Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

 

Image courtesy of Zeresenay Alemseged

Joel Kontinen

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in health, diet and environment.

In the past 100 years, the heads of Japanese people have got rounder, with narrower cheekbones, wider upper jaws and slimmer, more prominent noses.

While changes outside Japan may vary, the overall trend is probably common across the globe, says Shiori Usui at the National Research Institute of Police Science in Chiba, Japan.

Humans are the only primate that has a chin. This is not according to Darwinian evolution but according to creation.  

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Christa Lesté-Lasserre 2026 Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years | New Scientist 30 April 

 

100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned

 

Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, IPAC/Caltech, STScI, Arizona State University.

Joel Kontinen

Some scientists may be in for a surprise.   A recent survey has said that the universe in surprising lumpy.  

Assumptions that physicists have made about the universe for over a century may be about to be overturned. Evidence is emerging that it is far lumpier than we had thought – a finding that could solve some of today’s most puzzling cosmological mysteries.

When modelling the universe, cosmologists can’t describe every single galaxy, so they make simplifications. Typically, they assume that the universe on the largest scales is homogeneous and isotropic, meaning that it is roughly the same no matter where you look.

Our universe may look surprising lumpy, but that is the way God made it,   For example, our solar system is very different from other solar systems.

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Matt von Hippel 2026 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned | New Scientist 27 April 

 

Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals

 

Image courtesy of Erwin Niemand/Shutterstock

Joel Kontinen

Some animals use metals to strengthen their body parts- just like the teeth in Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis), for instance, and the scorpions also use metals such as iron, zinc and manganese, and also copper, nickel, silicon, chlorine, titanium and bromine.

Sam Campbell at the University of Queensland, Australia, and his colleagues examined the claws and stingers of 18 species of scorpion from around the world to determine the extent and composition of their metal reinforcements.

The metals are largely found within the tips of the stingers and along the cutting edge of the claws, as well as in their mouth and teeth and in their tarsal claws, making their weapons “like a steel-toe-capped boot”, Campbell says. The rest of the animal’s exoskeleton is still hard, but much softer in comparison.

Scorpions all fluoresce light green or blue under ultraviolet light. But metal-enriched parts of the body don’t glow when exposed to UV, the team found.

It isn’t yet known how the scorpions obtain the metals that they incorporate into their exoskeletons, though their prey is the most likely source.

The team also found that different scorpion species had more metal in different parts of their bodies, and this is related to their behaviour. “What we identified was that when zinc was high in the claws, it would be low in the stinger, and vice versa,” says Campbell. “Because scorpions use their weapons so differently, it is possible that metal enrichment has adapted to provide beneficial biomechanical properties in the weapons where it is most needed by the scorpion.”

Metal enrichment in animal tissues appears to be more common than once thought, says Aaron LeBlanc at King’s College London. “A growing number of studies are pointing this out in vertebrate teeth as well,” he says. “The next logical step after discovering these features is to try to understand how they have evolved across major lineages, and this study is a pioneering one for that reason.”

Source:

 James Woodford 2026 Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals | New Scientist29 April 

10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data

 

An artist’s impression of a star with two planets transiting across it. Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI).

Joel Kontinen

How many planets are there? A recent survey says that there might be some 10, 000. This is according to a NASA research. But we do now know how many can harbour life, as only God can give  it.

Astronomers have identified more than 10,000 candidate planets in data from a NASA telescope, the most ever found in a single life.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched in 2018. It is tasked with looking at stars across the sky for planets in orbit, known as exoplanets. It identifies these exoplanets by looking for brief dips in the brightness of the light reaching Earth from each star – a sign that an exoplanet orbiting the star has passed in front of it.

Source:

 Jonathan O’Callaghan 2026 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data | New Scientist 27 April 

Strange mammal ancestor laid huge, leathery eggs — and it was key to surviving the world's worst mass extinction

 

Image courtesy of Professor Julien Benoit.

Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists think that mass extinctions killed most of the animals before the giant universal deluge that took place at the time of Noah.

Using synchrotron X-ray CT scans of a fossilized, intact embryo, researchers found evidence that the plant-eating mammal Lystrosaurus laid eggs, which answers a key question about mammalian evolution. Scientists have cracked a major mystery about mammal evolution after discovering a 250 million-year-old fossilized egg from before the time of the dinosaurs. Researchers say the specimen, which holds a curled-up embryo of the plant-eating animal Lystrosaurus, is the first known egg ever found from a mammal ancestor, proving that mammals' ancestors laid eggs.

The egg could help paleontologists better understand how these animals survived the Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, which occurred around 252 million years ago. During this event, Earth faced brutal heat, drought, volcanic eruptions and ocean acidification, and 90% of Earth's species died.

"It reveals how reproductive strategies can shape survival in extreme environments: by producing large, yolk-rich eggs and precocial young, Lystrosaurus was able to thrive in the harsh, unpredictable conditions following the end-Permian mass extinction," Julien Benoit, a paleontologist and associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa's Evolutionary Studies Institute, said in a statement.

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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry 2026 Strange mammal ancestor laid huge, leathery eggs —‬ and it was key to surviving the world's worst mass extinction | Live Science April 15

 

 

 

Archaeopteryx, one of the world's first proto birds, has a set of weird, never-before-seen features

 

Illustration by Ville Sinkkonen

Joel Kontinen

Some evolutionist think that Archaeopteryx is a a proto bird that is one the way to being a real bird. But that’s not the way these animals become birds. This is what told Live Science says  about this:

Iconic transition species between dinosaurs and birds may have had weird 'teeth' on roof of its mouth and a highly mobile tongue, study reveals searchers have uncovered an intriguing set of never-before-seen features in the skull of Archaeopteryx, an iconic dinosaur that is considered a key transitional fossil in the evolution of birds, a new study reports.

The features — which are absent in nonflying dinosaurs but are widespread in living birds — may have enabled Archaeopteryx to acquire, manipulate and process food more efficiently, the research team proposed in the study, which was published Feb. 2 in the journal The Innovation.

The newly discovered features include a tiny bone that indicates Archaeopteryx had a highly mobile tongue. The researchers also identified "weird" soft tissue traces interpret but this is qhat science daily ed as oral papillae — small, tooth-like projections on the roof of the mouth, Jingmai O'Connor, an associate curator of fossil reptiles at the Field Museum in Chicago and lead author of the study, in an email. Finally, the team found "unusual" openings near the tip of Archaeopteryx's jaw that suggest a nerve-rich structure and may represent an early analogue of what is known as a bill-tip organ in modern birds.

he identification of these features in Archaeopteryx marks their earliest known appearance in the fossil record, according to the study, suggesting these characteristics evolved during or close to the emergence of avian dinosaurs — known as birds — which is thought to have occurred during the Late Jurassic period (roughly 161.5 million to 143 million years ago). he identification of these features in Archaeopteryx marks their earliest known appearance in the fossil record, according to the study, suggesting these characteristics evolved during or close to the emergence of avian dinosaurs — known as birds — which is thought to have occurred during the Late Jurassic period (roughly 161.5 million to 143 million years ago).

Modern birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived the mass extinction event 66 million years ago. Archaeopteryx, which lived around 150 million years ago in what is now Germany, is among the oldest — if not the earliest — known dinosaur that can also be considered a bird under a broad definition, although it was probably not the first bird to evolve, O'Connor said.

Furthermore, Archaeopteryx is unlikely to have been a direct ancestor of modern birds, research suggests. According to O'Connor, Archaeopteryx represents the earliest known dinosaur with good evidence for active, feather-driven flight, although this was likely limited to brief, powered bursts

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 Aristos Georgiou 2026 Archaeopteryx, one of the world's first proto birds, has a set of weird, never-before-seen features, new study reveals | Live Science February 13

 

 

 

New study confirms lobsters feel pain, driving scientists to call for a ban on boiling them alive

 

Image courtesy of Peter Halasz., CC BY-SA 2.5.

Joel Kontinen

A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that lobsters feel pain, with the crustaceans seemingly responding to electrical shocks with emotional distress.

Some evolutionists say that lobsters feel no pain, but a recent study says that they cay can feel  pain.  They have forgotten that lob sears, liked other animals. can feel pain.

The fall of man described in Genesis also brought suffering and death to animals.

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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry  2026 New study confirms lobsters feel pain, driving scientists to call for a ban on boiling them alive | Live Science April 15

BBC Tries Pushing Deadly Accusation Against Israel, Then Gets EXPOSED!

 

The BBC lies about settler violence in Israel, but the truth is not trustworthy.

Where was humanity during the Holocaust?

 

It has been Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.  When asked,” The late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks asked, “Where was humanity during the Holocaust?”

Hidden fossils reveal secrets of oceans before major mass extinction

Image Courtesy of Jonathan Aitchisonaccr,

Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, one mass extinction took place many millions of years ago. The evidence for this was tiny fossils found in Australia.  However, the timing of the extinction was very wrong,

A tiny pellet of ancient rock, a mere half the size of a grain of rice, has yielded 20 microscopic fossils representing eight different species, including one that is entirely new to science. The discovery will enhance our understanding of the second-largest known mass extinction. It also shows how new analytical techniques are unlocking parts of the fossil record that according to evolution, have previously gone overlooked.

Jonathan Aitchison at the University of Queensland, Australia, and his colleagues extracted the pellet from a rock that was collected in late 2018 from the Sichuan basin in China, about 300 kilometres south of Xian. The rock is 445 million years old, which means it formed just before the Late Ordovician mass extinction – the second most severe to have occurred over the past 500 million years according to evolution.

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James Woodford 2026 Hidden fossils reveal secrets of oceans before major mass extinction | New Scientist 10 April 

Christianity is growing in Iran

 

Crown prince Reza Pahlavi says that Christianity is growing in Iran. Multiple ministry organizations tracking Iran report it has one of the fastest-growing Christian populations on earth, with millions of secret believers meeting in homes across the country. The regime knows it, and the arrests and executions of Iranian Christians have accelerated in recent years precisely because the authorities are terrified of what they cannot stop.

Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain's cleaning system

 

Image courtesy of Victor de Schwanberg/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

Amplifying the brain's waste disposal system seems to clear a substance that drives migraines, relieving some of the pain associated with the condition.

How does the brain deal with migraines. Now, it seems that an intelligent design ingredient can lessen them. It deals with the brains cleaning system.

Novel approaches are edging us closer to relieving the agonising pain of migraines for all affected

One-third of people with migraines don’t respond to current treatments, but harnessing the brain’s cleaning system could open up a new treatment option. A drug that ordinarily treats high blood pressure helped this system more effectively remove a chemical substance from the brains of mice that is a potent driver of migraines. As a result, the mice showed fewer signs of facial pain, which affects about 60 per cent of people with migraines during an episode.

Around 1 in 7 people worldwide have migraines. Pain, pressure or throbbing in the cheeks, jaw, forehead or behind the eyes are common symptoms, and can be exacerbated by even light touch. “Simply brushing their hair can be painful for [people with migraines],” says Adriana Della Pietra at the University of Iowa, who presented the research at the Oxford Glymphatic and Brain Clearance Symposium in the UK on 1 April.

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Carissa Wong 2026 Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain's cleaning system | New Scientist 7 April 

We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time

 

Dying stars can emit a powerful jet of radiation, as seen in an artist’s impression. Image courtesy of Stocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy.

Joel Kontinen

What do dying stars do when they die? Some astronomers have seen a certain type of explosion when they see a dying star bursts into flames and then dies.  

When a dying star gets old, it probably then it explodes and dies.  

Astronomers think they have seen a type of explosion produced by a dying star called a dirty fireball for the first time, and it could help us understand how massive stars die.

When a massive star runs out of fuel, it can collapse and explode in several ways. If a black hole is produced in the collapse, an extremely powerful jet of radiation can burst through the star, producing a flash of high-energy light called a gamma ray burst.

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 Alex Wilkins 2026 We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time | New Scientist 3 April 

Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals

 

Artist’s reconstruction of the ancient ocean ecosystem preserved in the Jiangchuan biota. Image courtesy of Xiaodong Wang.

Joel Kontinen

Some evolutionists believe that complex life on earth began way before the Cambrian explosion, which for Darwinists has been a mystery.  Can complex life begin without intelligence?

And the time frame for these events is very much wrong.

A huge and beautifully preserved suite of fossils discovered in China has cast doubt on the idea that complex life flourished dramatically during a rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian explosion.

This event, spanning roughly 541 million to 513 million years ago, is when most of the animal groups alive today are thought to have first appeared, along with a bizarre array of evolutionary experiments that later went extinct.

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James Woodford 2026 Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals | New Scientist 2 April 

Iran's Plan To Nuke America

 

Iran's plan to nuke America.

America’s Founders and Intelligent Design

 

The Declaration of Independence proclaims that “all men are created equal” and “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” These are not idle words. They were inspired by the firm conviction of America’s Founders that nature was intelligently designed.

Fossils discovered in Egypt may be the closest ancestor of all apes

 

The reconstruction of Masripithecus moghraensis, an ape that lived around 17 million years ago. Image courtesy of Mauricio Antón/Professor Hesham Sallam

Joel Kontinen

Pieces of jawbone and teeth found in Egypt have been identified as a new early ape species named Masripithecus moghraensis, which lived about 17 million years ago

When according to evolution, was the earliest fossil of all apes discovered.   

A newly discovered ape species that lived around 17 million years ago suggests that the first apes may have evolved in North Africa, not East Africa as previously thought.

In 2023 and 2024, at the Wadi Moghra archaeological site in northern Egypt, Shorouq Al-Ashqar at Mansoura University, Egypt, and her colleagues found teeth and jawbones from two ancient apes in deposits dated to approximately 17 million to 18 million years old.

According to Genesis,  God created each species so that it would fill the circle assigned to it, so no thousands or millions of years are needed.  

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James Woodford 2026 Fossils discovered in Egypt may be the closest ancestor of all apes | New Scientist 26 March 

 

Earth may have formed from two separate rings around the sun

 

Models suggest something is wrong with our picture of the early solar system. Image courtesy of Panther Media Global / Alamy.

Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionary story, our solar system’s rocky planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – may have formed from two rings around the young sun, rather than a single disc.

The inner solar system may have formed differently from how scientist thought must have. For decades, researchers have thought that according to evolution, the rocky planets formed from a single disc of dust and debris in the early solar system, but new simulations indicate there might have been two separate discs of material.

Models featuring a single disc or ring of material around the young sun tend to be unable to recreate several features of the solar system as we observe it. For one, Earth seems to be made of two different kinds of rocks, which wouldn’t make sense if they all came from the same ring.

Also, single-ring models tend to end up with Mercury and Mars too big, Venus and Earth too close together and the compositions of Earth and Mars too similar.

The real history of the planets can be read from the book of Genesis, in which God made the planets and stars at one go.

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Leah Crane 2026 Earth may have formed from two separate rings around the sun | New Scientist 24 March 

Fluorescent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS.

Joel Kontinen

Can gems be found on Mars. Now according to the latest research, it seems that are found.

The Perseverance rover has found precious stones inside Martian pebbles. These gem grains are made of a substance called corundum, which is also known as ruby or sapphire depending on the traces of metals within it.

Ann Ollila at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and her colleagues first spotted hints of corundum while using Perseverance’s SuperCam instrument to examine a rock called Hampden River. SuperCam has several different ways to test a material’s composition, using two different lasers to either burn off its surface or provoke luminescence, then two cameras to examine the resulting light. In both tests, the results for Hampden River were nearly identical to the results from rubies measured in the lab, indicating the presence of tiny grains of corundum in the rock.

 

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 Leah Crane 2026 Fluor escent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time | New Scientist 18 March 

Why global warming is accelerating and what it means for the future

 

Image courtesy of Sthivaios Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Joel Kontinen

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years.

Is global warming natural or is it brought by human actions? We might not have the authority to ascertain this. But certain folks are sure that humans are the source of global warming.  

Temperatures over the past three years have been even higher than expected, provoking a debate among scientists. Almost everyone agrees that global warming has accelerated. But some researchers say it is speeding up even more than climate models show, while others argue that the surge in temperatures is due to natural fluctuations that will soon go away.

Depending on who is right, we could have even less time than we thought to avoid or adapt to catastrophic impacts.

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 Alec Luhn 2026 Why global warming is accelerating and what it means for the future | New Scientist 16 March 

 

3I/ATLAS: Interstellar comet has water unlike any in our solar system

 

The levels of a heavy form of hydrogen in 3I/ATLAS are 30 to 40 times higher than in Earth's oceans, suggesting the comet has a cold and distant origin. Image courtesy of International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Bolin.

Joel Kontinen

The presence of water does not mean that this comet is teeming with life. It needs intelligent design to make water and other ingredients turn into life.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains water and carbon molecules at levels never before seen in our solar system. This suggests that it formed around an alien star radically different from and much older than the sun.

Astronomers have been tracking 3I/ATLAS since it entered our solar system last year – and it is weird. It appears to be packed with far more carbon dioxide and water than almost any other comet we have seen, and early estimates put its age at 8 billion years – almost twice as old as the sun.

Martin Cordiner at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and his colleagues have found that its levels of deuterium – a form of hydrogen with an extra neutron – are at least 10 times higher than in any comet we have seen before.

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Alex Wilkins 2026 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar comet has water unlike any in our solar system | New Scientist 17 March 

 

 

The dragon tree might have its beginning in Genesis

 

The Dracon tree of Teneriffa. Image courtesy of CC BY-SA 3.0

Joel Kontinen

 The dragon tree (Dracaena draco) could have its beginning in Genesis, where it might have been the tree that God told Adam and Eve never to touch. Yet they did, and it brought disaster to the world.

The genus name Dracaena is from the ancient Greek word dracaena or she-dragon. The dragon tree can be a live for hundreds of years. 

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Andrew Sibling, The dragon tree of Tenerife, Creation 2 , 12-13.

What does intelligent design do for ants?

 

Kuva:  Piotr Naskrecki. 

Joel Kontinen

The leafcutter ant (A. echinatior) genome contained a whopping 34,821genes with over 12,151 genes not found in any other insect or ant species, not only does the leafcutter ant have a highly complex social structure. but it forms a special fungus from the leaves in a large factual garden, the complexity of this ant’s behavior and the specialized digestive system needed to farm and eat fungus require a large set of specialized genes.

Averaged all over in all 30 included insect and arthropod out-cropped species, approximately 13% of all protein coding genes lack a similar counterpart in any other species. These numbers fall within the expected range of 10 to 3o per cent for all species-specific orphan genes in other studies.

Darwinian evolution does not account for this, they were produced by the creator of all things, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Jeffery P Tomkins. 2026. Novel orphan genes aid in regulated adaptation, Acts and Facts 1 – 2, 18- 22.

Iranian Football Team's Defiant Stand Against The Regime

 

Australia gives asylum to five Iranian footballers after they did not salute the Iranian flag. 

Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

 

The advent of farming led to new evolutionary pressures on humans. Image courtesy of  Christian Jegou/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought.

When did humans really evolve according to Darwinism? According to the book of Genesis, they started at the advent of humanity, but the evolution believing people have a different view, supposing it was during the time man discovered farming.  

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes from living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people in different parts of the world evolved in similar – and sometimes even identical – ways after we adopted farming.

“Some of the same traits and the same genes are under selection in different populations,” says Laura Colbran at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Michael Le Page 2026 Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming | New Scientist 10 March

Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Joel Kontinen

Billions of years ago Mars hosted lakes, streams and perhaps even a huge ocean according to evolution believing scientists.

A remarkably hardy bacterium can survive pressures similar to those generated when asteroid impacts blast debris off Mars, a new evolutionary study has found.

The findings, published earlier this week in the journal PNAS Nexus, may prompt scientists to reconsider where life could exist across the solar system and could lead to a reassessment of "planetary protection" rules designed to prevent contamination between worlds.

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another," study co-author Kaliat Ramesh, a mechanical engineer at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, said. "This is a really big deal that changes the way you think about the question of how life begins and how life began on Earth."

Researchers recently exposed the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans to the pressures experienced during an asteroid strike. The microbe survived, suggesting that impacts could spread life from planet to planet. 

The new findings lend support to a long-debated theory known as lithopanspermia, which proposes that life can spread between planets by hitching a ride on fragments of rock blasted into space by massive impacts. The idea remains unproven.

For the study, Ramesh and his colleagues tested the endurance of Deinococcus radiodurans, an exceptionally resilient bacterium found, among other places, in Chile's high-altitude deserts. With a thick outer shell and a remarkable ability to repair its own DNA, D. radiodurans is famously tolerant of intense radiation, freezing temperatures, extreme dryness and other harsh conditions similar to those found in space. It has been nicknamed "Conan the bacterium," after all.

To simulate the forces involved in an asteroid impact, the researchers sandwiched samples of D. radiodurans between two steel plates. Using a gas-powered gun, they fired a projectile at roughly 300 mph (480 kph), subjecting the microbes to pressures between 1 and 3 gigapascals.

Nearly all of the microbes survived impacts generating 1.4 gigapascals of pressure, while about 60% remained alive at 2.4 gigapascals. At lower pressures, the cells showed no signs of damage, though researchers observed ruptured membranes and some internal cellular damage at higher pressures, the study reports.

"We continuously redefine the limits of life," Madhan Tirumalai, a microbiologist at the University of Houston who was not involved with the new study, told The New York Times.

As the pressure increased, the researchers also detected heightened activity in genes responsible for repairing DNA and maintaining cell membranes.

"We expected it to be dead at that first pressure," Lily Zhao, a mechanical engineer at JHU who led the experiment, said in the statement. "We started shooting it faster and faster. We kept trying to kill it, but it was really hard to kill."

The experiment eventually ended, the statement read, because the steel structure holding the plates "fell apart before the bacteria did."

This study does not take the existence of a Creator as established. Only God can give life to planets such as Earth.

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Sharmila Kuthunur 2026 Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests | Space 6 March

Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction

 

Image courtesy of Christian Darkin/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

The worst known mass extinction wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species. But despite these huge losses, many ecosystems did not collapse, with a variety of animals and even top predators managing to survive the cataclysm.

The findings suggest that each ecosystem’s fate was determined, in part, by its own unique mix of species. The same may be true of modern marine ecosystems, which are also facing major threats from climate change.

The mass extinctions that evolutionists think are true, never happened millions of years ago. Many creationists say that they happen ed at the time of Noah’s flood, some 4,500 years ago.

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Michael Marshall 2026 Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction | New Scientist 4 March 

 

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.  

Tiny predatory dinosaur weighed less than a chicken

 

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 Tiny predatory dinosaur weighed less than a chicken | New Scientist 25 February 

Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form of writing

 

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.

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Alison George 2026 Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form of writing | New Scientist 23 February 

Israel’s secret war to save a people from genocide

 

Israel’s has a secret war to save a people from genocide. It concerns the Druzes and the Kurds. 

Iran’s Secret Christian Revolution: How Faith is Toppling a Regime

 

Iran’s secret Christian revolution: how faith is toppling a regime.

Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?

 

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.

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Leah Crane 2026 Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter? | New Scientist 19 February 

Backwards heat shows laws of thermodynamics may need a quantum update

 

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.

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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan 2026 Backwards heat shows laws of thermodynamics may need a quantum update | New Scientist 16 February 

Scientists claim 'Lucy' may not be our direct ancestor after all, stoking fierce debate

 

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,

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Sophie Berdugo 2025 Scientists claim 'Lucy' may not be our direct ancestor after all, stoking fierce debate | Live Science December 22