13Feb 2025 by Post

Sophisticated Energy Shield Found in a Shrimp

arthropod, biology, Bouligand structure, brain injuries, dactyl club, Davide Castelvecchi, design language, Emily Reeves, Evolution, Evolution Theater, evolutionary fitness landscape, H. D. Espinoza, hierarchical, Hubble Space Telescope, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex mechanisms, James Webb Space Telescope, mantis shrimp, Mark S. Lavine, Morpho butterfly, N. A. Alderete, Nature (journal), nerve damage, Northwestern University, Odontodactylus scyllarus, Pablo D. Zavatierri, Science (journal), shear waves, structural color
A sophisticated energy-absorbing structure has been discovered in the mantis shrimp’s dactyl club that protects the animal from its own shock waves. Source
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28Apr 2024 by Post

The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang

Albert Einstein, Big Bang, blue shifts, cepheid variable stars, Cosmic Background Radiation, cosmological constant, Doppler shift, earth, Geology, Georges Lemaître, globular clusters, Hubble age, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble-Lemaître constant, Intelligent Design, Milky Way, Physics, Earth & Space, spiral nebulae, supernovae, universe, Vesto Slipher
One thing I am fairly certain about: overthrowing the Big Bang theory is not in the offing. Source
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22Dec 2020 by Post

The Heavens Declare: Looking Forward to 2021

ancient literature, beauty, binoculars, biology, Caldwell 78, cosmology, Creation, Evolution News, heavens, Hubble Space Telescope, Intelligent Design, NASA, NGC 6541, orderliness, Physics, Earth & Space, Psalm 31, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Return of the God Hypothesis, skies, stars, Stephen Meyer, telescopes
As to evidence for intelligent design, my impression has long been that the ancients gave more weight to the stars than to their own bodies. Source
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16Apr 2020 by Post

Is Space Travel Our Destiny?

Abraham Loeb, atmosphere, BIO-Complexity, distance, Hubble Space Telescope, hydrogen, interstellar dust, interstellar ship, Mike Hippke, Milky Way, Neptune, oxidizers, oxygen, Physics, Earth & Space, Proxima Centauri, rockets, satellite TV, solar system, space travel, super-earths, The Privileged Planet, Tsiolkovsky equation, Uranus
A few days ago I published the paper “The Solar System: Favored for Space Travel” in the journal BIO-Complexity. I thought it would be helpful for me to give a short summary of the paper to Evolution News readers. I was motivated to do the study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths. Super-earths are the most common type of planet that are being discovered around exoplanets. They are somewhat loosely defined as being larger and more massive than Earth but smaller and less massive than Uranus or Neptune. From observations, super-earths seem to transition from rocky to gas-dominated composition above 1.5 times the size of Earth.  Two Studies Together, the two studies not only showed that it is more difficult to…
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