With just its head and front legs peeking out from its underground burrow, the Mexican mole lizard could pass for a slender, pink lizard — until it emerges completely, its body etched with an earthworm-like ring. But despite its regular lizard-like appearance, the reptile doesn’t have any hind legs. To the uninitiated, this lizard-on-top, worm-on-the-bottom creature appears to be a sort of serpentine centaur.

After telling us all year that the Arctic was record hot and will be ice-free or at a record low this summer – climate alarmists face a record meltdown of their scam.

Sunspots are regular phenomena on the sun, but their frequency decreases when the sun moves into a period of lower activity during solar cycles that are about 11 years long.

New results show a difference in the way neutrinos and antineutrinos behave, which could help explain why there is so much matter in the universe.

In introducing their study of this important subject, Claeys et al. (2017)* write that “acute myocardial infarctions (AMIs) are the leading cause of mortality worldwide and are usually precipitated by coronary thrombosis, which is induced by a ruptured or eroded atherosclerotic plaque that leads to a sudden and critical reduction in blood flow,” citing the prior pertinent studies of Davies and Thomas (1985), Nichols et al.

To date, astronomers haven’t seen asteroid families (that is, asteroids with a common source) in the Solar System older than about 3 billion years — well after the star system came to be 4.5 billion years ago. However, they’ll have to rethink their expectations.

Paper Reviewed
Liu, W., Zhong, W. and Wargocki, P. 2017. Performance, acute health symptoms and physiological responses during exposure to high air temperature and carbon dioxide concentration. Building and Environment 114: 96-105.

At its present concentration (~405 ppm), atmospheric CO2 poses no direct health threat to human or animal life. However, in a world where fake news seems to get more media exposure than the truth, unfounded rumor and false fears are spread that rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations are causing a host of human health-related maladies.

Scientists have discovered for the first time that the corona of the sun is strongly linked to the 11-year solar magnetic activity cycle.

Two Fort Collins scientists want to change how the world views the connection between human activity and global warming.

However, Ned Nikolov and Karl Zeller say they’ve had a hard time getting the scientific world to hear them out, let alone take them seriously.

Some baby spiders can float for tens or even hundreds of miles, buoyed by strips of silk and carried aloft by the wind. But even for these resourceful youngsters, making a journey of more than 6,000 miles across choppy ocean sounds fairly improbable.

An exceptionally preserved dinosaur fossil has officially been identified as a new species of dinosaur. Researchers found that even with its armor-like exterior, it may have also used camouflage as a means of evading predators.

Humans are the only animal known to develop Alzheimer’s disease, and an official diagnosis requires checking off this list of three things: dementia, which is observed through screenings, and two pathologic markers—amyloid plaques (sticky bunches of misfolded proteins) and neurofibrillary tangles (tau proteins clumped together and twisted around).

Ten years ago, our top government scientists predicted the Arctic would be ice free by 2012.

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A nearly Earth-size storm system was spotted near Neptune’s equator, surprising scientists because no bright clouds have ever been seen in that location.

“EU regulation madness” knows no limits

What follows is a story that really reminds us why Britain opted out of the EU: British citizen (except for some Scots) don’t want every single bloody detail of their private lives regulated by a nanny super-state. They have had it!

People in India and throughout the world could potentially die within minutes from heat exposure if world leaders don’t confront global warming, according to a study published Wednesday.