Tuesday, 14 April 2026
Sunday, 12 April 2026
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.
James Woodford 2026
Thursday, 9 April 2026
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.
Tuesday, 7 April 2026
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.
Carissa Wong 2026 Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain's cleaning system | New Scientist 7 April
Sunday, 5 April 2026
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.
Source:
Alex Wilkins 2026 We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time | New Scientist 3 April
Friday, 3 April 2026
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.
Source:
James Woodford 2026