Mega destructive weapons can be fitted with nuclear warheads and travel so fast that they are basically unstoppable. Experts believe they will make an apocalyptically devastating global conflict more likely to occur.

Scientists have uncovered more than 8,000 fossils during an expedition to a lost, underwater continent in the Pacific Ocean. Drilling into the crust of Zealandia, thousands of feet below the surface, researchers discovered the remains of hundreds of species including pollen from land plants.

The land mass, on which New Zealand sits, was announced as the globe’s newest continent earlier this year. It spans 5,000,000 sq km and is a distinct geological entity, a landmark study declared in the summer.

“U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials said they cannot determine with certainty that walruses are likely to become endangered “in the foreseeable future,” which the agency defines as the year 2060.”

Hurricanes have been a topic of attention recently for obvious reasons. I have done a lot of analysis of Atlantic storms, but elsewhere there is much less historical data, due to the lack of monitoring at the time.

In a recently released video interview by journalist Jörg Rehmann, University of Magdeburg economics professor Joachim Weimann explains why renewable energies have been a terrible idea for Germany so far.

A record 600 weeks without a major hurricane is weather, but two weeks of weather in 2017 is climate.

Scientists taking a new look at older data from NASA’s longest-operating Mars orbiter have discovered evidence of significant hydration near the Martian equator — a mysterious signature in a region of the Red Planet where planetary scientists figure ice shouldn’t exist.

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Precise “chemical surgery” has been performed on human embryos to remove disease in a world first, Chinese researchers have told the BBC.

The team at Sun Yat-sen University used a technique called base editing to correct a single error out of the three billion “letters” of our genetic code. They altered lab-made embryos to remove the disease beta-thalassemia. The embryos were not implanted.

The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for developing a technique to produce images of the molecules of life frozen in time.

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson will receive equal shares of the 9m Swedish kronor (£825,000) prize, which was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Wednesday.

Lots of global warming alarmists are hyperventilating over President Donald Trump’s pick of U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla. a “climate change denier,” to head NASA.

The Kalina geothermal power plant in Unterhaching, Germany, put into operation with great fanfare some 8 years ago in 2009, shuts down.

Scottish scientists have used meteorites fallen to Earth to recreate the evolution of a volcano on Mars, in a first-ever attempt made in history. The space rocks analysed hid more than 90 million years of information on the Red Planet’s volcanoes.

They allowed scientists to identify from which volcano they came from, how fast it grew and how long it was active. Mars has the largest volcanoes in the solar system. Olympus Mons is more than 370 miles wide and over 13 miles high, more than twice the height of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth.

Study applies standardized lab experiments to refute Max Planck’s classic text, “The Theory of Heat Radiation”. New research shows the German physicist was unable to properly justify Kirchhoff’s Law.

The Great Barrier Reef is recovering ‘surprisingly’ fast, according to Australia’s state propagandist ABC. Optimism is rising among scientists that parts of the Great Barrier Reef that were severely bleached over the past two years are making a recovery.

Scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science this month surveyed 14 coral reefs between Cairns and Townsville to see how they fared after being bleached.

Life on Earth began up to 4.5 billion years ago as carbon-rich meteors bombarded the planet and leached the essential elements into “warm little ponds”, according to new research. It was in this nutrient-rich broth that the first self-replicating molecules, with the first genetic code for life, were born.

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What would you put on your list of the great scientific breakthroughs of the 20th Century? General relativity? Quantum mechanics? Something to do with genetics, perhaps?