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Nobel chemistry prize goes to pair who solved mystery of ‘mirror image' molecules
October 7, 2026 Reuters
Many molecules essential to life exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and right hands. Yet living organisms almost exclusively use only one version that has puzzled chemists for more than a century.
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Nobel Prize Is Awarded for Pioneering Work in ‘Mirror’ Chemistry
October 7, 2026 New York Times
The Nobel Committee recognized Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for solving a century-old mystery about molecules with mirror images. Their work is crucial for pharmaceuticals and carries clues to the origins of life.
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Can machines reason?
October 7, 2026 Mind Matters
Depends on what you mean by “reason”
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Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than we thought
October 6, 2026 Science Daily
New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates.
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Answering the God-of-the-Gaps Objection
October 6, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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An Evolutionary Puzzle
October 6, 2026 Science & Culture Today
from Australia’s Fossil Record
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Computer Engineer Robert Marks Says AI will Never Match Humans
October 6, 2026 Mind Matters
But do the sophisticated new chatbots prove Marks wrong? Turns out, he is writing a new book to address that
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Why I Still Reject the Kalam Cosmological Argument
October 5, 2026
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The Immortal Mind
October 5, 2026 Discovery Science
Can your mind survive if your brain is severely damaged? Acclaimed neurosurgeon delves into what the science shows, drawing on research of near death experiences and minimally conscious individuals.
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Restoring the Natural Theology Tradition That Fueled Modern Science
October 5, 2026 ID the Future
What is the state of the debate over evolution and intelligent design in the UK? And how will Discovery Institute’s new Cambridge initiative impact the debate going forward?
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Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?
October 5, 2026
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Covid, Climate and the ‘Consensus Trap’
October 5, 2026 Wall Street Journal
Scientists are as prone as anyone else to groupthink, and stifling dissent often produces disaster.
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Are Babies Conscious?
October 5, 2026 New York Times
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Stephen Meyer versus Richard Dawkins
October 5, 2026 Science & Culture Today
A Contest Made in Heaven?
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Stone Age Brains and the Adapting Mind
October 5, 2026 Psychology Today
Our Stone Age brains have evolved since the Neolithic began.
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100 Unanswered Questions About Ourselves, Our World and Our Universe
October 5, 2026 New York Times
We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations -- on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.
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Evolutionary Biology Turns the Genome Upside Down
October 5, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Why does the scientific establishment cling to a narrative so deeply at odds with itself?
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Scientists discover a human brain gene that can jump through DNA
October 5, 2026 Science Daily
Called BC200, the gene evolved millions of years ago from a mobile piece of DNA known as a transposon, but unlike most genes that arose this way, it never lost its mobility.
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Brainy Bees Solve Pollen Problem
October 5, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
The uncanny abilities of the honeybee cause entomologists to shake their heads in wonder.
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AI ‘Claude’ Can Never Be a Person
October 5, 2026 Mind Matters
A rabbi noted that if Claude is a person, Anthropic is engaging in slavery that must stop
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Do humans really have a ‘lizard brain’ lurking beneath our rational minds?
October 4, 2026 The Guardian
It’s a powerful analogy that captured the popular imagination, but the biological reality is quite different
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Seeing Chatbots as People Is Not New. Some See Cars That Way
October 4, 2026 Mind Matters
It's actually a natural tendency but it certainly comes with risks
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Nuclear doomsday mag says, AI Doomerism is bad science
October 3, 2026 Mind Matters
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded in 1945 by scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project (the Bomb), ran an article on Wednesday, informing us that AI doom is overrated.
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Sunlight and Water Are Uniquely Fit to Sustain Life
October 2, 2026 ID the Future
If the sun didn’t power the photosynthesis of green plants, we wouldn’t be breathing right now. And without the finely tuned properties of water, Earth would be a frozen, lifeless wasteland.
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Stunning fossil shows dinosaurs’ distinctive path to flight
October 2, 2026 Nature
A fossil from a previously undiscovered species with feathery limbs, unearthed in China, adds to evidence that dinosaurs and birds evolved flight more than once.
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The early universe wasn’t nearly as pristine as scientists thought
October 2, 2026 Science Daily
JWST reveals that some of the universe’s first galaxies were already spreading the ingredients for planets and life across the cosmos just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
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97-million-year-old fossils reveal the earliest known animal “GPS”
October 2, 2026 Science Daily
Their sophisticated magnetic structure could have helped an unknown ocean creature navigate thousands of kilometers with surprising precision.
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Twenty years since I wrote the book, the God Delusion won’t die
October 2, 2026 The Telegraph (UK)
Darwin demolished the so-called argument from design -- and the supposed ‘fine tuning’ of the universe tells us nothing
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Evolutionists Still Finding Imaginary Feathers on Dinosaurs
October 2, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The fossil evidence for dinosaurs evolving into birds is not as clear-cut as told in the media
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Fossil mammal with reptile-like teeth changes picture of our evolution
October 2, 2026 New Scientist
Unlike most modern mammals, which get just two sets of teeth in their lifetime, an ancient species from the Cretaceous, found in China, appears to have had the ability to replace its teeth throughout its life
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One tiny chemical difference between RNA and DNA may help explain how life began
October 1, 2026 Science Daily
A single tiny chemical feature may have helped RNA form protective droplets that paved the way for the first cells.
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Natural Mummies Hold Memories of Life and Land
October 1, 2026 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
All around the world, extreme conditions have kept ancient human remains shockingly well preserved.
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Wildfires Burned in Antarctica 90 Million Years Ago
October 1, 2026 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A new study finds evidence of the southernmost wildfires currently known, which may have facilitated a transition from temperate rainforest to peatland in Antarctica.
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Walden and the wild roots of conservation science
October 1, 2026 Science, v.394, n.6819, p.37
The famous work of transcendentalism holds lessons for modern ecologists, maintains a Thoreau scholar
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Science involves much more than experimental evidence
October 1, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
How inference to the best explanation drives science
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Why So Many Social Science Claims Are False
October 1, 2026 Real Clear Investigations
One of the most urgent questions facing society today is the potential impact of AI on education and labor markets.
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Young Earth Creation: Is it Scientifically Defensible
October 1, 2026 Christ Church
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How Richard Dawkins Led People to Christ
October 1, 2026 Bible and Theology Matters
why some people who were initially persuaded by Dawkins’ arguments against religion eventually began questioning his understanding of Christianity and investigating the Christian faith for themselves
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The not so blind watchmaker
October 1, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Does evolution have a purpose?
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Science Suggests Matter and Meaning Are Both Real
September 30, 2026 ID the Future
What is the story of everything? Is there a scientific and philosophical basis for meaning?
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Precursors to the Design Inference
September 30, 2026 Science & Culture Today
And a Nod to Dawkins
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Beware sham scientific societies
September 30, 2026 Nature
the research community must be more vigilant ... As AI content makes bad actors harder to spot, scrutiny of organizations must increase without reducing trust.
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Evolution of terrestrial anatomy revealed by a derived stem tetrapod
September 30, 2026 Nature
many taxa either have limbs with fin-like functional anatomy or have secondarily lost them, raising questions about the ecological context and early evolution of the tetrapod limb
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How warped research incentives undermine science
September 30, 2026 American Council on Science and Health
Fraud, compromise, and groupthink
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New study rekindles contested question
September 30, 2026 University of Copenhagen
Surprising discovery suggests that Mars and Earth formed through different processes. The finding could help scientists understand whether planets in other galaxies are habitable.
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Early fossil reveals fish-like and reptile-like traits
September 30, 2026 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
For nearly 30 years, a small fossil from Scotland has been celebrated as one of the earliest known reptiles. A new study is rewriting that story.
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Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life
September 30, 2026 ars technica
Hot, nutrient water might have lasted for over 5 million years after the impact.
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The Solar System Has a New Life Expectancy
September 30, 2026 Nova (American Astronomical Society)
and It’s a Billion Times Shorter
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Chimps plunder less pineapple from friends -- and expect them to do the same
September 30, 2026 UC Berkeley News
researchers also found that stealing from non-friends caused more agitation, providing a window into how chimpanzee emotions may be similar to our own
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The Cambrian Layer: Explosion or Burial?
September 30, 2026 Institute for Creation Research