Wednesday 15 May 2024

Oldest known human viruses found hidden within Neanderthal bones

 

Image courtesy of S. S. Entressangle/E. Daynes/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

“Genetic sequences from three common viruses that plague humanity today have been isolated from the remains of Neanderthals who lived more than 50,000 years ago.

Marcelo Briones at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil, says it may be possible to synthesise these viruses and infect modern human cells with them in the lab.”

The connect between humans and neandertals means that humans were the children of Noah and not of apes.

Source:

James Woodford. 2024. Oldest known human viruses found hidden within Neanderthal bones | New Scientist 14 May.



Tuesday 14 May 2024

A white dwarf acts as a lens for the light of the star behind it

 

Image courtecy of NASA/JPL-Caltech

Joel Kontinen

What do we know about the impossible star? Mystery of 'impossible' star resolved by three-body solution.

A white dwarf star orbiting a sun-like star was thought to be impossibly small, but now astronomers have found another star in the system that solves the puzzle.

The mystery of a star that seemed too small to exist has been solved – by the detection of another star hiding in the same system.

In 2019, astronomers announced the discovery of an unusual system called KIC 8145411 in which a white dwarf – the dull, compact remnant left behind after certain stars exhaust their nuclear fuel – was orbiting a sun-like star every 450 days. The system is a rare example of a self-lensing binary.

 

Source: 

Jonathan O’Callaghan 2024 Mystery of 'impossible' star resolved by three-body solution | New Scientist 14 May 

 .


Sunday 12 May 2024

Greta Thunberg accuses Israel of ‘artwashing’ reputation through Eurovision

 

Image courtesy of Reuters

 Joel Kontinen

Greta Thunberg does not like Israel. She does not recognise that Hamas did on October 7 when it destroyed the folks of Israel and killed 1 200 of them, taking over 130 hostages. 

But she only has contempt for Israel, ”More than ten thousand anti-Israel protesters, including Greta Thunberg, descended on the arena where the contest was held in Malmo, Sweden, in the day’s leading up to the competition final.”

”Greta Thunberg has accused Israel of “artwashing” its reputation at the Eurovision Song Contest after she joined pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a boycott of the event.”

“Israeli singer Eden Golan, whose emotional song Hurricane was reworked from a previous track called October Rain, thought to be a reference to the Hamas attacks on Israel, will take part in the final on Saturday evening." She finished fifth.

Source:  

Alexander Butler, 2024,  Greta Thunberg accuses Israel of ‘artwashing’ reputation through Eurovision | The Independent 11 March.


Thursday 9 May 2024

Molecule responsible for robbing Venus of its water may finally have been identified

 

Venus, as seen by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft.  Image courtesy of NASA/JPL.

Joel Kontinen 

“Scientists have identified a water-loss mechanism on Venus that could explain how the once water-rich world became completely parched.”

A “molecule high in Venus' atmosphere, water escaped Venus at double the rate previously estimated. As faster water loss means less time is needed to boil away the planet's water reservoir, scientists say Venus may have harbored oceans — and potentially habitable conditions — for longer than previously thought before the drying process began.”

According to some evolutionists, "this would provide more time for possible life to arise," study co-author Eryn Cangi, a research scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) ,”

 “Prior studies suggest that both Venus and Earth likely received similar amounts of water early in their history, mostly from water vapor-spewing volcanoes and icy comets that frequently bombarded the worlds.”

But only God can give life to a planet,  

Source;

Sharmila Kuthunur 2024Molecule responsible for robbing Venus of its water may finally have been identified (msn.com) 8 May



Tuesday 7 May 2024

Neanderthal woman's face brought to life in stunning reconstruction

 

Image courtesy of the University of Cambridge; BBC Stunandertals dios/Jamie Simonds,

Joel Kontinen

The recreated head of "Shanidar Z'' shows a Neanderthal  woman who lived about 75,000 years ago. 

 “A Neanderthal skull that was crushed to bits 75,000 years ago has been pieced back together and used to recreate the face of a wise-looking archaic woman with dark, flowing hair.” 

“Archaeologists painstakingly pieced together the skull of the individual, who researchers have named Shanidar Z, from hundreds of flattened bone fragments discovered in the Iraqi Kurdistan,”

What do we know Neanderthals? According to Genesis, they were descendants of Noah. 

Source:

Emily Cooke, 2024,  Neanderthal woman's face brought to life in stunning reconstruction | Live Science 2 May.



Sunday 5 May 2024

Orangutan is first non-human seen treating wounds with medicinal plant

 

Rakus the orangutan with an injury on his face, before he applied leaves to the wound

Armas

Joel Kontinen

Darwinist say that the orangutan is first non-human seen treating wounds with medicinal plant. That is not true, because some ants have also been treating their wounds with plants.

Well, this is what science says about orangutans at least one of them, they say that a male Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) called Rakus, living in Gunung Leuser National Park in Indonesia has done that.

“There have been several previous reports of great apes attempting to self-medicate in other ways. Gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos, for example, sometimes swallow whole leaves from Aspilia plants to get rid of intestinal parasites.”

This is a way that animals have used intelligent design to heal them.  

Source:

Chen Ly, 2024. Orangutan is first non-human seen treating wounds with medicinal plant | New Scientist 2 May

 



Wednesday 1 May 2024

Black hole 'traffic jams' are forcing cosmic monsters to collide, new study finds

 


Image courtesy of ESO/M. Kornmesser.

The galaxy is filled with wonders. Some of them belong to Black Holes. New research points to the fact that black hole collisions are almost inevitable.

The researchers say that supermassive “black holes, enormous voids that swirl around everything in the galaxies themselves. This swirly behaviour influences things like the disks of matter the galactic titan feasts on, stars and their systems — and, fascinatingly, even other black holes, albeit smaller, stellar mass ones.”

Source:

Robert Lea, 2024, Black hole 'traffic jams' are forcing cosmic monsters to collide, new study finds | Live Science 29. April.