for these ocean predators
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Who were the mystery humans behind Indonesia’s million-year-old tools?
September 10, 2025 Science Daily
A groundbreaking discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveals that early hominins crossed treacherous seas over a million years ago, leaving behind stone tools that reshape our understanding of ancient migration.
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Dawkins Watches as Science Skeeters Off a Cliff, Learns Nothing
September 10, 2025 Mind Matters
The decline is mainly due to the loss of traditional insights gained in large part from religion
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Microraptor: A Systematic View of Its Three Species
September 10, 2025 Answers Research Journal, v.18, p.449-457
Cranial Elements
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On Human-Chimp Genetic (Dis)Similarity, Give Credit Where Credit Is Due
September 10, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead.
September 10, 2025 New York Times
Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.
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In a Rock on Mars, NASA Sees ‘Clearest Sign of Life’ So Far
September 10, 2025 New York Times
The agency’s scientists are still not saying they found fossils of Martian microbes, but analysis of the specimen collected by the Perseverance rover raises that possibility.
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NASA hasn't found life on Mars yet -- but signs are promising
September 10, 2025 New Scientist
A rock found on Mars offered tantalising evidence that life once existed there. Now scientists have found yet more evidence that could point to the existence of ancient organisms -- but we can't know for certain without returning samples to Earth.
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An Elusive Butterfly Expands Its Genome Through Fragmentation
September 10, 2025 The Scientist
Scientists sequenced the Atlas blue butterfly genome for the first time, revealing its 229 chromosome pairs and new insights into butterfly evolution.
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The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations
September 10, 2025 Nature
The Lepidosauria is the most species-rich group of land-dwelling vertebrates. The group includes around 12,000 species of lizards and snakes
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Clearest gravitational-wave detection yet confirms Hawking’s black-hole theory
September 10, 2025 Nature
Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect gravitational waves.
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Researchers uncover potential biosignatures on Mars
September 10, 2025 EurekAlert!
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Unusual compounds in rocks on Mars may be sign of ancient microbial life
September 10, 2025 The Guardian
Surface spots and nodules on rocks in ancient river valley are described in new study as ‘potential biosignatures’
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NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year
September 10, 2025 NASA
A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life.
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Dissenting from Deep Time
September 10, 2025 Logos Research Associates
The age of the earth can be scientifically measured and constrained in many ways. This presentation shares several of these methods and talks about what they mean for the standard scientific paradigm.
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Decode or Be Deceived: Read What Authorities Say Carefully
September 9, 2025 Mind Matters
Increasingly we must examine claims from experts -- human or AI -- carefully, instead of adopting their clever sound bites
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Artificial Intelligence, Science and the Limits of Knowledge
September 9, 2025 Mind Matters
In Part 3, I show that AI, like science, has limits. It depends on narrowing a problem: making it specific, discarding most possibilities, sealing it inside a representation and specification
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The Big Bang’s big gaps
September 9, 2025 Aeon
The current theory for the origin of the Universe is remarkably successful yet full of explanatory holes. Expect surprises
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Evidence for Intelligent Design: Irreducible Complexity
September 9, 2025 Truthful Hope
distinctions between intelligent design and creationism, scientific and philosophical objections to intelligent design, the implications of Darwinian evolution, and recent scientific advancements in understanding life's complexity
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The argument against the existence of a Theory of Everything
September 9, 2025 Big Think
The Holy Grail of physics is a Theory of Everything: where a single equation describes the whole Universe. But maybe there simply isn’t one?
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How cosmic events may have influenced hominin evolution
September 9, 2025 New Scientist
Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at least in part, due to changes in Earth’s magnetic field? Did Australopithecus witness huge meteorite impacts?
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Head start: fossil clues about how bodies evolved from two-fold to five-fold symmetry
September 9, 2025 Nature
How the five-fold symmetrical bodies of starfish and other echinoderms evolved is a mystery. New evidence fills in a key piece of the puzzle.
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On the Deep Nature of Reality
September 9, 2025 Closer To Truth
This wide-ranging conversation spans Penrose’s most influential ideas, from black holes and the Big Bang to Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, quantum gravity, and the role of mathematics in uncovering ultimate reality.
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Designer Science
September, 2025 NYU Press
A history of the intelligent design movement and its legacy | See Also Amazon
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Blinking at Baboons: The Disney Effect in Anthropology
September 9, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How evolutionary science creates a cultural conditioning so pervasive that the obvious is now heretical
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Mirror Microbes Could End All Life on Earth. How Do We Stop Them?
September 8, 2025 The Scientist
Bacteria made of mirror molecules could evade the immune system and outcompete native species, but strategies put in place now could prevent this outcome.
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Research misconduct: how the scientific community is fighting back
September 8, 2025 Nature
Misconduct is rare in science, but there are worries about a detritus of fake papers in the scientific literature. In this podcast, we explore why misconduct happens and how to tackle it.
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Flood Tsunamis Transported Trees and Amber
September 8, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Reuters Pulls Vid Where Xi Hails Organ Transplants for Longevity
September 8, 2025 Mind Matters
Putin didn’t seem to care much about what he was heard to say about organ transplants, but China is known to harvest organs from doomed political prisoners.
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What If Science Tried Doing Without Materialism?
September 8, 2025 Mind Matters
In a thoughtful review of The Immortal Mind, John Zmirak points to the way it currently underlies most popular presentations of science
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Scientist claims life on Earth was not random... but engineered
September 8, 2025 Daily Mail (UK)
A wild new theory has claimed the origins of life on Earth were delivered by aliens who were terraforming the planet into a habitable world billions of years ago.