News and Links (publ. 2024-05-11)
Struggle to figure out why Venus has little water but earth has lots
From the secular, naturalistic perspective, it has always been a profound mystery why Venus is so different from Earth, despite being similar in size, and having similar orbital distances compared to the other planets. This drives some (most?) of the research into Venus.
Attempt to find first-generations stars
This article admits that a critical stage in the cosmological evolution of stars, the "first-generations" stars, has never actually been "directly detected". But a novel observation method gives some hope that they may be discovered in the future.
Free-forming organelles help plants adapt to climate change
The complexity, design, and flexibilty of God's creation at the cellular level continues to astound researchers.
"At one time, people called these photobodies 'garbage cans,' because they didn't understand them. When people don't understand something, they call it useless. But they aren't useless at all," said UCR botany professor Meng Chen, senior author of both papers. "They are a new frontier in science."
"There is not much in nature that is completely random," Chen said. "At the airport, do people get together in the middle of nowhere, or are they usually in the waiting areas and at airline counters? Anything that has an important function is not usually random."