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Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers
June 16, 2025 Nature
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses -- to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.
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How to Evaluate Theories of Consciousness
June 14, 2025 Closer To Truth
What criteria should we use to compare and contrast diverse theories? Evaluating Materialism theories, like seeking neural correlates of consciousness, use the scientific method. But what about theories that are not Materialism?
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An Experimental Physicist Reacts to Pop Physics Re the Big Bang
June 14, 2025 Mind Matters
Physicists Brian Cox and Sir Roger Penrose make a number of claims about infinite and endless universes. But how much of this is really physics? We asked Rob Sheldon
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Where did the first apes evolve?
June 14, 2025 Cosmos Magazine
New research has shown that the earliest apes -- ancestors of modern great apes and humans -- evolved in tropical forests in the shadow of a violent volcano.
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Philosophy of Human Nature & Evolution
June 13, 2025 Closer To Truth
What is “human” nature? While human beings are animals, we believe we are special, radically different from other animals. Why? What traits are unique to humans? Are we sure? How to explore human nature from an evolutionary perspective?
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Microwaves seem to experience imaginary time
June 13, 2025 New Scientist
...and now we know how: Almost a decade ago, researchers calculated that microwaves can seemingly spend an imaginary amount of time within a material -- now an experiment reveals how the phenomenon is perfectly real
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Why Superintelligent AI Isn’t Taking Over Anytime Soon
June 13, 2025 Wall Street Journal
Despite claims from top names in AI, researchers argue fundamental flaws in reasoning models mean bots aren’t on the verge of exceeding human smarts
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Faith & Science in the Age of Secularization
June 13, 2025 Discovery Institute
Warsaw, Poland ... “Are Christians Doomed to Evolution? Or are there alternative ways of understanding the origin of species and humans -- alternatives that are in accordance with the latest science and traditional faith?“
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Mysterious link between Earth’s magnetism and oxygen levels baffles scientists
June 13, 2025 Nature
As Earth’s magnetic field has risen, so have the conditions that helped complex life to thrive -- a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant planets.
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Podcast: Free Will, Determinism, and the Immortal Soul
June 13, 2025 Mind Matters
Michael Egnor explains, to claim, “There is no free will,” is to make a rational argument while denying the very capacity that makes rational argument possible
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No, Large Reasoning Models Do Not Reason
June 13, 2025 Mind Matters
Large reasoning models continue the Large Language Model detour away from artificial general intelligence
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Challenged on the “1 Percent” Myth, Smithsonian Gives a Meaningless Non-Answer
June 13, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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What (If Anything) Physics Can Say About Consciousness
June 13, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is Everything Computer? New Calculation Supports Simulation Hypothesis
June 12, 2025 YouTube
In a stunning new paper, a pair of physicists argue that space could be made up of qubits, giving support to Wheeler’s idea according to which everything is ultimately qubits. Does this mean that the universe might be a quantum computer?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Design principles of cell-state-specific enhancers in hematopoiesis
June 12, 2025 Cell, v.188, n.12
the vast complexity of regulatory DNA impedes the identification of the underlying cis-regulatory rules
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Scientists discover ‘dragon prince’ dinosaur, the T. Rex's missing ancestor
June 12, 2025 National Geographic
Khankhuuluu mongoliensis was slender with features like no other member of the tyrannosaur family tree.
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The West has stopped losing its religion
June 12, 2025 The Economist
After decades of rising secularism, Christianity is holding its ground -- and gaining among the young
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Early Apes Evolved in Tropical Forests Disturbed by Fires and Volcanoes
June 12, 2025 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Fossils discovered at an early Miocene site in Kenya include a new type of early ape and offer clues about the environment inhabited by human ancestors.
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Extraterrestrial Life: Headlines vs Reality
June 12, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Eager reporters get excited about planets in habitable zones, but overlook show-stopping issues
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How Did Earth Get Its Water?
June 12, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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How female earwigs evolved deadly claws for love and war
June 12, 2025 Science Daily
Pincer plot twist: Female earwigs may use their forceps as weapons too -- just like males
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A Physicist Ponders the Nature of Consciousness
June 12, 2025 Mind Matters
Ethan Siegel fears that we abandon science when we think that consciousness is not a material thing
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How consensus can undermine science
June 12, 2025 freethink.com
What looks like unity is sometimes a strategy to silence disagreement.
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What If We Weren’t the First Advanced Civilization on Earth?
June 12, 2025 ZME Science
A Provocative Theory by NASA Scientists: The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether signs of truly ancient past civilizations would even be recognisable today.
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On AI: Consciousness, Ethics, & Dangers
June 12, 2025 Closer To Truth Chats
Sejnowski, a pioneer in computational neuroscience and deep learning, explores the frontiers of AI: its potential for consciousness, the profound ethical challenges it raises, and the dangers we must confront
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How to understand the Universe’s most important equation
June 12, 2025 Big Think
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
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Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done
June 12, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself -- At All
June 12, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Laws of physics are still broken
June 11, 2025 space.com
Attempt to explain away black holes' central singularity falls short, scientist says ... “It may take decades before we find out what really happens in black holes."
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The Planck Scale isn't the limit physicists think it is
June 11, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Does quantum gravity break down at the Planck Scale?
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‘Impossible' particle that hit Earth may have been dark matter
June 11, 2025 New Scientist
We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously high-energy particle detected in 2023 is not a neutrino after all, but something far stranger
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A new Mongolian tyrannosauroid and the evolution of Eutyrannosauria
June 11, 2025 Nature
Eutyrannosaurians were large predatory dinosaurs that dominated Asian and North American terrestrial faunas in latest Cretaceous times.
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Almost half of California's faults -- including San Andreas -- are overdue for earthquakes
June 11, 2025 Live Science
California's earthquakes are far more likely to be “overdue" compared with earthquakes in the rest of the world.
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From Adam to You: Genetics Supports a Young Earth
June 10, 2025 Answers in Genesis
Creation science reveals human history hidden in our DNA.
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A Mesozoic myth: Dinosaurs didn’t rule the Earth like we think
June 10, 2025 Big Think
“The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs” reveals the bold mammals that thrived in the Age of Reptiles.
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Ohio State to Require Students to Learn “AI Fluency”
June 10, 2025 Mind Matters
The university is embracing, rather than rejecting, AI
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Debunking the Top Objection to the Cosmological Argument
June 10, 2025 YouTube
Is the cosmological argument outdated or simply misunderstood? Meyer joins Sean McDowell to examine one of the most common objections raised against the cosmological argument for God's existence.
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Ancient humans’ extraordinary journey to South America
June 10, 2025 New Scientist
Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations -- and genetic studies now reveal more about how they settled and then split into four distinct groups on the continent
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Evolutionary Assumptions are Unnecessary for Good Science
June 10, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
These news items make the case that far from being necessary to good science, evolutionary assumptions are entirely irrelevant
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Mapping neanderthals’ hidden superhighways across eurasia
June 10, 2025 Science Daily
2,000 miles through rivers and ice: Computer simulations of pathways point to how ancient migrations shaped human history
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How Cryptic Female Choice Shapes the Evolution of Species
June 10, 2025 The Scientist
Historically, researchers focused on the role of sperm characteristics in fertilization success, but now female factors and cooperative processes are gaining recognition.
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Definitive evidence for the Designer
June 9, 2025 Creation Ministries International
Dr Jonathan Sarfati has done it again. His updated and expanded book on design in nature is a tour de force, showcasing the brilliance of the Creator, as seen “in the things that have been made” (Romans 1:20).
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Do Wobbling Muons Point the Way to New Physics?
June 9, 2025 Scientific American
The most anticipated particle physics result of recent years is here -- but the real news came one week before: the “muon g-2 anomaly” might have never existed
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The Human and Chimp 2% Similarity Now Closer to 16%
June 9, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A stunning overturn of evolutionary dogma has been announced
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New Fossil Discovery Upends Animal Evolution...Again
June 9, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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New Book Advances Skepticism as a Solution to Materialist Ideology
June 9, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Only a quarter of Catholic, Mainline pastors ‘definitely’ believe Adam and Eve existed
June 9, 2025 Christian Post
In contrast, 80% of Evangelical pastors and 89% of black Protestant clergy affirm this belief with certainty.
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First Fossil Proof Found That Long-Necked Dinosaurs Were Vegetarians
June 9, 2025 New York Times
“It’s the smoking gun, or the steaming guts,” said a paleontologist from a team that also found that the sauropods didn’t chew their food.
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What happens the day after humanity creates AGI?
June 9, 2025 Big Think
“We are racing towards a new era in which we outsource cognitive abilities that are central to our identity as thinking beings” -- artificial general intelligence (AGI)
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Sauropod dinosaur's last meal reveals that it didn't bother to chew
June 9, 2025 New Scientist
A sauropod dinosaur fossil has been found with preserved stomach contents for the first time, providing insights into what they ate and how