Sunday, 30 November 2025
Muslim Brotherhood
Saturday, 29 November 2025
Ancient tracks may record stampede of turtles disturbed by earthquake
The possible turtle tracks at Monte Cònero, Italy. Image courtesy of Paolo Sandroni
Can turtles leave track some 100 meters above the sea in Italy during the Cretaceous period? Turtles are sea creatures. Some say that it happened in 83 million years ago. They were probably left by Noah's flood some 4,500 years ago.
Around 1000
markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the period may have
been made by sea turtle flippers and swiftly buried by an earthquake.
Free
climbers discovered the unusual features in an area that is off limits to the
public on the slopes of Monte Cònero on Italy’s east coast.
There are
more than 1000 prints in two locations – one more than 100 metres above the
ocean, and a second shelf that has fallen to La Vela beach. These rocks
consist of limestone that formed from fine sediment on a shallow seabed in the
Cretaceous period.
Source:
James Woodford 2025
Thursday, 27 November 2025
Monday, 24 November 2025
Giant impactor Theia formed nearby
Computational simulation of the impact between a proto-Earth and the small planet Theia. Image courtesy of Jacob Kegerreis/NASA Ames And Durham University/Institute For Computational Cosmology/Swift/Dirac
Joel Kontinen
In
evolutionary theory a very small planed called Theia collided into a proto Earth.
According to the same theory, it formed
the Moon and materials from it formed the Earth.
There is no
solid evidence that the planet even existed.
Hopp et
al. measured iron isotopes in lunar samples, Earth samples, and
meteorites. They then combined these results with previous measurements of
other elements with different geochemical behaviours. By simultaneously
calculating the contributions of Theia material to each of those elements in
both bodies, the authors concluded that Theia formed in the inner Solar System,
nearby to Earth but possibly slightly closer to the Sun.
Source:
Keith T.
Smith 2025
Saturday, 22 November 2025
Is Jesus a Palestinian?
Thursday, 20 November 2025
Euclid telescope captures young stars being born inside dark cloud
Image courtesy of ESA/Euclid/Euclid
Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Schirmer (MPIA, Heidelberg)
Joel Kontinen
Space tells of the wonders of creation.
A dark cloud named LDN 1641 is around 1300 light
years away from Earth. Dark clouds are so called because they block the visible
light from stars behind them. It is only thanks to the infrared instruments
aboard the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope that we have been able to
capture this stunning image.
This
twinkling tapestry of young stars being born amidst a swirling sea of gas and
dust is part of a dark cloud named LDN 1641, around 1300 light years away from
Earth. Dark clouds are so called because they block the visible light from
stars behind them. It is only thanks to the infrared instruments aboard the
European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope that we have been able to capture this
stunning image.
Source:
New Scientist 2025
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Two-State Solution?
Palestinians and some European states prefer a two-state solution, but Israel says it is not possible any more.