It will be Purim in Israel in a few days. In 400 BC during the event, the proud Haman tried to kill all Jews but Mordecai and Esther attempted to kill the Jews, and Haman and his sons were killed on the gallows he had designed for Mordecai.
Now, with
the death of Khamenei on Purim has been reached its goal. The suppressor of the Jews is no more.
Reconstruction of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis. Image courtesy of Gabriel Díaz Yantén, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro.
Joel Kontinen
Not all dinosaurs were big, some were relatively small. They
weighed less than a small chicken.
The 95-million-year-old fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis was
found at the La Buitrera site in northern Patagonia, Argentina, in 2014.
The first specimen of Alnashetri, found in 2012, was a
set of incomplete hindlimb bones, says Peter Makovicky at the
University of Minnesota, who was part of the study on the new fossil. With only
fragmentary remains, it was impossible to say more than that it was probably an Alvarezsaur. “We were not even sure if it was a juvenile or fully grown,” he
says.
“With a whole skeleton, we suddenly had all the information
to understand how Alnashetri was similar or differed from other
species, and a key to understanding how the unusual anatomy of Alvarezsaurs
evolved,” says Makovicky.
The new fossil has very long, slender hind limbs and
surprisingly long forelimbs that retain three well-developed fingers. Detailed
analysis of the fossil bones revealed the dinosaur was an adult and at least 4
years old.
Alvarezsaurs were once thought to be early ancestors of
birds. However, it is now clear that, while Alnashetri might have had
some superficial resemblance to a bird, it and all the Alvarezsaurs were, in
fact, non-avian theropods. “The new discovery certainly underscores this,” says
Mackovicky.
Some evolutionists think that dinosaurs have been descended from
birds.
Previously, it was thought that all the tiny alvarezsaurs
had very short, stout forelimbs with a large thumb but shrunken side digits,
and tiny teeth. Palaeontologists thought these anatomical features evolved
alongside their shrinking body size because they only ate ants and
termites, says Makovicky. “But Alnashetri does not fit that
mould – it is among the smaller Alvarezsaurs, but neither its teeth nor its
forelimbs are reduced, because it represents a much earlier branch on the Alvarezsaur evolutionary tree.”
In fact, its forearms are more typical of other Theropods
rather than a specialist ant-eater, he says. “Alnashetri is tiny but is
otherwise built like a more typical Theropod – given its small size, it
probably ate its fair share of invertebrates, but probably had a wider range of
prey.”
That means palaeontologists still don’t fully understand why
these dinosaurs became so small. “We’re left with only a vaguer sense that Alvarezsaurs were successful at occupying the niches of very small predators,”
says Mackovicky.
Source:
James
Woodford 2026
The Adorant figurine, approximately 38,000 years old, consists of a small, ivory plate bearing an anthropomorphic figure and multiple sequences of notches and dots. Image courtesy of Landesmuseum Württemberg / Hendrik Zwietasch, CC BY 4.0.
Joel Kontinen
Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of
writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first
writing system, cuneiform,
according to a study of mysterious signs engraved on figurines and other
artefacts found in Germany. If confirmed, this pushes back the emergence of a
proto-writing system by more than 30,000 years.
Ancient humans have long made deliberate marks on objects,
but some of the earliest groups of Homo sapiens to arrive in Europe
around 45,000 years ago took this to a new level. Many of the artefacts they
made, such as pendants, tools and figurines, were engraved with sequences of
graphic symbols such as lines, crosses and dots. These groups also painted
symbols on cave walls alongside depictions of animals, and the meaning
of these symbols has been contentious.
But if we think what actually happened so long ago, People have always been people,
According to Genesis, people
would try to write at the very beginning
of society.
Source:
Alison George 2026
Image courtesy of EHT Collaboration.
Joel Kontinen
Does dark matter exist? Some researchers think that it will not but some are adamant that it will in the central black hole that defines our galaxy.
At the centre of our galaxy lies a supermassive black hole
called Sagittarius A* – but one group of researchers is suggesting it may not
be a black hole at all. The team says that it, and other black holes around its
size, may actually be clumps of dark matter.
Dark
matter, so named because it doesn’t seem to interact with light or regular
matter in any way except gravitationally, makes up about 85 per cent of the
total matter in the universe, but we know very little about it. What we do
know, because of the way galaxies rotate, is that most galaxies are embedded in
a halo of the stuff. “We know it has to be at the outskirts of galaxies, but we
don’t know what happens at the very centre,” says Valentina
Crespi at the National University of La Plata (UNLP) in Argentina.
Source:
Leah
Crane 2026
Heat normally flows from hot to cold. Image courtesy of klyaksun/Shutterstock
Joel Kontinen
A forgotten cup of coffee will gradually cool down as its
heat flows into the cooler surrounding air, but in the quantum realm, it
appears this experience can be turned on its head. As a result, we may need to
update the second law of thermodynamics, a fundamental principle of physics
that states heat energy always flows from hot to cold.
But in the computer world, this could be the contrary.
Dawei Lu at
the Southern University of Science and Technology in China and his colleagues
have seemingly broken this law with a molecule of crotonic acid, which contains
atoms of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The researchers used the nuclei of four
of its carbon atoms as qubits, which are the basic building blocks of quantum
computers and can store quantum information. When used in computation,
researchers normally control the quantum states of the qubits with.
Source:
Karmela
Padavic-Callaghan 2026
The skull of a 3-year-old female Australopithecus afarensis, dated to 3.3 million years ago, discovered at the site of Dikika in Ethiopia. Image courtesy of Zeresenay Alemseged
Joel Kontinen
Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't
our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.
For a half century, the iconic "Lucy" fossil
species, Australopithecus afarensis, has held the title of being the
most likely direct ancestor of all humans.
Now, a key paper published last month in the journal Nature could overturn that theory entirely, some scientists say. They argue that, given the new evidence, an older species, Australopithecus anamensis, was our direct ancestor, not Lucy.
The proposal has revealed intense disagreements in the
field. Some say A. anamensis is our direct ancestor, others argue
that we don't know which Australopithecus species we descended from,
and still others say the new analysis doesn't shake up the family tree at all.
The new discovery is "not altering our picture of human
evolution in any way, in my opinion," Zeray Alemseged, a paleoanthropologist and professor of
organismal biology University of Chicago who was not involved in the new study
said.
The roots of the debate requires going back a century. In
1925, Raymond Dart announced the discovery of the first known Australopithecus — a
skull dubbed the Taung
Child unearthed in what is now South Africa that dates to around 2.6
million years ago. For the next 50 years, researchers thought that humans
descended directly from the Taung Child's species, Australopithecus
africanus.
But Lucy's discovery in
1974 at the Hadar site in Ethiopia rewrote that picture. The 3.2
million-year-old fossil became the oldest known australopithecine specimen at
the time.
And Darwinian researchers found her species, A.
afarensis, walked
upright on two legs similarly to how humans do today, yet it had a
smaller brain — about the size of a modern-day chimp's. This suggested Lucy's
kind could represent a "halfway"
point in human evolution between the last
common ancestor with chimps and us, making her species a good candidate for
our direct ancestor among the many known hominins, the lineage that encompasses
humans and our closest relatives.
According to evolution, Darwinian evolution, with its millions of years, is the only reason for how we evolved, However,
according to intelligent design, we were not produced that way,
Source:
Sophie Berdugo 2025 Scientists claim 'Lucy' may not be our direct ancestor after all, stoking fierce debate | Live Science December 22
Joel Kontinen
Christine Webb's provocative and moving book The Arrogant
Ape explores our unjustifiable sense of superiority in the living world, laying
out the evidence against it, says Elle Hunt.
Tests of chimps’ intelligence often take place in labs, not
in the wild or in sanctuaries like this one.
In the beginning, God made man in his image, granting him
dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
According to evolution, most people don’t look to the Bible
to understand the world and our place in it, yet this view of humans as
superior to nature and non-human life is sneakily persistent.
The characteristics
said tao distinguish humans and justify our dominance – including
the ability to reason, use tools, feel pain, act morally – aren’t exclusively
human, it seems. Chimps, crows and others show nuanced intelligence, have
complex social bonds and use tools; fish and crustaceans feel pain; bees are cultural beings;
even plants may have senses akin to ours.
But it seems that animals have their traits, which does not
make them humans. They create things that look like they tools for making you
well.
Apes are not the only animals that can make human like tools. For
instance, crows do the same.
Elle Hunt 2025
Comet C/2024 E1 has been photographed as it nears Earth - but even at its closest, it will still be 150 million kilometres away. Image courtesy of Ian Griffin
Joel Kontinen
This beautiful streak of light is comet C/2024 E1 hurtling
through the southern constellation Grus. It was first spotted in 2024 and is
thought to have originated from the Oort cloud, a region of icy rocks at the
edge of the solar system, far beyond Pluto. The comet will make its closest
approach to Earth on 17 February – when it will still be almost 150 million
kilometres away
The Oord cloud is a system that scientist haven’t recognised,
it is thought to hold millions of comets.
Source:
New Scientist 2026
Joel Kontinen
Bonobos are our closed relatives and that they share the same
traits that we do.
Kanzi, a bonobo with exceptional language skills, took part in a make-believe tea party that demonstrated cognitive abilities never seen before in non-human primates. A bonobo that took part in a pretend tea party like those acted out by young children has shown that our closest primate relatives have the capacity for make believe.
Kanzi the bonobo (Pan paniscus) was born in the US in 1980
and died at age
44 in March last year. He spent most of his life at the Ape Initiative
in Des Moines, Iowa, where he was renowned for being able to communicate by
pointing at symbols on a board.
In the year before he died, Amalia
Bastos at the University of St Andrews, UK, and her colleagues ran a
series of experiments aiming to understand whether, along with his superior
language skills, Kanzi was also able to engage in what researchers describe as
“secondary representations”. This is the ability to imagine an alternative
reality and, in some situations, share that pretense with another individual –
a skill that humans develop at an early age.
At 2 to 3 years old, children can follow the movement of
imaginary liquid between containers and keep track of where the “tea” is or
isn’t, says Bastos. “That’s exactly the sort of context we presented to Kanzi
to test this ability in a non-human animal.”
In the first stage of the experiment, researchers pretended
to pour non-existent juice into two empty cups before pretending to empty one
of the cups and then asking Kanzi which one he wanted. More than two thirds of
the time, Kanzi chose the cup that hadn’t been emptied and still contained the
pretend juice.
“If Kanzi hadn’t conceived of ‘imaginary juice’ in the cups
throughout the study, he should have picked between the two cups at chance –
after all, they were both empty,” says Bastos.
Then the researchers placed an empty cup and
one containing juice on a table in front of Kanzi. He chose the cup
containing juice more than three quarters of the time. This test was to ensure
the bonobo could differentiate between real and fake juice.
For the third test, the team started by placing a real grape
into one of two cups; Kanzi selected the real grape every time. Then a pretend
grape was placed in each of two cups before one was emptied. Again, in over
two-thirds of attempts, Kanzi correctly chose the cup that still contained a
pretend grape.
Bastos says all of the team’s studies with great apes
are fully voluntary. “The fact that Kanzi stuck around and continued to engage
even in trials where he knew there would be no reinforcement says to me that he
must have at least enjoyed it a little bit.”
Source:
James Woodford 2026 Bonobo's pretend tea party shows capacity for imagination | New Scientist 5 February
Image courtesy of Christian Jegou/Science Photo Library
Joel Kontinen
Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably
interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia.
We have long known that early
humans (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) interbred,
which is why most non-African people today have some Neanderthal DNA,
typically about
2 per cent of their genome. The interbreeding also saw the
Neanderthal Y
chromosome lineages replaced by lineages from H. sapiens.
But where this interbreeding happened and on what kind of
scale has long been a mystery, even if we are now starting to get a handle on
when it occurred. The ancestors of Neanderthals left Africa about 600,000 years
ago, hea offding into Europe and western Asia.
Neanderthals left Africa about 600,000 years ago, heading
into Europe and western Asia. And the earliest evidence of H. sapiens migrating
out of Africa is skeletal remains from sites in modern day Israel and Greece,
dating back around 200,000 year Asia.
The dating for this study is off by many thousands of years. The Neanderthals
were the descendants of Adam and Eve, so their "interbreeding" is not unexpected.
Chris Simms 2026 Neanderthals and early humans may have interbred over a vast area | New Scientist 2 February
Image
courtesy of Alemseged Research Group
Joel Kontinen
According
to evolution fragments of a "2.6
million-year-old" fossil jaw discovered in northeastern Ethiopia are
transforming the picture of early human evolution in Africa. The jaw, from a
bipedal hominin — an extinct relative of humans.
"Until
now, not a single fossil of Paranthropus had been identified" in
the Afar region of Ethiopia, researchers wrote in a study published Wednesday
(Jan. 21) in the journal Nature. "Hundreds of fossils
representing over a dozen species" of hominins had been found in the Afar,
study lead author Zeresenay
Alemseged, a
paleoanthropologist at the University of Chicago, said in a statement, "so the apparent absence
of Paranthropus was conspicuous and puzzling to paleoanthropologists,
many of whom had concluded the genus simply never ventured that far
north."
The
genus Paranthropus contains three species
distantly related to humans: P. robustus, P. boisei and P.
aethiopicus, collectively known as the "robusts." These species
walked upright beginning around 2.7 million years ago, but they are unique in
having massive teeth and jaws, which earned one fossil skull the nickname
"Nutcracker Man." Paranthropus fossils
were previously found in locations from southern Ethiopia to southern Africa
and have been dated to between 2.8 million and 1.4 million years ago.
In January
2019, paleoanthropologists discovered a partial lower jaw, designated MLP-3000,
at the site of Mille-Logya in the Afar region of
northeast Ethiopia. Dated to about 2.6 million years ago, the jaw came from an
older individual whose teeth and bone structure resembled those of members of
the Paranthropus genus. While one species — P. aethiopicus —
has been found in southern Ethiopia, the new MLP-3000 jaw was discovered much
farther north than any previous fossil from this genus.
"The
discovery of Paranthropus in the Afar provides critical new
information," the researchers wrote, suggesting that "the genus could
exploit diverse habitats and regions from north Ethiopia to South Africa
as Australopithecus and Homo did." This means
that Paranthropus likely had a much more flexible diet than the
"Nutcracker Man" moniker suggests, enabling these hominins to
disperse and adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions.
The
newfound Paranthropus fossil at Mille-Logya adds a third genus to
the variety of hominins present in the Afar region
between 2.8 million and 2.5 million years ago, including Australopithecus and early Homo. It is not yet clear, though, whether the
species would have encountered one another directly.
"Discoveries
like this really trigger interesting questions in terms of reviewing, revising,
and then coming up with new hypotheses as to what the key differences were
between the main hominin groups," Alemseged said.
Carol Ward, a biological anthropologist at the
of University of Missouri who was not
involved in the study, wrote in an accompanying perspective that, given the diversity of
hominin species present, "the revelation
that Paranthropus inhabited the Afar between 3 million and 2.4
million years ago is particularly exciting."
According
to evolution, although all humans on the planet today are one species, hominin
diversity lasted millions of years, until our extinct cousins the Neanderthals and Denisovans disappeared more than 30,000
years ago, Ward noted.
Nutcracker
man is not related to humans. The dating of the fossil is off by hundreds of millions
of years.
Source:
Kristina Killgrove 2026
Artist’s reconstruction of a Palaeolithic woman making a digging stick from an alder tree trunk. Image courtesy of G. Prieto; K. Harvati
Joel Kontinen
The oldest
known wooden tools have been found in an opencast mine in Greece. They are
430,000 years old and were made by an unidentified species of ancient human –
perhaps the ancestors of Neanderthals.
But the Neanderthals
were the descendants of Adam and Eve, there is something wrong about the date
of 430 000 years.
Prehistoric
wooden artefacts are “very scarce”, says archaeologist Dirk Leder at the Lower Saxony State Office for
Cultural Heritage in Hannover, Germany, who wasn’t involved in the study.
“Every single find is welcome.”
Source:
Michael Marshall 2026 Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known wooden tool | New Scientist 26 January
The Kurdis defeated the ISIS will help the of the United States. But now they are persecuted by Syrians president.
Why is Khamenei hiding in a bunker? The Americans have sent a flotilla of warships to deal with the Iranian issue. Why are the Europeans silent about the conflict in Iran?
Illustration of Paranthropus hominins, which lived between 2.7 and 1.4 million years ago. Image courtesy of John Bavaro Fine Art/Science Photo Library
Joel Kontinen
A fossil
discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus
of strong-jawed hominins that lived around 2 million years ago, and suggests
they lived in a range of habitats.
For the first time, the remains of ancient hominins called Paranthropus have been found in the remote Afar region of Ethiopia. The discovery dramatically expands the area over which Paranthropus roamed, and suggests they lived in a wide range of ecosystems.
Paranthropus remains
are known from eastern and southern Africa, between 2.7 and 1.4 million years
ago. They are thought to be closely related to Homo, the group that
includes modern humans and Neanderthals. They may have evolved from
earlier hominins called Australopithecus.
That is the
evolutionary tale
of the fossil. We believe that it was crated that way. And the tale of
millions of years is also fictional.
Michael Marshall 2026 Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought | New Scientist 21 January
Illustration of Haikouichthys, a fish from the Cambrian period, with a second pair of eyes suggested by fossil evidence. Image courtesy of Xiangtong Lei, Sihang Zhang
Joel Kontinen
Extraordinary fossils of 518-million-year-old jawless fish, among the earliest known vertebrates, appear to show that these animals had two pairs of eyes
Over half a
billion years ago, the world’s oldest known vertebrates seem to have sported an
extra set of eyes – and humans may still carry a remnant of this ancient
evolutionary innovation.
But this isn’t a story of evolutionary innovation. It is a
story of Darwinian speculation. And fossils tell the story that evolutionists tend
to like.
Extraordinary
fossils of two species of jawless fish called myllokunmingids were found
by Peiyun Cong at Yunnan University in China,
and his colleagues between
2019 and 2024, on the banks of Dianchi Lake in south-west China.
Source:
James Woodford 2026
Why does Saudi Arabia fears a democratic Iran? It might have to do with the India to Europe connection, that the American president Trump has spoken for.
Joel Kontinen
It seems that Darwinian evolution and climate change are the top priority for today.
Cutting
down swathes of boreal forest and sinking the trees into the
depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes of carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere each year. Coniferous trees prone to wildfires could be felled and carried to
the ocean by six major Arctic rivers including the Yukon and Mackenzie, where
they would sink in about a year, according to a team of researchers.
“There is
now a forest that is sequestering lots of carbon, but now the next thing is how
to store it in a way that won’t get burned,” says Ulf Büntgen at the University of Cambridge.
Source:
Alec Luhn 2026 Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2 | New Scientist 9 January
Why do "Free Palestinian" protesters ignore Iran? For instance, Greta Thunberg has remained silence about Iran even though a massacre is happening in Iran.
What is happening in Syria? The western powers that divided the Ottoman empire use their pencils to divided the land. For example the Kurds did not received their own country.
An image captured by a telescope at the Grasslands Observatory in Arizona. The “x” is where E. E. Barnard saw his mystery star. Image courtesy of Tim Hunter et al. (2025)
Joel Kontinen
A star that
was spotted in 1892 by one of the most gifted astronomical observers of all
time but then apparently vanished has been found again – right where he lost
it.
Edward
Emerson Barnard was an accomplished astronomer, famous for his discovery in
1892 of a fifth moon of Jupiter, Amalthea, almost three centuries after Galileo Galilei saw the first four. But a few weeks
earlier, he had made an enigmatic observation that kept bothering him. A short
article he published about it in a journal in 1906 was headlined “An unexplained observation“.
Yes, a star was found and then lost. And now it has registered
once again.
By Bas den Hond 2025
Benyamin Netanyahu, who is the prime minister on Israel, says that Jews will defeat their enemies. From the Holocaust they have became victorious.
The MMX probe will visit Mars’s moons. Image courtesy of JAXA
Joel Kontinen
The mystery
of how Mars acquired its moons, Phobos and Deimos, may start to be unravelled
in 2026 with the launch of a spacecraft that will eventually bring a chunk of
Phobos back to Earth.
“We are sure about the origin of the Earth’s moon, but we
don’t know how Phobos an Deimos got there,” says Emelia
Branagan-Harris at the Natural History Museum in London.
“Understanding the origins of Phobos and Deimos, and how they came to be
orbiting Mars, can hopefully tell us a bit about the evolution of Mars in general and its history.”
But only evolutionists know how the moon got its present
shape, in the book of Genesis, God had
made the lesser light or the moon so that
Adam could look at it.
Evoltionists think that the origins of Phopos and Deimos took
place somewhere we do not know.
Source:
Alex Wilkins 2025
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