Marmosets seem to call each other by name

 

 

Image courtesy of David Omer Lab

Joel Kontinen

How do animals recognise each other?

In a test, Marmosets seemed to call each other by names, the researchers say that this proves that is similar how we call each other.

“They use unique calls for other monkeys in their family groups, similar to how humans call each other by name. They are the first non-human primates known to do so. This discovery shows that communication in marmosets is more complex than previously thought, and it could help teach Darvinists more about how human language evolved.

“Up till quite recently, people thought that human language is a singularity phenomenon that popped out of nothing,” says David Omer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “We’re starting to see evidence that this is not the case.”

Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) live in tight-knit, monogamous family groups and spend their lives shrouded in dense rainforest canopies, so they use high-pitched, chirpy melodies that carry through the foliage to convey information to each other, such as their location.”

But only God can make humans speak language that we can understand.

Source:

Sofia Quaglia 2024. Marmosets seem to call each other by name | New Scientist 29 August. 

 

Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain

Image courtesy of Matthew McHenry and Eva Kanso

Joel Kontinen

Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhythmically along the seabed without a central nervous system.

How do starfish move? It’s not by using their feet, although they do have small feet just under their belly, and they have no brains.

But they have been given intelligently designed  little feet and a thing that is like a central nervous system.

“Starfish coordinate hundreds of feet to hop about – and they do it without a brain. A new understanding of how they manage this could inspire underwater exploration robots that work on the same principles.

The marine invertebrates, also known as sea stars, lift their bodies off the ground with their tiny tubular feet to move across underwater surfaces like rocks and sand. “[The feet are] almost like mini-organisms, all sort of attached to the same body – and you’ve got hundreds of them,” says the one who published this,  “

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 Christa Lesté-Lasserre, 2024, Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here's how they move | New Scientist 16 April.

Early men knew geology and physics

 

Image courtesy of Miguel Ángel Blanco de la Rubia

Joel Kontinen

Neolithic engineers used scientific knowledge to build huge megalith.

A monument in southern Spain that dates to between 3600 and 3800 BC appears to have been built with an understanding of geology and physics

Evolutionists paint some people as almost sub humans, who learnt the hard way to build cities almost by accident.

However science tells different story.  As Genesis tells us, early man knew who to build musical instruments and cities.

Now, it seems that early men could have some understanding with geology and physics.

”Neolithic people seem to have understood sophisticated concepts in science, such as physics and geology, using this knowledge to construct a megalithic monument in southern Spain.

Called the Menga dolmen, it is among the earliest European megaliths, dating to between 3600 and 3800 BC. Its roofed enclosure was constructed from 32 large stones, some of which are the biggest used in such structures. The heaviest one weighs in excess of 130 tonnes, more than three times as much as the heaviest stone at Stonehenge in the UK, which was erected more than 1000 years later.

“[In the Neolithic Period], it must have been very powerful to experience this building made with these enormous stones,” says Leonardo García Sanjuán at the University of Seville in Spain. “It still stirs you. It still causes an impression even today.”

García Sanjuán and his colleagues have now performed detailed geological and archaeological analyses of the stones to infer what knowledge Menga’s builders would have needed to construct the monument, which is in the city of Antequera.”

Source:

Tom Leslie 2024 Neolithic engineers used scientific knowledge to build huge megalith | New Scientist 23 August.

A giant wave in the Milky Way may have been created by another galaxy

 Astronomers have identified patterns within the motion of stars stretching across the Milky Way, hinting at the presence of a vast wave.

Was the Milky Way created by another galaxy? That is the question that evolutionists ask.

But The Milk Way seems to be guided by intelligence, that comes not  by change but with planning that the secular science cannot do.

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all astronomers are comnvinced that it actually exists.

While illustrations normally show our galaxy as a flat disc with a bulge in the middle, its structure is much more complicated. Astronomers have mapped undulating clouds of stars and gas that create waves across small sections of the Milky Way. 

 Source:

Alex Wilkins 2024 A giant wave in the Milky Way may have been created by another galaxy | New Scientist 23 August. 

When did the first animal appear on Earth?

 

When did the first animal come about? According to some evolutionists, it goes back to the time before the Cambrian period.

However, that sponged fossil that Elizabeth Turner at the Laurentian University reported in a study in Nature, could be 890 million years old. (Even some evolutionists claimed that this was not so).

According to her, it was an Ediacaran sponge fossil.

Source:

Katherine Irving 2024 What was the first animal on Earth? | Live Science 21 August.

Top astrobiologist explores the possibilities of alien life

 

It's time to expect the unexpected, says Natalie Cabrol, one of the world's top astrobiologists and author of an authoritative book on the hunt for life's origins – and ET.

Is there life in the universe apart from us?

”David Bowie wasn’t the first or last to wonder if there is life on Mars. The question of whether we are alone in the universe is still a great mystery. Some believe aliens have been visiting our planets microbes on Mars t for millennia, live among us and have even infiltrated the White House and 10 Downing Street.

For the more scientifically minded, there are authoritative voices like that of Nathalie Cabrol. “ She has studied if Mars has microbes and is the director of the SETI institute.  

Source:

Graeme Green 2024  The Secret Life of the Universe review: Top astrobiologist explores the possibilities of alien life | New Scientist  14 August.

The surprising way sunflowers work together to get enough light

 

Joel Kontinen

Scientists have known for centuries that sunflowers wobble in seemingly random ways as they grow – but it seems that those movements actually optimise how much light each plant gets

Sunflowers move in a way that helps their neighbours. The seemingly random motion of the plants’ roots and shoots actually minimises shade cover in crowded environments, ensuring that all of them get enough light to grow.

Scientists have known about this plant motion, known as circumnutation, for centuries, but its purpose has always been elusive. “In climbing plants, it’s clear that it’s a search process, searching for a new stick to twine on. But in other plants, it’s not clear if it’s a bug or a feature,” says Yasmine Meroz.

How do sunflowers get enough light? The one who made them gave them some intelligent design with which them could solve this problem.

Leah Crane, 2024. The surprising way sunflowers work together to get enough light | New Scientist 15 August.

 

We could make fuel and fertiliser by recycling wastewater

 

Joel Kontinen

Can we turn wastewater into fuel?

"Wastewater, which is full of pollutants that contain nitrogen, can be directly fed into a new chemical reactor that converts it into ammonia, with purified water and oxygen as by-productsThe sustainable alternative requires much less energy than the conventional method for producing this crucial chemical.

Agriculture, refrigeration systems, paper, cleaning supplies and other industries use hundreds of millions of tonnes of ammonia every year. Making that much of the chemical uses about 2 per cent of energy total energy consumption and contributes 1.4 per cent of global carbon dioxide emission.

Some of this environmental price is due to the conventional way of producing ammonia, which requires high temperatures and pressures. To make ammonia production more sustainable, Feng-Yang Chen at Rice University in Texas and his colleagues wanted to replace that technique with a room-temperature reactor.

Their reactor takes in water mixed with nitrates – nitrogen compounds often found in wastewater, such as industrial sewage or agricultural runoff contaminated with nitrogen-based fertilisers. After the nitrate water enters the first of three chambers, electrodes, similar to those found in batteries, create an electrochemical reaction that transforms the liquid into three components: only ammonia remains in the first chamber of the reactor, while purified water flows out through the second one and oxygen goes to the third."

It is the things that are hidden in wastewater – nitrogen and ammonia that can turn wastewater into fuel.

 Source:

Karmela Padavic-Callagh, 2024. We could make fuel and fertiliser by recycling wastewater | New Scientist 12 August

When did Greenland bacame ice-free?

 Joel Kontinen

When was Greenland not covered by ice? Evolutionists say it was a million years ago, but was it so?

Over the years, opinion has shifted about whether Greenland has been continuously covered by ice since the start of the Pleistocene epoch, roughly 2.7 million years ago. But a new fossil discovery, described in a study published Aug. 5 in the journal PNAS, "provides the first direct evidence that the center — not just the edges — of Greenland's ice sheet melted away in the recent geological past," according to a statement from the University of Vermont.

But recent history tells a different story. Greenland was ice-free about a thousand years ago, when Vikings discovered America.

Source:

 James Bonthron 2024 Fossils from Greenland's icy heart reveal it was a green tundra covered in flowers less than 1 million years ago | Live Science 12 August

Intelligent Design helps kestrels to hover in the air while keeping their heads still

 

Joel Kontinen

Intelligent Design helps kestrels to hover in the air while keeping their heads still

Two kestrels (Falco cenchroides) have been filmed in a wind tunnel. They can hover in the air in turbulent winds while keeping their heads almost intact.

They have been  given this almost perfect style by intelligent design.  

“It’s a hunting behaviour and their life depends on it,” says Mohamed Abdulghani at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. The hovering behaviour is critical to the birds as it allows them to keep their heads perfectly still to focus on prey on the ground. “

Source:

James Woodford. 2024. We now know how kestrels stay perfectly still while hovering (msn.com) 9 August.

 

 

Siberians found a horned rhino with soft tissues

 

Image courtesy of Michiel Yakovlev/NEFU)

Joel Kontinen

Gold miners in Siberia have  recently unearthed a mummified woolly rhino carcass. It had soft tissue inside it, just like the dinosaurs that are thought by evolutionists to be millions of years old.

They found the fossil of a woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), with its skull and horn, but most important was the soft tissue.

Source:

Hannah Osborne 2024, Siberian gold miners accidentally find ancient woolly rhino mummy with horn and soft tissues still intact | Live Science 10 August.

Fossils show Greenland was once ice-free – and could be again

Image courtesy of Ray Swi-hymn CC BY-SA 2.0- 

Joel Kontinen

Ancient plants, seeds and insects preserved beneath Greenland’s ice sheet reveal that it once melted completely, raising concerns about sea level rise if it happens again.

When was Greenland ice free? It did not happen today, but during the years when global warning was not thought about,

“Fossilised plants and insects extracted from beneath the centre of Greenland provide “smoking gun” evidence that the ice sheet has completely collapsed in the past – and could do so again.

The findings, taken from a sediment core drilled 30 years ago, reveal that the island was once an ice-free Arctic tundra complete with insects and plant.”

By Madeleine Cuff 2024 Fossils show Greenland was once ice-free – and could be again | New Scientist 5 August.

 

Galaxy clusters and "dark matters"

 

When galaxy clustrse collided, the dark matter (blue) sailed ahead of the normal matter (orange). Image courtesy of W.M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko.

 Joel Kontinen

Astronomers have spotted two colossal clusters of galaxies colliding and shooting out all of their dark matter, which may provide crucial evidence of how dark matter shapes the cosmos.

According to evolutionists, “when two enormous clusters of galaxies collided billions of years ago, their dark matter shot right out of them, leaving behind the gas and stars that made up the remains of the clusters. Understanding this process could help us figure out the nature of dark matter and its effects on the universe

Clashes between galaxy clusters are difficult to observe. We have to catch the collisions at exactly the right time.”

But the creation view has a different approach . It says that everything was made almost instantly ar the beginning of time, and dark matter dark matter does not exist.

Source:

Leah Crane. 2024. Galaxy cluster smash-up lets us observe dark matter on its own | New Scientist 1 August

When were the first stars formed?

 

Image courtesy of NSF's NOIRLab

Joel Kontinen

The first generation of stars changed the course of cosmic history. Now, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we have a real chance of spotting them.

When were  the first stars created? According to the true history the universe, they were created when the sun, the Earth and everything was formed.

But the Big Bang story has a different view, it states that “between 200 and 400 million years after the big bang, the energy pouring from them ripped apart the atoms of gas that had been cooling the universe, reheating them in a process called re-ionisation Then, as they burned and died, they created a cocktail of chemical elements. they say that it took that primed the universe to generate galaxes, planets and, ultimately, life itself”.

Astronomers have speculated that .the first stars were “huge and ferociously bright, they are thought to have been up to 300 ties as massive as our sun and 10 times hotter”.

This seems to be a miracle and it might also be a false alarm.  

Source:

Stuart Clark, 2024, First stars: The search for the stars that changed the history of the universe | New Scientist. 29 July

 

"500 million-year-old" larva fossil found with brain preserved

 

A scan of the Youti yuanshi larva fossil. Image courtesy of Yang Jie/Zhang Xiguang

When will evolutionists say that 500 million year old fossils do have their brain in view is an anomaly and millions of years do not count as fact?  

Researchers have found the fossil of worm-like creature that lived half a billion years ago. 

“The creature died while still in its early development, or larval stage, and belongs to a new species named Youti yuanshi, which combines the standard Chinese words "yòutǐ," meaning "larva," and "yuánshǐ," meaning "primitive," according to a new study published Wednesday (July 31) in the journal Nature. “

It was a Cambrian animal fossil with its brain intact.

"But larvae are so tiny and fragile, the chances of finding one fossilised are practically zero — or so I thought!" says Martin Smith, an associate professor in paleontology at Durham University.

Source:

Patrick Pester, 2024, ''My jaw just dropped': 500 million-year-old larva fossil found with brain preserved | Live Science 31 July.