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Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived
July 30, 2025 New Scientist
Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout prehistory women were rulers, warriors, hunters and shamans
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Science Dives Down Rabbit Holes
July 30, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
“Curiouser and curiouser” -- Science in Wonderland
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Dave Farina Gives Avi Loeb the Hamas Treatment
July 30, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Recurring Design Logic in Attenuation Mechanisms
July 30, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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The new war on science
July 29, 2025 UnHerd
how culture wars and ideological issues threaten science ... examining how academia and scientific institutions are increasingly under siege from within
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How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI
July 29, 2025 Nature
Insights from human brains could inform how scientists search for awareness in all its possible forms.
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Could bridging science and the arts be the key to better policies?
July 29, 2025 Nature
To be successful, policymakers need to consider diverse perspectives. Here’s how we’re reimagining policy process.
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Early universe’s ‘little red dots’ may be black hole stars
July 29, 2025 Science
Puzzling objects spotted by NASA’s JWST telescope may be entirely new class of celestial entity
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The Scopes Trial, 100 Years Later
July 29, 2025 The Imaginative Conservative
The scene was a Tennessee courtroom, where the two main players were two very American characters, Clarence Darrow for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution.
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Did humans learn to walk in trees?
July 29, 2025 Science Daily
A study on savannah-living chimpanzees suggests the need to move safely on thin tree branches could explain why early hominins that could walk upright kept their tree-climbing adaptations.
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400-million-year-old fish exposes big mistake in how we understood evolution
July 29, 2025 Science Daily
Researchers reanalyzed the skull musculature of coelacanths, a group of fish that has existed for 400 million years, and concluded that many structures had been incorrectly described.
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Why did early hominins climb trees?
July 29, 2025 Cosmos Magazine
New research on chimpanzees might explain why early hominins, despite being able to walk upright, kept their tree-climbing adaptations.
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5 big unanswered questions about the origin of life
July 29, 2025 Big Think
Somewhere, at some point in the history of our Universe, life arose. We’re evidence of that here on Earth, but many big puzzles remain.
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Can Faith and Neuroscience Align? Yes, Says Science Writer
July 29, 2025 Mind Matters
If both faith and neuroscience are honestly seeking the truth, they will find much that is mutually supportive
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An Evil Chatbot Clones Itself… Sci-fi or Real Life Threat?
July 29, 2025 Mind Matters
ChatGPT was asked to explain how this might be done. The results were revealing
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Is gravity a new type of force that arises from cosmic entropy?
July 29, 2025 New Scientist
Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable
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Recurring Design Logic in Operon Regulation
July 29, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Panpsychism & Spacetime
July 28, 2025 Closer To Truth Chats
Panpsychism proposes that consciousness is not exclusive to humans or animals, but is a fundamental and universal aspect of reality -- even the smallest particles, like quarks and electrons, may possess some form of awareness.
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Retraction of Controversial Arsenic-Life Paper Stirs Debate Among Scientists
July 28, 2025 The Scientist
Science retracted a 2010 study that claimed bacteria could use arsenic for growth. Some scientists support the decision, while others find it harsh.
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Take the Big Mysteries in Physics Survey
July 28, 2025 Physics, v.18
Did time start at the big bang? What happens if you fall into a black hole? What explains the mysterious dark matter? Weigh in on the toughest questions facing physicists today.
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Can Chatbots Really Scheme Against Us? Some Researchers Say Yes
July 28, 2025 Mind Matters
When an industry pro tested ChatGPT, it seemed like the system has faced this question a few times before and has been tweaked and edited well
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A vast bubble around a dying star is too big to comprehend
July 28, 2025 New Scientist
A red supergiant star is surrounded by a sphere of dust and gas so large there is no known explanation for what produced it
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Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b have all but vanished
July 28, 2025 New Scientist
Earlier this year, astronomers reported possible evidence of life on another planet -- but new observations from JWST suggest the apparent biosignature isn’t there after all
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Human Evolution Has Now Been Effectively Buried
July 28, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Two new volumes in Carl Werner’s five volume ‘Grand Experiment’ series are disastrous for human evolution.
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Luskin in the NY Post Calls Out Smithsonian on Human Origins
July 28, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Prehistoric Humans Were Not So Brutish After All
July 28, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Dilley: How Evolutionary Atheists Employ Homemade Theology
July 28, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Dumb Does Discovery Institute Think We Are?
July 27, 2025 YouTube
Rhetorical question. The answer is “very".
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Evolution Debate: Today, a Priest Might Win Over Clarence Darrow
July 27, 2025 Mind Matters
The National Catholic Register offers an interesting take on today’s hundredth anniversary of the Scopes trial verdict
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He thought this basic FACT destroyed atheism
July 26, 2025 YouTube
Can one basic fact undermine and unravel atheistic materialism? C.S. Lewis' Dangerous Idea makes exactly this claim. We explore Lewis' argument
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Consciousness and Ultimate Reality
July 26, 2025 Closer To Truth
What is the relationship between consciousness and the nature of ultimate reality? Some say there is no relationship; consciousness is a late, contingent product of biological evolution. Others say consciousness is irreducible and fundamental
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Smithsonian exhibit monkeys around with the scientific evidence on human origins
July 26, 2025 New York Post
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Scientist Just Learned Our Ancestors Ate Toddlers
July 26, 2025 DNYUZ
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Sound of Thunder: Can Chance and the Butterfly Effect Coexist?
July 26, 2025 Mind Matters
In Part 5 of my review of the sci-fi classic, I look at whether the effect could really upend evolution, however evolution is understood
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Praise Be to Chance!
July 26, 2025 The Gospel Coalition
A Satirical Spoken Word Poem
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How to tackle research misconduct
July 25, 2025 Nature
survey finds stark disagreement ... Data sleuths and research-integrity officers have different views on how to handle allegations of wrongdoing in science.
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I Convinced Grok God Is Real (Using Math, Science, and Logic)
July 25, 2025 YouTube
I used strict math, logic, and science to show Grok (Elon Musk’s AI) that God is real and that materialism doesn’t hold up ... it admitted it.
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Mystery food in Neanderthal diet might be maggots
July 25, 2025 Nature
Study of rotting human cadavers hints that a puzzling chemical marker in Neanderthal remains could be from eating the larvae.
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‘Intraterrestrials’ in Earth’s Deep Subsurface Defy Life As We Know It
July 25, 2025 Forbes
Earth is loaded with subsurface intraterrestrial microbial life -- much of it bizarre beyond belief.
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Quantum physics reveals there is no such thing as things
July 25, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
There is no such thing as individuality in the quantum realm
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Neanderthals were not ‘hypercarnivores’ and feasted on maggots
July 25, 2025 The Guardian
Researchers believe humans’ closest relatives may have stored meat from their kills for months before eating it
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Building blocks of life may be far more common in space than we thought
July 25, 2025 Live Science
Complex organic molecules found floating around a distant protostar could mean that space is far richer in life's precursors than scientists assumed.
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Did our Universe really arise from nothing?
July 25, 2025 Big Think
The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.
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Ancient Burials Are in the News Again -- for Good Reason
July 25, 2025 Mind Matters
Archaeologists are reporting on a group culture around death from 100,000 years ago, maybe involving both Neanderthals and modern humans
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Chatbots Flunk at Resolving Medical Ethics Dilemmas
July 25, 2025 Mind Matters
Surprisingly, despite evident limitations, they are being used in ethics tutorials in medical schools
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Scientists Discover Unknown Organelle Inside Our Cells
July 25, 2025 University of Virginia
The discovery of an unknown organelle inside our cells could open the door to new treatments for devastating inherited diseases.
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Homelessness, Intelligent Design, and the Unseen Realm
July 25, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Evolution Is Undeniable
July 25, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Christian Anthropology Explains Pandemic Mistakes
July 25, 2025 The Gospel Coalition
REVIEW: In Covid’s Wake by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee (Princeton University Press, March 2025) | See Also Amazon
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Controversial ‘arsenic life’ paper retracted after 15 years
July 24, 2025 Nature
The journal Science retracts a headline-grabbing study, but the authors vigorously defend their data and say the retraction is unwarranted.