A controversial experiment threatened to kill the multiverse in 2025

 

The multiverse was proposed as a way to make sense of bizarre quantum behaviour. Image courtesy of Victor De Schwanberg/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

A photon was apparently detected in two places at once in a twist on the classic double-slit experiment, but many physicists didn't accept the results.

A physics experiment published this year that claimed to measure a single photon in two places at once – and, in the process, discredit the idea of a multiverse – drew pushback from many sceptical physicists, but the scientists behind the demonstration stand by their claim.

In May, Holger Hofmann at Hiroshima University in Japan and his colleagues reported the results of a modified version of the famous double-slit experiment that showed individual photons being “delocalised”, or impossible to tie down in one place.

However, there is only one universe.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 A controversial experiment threatened to kill the multiverse in 2025 | New Scientist 30 December

Matt Walsh goes scorched earth on Israel First conservatives

 

From where does Zionism and "America first" come from? Some says that it comes from American sources, but others say that it doesn't. 

Tiny orange frog around the size of a pencil tip is brand-new species

 

Imaage courtesy of Luiz F. Ribeiro/SWNS

Joel Kontinen

Some frogs can be really small, but they are still frogs. 

This miniature frog, less than 14 millimeters in length, is barely bigger than a pencil tip. Found in the forests of Serra do Quiriri, Brazil, this new-to-science species of pumpkin toadlet frog has been named Brachycephalus lulai, after the country’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva.

Researchers spotted the frog thanks to its unique mating call, and later confirmed it was a new species using DNA analysis.

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New Scientist 2025 Tiny orange frog around the size of a pencil tip is brand-new species | New Scientist 23 December 

Black hole stars really do exist in the early universe

 

Balls of gas with a black hole at their centre could glow like a star. Imagae courtesy of Shutterstock / Nazarii_Neshcherenskyi

Joel Kontinen

Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded in an enormous ball of glowing gas.

Could black hole stars really exist in the early universe. According to the  big bang  view of the universe, the early universe  was thought to be inhabited with star like balls of gas but with red very light galaxies?

It seems that the millions of years scenario does not  correspond to real life.  

The early universe appears to be littered with enormous star-like balls of gas powered by a black hole at their core, a finding that has taken astronomers by surprise and might solve one of the biggest mysteries thrown up by the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

When JWST first started looking back to the universe’s first billion years, astronomers found a group of what looked like extremely compact, red and very bright galaxies that are unlike any we can see in our local universe. The most popular explanations for these so-called little red dots (LRDs) proposed they were either supermassive black holes with dust swirling around them, or galaxies very densely packed full of stars – but neither explanation fully made sense of the light that JWST was detecting.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Black hole stars really do exist in the early universe | New Scientist 22 December 

 

What does Intifada mean?

 

What does the globalized Intifada mean? It means killing Jews all over the world just as it happened in Australia.

Spiders on Jupiter? Scientists uncover secret origins of arachnid-like 'demon' lurking on gas giant's moon.

 

NASA's Galileo spacecraft first photographed a bizarre spider-like structure lurking within a large crater on Europa during a close flyby of the moon on March 29, 1998. Image courtesy of ASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Joel Kontinen

A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The finding could have implications for a NASA spacecraft en route to the frozen world.

In March 1998, NASA's Galileo spacecraft — which studied Jupiter and its major moons between 1995 and 2003 — made a close flyby of Europa, a frozen ocean moon often considered one of the most likely places for extraterrestrial life to exist in the solar system. During this flyby, the probe mapped out a roughly 13.7-mile-wide (22 kilometers) impact structure, dubbed Manannán Crater, on the moon's icsy surface, and found something strange lurking within it.

Some other experts say that it was created by eruptions from hydrothermal vents on the floor of Europa's subsurface ocean.

According to new study, in The Planetary Science Journal, researchers proposed an alternative explanation: that the Jovian spider formed in a similar way to how dark dendritic patterns on Earth, known as "lake stars," typically do.

With this in mind, the researchers used a similar technique to partially recreate the Manannán Crater's mysterious shape in the lab.

"Lake stars are really beautiful, and they are pretty common on snow or slush-covered frozen lakes and ponds," study lead-author Laura Mc Keown, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida, said in a statement. "It is wonderful to think that they may give us a glimpse into processes occurring on Europa and maybe even other icy ocean worlds in our solar system."

However, rather than water rising through tiny holes, as happens when lake stars form on Earth, Damhán Alla was likely birthed by an asteroid impact — which created a small crack in Europa's icy shell that enabled salty water to seep upward and paint the spider-like pattern on the surface. (This asteroid impact likely happened after the Manannán Crater was already formed.)

The researchers also noted similarities between Damhán Alla and the infamous "spiders on Mars," which are dusty deposits on the Martian surface that look like swarming spiders when viewed from above. These fake arachnids, known as araneiform terrain, form when submerged carbon dioxide ice sublimates, or turns directly into a gas. Mc Keown's team has previously recreated these features on Earth too.

The similarities in shape between Damhán Alla and the spiders on Mars are due to how "fluid flows through porous surfaces," Mc Keown said. In theory, similar spider features could also form on other frozen ocean worlds, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, Jupiter's other moon Ganymede and the dwarf planet Ceres, which resides in the asteroid belt beyond Mars.

So, this means that some extraterrestrial life may abound on the moon, but life only comes when a creator give life to them.

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Harry Baker 2025 Spiders on Jupiter? Scientists uncover secret origins of arachnid-like 'demon' lurking on gas giant's moon. | Live Science 17 December

Sydney massacre

 The resent massacre of Jews in Sidney, Australia has caused chaos all over the world.

Is Christian Zionism Biblical or Heretical?

 

Some say that Zionism is a heresy, but Bible say that it isn't.  It says that God gave the promises to Abraham.

Muslim hero disarms terrorist during Bondi Beach shooting attack

Joel Kontinen

The attack happened on the first day of Hanukkah, when to terrorists killed 16 people and wounded 40.

 Ahmed Al Ahmed has been identified as the brave civilian who rushed one of the terrorists head-on and tore the weapon from his hands, forcing the attacker to retreat and potentially saving dozens of lives.

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World Israel News 2025 WATCH: Muslim hero disarms terrorist during Bondi Beach shooting attack | World Israel News December 14, 

Mars may once have had a much larger moon

 

The Gale crater on Mars. Image courtesy of ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy

 Joel Kontinen

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas.

A bigger moon for Mars. that is the result of water that supposedly sprang from it as the smaller moons that encircle they could not produce so much water.  

This is the result of believing in millions of years as it may given time for the moon to be formed.

A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth as a tide came and went. If that is true, it follows that Mars must have had a moon that was massive enough to exert a gravitational pull on the planet’s seas sufficient enough to create tides. Neither of the two moons it currently possesses are big enought for the job.

Suniti Karunatillake at Louisiana State University and his colleagues have found that traces of tidal activity seem to be preserved in thin layers within sedimentary rocks in Gale crater

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Bas den Hond 2025 Mars may once have had a much larger moon | New Scientist 12 December 

The 'hobbits' may have died out when drought forced them to compete with modern humans, new research suggests

 

Image courtesy of Lanmas via Alamy

Joel Kontinen

Darwinian  evolution and climate change seem to be the standard for how the hobbits died out,  but the only solution to this dilemma was that these humans suffered from a disease that made their heads grow small.

We might not forget that the all are the descendants of  Adam and Eve.

Homo floresiensis — a small ancient human species nicknamed the "hobbit" — may have gone extinct around 50,000 years ago because declining rainfall levels reduced the prey available for hunting. This may have forced them to migrate to areas where they competed with modern humans, new research suggests.

The rainfall shortage would not have been the only reason why they went extinct, the team noted. A volcanic eruption that occurred around 50,000 years ago may also have been a significant factor in their extinction.

So far, fossils of the hobbit have been found in only one cave, known as Liang Bua, on Flores island in Indonesia. Since the discovery of H. floresiensis was first reported publicly in 2004, scientists have been trying to determine how the diminutive species lived and why it went extinct.

Now, in a paper published Monday (Dec. 8) in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, scientists report that rainfall on the island appears to have declined considerably before 50,000 years ago. They also found that the population of Stegodon, a genus of a now-extinct elephant relative that the hobbits hunted, also diminished before vanishing from Flores around 50,000 years ago.

to determine how rainfall on the island changed, the team studied a stalagmite from Liang Luar, a cave on Flores that is close to Liang Bua. Stalagmites grow when water evaporates and forms calcium carbonate. The new growth also has small amounts of other minerals, such as magnesium. Stalagmites don't grow as fast during times of water shortage, and the growth that does occur tends to have less calcium carbonate and more magnesium, the researchers noted in their paper. This means that by measuring the ratio of magnesium to calcium carbonate, the team can determine when rainfall decreased or increased, and by how much.

The researchers found that average annual rainfall declined from 61.4 inches (1,560 millimetres) 76,000 years ago to 40 inches (990 mm) 61,000 years ago. The island continued to have this reduced rainfall level through 50,000 years ago. At that point, there was an eruption at a nearby volcano, and a layer of ejected rock covered the island.

When the team analyzed the remains of Stegodon teeth, they found that the number of these animals decreased on the island between 61,000 and 50,000 years ago, before vanishing after the eruption. The researchers think the reduction in rainfall led to a decrease in Stegodon populations, making life more difficult for the hobbits as they formed a major part of their diet.

As rainfall declined, Stegodon populations may have migrated to the coasts of the island, with the hobbits following them.

"We suspect that if the Stegodon population were declining due to reduced river flow then they would have migrated away to a more consistent water source," Nick Scroxton, a research scientist of hydrology, paleoclimate and paleoenvironments at University College Dublin and co-author of the paper, told Live Science in an email. "So it makes sense for the hobbits to have followed."

It's possible that moving to the coast could have brought the hobbits into contact with Homo sapiens groups who were expanding throughout the region. This contact could have resulted in competition for resources and even intergroup conflict, Scroxton suggested. Additionally, the volcanic eruption around 50,000 years ago would have made things even worse for the hobbits.

"This looks like a very impressive study," said Julien Luoys, a palaeontologist at Griffith University in Australia who has conducted extensive research on hominins but was not involved in the new research, told Live Science in an email. A reduction in rainfall can have a major impact on an island as small as Flores, he noted.

"There's only a limited amount of space on an island, and only so many types of environments that can be harboured," Luoys said. "When things get drier, an animal can't simply move off the island, and any potential refugia they could use are going to either disappear or become very crowded, very quickly."

Debbie Argue, an honorary lecturer in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University, who was not involved in the work, also praised the research. "The paper gives us an excellent insight into a changing climatic environment in the region and is a most welcome contribution to knowledge about past conditions on Flores," Argue said.

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Owen Jarus 2025 The 'hobbits' may have died out when drought forced them to compete with modern humans, new research suggests | Live Science 8. December

African Christians are persecuted

 African Christians are persecuted. Yet the United Nations is silent. This is fueled by Islamic extremists. 

Melanie Phillips tells of the danger of Islamic radicalization

 Melanie Phillips is British journalist and author. She says that the West may be hampered by Islamic radicalization. She also says that the Western idea is based on Judeo-Christian worldwiew.

Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life

 

Image courtesy of International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist; J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (Intl Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)

Joel Kontinen

Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probably important in the origin of life. Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known visitor to our solar system from elsewhere.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is belching out carbon-rich chemical compounds at higher rates than almost any other comet in our solar system. One of these compounds is methanol, a key ingredient in prebiotic chemistry that hasn’t been seen in other interstellar objects.

3I/ATLAS, which is only the third visitor to our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy, appears to be quite unlike any comet from our own galactic neighbourhood. As it travelled towards the sun, an envelope of water vapour and gas rapidly grew around it, which also contained much greater amounts of carbon dioxide than we see in typical solar system comets. The comet light also appeared to be much redder than is typical, surface chemistry, and it began releasing its gases while relatively far away from the sun, an indication that it might not have passed close to another star for hundreds of millions of years, or since it left its home star system.

Millions of years and evolution are tied together in this study. Both cannot be believed. Live needs a designer, that evolution is not.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life | New Scientist 5 December

Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert

 

A cave near a site of ancient human occupation in the Arabian desert. Image courtesy of Huw S. Groucutt, et al

Joel Kontinen

Ancient humans used to live in the Arabian desert.  Evolutionists say that in the beginning it took place around 100,000 years ago but the dates of this is very doubtful.

The dry deserts of north-eastern Saudi Arabia were once wet enough to host vibrant communities of animals – and researchers have just found evidence that ancient hominins lived there too.

“This paper provides the first outline of the archaeological record of inland north-east Arabia – a vast region that has been unstudied,” says Monika Markowska at Northumbria University, UK, who wasn’t involved in the work.

The research focuses on a mostly underexplored region of the Arabian peninsula between Qatar and Kuwait. Records of a prehistoric human presence in this area are non-existent, yet scientists know it once received enough rain to support a thriving ecosystem.

Source:

Taylor Mitchell Brown 2025 Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert | New Scientist 2 December 

San of Hamas tells about Hamas

 

The Son of Hamas tells about Hamas, which has been designated terrorist organization in the West and in many Muslim countries.

Muslim Brotherhood

 

The Muslim Brotherhood gives rights to Isis and Hamas. That's why it is branded a terrorist organisation by some Islamic states such as Egypt.  

Ancient tracks may record stampede of turtles disturbed by earthquake

 

The possible turtle tracks at Monte Cònero, Italy. Image courtesy of Paolo Sandroni

 Joel Kontinen

Can turtles leave track some 100 meters above the sea in Italy during the Cretaceous period? Turtles are sea creatures. Some say that it happened in 83 million years ago. They were probably left by Noah's flood some 4,500 years ago.

Around 1000 markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the period may have been made by sea turtle flippers and swiftly buried by an earthquake.

Free climbers discovered the unusual features in an area that is off limits to the public on the slopes of Monte Cònero on Italy’s east coast.

There are more than 1000 prints in two locations – one more than 100 metres above the ocean, and a second shelf that has fallen to La Vela beach. These rocks consist of limestone that formed from fine sediment on a shallow seabed in the Cretaceous period.

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James Woodford 2025 Ancient tracks may record stampede of turtles disturbed by earthquake | New Scientist 21 November

Zionism

 Zionism is the word, that the Jews use, when they speak about their homeland. Zion meant the city of Jerusalem. 

Giant impactor Theia formed nearby

 

Computational simulation of the impact between a proto-Earth and the small planet Theia. Image courtesy of  Jacob Kegerreis/NASA Ames And Durham University/Institute For Computational Cosmology/Swift/Dirac

Joel Kontinen

In evolutionary theory a very small planed called Theia collided into a proto Earth.  According to the same theory, it formed the Moon and materials from it formed the Earth.

There is no solid evidence that the planet even existed.

Hopp et al. measured iron isotopes in lunar samples, Earth samples, and meteorites. They then combined these results with previous measurements of other elements with different geochemical behaviours. By simultaneously calculating the contributions of Theia material to each of those elements in both bodies, the authors concluded that Theia formed in the inner Solar System, nearby to Earth but possibly slightly closer to the Sun.

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Keith T. Smith 2025 In Science Journals | Science 20 November

 

Is Jesus a Palestinian?

 

Some Arabs are claiming that Jesus was a Palestinian, but this video shows that he was not. He was a Jew. 

Euclid telescope captures young stars being born inside dark cloud

 

Image courtesy of ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Schirmer (MPIA, Heidelberg)

Joel Kontinen

Space tells of the wonders of creation.

 A dark cloud named LDN 1641 is around 1300 light years away from Earth. Dark clouds are so called because they block the visible light from stars behind them. It is only thanks to the infrared instruments aboard the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope that we have been able to capture this stunning image.

This twinkling tapestry of young stars being born amidst a swirling sea of gas and dust is part of a dark cloud named LDN 1641, around 1300 light years away from Earth. Dark clouds are so called because they block the visible light from stars behind them. It is only thanks to the infrared instruments aboard the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope that we have been able to capture this stunning image.

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New Scientist 2025 Euclid telescope captures young stars being born inside dark cloud  12 November 

Two-State Solution?

 

Palestinians and some European states prefer a two-state solution, but Israel says it is not possible any more.

Why Should Christians Be Zionists?

 

Why Should Christians Be Zionists? 

Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life

 

Image courtesy of NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor

Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists suppose that there might be traces of past life on Mars. They found in traces of channels that might speak of ancient life. However, life needs a creator to begin.

Caves carved by water that once flowed beneath Mars’s surface could have been ideal for life to thrive, if it once existed on the Red Planet, and they might still preserve traces of it today.

Mars is dotted with holes that look like cave entrances, but these are usually near regions that are suspected to have been volcanically active, which suggests they formed due to processes like underground lava flows, rather than the passage of water.

Source:

Alex Wilkins 2025 Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life | New Scientist 11 November 

Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised

 

Plumes of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules spray from Enceladus’s south polar region. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltec

Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists think that there might be some kind of life on Enceladus.

The liquid water ocean hidden underneath the icy crust of Enceladus has long made this moon of Saturn one of the best prospects in the hunt for extraterrestrial life – and it just got even more promising. The discovery of heat emanating from the frozen moon’s north pole hints the ocean is stable over geological timescales, giving life time to develop there.

“For the first time we can say with certainty that Enceladus is in a stable state, and that has big implications for habitability,” says Carly Howett at the University of Oxford. “We knew that it had liquid water, all sorts of organic molecules, heat, but the stability was really the final piece of the puzzle.”

Howett and her colleagues used data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, to hunt for heat seeping out of Enceladus. Its interior is heated by tidal forces as it is stretched and crunched by Saturn’s gravity, but so far this heat has only been caught leaking out of the south polar regions.

For life to have developed in Enceladus’s ocean, it would require balance: the ocean should be putting out as much heat as is being put in. Measurements of the heat coming out of the south pole don’t account for all of the heat input, but Howett and her team found the north pole is about 7°C warmer than we previously thought. Combined with the heat radiating from the south pole, that matches the total almost exactly – the ice shell is thicker around the equator, so heat only escapes in significant amounts at the poles.

This means the ocean should be stable over long periods of time. “It’s really hard to put a number on it, but we don’t think it’s going to freeze out anytime soon, or that it’s been frozen out anytime recently,” says Howett. “We know life needs time to evolve, and now we can say that it does have that stability.” Actually finding that life, if it is there, is another story entirely. But both NASA and ESA have missions in the works o look for it over the coming decades.

But life needs a Creator.  Life cannot just spring from nothing.

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Leah Crane 2025 Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised | New Scientist 7 November 

Kristallnacht

 

Kristallnacht was the start of the Holocaust, which 6 millions Jews were killed. But in 2023 Hamas made also Holocaust. 

A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web

 

Image courtesy of Illustris Collaboration/ESO

Can a cosmic web strangle a galaxy? This seems to be the case with a distant galaxy.

The cosmic web is killing a galaxy. Galaxies can only continue to form stars when they are full of gas, and one dwarf galaxy nearly 100 million light years away is being stripped of its stellar fuel by the enormous web of matter that stretches throughout the universe.

One side of this galaxy, called AGC 727130, looks completely normal. On the other side, though, the gas is stretched well beyond the galaxy’s edge, pulled away by some unseen force. Nicholas Luber at Columbia University in New York and his colleagues spotted this disintegrating galaxy using the Very Large Array, a radio observatory in New Mexico.

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Leah Crane 2025 A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web | New Scientist 7 November

Toxic algae blighting South Australia could pose a global threat

 

Image courtesy of Australian Associated Press/Alamy

Joel Kontinen

Algae bloom poses a great problem in Australia. It is killing fish.

Over the past eight months, a vast and deadly algal bloom in South Australia has ravaged over 20,000 square kilometres of the marine environment, killed an estimated 1 million animals from more than great 550 species and had widespread impacts on human health.

Now, researchers have finally identified the species behind the ecological disaster, and they warn that it represents an “emerging international threat with unknown consequences”.

The culprit is an algal species named Karenia cristata, which has only previously been reported in two locations near South Africa, where it caused fish die-offs in 1989 and again the mid-1990s, as well as off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

 Source:

James Woodford 2025 Toxic algae blighting South Australia could pose a global threat | New Scientist 5 November 

 

Evolutionary scientists may have found a surprisingly nearby cluster of primordial stars

 

Evolutionists think that the very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but astronomers may have found some for the very first time. Image courtesy of NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani

Joel Kontinen

We may have finally seen the first generation of stars. Astronomers have been looking for these primordial behemoths, called Population III stars, for decades. Now they have found what may be the most promising candidate yet.

Population III stars are expected to be very different from modern, or Population I, stars, says the evolutionists. They would have formed from pristine hydrogen and helium gas, before heavier elements were distributed throughout the universe by supernovae and powerful stellar winds. They are also expected to be bigger and hotter than modern stars.

That is exactly what Eli Visbal at the University of Toledo in Ohio and his colleagues found when they did a detailed analysis of previous James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations of a distant galaxy called LAP1-B. It is at a redshift – a number that astronomers use to measure distance – of 6.6, which means we see LAP1-B as it was just about 800 million years after the big bang. That is so far away the only reason we could spot it at all is because its light was magnified by a nearer galaxy cluster in a process called gravitational lensing.

“There should be tons and tons of these all over the observable universe, but we can only look sort of under the lamppost of this cluster that’s magnifying the light,” says Visbal. When he and his team calculated how many Population III star clusters we should find at this redshift, they found that it should be about one – which is what they saw..

Another point in LAP1-B’s favour is it only seems to have enough stars to make up a few thousand times the mass of the sun. Other candidates for Population III galaxies tend to have much higher stellar masses, inconsistent with simulations of how clusters of Population III stars form. “This is the best candidate we have so far,” says Visbal.

Most Population III stars are expected to have lived and died between about 100 and 400 million years after the big bang, after which there would have been enough heavy elements in the cosmos to form stars that are more similar to the ones we see today. “This object ticks many of the boxes, but I am a bit sceptical because it’s late in the game for these stars to be around, and there may be alternatives that might do the job as well,” says Ralf Klessen at Heidelberg University in Germany. “It would be super interesting to see a Population III star cluster, but statistically this would certainly be an outlier.”

 “[For these to be Population III stars], it must be an extremely lucky combination of different factors, each of them extremely rare on its own, and much more rare when they have to happen together.” It will take deeper observations and more detailed simulations to find out for sure if LAP1-B marks the first time we have seen these strange stars.

This is important because understanding Population III stars is crucial to figuring out how and when the first heavy elements formed. “They can tell us how the chemistry of the universe evolved from just hydrogen and helium to all the cool chemistry and life and everything that we have in the universe today,” says Visbal. Population III stars were the first building blocks of the complexity that surrounds us now.

Source:

Leah Crane 2025 We may have found a surprisingly nearby cluster of primordial stars | New Scientist 3 November 

 

Rhinos in Canada

 

Image courtesy of Julius Csotonyi

Joel Kontinen

Ancient 'frosty' rhino from Canada's High Arctic rewrites what scientists thought they knew about the North Atlantic Land Bridge

Rhinos were not supposed to life so far from the equator.  The evolutionists have a reason for this – they claim that the land bridge had brought the continents together, no mention of a global flood which is the more plausible examination as fossils from the flood could have brought to Canada.

Darwinists think that it took millions of years for these animals to reach Canada.

Scientists have called the animal Epiatheracerium itjilik, with the species name meaning "frost" or "frosty" in Inuktitut. These creatures were similar in size to modern Indian rhinos (Rhinoceros unicornis), according to a statement from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN). The newly identified fossils are the only specimen found to date and show that the animal died of unknown causes as a young adult.

"What's remarkable about the Arctic rhino is that the fossil bones are in excellent condition," Marisa Gilbert, a CMN paleobiologist and co-author of a new analysis of the remains, said in the statement. "They are three-dimensionally preserved and have only been partially replaced by minerals. About 75% of the skeleton was discovered, which is incredibly complete for a fossil."

The bones were preserved inside the 14-mile-wide (23 kilometers) impact crater thanks to it rapidly filling with water. The crater formed from an asteroid or comet around the same time that the Arctic rhino lived, which suggests the rhino died inside the crater before it became a lake.

The climate in this region was far warmer then than it is today, and plant remains show that the Canadian High Arctic — specifically, Devon Island in Nunavut, where the crater is located — hosted a temperate forest, according to the statement.

As the Miocene epoch (23 million to 5.3 million years ago) transitioned into the Pliocene epoch (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago) and finally gave way to the last ice age, the fossils were broken up by freeze and thaw cycles and gradually pushed to the surface of the crater. Researchers then found the fossils in 1986.

 Source:

Sarah Kuta - Daily Correspondent 2025 Scientists Discover 'Frosty' Polar Rhino That Roamed the Canadian Arctic 23 Million Years Ago 29 October

 

 

 

 

Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans

 

Illustration of a teenage girl who is the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father. Image courtesy of John Bavaro Fine Art/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

For only the second time, researchers have obtained the full genome of a Denisovan, a group of ancient humans who lived in Asia. The DNA was extracted from a single 200,000-year-old tooth found in a Siberian cave.

Denisovans were the first ancient humans to be described using just DNA. A sliver of finger bone from Denisova cave in Siberia held DNA unlike that of either modern humans or the Neanderthals from western Eurasia. The genome revealed that Denisovans interbred with modern humans: people in South-East Asia, including the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, carry Denisovan DNA.

Based on the number of mutations in the genome and comparisons to other ancient humans, the team estimated that the individual lived about 205,000 years ago. In line with this, the sediments in which the tooth was found were dated to 170,000-200,000 years ago. In contrast, the other high-quality genome is from a Denisovan who lived 55,000-75,000 years ago, meaning that the new genome reveals a much earlier stage of Denisovan history.

Based on comparisons with other remains from Denisova cave, the team says there seem to have been at least three discrete Denisovan populations. The oldest group included the male whose tooth was analysed. A second group replaced this older population at Denisova cave, thousands of years later.

The third group, not represented at the cave, interbred with modern humans, based on DNA testing. In other words, all the Denisovan DNA in modern humans comes from a population of Denisovans that we know little or nothing about.

The new genome reveals that Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals, who sometimes lived in or near Denisova cave.

The Denisovans also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of humans. They might also  have interbred with Homo erectus.

According to Genesis, we all are members of the human  race,  the  descendants of Adam  and Eve.

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Michael Marshall 2025 Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans | New Scientist 31 October

Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderthals created art

 

Reconstruction of a Neanderthal girl. Christopher P.E. Zollikofer. Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich Image from Wikipedia.

Joel Kontinen

Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used pigments in symbolic ways.

A remarkable yellow crayon unearthed in Crimea, still sharp after more than 40,000 years, indicates that painting lines on objects was part of Neanderthal culture. This discovery is the firmest evidence yet that some Neanderthal groups used coloured pigments in symbolic ways.

According to evolution, the use of ochre – an iron-rich mineral with red, yellow or orange hues – has ancient roots, dating back at least 400,000 years in Europe and Africa. Bits of ochre are found at many Neanderthal sites, where they seem to have been used for practical purposes such as tanning clothing and as fire accelerants, as well as sometimes smeared on shell beads.

Neanderthals may have also used ochre to decorate their bodies, clothing and other surfaces, but such traces have long since disappeared. To investigate further, Francesco d’Errico at the University of Bordeaux, France, and his colleagues carried . out a detailed analysis of ochre pieces found at Neanderthal sites in Crimea, Ukraine. By studying how ochre pieces were modified by Neanderthals, as well as performing a microscopic analysis of how they became worn down, the researchers could build a picture of how the objects were used.

“It was a tool that had been curated and reshaped several times, which makes it very special,” says d’Errico. “It’s not just a crayon by shape. It’s a crayon because it was used as a crayon. It’s something that may have been used on skin or  rock to make a line – the reflection, perhaps, of an artistic activity.”

The research team also identified another more ancient broken crayon, perhaps 70,000 years old, made from red ochre.

“It tells us so much just from those small bits of ochre,” says Pomeroy. “It’s that little bit of humanity that we can relate to. It really brings those individuals into touching distance.”

The Crimean crayon discoveries add to the small but growing body of evidence indicating the artistic talents of Neanderthals, such as 57,000-year-old finger carvings on a cave wall in France and mysterious circles crafted from stalagmites 175,000 years ago in another French cave.

They also lend weight to the idea that symbolic behaviour has very deep roots in our evolutionary past, rather than being a capacity that developed relatively recently only in Homo sapiens. 

Some evolutionists think that ability for symbolic behaviour is undoubtedly shared by the last common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Denisovans and Neanderthals more than 700,000 years ago.

On the other hand, creationists think that the date of 700,000 years is from evolution, they are not supported by facts.

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Alison George 2025 Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderthals created art | New Scientist 29 October

See a spectacular shot of a once-in-a-millennium comet

 

Image courtesy of Josh Dury/SWNS

Joel Kontinen

Would you like to see a comet that will not return for a thousand years?

Captured here over Somerset, England, Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) made its closest approach to Earth on 21 October and won't be seen again for another thousand years.

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New Scientist 2025 See a spectacular shot of a once-in-a-millennium comet | New Scientist 22 October

 

We may finally know why birds sing at dawn

 

Zebra finches are commonly studied in captivity by biologists. Image courtesy of Alamy

Joel Kontinen

Why do birds sing in the morning?  Perhaps they like to sing at that time of day.  God has given us much pleasure in nature.  

Birds all over the world break into a dawn chorus every morning – now experiments in zebra finches suggest both a mechanistic and a functional explanation for this phenomenon.

The dawn chorus of birdsong has inspired poets and nature lovers for thousands of years, but the reason why birds all over the world start the day this way is an enduring mystery.

Now, a series of experiments in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) suggests that while darkness inhibits singing, birds build up a stronger motivation to sing in the night that causes them to burst into song when the dawn breaks. The study also hints that a morning workout for the vocal muscles helps birds finesse their songs.

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James Woodford 2025 We may finally know why birds sing at dawn | New Scientist 24 October

Giant star Betelgeuse has a 'Betelbuddy' — and it's very little indeed

 

This image of Betelgeuse is a color composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2). (Image courtesy of ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.)

Joel Kontinen

The star Betelgeuse has a smaller star that’s named Betelbuddy. Betelgeuse is about 700 times the size of our sun and thousands of times brighter.

"It turns out that there had never been a good observation where Betelbuddy wasn't behind Betelgeuse," Anna O’Grady, a postdoctoral fellow at CMU,"said in a statement. "This represents the deepest X-ray observations of Betelgeuse to date.”

Impressively, capturing an image of Betelbuddy was only the start of the discoveries. The researchers had anticipated the companion to be a white dwarf or a neutron star, but they saw no signs of accretion, a distinct signature of both types of objects. Instead, they suspect it might be a young stellar object about the size of our sun.

And herein lies the next major discovery. The size ratio between Betelgeuse and Betelbuddy challenges what we currently know about binary stars. Typically, binary stars have similar masses. But Betelgeuse is about 16 to 17 times the mass of our sun, whereas Betelbuddy has about the same mass as our sun.

"This opens up a new regime of extreme mass ratio binaries,” O’Grady said. "It's an area that hasn’t been explored much because it's so difficult to find them or to even identify them like we were able to do with Betelgeuse."

Stars come in all sized but there is only one planet, that harbors life.

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Stefanie Waldek 2025  Giant star Betelgeuse has a 'Betelbuddy' — and it's very little indeed | Space 22 October

Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatcht

 

Reconstruction of a Neanderthal girl. Christopher P.E. Zollikofer. Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich Image from Wikipedia.

Joel Kontinen

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in women who we re hybrids, and this might have played a part in Neanderthals’ demise.

According to evolutionists, the Neandertals and Homo sapiens lived side by side for about 50,000 to 45, 000 years ago.   That is a lie, because all people are the descendants of  Adam and Eve.

Darwinist say that modern humans may indeed have wiped out Neanderthals – but not through war or morder alone. A new study suggests that when the two species interbred, a slow-acting genetic incompatibility increased the risk of pregnancy failure in hybrid mothers. A similar mismatch between n mothers and fetuses may also help explain a subset of pregnancies that fail today.

Darwinist know from genetic studies that there was sustained interbreeding between Homo esapiens and Neanderthals between approximately 50,000 and 45,000 years ago. The Neanderthals went extinct around 41,000 years ago, but some of their DNA has persisted in modern humans with non-African ancestry, making up around 1 to 2 per cent of the genome.

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 James Woodford 2025 Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch | New Scientist 20 October

 

See the adorable baby numbats offering hope to an endangered species

Image courtesy of Julie Kern/Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Joel Kontinen

What is a numbat? It is one of the world’s rarest marsupials. It is an endangered species that is probably making a comeback.

These adorable baby numbats are among a group of seven that have been recently spotted across two different wildlife sanctuaries in New South Wales, Australia. Conservationists are working to reintroduce the species, which has been extinct in the wild in New South Wales for more than 100 years. These sightings raise hopes that one of the world’s rarest marsupials might be making a comeback.

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New Scientist 2025 See the adorable baby numbats offering hope to an endangered species | New Scientist 15 October