photo courtesy of NASA

NASA scientist William Boynton announced the find after the Phoenix Mars Lander “touched and tasted” Martian water on Wednesday. With a robotic arm the lander was able to dig a soil sample and place it in a heating mechanism which captured the water vapors. With this they were able to claim they have definitive proof that water exists on the Red Planet, and have extended Phoenix’s mission by five weeks to try to find if it was ever capable of harboring life. “Cupboard” and “Neverland” will be the upcoming dig sites where the scientists hope to find evidence of microbial life, and with their discovery of water and ice now behind them, the possibility has climbed sharply.

Maybe it isn’t all that strange that NASA named the craft, that’s responsible for finding water where it was never believed to have existed, Phoenix.

With a heap of issues to talk about, the G8 leaders are proving their annual summit is a waste of jet fuel and travel expenses. In what could be an annual meeting through video-conferencing, the leaders would rather spend their people’s money to gather for 3 days to bicker and cut business deals.

President Bush, a lone trooper on the issue of war, played out his usual childishness when he told the world that he will not help cut back on global pollution unless China and India agree to do the same. And as the job market in the U.S. continues to shrink he reiterated his belief that the only way to help the impoverished in the world is through free trade agreements.

Though he was able to boost the value of a buck by speaking highly of the world’s need of a strong dollar, the boost was less than one-hundredth of a cent against the Euro. And though he spoke out against the situation in Zimbabwe, calling Robert Mugabe’s election a “sham,” he is pushing for India to accelerate their nuclear development program, without signing anti-proliferation agreements, to where it can be in full swing before Bush leaves office.

With more issues yet to talk about, like the inflated cost of food and oil and the loss of wildlife and the environment, it appears that the G8 leaders are taking care of business the hard way. When they could be at home prioritizing their seemingly screwed up policies and taking action, they instead waste more time and money with words. Of course, that is assuming that government leaders can do more than setup walls of red tape and botch the processes in addressing global concerns.

Click here to read how mixed up the gene pool could be in the evolution toward a One World Government.

Yesterday at the 108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston, researchers reported some staggering numbers - the ratio of bacteria in our bodies to our human cells is 10 to 1. One scientist was able to estimate approximately 500 different species of bacteria living on our skin alone. This has led other researchers to tackle individual body parts to study possible correlations with their ailments. One is studying the bacteria in the human digestive tract to see if there may be a relationship to Crohn’s disease, while another is studying the bacteria residing in the digestive tract to see if there’s a correlation to obesity.

Click here to read about those we unknowingly play host to, and their ecosystem within us.

image courtesy of Nicolle Rager-Fuller/National Science Foundation

It isn’t so surprising that life is constantly being formed in our oceans. Considered the “Garden of Eden” to Evolutionists, it is where the chemistry of life forms single-celled organisms which then split. Eventually we have all of the living creatures we have today. Though even Evolutionists are wrong once in awhile; not by their belief that life came from the primordial muck of the oceans, but by how much proof they have that life is still being formed in those very oceans.

Click here to read more about those at the top of our family tree.

It is known that oil extracted from algae can be used for fuel. Currently, there are algae farms in various parts of the United States that are testing how viable an alternative this fuel source could be. Scientists have come to the conclusion that if one-tenth of the state of New Mexico was sectioned off and built up with algae farms it would produce enough fuel to cover our transportation issues.

After testing various fuel sources they have come to conclusion that Ethanol is perhaps the worst alternative, since the ratio of yield to the power consumed in its manufacturing pales in comparison to other sources. Not to mention that the higher the demand for corn becomes, the less other vegetables will be grown, thus the higher prices we’ll have to pay at the grocery.

Click here to read why soon we may be herding fun-guys. Wait, what?

photo courtesy of Rockefeller University

What looks to be an image of outer space is actually an image taken from the first viewing of a virus being born. It just so happens to be of the HIV virus which has taken over 25 million lives in the past 25 years. Using a technique called Total Internal Reflection Microscopy, a virologist and a biophysicist were able to watch as hundreds of thousands of HIV molecules gathered to form a single particle in a living cell.

Historically, the problem seemed to be that scientists could never view the surface of a cell.

Click here to read why penetration seemed to be what was screwing everything up.

Because of the slowness in their sexual maturation sharks and rays have a tendency to be overfished. Now, because the human palate finds the meat and fins particularly savory, over half of the various species of oceanic sharks are threatened with extinction.

Click here to read why Hooper, Brody, and Quint need to stay out of the water.

photo courtesy of EIA/Jordi Mestre

It turns out that the jawbone holding a few teeth found last year in a Spanish cave were actually once a part of the last common ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals - Pioneer Man.

Spanish researchers used three techniques to approximate the age of the fossil at 1.2 million years, a half-million years older than previously discovered humanlike fossils from the same region in the mountains of northern Spain.

Click here to read about the many colors in the homo rainbow.

photo courtesy of AES Michigan

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, those who control our natural resources are bound to be those in charge of the direction we take to power our homes and vehicles.

For 8 years now the term “Texas oil-man” only sounded good to those who would benefit from the gold in their coffers. Now, we may be able to repeat the term without it bringing on a gag-reflex as one Texas oil-man, T. Boone Pickens, is investing billions in wind turbines.

Click here to read about one oil-man who realizes that his form of income is on the verge of being outsourced.

It isn’t so bizarre that humans survived all this time on medicine provided by Mother Nature. What is bizarre is how we’ve allowed ourselves to be convinced by pharmaceutical companies that homeopathic medicine is voodoo. Although when one considers how sheep-like we tend to be under the guidance of our elected officials it’s not so unbelieveable after all.

When our government bends to allow pharmaceutical companies to poison the population, like Ronald Reagan did when he forced the FDA to allow Donald Rumsfeld’s Aspartame on the market, we have to question how much these people truly care about the health and welfare of the people.

It appears the oil extracted from black seed, used medicinally by Middle Eastern people for over a thousand years, blocks the growth and kills over 80% of pancreatic cancer cells. Now we can only hope our government doesn’t ban it for not being able to capitalize on it.

Click here to read how we know the cure is there, but we just have to know which plant to ingest.