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.
James Woodford 2026
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.
Leah Crane 2026
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.
Source:
Leah Crane 2026 Fluor escent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time | New Scientist 18 March
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.
Source:
Alec Luhn 2026 Why global warming is accelerating and what it means for the future | New Scientist 16 March
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.
Source:
Alex Wilkins 2026
The Dracon tree of Teneriffa. Image courtesy of CC BY-SA 3.0
Joel Kontinen
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.
Source:
Andrew Sibling, The dragon tree of Tenerife, Creation 2 , 12-13.
A Romanesco broccoli. Image courtesy of Jon Sullivan. Joel Kontinen It is practically impossible to believe that some of the phenomen...
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