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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
Scientists Find a way to Generate Electricity — From Simple Seawater
July 23, 2016Scientists have discovered a reliable way to extract renewable energy from ordinary seawater. The research team, from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne's Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology in Switzerland, employed a natural process called osmosis, where a fluid permeates through... continued
Could the Milky Way Galaxy be a Giant Wormhole?
July 22, 2016A new and somewhat radical theory has been proposed by an international group of researchers, in that the center of the Milky Way galaxy might turn out to be a giant wormhole, with the mouth of the wormhole possibly spanning... continued
Inuit Elders Observe the Effects of Climate Change on their Way of Life
July 21, 2016One of the notable aspects of climate change that has been observed is the further toward the poles one looks, the more pronounced global warming's impact becomes. While the tropics have warmed somewhat, average temperatures in the Artic have soared:... continued
Three Suns, a Dwarf Planet, and Juno: The Latest in Astronomy News
July 20, 2016An exoplanet 320 light-years from Earth has been found in a trinary star system, photographed by the ESO Very Large Telescope in Chile. Aside from having the distinction of being one of mere handful of exoplanets that have been directly... continued
China’s Tiangong-1 Space Station Could Plummet to Earth in an Uncontrolled Reentry
July 18, 2016An Asian studies expert and amateur satellite tracker have voiced their concerns over the possibility that China’s Tiangong-1 space station may be de-orbiting without control from the ground. The station, launched in 2011, was a temporary testbed for the technologies... continued