The universe is incomprehensibly vast, with billions of other planets circling billions of other stars. The potential for intelligent life to exist somewhere out there should be enormous. So, where is everybody?

Chimpanzees of all ages and all sexes can learn the simple circular relationship between the three different hand signals used in the well-known game rock-paper-scissors.

Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) has solved the mystery of how the first animals appeared on Earth, a pivotal moment for the planet without which humans would not exist.

Believe it or … believe it, in my last article Google, Columbia, NASA, Germany Censor Real Climatologists’ Emails I may not have been conspiracy-minded enough. (Yeah, yeah, I hate conspiracy theories too, but sometimes they really do happen.)

A GEOPHYSICIST who specialises in coral reefs and climate study has challenged the grim warnings of fellow scientist Charlie Veron, who wants Gold Coast youth to pursue medicine and agriculture to help survive a global warming disaster.

This article is intended for Columbia University and NASA as supporting evidence for an email I (Dr. Duane Thresher) sent them. However, I think America and the rest of the world would be interested too.

Emails announcing our earlier story Heil KlimaFuehrer Rahmstorf! were censored by Google, Columbia University, Germany and possibly NASA.

NASA has sent a supercomputer to the International Space Station, in a bid to accelerate its mission to put humans on Mars.

The supercomputer, known as the Spaceborne Computer, was launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, propelled by a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster, on Monday, August 14.

Study in JAMA links climate skepticism with vaccines: Claims ‘significant proportion of US is impervious to scientific facts’, says Climate Depot’s Marc Morano. Study infers skeptics are uneducated and ignorant.

A stunning new view of Saturn has revealed waves of clouds swirling above the planet, like ‘strokes from a cosmic brush.’

The image, captured by the Cassini spacecraft from roughly 750,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) above the surface, shows the turbulent essence of Saturn’s clouds, which move as bands in different speeds and directions.

Cassini began the final phase of its mission this week, executing the first of five ultra-close passes of the gas giant on Monday morning.

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Scientists have solved the puzzle of the so-called “Frankenstein dinosaur”, which seems to consist of body parts from unrelated species. A new study suggests that it is in fact the missing link between plant-eating dinosaurs, such as Stegosaurus, and carnivorous dinosaurs, like T. rex.

BRITAIN is in the grip of its coldest summer holidays for 35 years. Temperatures in London have failed to get any higher than 73F (23C) since schools broke up on July 19. It has been a similar story in Birmingham, while in Newcastle the thermometer has been stuck below a modest 68F (20C).

A defensive mucus secreted by slugs has inspired a new kind of adhesive that could transform medicine, say scientists. The “bio-glue” is incredibly strong, moves with the body and crucially, sticks to wet surfaces.
The team at Harvard University have even used it to seal a hole in a pig’s heart. Experts have described the glue as “really cool” and said there would be “absolutely huge demand” for it.

The 35 papers variously confirm that warming is ‘potentially beneficial’; cooling causes ecological declines, greater health risks, extinctions. Also, warming leads to less extreme weather, while cooling does the opposite. Warming causes fewer and less intense hurricanes, less drought and flood frequency.

Plans to build the world’s “largest” data centre are being made public. The facility is set to be created at the Norwegian town of Ballangen, which is located inside the Arctic Circle. The firm behind the project, Kolos, says the chilled air and abundant hydropower available locally would help it keep its energy costs down.

People are happier if they are able to feel emotions they desire – even if those emotions are unpleasant, such as anger and hatred, a study suggests.
The results of the study, compiled by an international team of researchers, found happiness is “more than simply feeling pleasure and avoiding pain”. Researchers asked participants what emotions they desired and felt. This was then compared to how they rated their overall happiness, or life satisfaction.

New evidence from ancient lunar rocks suggests that an active dynamo once churned within the molten metallic core of the moon, generating a magnetic field that lasted at least 1 billion years longer than previously thought. Dynamos are natural generators of magnetic fields around terrestrial bodies, and are powered by the churning of conducting fluids within many stars and planets.