Written by Dr Jay Lehr
According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (nsidc.org), ice currently covers six million square miles, or one-tenth the Land area on Earth, about the area of South America.
Floating ice, or sea ice, alternately called pack ice at the North and South Poles, covers 6% of the ocean’s surface (nsidc.org), an area similar to North America. The most important measure of ice is its thickness.
Written by Lisa Grossman
BANG, CRASH Physicists using the LIGO and Virgo observatories are catching all sorts of cosmic collisions, including of pairs of neutron stars (illustrated). But scientists hope to bag even more exotic quarry.
Seekers of gravitational waves are on a cosmic scavenger hunt. Since the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory turned on in 2015, physicists have caught these ripples in spacetime from several exotic gravitational beasts — and scientists want more.
Written by CFACT
Climate alarmists are resuscitating an old scare, claiming melting permafrost caused by modest global warming will accelerate warming, thus creating rapid and runaway global warming.
Objective historical data, however, conclusively debunk the scare.
Written by Mike Wall
Written by Richard Cronin
Written by Robert Herriman
Lyme disease is a tickborne disease caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi in which antibiotics are the standard treatment. However, this type of treatment is not always effective and relapses occur.
Researchers in Connecticut have been studying the use of Stevia for the treatment of Lyme disease as an alternative to routine antibiotics.
Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser
Dear Readers, Relax, this is not going to be a heavy-duty chemical lecture!
As you may have read in the news, the herbicide Roundup™ inventing company Monsanto had been bought by the company that invented the medicinal compound Aspirin™, i.e. the Bayer AG, back in 2018. Roundup is said to be the world’s most widely used herbicide.
Written by AARP.org
A study of more than 80,000 women ages 50 to 79 links drinking two or more diet drinks a day with an increased risk for certain kinds of stroke, coronary artery disease and death.
Written by fs.blog
It’s not immediately clear, to the layman, what the essential difference is between science and something masquerading as science: pseudoscience. The distinction gets at the core of what comprises human knowledge: How do we actually know something to be true? Is it simply because our powers of observation tell us so? Or is there more to it?
Written by Christopher Carbone
The U.S. Navy is drafting new guidelines for pilots and other employees to report encounters with “unidentified aircraft.”
The new effort comes in response to more sightings of unknown, advanced aircraft flying into or near Navy strike groups or other sensitive military facilities and formations, according to the Navy.
Written by Ashley Strickland
For the first time since landing on Mars in November, NASA’s InSight mission has recorded and measured what scientists believe to be a “marsquake.”
Written by Brie Stimson
A 1,110-foot-wide asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos (and possibly a Stargate SG-1 character) will fly past Earth in 2029 within the distance of some orbiting spacecraft, according to reports.
Written by Paul Rincon
Image copyright: JEAN-JACQUES HUBLIN, MPI-EVA, LEIPZIGScientists have found evidence that an ancient species of human called Denisovans lived at high altitudes in Tibet.
The ability to survive in such extreme environments had previously been associated only with our species – Homo sapiens.
Written by Bjørn Ekeberg
What do we really know about our universe?
Born out of a cosmic explosion 13.8 billion years ago, the universe rapidly inflated and then cooled, it is still expanding at an increasing rate and mostly made up of unknown dark matter and dark energy … right?
Written by John O'Sullivan
One of the main contentions with the accepted theory of the Big Bang is that you cannot get something from nothing. Below is a sample chapter from a new book which shows just how you do get something from nothing, even though it is prohibited by natural law and common sense.
Written by John O'Sullivan
In London Britain’s parliament declared a symbolic climate change “emergency” on Wednesday. Are these people truly insane or corrupt?