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.

 

Source:

 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.

Source:

 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.

Source:

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. 

 Source:

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.

Source:  

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.

Source: 

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