Written by Herb Rose
The debate on the nature of light in the early twentieth century, whether light was a particle or a wave, led to Einstein’s solution with the creation of the photon where waves could become particle like, having no mass but containing energy.
Written by Christopher Davidson
Many TNOs have wide, circular orbits that bring them nowhere near any of the solar system’s gas giants, leading scientists to question how the former initially got to their current positions without having interacted with a much larger object.
Written by Thomas Claburn
While the spaceship name Heart of Gold was taken by the late, great Douglas Adams, NASA has come up with something similar for its forthcoming space telescope.
Written by Tyler Durden
Earthquakes in Britain are unusual to say the least, and in London even more so. In fact, an earthquake has not struck the capital since the 1700s.
Written by Alan Siddons
You know what explanatory diagrams do. They omit several details in order to convey the main idea (see example above).
Written by Pierre Gosselin
The Global Environment and Marine Department of the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) recently corrected the long-term trend in the annual mean sea ice extent in the Antarctic area: from 0.015 x 106 km2per year to 0.019 x 106km2 per year on 11 May 2018.
Written by Paul Driessen & Roger Bezdek
Judge William Alsup has a BS in engineering, has written computer programs for his ham radio hobby, delves deeply into the technical aspects of numerous cases before him, and even studied other programming languages for a complex Oracle v. Google lawsuit.
Written by Wallace Manheimer
A claimed nearly unanimous scientific consensus on fear of climate change has caused a push to substantially reduce or even eliminate the use of fossil fuel in favor of solar and wind.
Written by Dr. Jillian Swift Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Rats were carried on ships as humans settled the remote islands of the Pacific – analysis of the rats’ remains reveals changes humans made to the island ecosystems.
Written by Karen Graham
Written by Tyler Durden
Climate change is over. Blasphemy!! No, I’m not saying the climate will not change in the future, or that human influence on the climate is negligible. I mean simply that climate change is no longer a pre-eminent policy issue.
Written by Viv Forbes
Famine has haunted humans for most of their history. In the days of the Pharaohs, whenever the Nile River failed to flood, Egypt starved. Joseph was called in and he organised stockpiling of grain for famine relief.
Written by Richard Galustian
In this month’s prestigious British Medical Journal, The Lancet, has given considerable coverage in its June issue to the fact of the dangerous upsurge for both young and old of the variety of Diabetes which is becoming one of the largest global health crises of the 21st century.
Written by Stephen Crothers
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Written by Donna Laframboise
If people followed Paul Ehrlich’s advice, empty playgrounds would litter the world.
SPOTLIGHT: Whether the predictions in Paul Ehrlich’s 50-year-old bestseller, The Population Bomb, were right or wrong matters. Because scientists and environmentalists continue to follow in his footsteps.
Written by Walter Starck
The firing of Professor Peter Ridd by James Cook University for making public his concerns about the ongoing and highly dubious environmental claims of some university researchers regarding the Great Barrier Reef has unleashed a strong surge of public response in his favor.