This Sunday, Mars will meet another robot from earth when the probe named Phoenix lands far north within the planet’s arctic region. With laser radars, small ovens, and sensors powered by solar panels, Phoenix will be testing to see if the ice discovered there in 2002 was ever liquid. After all, “This is where the history of life is preserved in its purest form — organic molecules and cellular bacterial microbes and so forth.”
Click here to read other quotes from the leader of the Phoenix expedition, and more about news that’s always getting buried beneath that of American Idol.
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.
It’s no wonder our children are lacking in their science studies these days. When one in six high school biology teachers believe in mythology over evolution I’d imagine it’s difficult to learn a subject so based in reality. Many of us would hope that religion could be taught in religious institutions, and that our children could get an education in science while attending high school science classes.
The National Academy of Sciences believe the study of evolution to be the “central concept of biology”, yet the teachers willingly overlook this since they tend to believe a god created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. So, if the story of God has to be taught in a public school environment, maybe it would be best to teach it a carpentry class.
Click here to read why G.B. Shaw’s quote in “Maxims for Revolutionists”, “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches,” is ringing louder in the public high schools of America today than it possibly ever has.
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.
The UK Parliament voted to allow the creation of human-animal embryos in an effort to give scientists the necessary “tools” in stem-cell research. Due to a lack of donated human embryos, researchers believe the creation of these “admixed” eggs will allow them to continue to work at finding cures for some of our worst afflictions.
Some say it’s unethical, and one Catholic cardinal went so far as to deem it “Frankenstein science”, but it could be argued that tossing a perfectly good embryo into the bin that could otherwise have been used to possibly cure a person suffering from Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, or even cancer is truly unethical.
Click here to read about how our planet may one day have centaurs roaming freely beside, what could be considered completely immoral, human grocery stores called “Savior Siblings”.
Computer scientists have found two new tools to help parents communicate with their autistic children. With the horrible affliction upon 1 in every 165 children it is a much welcomed breakthrough.
Click here to read why sometimes it takes a personal experience to care enough to help.
After performing nearly 15 million pairwise tests with baker’s yeast, a group of Canadian researchers have observed the processes in the basic workings of life, bringing us closer to an understanding of how we evolved, and closer to a route to how we can cure humanity’s worst afflictions.
Click here to read how scientists are foregoing prayer in their efforts to cure cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s.
Like piecing together a puzzle, colonizing the Moon can only come if all the pieces are there and in order. One of those pieces is our inability to breathe in space. Now, scientists have arrived at a solution, and with the help of 23 volunteers with 3 weeks to blow it appears that all systems are go.
Click here to read how far we’ve come since we believed in the giant ball of cheese.
Most all of us can relate to the feeling of being outdone by the “better” man or woman in our quest for love. I’m happy that my life didn’t depend on it as it does with some living things.
Click here to read the buzz on bee sex, and how their picky ways may be one of the causes for their declining numbers.
Many would love to point out scientific experiments that have gone wrong to bolster their own opinions about life’s great mysteries, but when scientists freely spill information to bolster the ideals of the stupid, well then we have major problems at hand.
Click here to read how scientists have given Bush and his Blackwater friends a timely departing gift in the form of a reason. That is, a reason to muster a private war in Afghanistan.
