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Have Archaeologists Unearthed the Birthplace of King Arthur?
August 6, 2016Archaeologists digging in England's county of Cornwall have unearthed the largest collection of Dark Ages artifacts in Britain, including what appears to be a fifth or sixth century palace. While this news isn't necessarily that groundbreaking, the site, in the... continued
Forget A.I., Russia is on the Verge of a Breakthrough in A.E.: Artificial Emotions
August 5, 2016Speaking at the Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures in New York, professor Alexi Samsonovich, from Moscow's National Research Nuclear University Cybernetics Department, stated that Russian researchers are on the verge of a major breakthrough in AI. But... continued
New Quantum Experiment Hints at Quantum Effects in the Macroscopic World
August 4, 2016The mainstream scientific community has long asserted that the strange effects of quantum physics, such as quantum indeterminacy and entanglement, can not assert themselves at the classical, or macroscopic, level of everyday physics. In recent years, quantum physicists have been... continued
U.S. Temperatures Forecast to be Above Normal for the Next 3-Months
August 3, 2016The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has forecast that temperatures for the months of August, September and October will be above average for the United States, including both the contiguous states and Alaska. According to research into NOAA's archives on... continued
Could Cockroach Milk be the Key to Feeding Starving Populations?
August 2, 2016Amongst the many problems that our species is expected to face as time goes on, one of the bigger ones is how to feed a burgeoning population in the face of potential famine and transportation interruption. Many novel concepts have... continued
This Probe will Self-Destruct: Protecting Potential Aliens in The Latest in Astronomy News
July 30, 2016The more we study it, the universe continues to become curiouser and curiouser, and the last few weeks have been no exception: X marks the center of the galaxy; one of Saturn's rings was broken; and NASA plans to destroy... continued
The Case of the Man with No Brain: Where does Consciousness Really Come From?
July 29, 2016Modern science assumes that our consciousness is generated solely by electro-chemical processes in the brain, a fortunate byproduct of billions of neurons recording and processing sensory information as it comes in. But that view comes into question if one take... continued
NOAA Reports that June 2016 was Another Record-Breaker
July 28, 2016It's official: June of 2016 broke yet another global temperature record, coming in as the hottest June on record since global temperatures were first recorded in 1880, beating the previous record-holder's departure from the norm, June 2015, by 0.02ºC (0.04ºF).... continued
New Evidence Suggests MH370 Murder-Suicide Plot by Airliner’s Captain
July 26, 2016New evidence has been released that implies that the captain of the Boeing-777 airliner from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 deliberately crashed the aircraft, killing all 239 passengers and crew. MH370 disappeared under mysterious circumstances on 8 March 2014, while en... continued
Scientists Propose Cloning a Wooly Mammoth — to Help Avert Global Warming
July 25, 2016Scientists at Harvard University have proposed a plan to re-introduce the woolly mammoth to its former natural habitat of the Siberian tundra. While there are currently no individual prehistoric pachyderms that would be used to populate this proposed Pleistocene Park,... continued