Is the future of the human race in outer space? Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, in an interview with Big Think, warns that if humans can't find another planet to inhabit, they will face extinction.
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The 2008 film "Expelled" stirred controversy by exposing the scientific community's prejudice against those who question the theory of evolution.
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A huge ball of brightly burning gas
drifting through a neighboring galaxy may be the heaviest star ever
discovered - hundreds of times more massive than the sun, scientists
said Wednesday after working out its weight for the first time. Read More
A huge ball of brightly burning gas
drifting through a neighboring galaxy may be the heaviest star ever
discovered - hundreds of times more massive than the sun, scientists
said Wednesday after working out its weight for the first time. Read More
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Scientists Say Doomsday Is Coming - The BP Gulf Disaster May Have Triggered a World Destroying Event
Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.
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Earlier this month, NASA warned that as the Sun wakes up from its "deep slumber," a massive solar storm could wreak havoc on our electronics, from satellites to the electrical grid, causing damages up to 20 times the cost of Hurricane Katrina.
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Scientists recovered a Japanese space
capsule that landed in the Australian Outback after it traveled to an
asteroid and hopefully obtained samples with clues into the evolution of
the solar system.
Pictured: In this photo released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), a technician examines a sampler capsule that was detached on the day before from JAXA's Hayabusa probe, the first spacecraft to complete a seven-year, 4-billion mile (6-billion kilometer) round-trip journey to an asteroid, in a desert in the Woomera Prohibited Area, southern Australia Monday, June 14, 2010. Read More
Scientists recovered a Japanese space
capsule that landed in the Australian Outback after it traveled to an
asteroid and hopefully obtained samples with clues into the evolution of
the solar system. Pictured: In this photo released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), a technician examines a sampler capsule that was detached on the day before from JAXA's Hayabusa probe, the first spacecraft to complete a seven-year, 4-billion mile (6-billion kilometer) round-trip journey to an asteroid, in a desert in the Woomera Prohibited Area, southern Australia Monday, June 14, 2010.
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A comprehensive study of Jews from around the world has revealed that Jewish people are genetically different from other people.
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It is inevitable. The muscles weaken. Hearing and vision fade. We get wrinkled and stooped. We can't run, or even walk, as fast as we used to. We have aches and pains in parts of our bodies we never even noticed before. We get old. It sounds miserable, but apparently it is not. A large Gallup poll has found that by almost any measure, people get happier as they get older, and researchers are not sure why.
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A story out of South Korea today gives one pause: The Constitutional
Court there has ruled that "human embryos left over from fertility
treatment are not
life forms and can be used for research or destroyed," according to
Agence France-Presse. Read More
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In 1995, we reported the DNA sequences for the first two cellular genomes. Nowadays genome sequences, which contain the genetic instructions for an organism, are routinely obtained and deposited in computer databases.
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Oftentimes those who preach sexual abstinence have been told to stop trying to impose their beliefs on others. But what if science could prove sexual permissiveness does great damage to future sexual happiness?
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It's the kind of experiment once only imagined in the movies. For the first time, a team of scientists have produced a living cell powered by manmade DNA. Read More
It's the kind of experiment once only imagined in the movies. For the first time, a team of scientists have produced a living cell powered by manmade DNA. Read More
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Roy Bennett, the MDC-T Deputy Minister of Agriculture designate, says
that ZANU PF is still out to get him, despite his acquittal on Monday on
charges of plotting to overthrow the Mugabe regime. Read More
Roy Bennett, the MDC-T Deputy Minister of Agriculture designate, says
that ZANU PF is still out to get him, despite his acquittal on Monday on
charges of plotting to overthrow the Mugabe regime. Read More
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At the age of six months babies can barely sit up - let along take
their first tottering steps, crawl or talk. But, according to
psychologists, they have already developed a sense of moral code - and
can tell the difference between good and evil. Read More
At the age of six months babies can barely sit up - let along take
their first tottering steps, crawl or talk. But, according to
psychologists, they have already developed a sense of moral code - and
can tell the difference between good and evil. Read More
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The discovery of a skeleton in a friary's ruins is the
first physical evidence of a black person living in medieval Britain. Read More
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About 90 people of many faiths gather at a cathedral near downtown Los Angeles to promote what they say is their moral duty to care for the Earth and all of God's creation.
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President Barack Obama boldly predicted Thursday his new plans for space exploration would lead American astronauts on historic, almost fantastic journeys to an asteroid and then to Mars -- and in his lifetime -- relying on rockets and propulsion still to be imagined and built. Read More
President Barack Obama boldly predicted Thursday his new plans for space exploration would lead American astronauts on historic, almost fantastic journeys to an asteroid and then to Mars -- and in his lifetime -- relying on rockets and propulsion still to be imagined and built. Read More
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Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said. Read More
Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said. Read More
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Could our universe be located within the interior of a wormhole which
itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe? Read More
Could our universe be located within the interior of a wormhole which
itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe? Read More
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), also known as the "Big Bang Machine," made history this week when it "smashed" subatomic particles together at half its maximum power beneath Swiss soil in an underground tunnel.
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There are those who believe that science will eventually explain
everything--including our enduring belief in heaven. The thesis here is
very simple: heaven is not a real place, or even a process or a
supernatural event. It's something that happens in your brain as you
die. Read More
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Light can twist matter, according to a new study that observed ribbons of nanoparticles twisting in response to light.
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Experiment was based on "Schrodinger's Cat": a situation where a cat is placed inside a steel chamber alongside a vial of acid and a small amount of radioactive substance. Read More
Experiment was based on "Schrodinger's Cat": a situation where a cat is placed inside a steel chamber alongside a vial of acid and a small amount of radioactive substance. Read More
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We may be one step closer to 'psychic' computers: Researchers have discovered a way to differentiate between memories people are thinking about by looking at their brain scans.
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