Before I could enjoy a movie last week, I was forced to endure five minutes of climate and weather fear-mongering, when the theater previewed Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Sequel.” His attempt to pin every weather disaster of the past decade on humanity’s fossil fuel use felt like fifty minutes of water boarding.

An often cited claim that humans, who are smarter and more technologically advanced than their ancestors, originated in response to climate change is challenged in a new report by a Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology researcher at George Washington University.

Now that they’re spotting gravitational waves more often, scientists are expanding their search for cosmic events. Specifically, they’re using new computer models to depict the cataclysmic collision that occurs when a black hole joins a neutron star (the remnants of an exploded star).

At the edge of contemporary science, a new era of technology is on the verge of bringing the future into the present.

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).