Category Archives: Science

Articles and news on topics that may be of interest in the sciences such as evolution, physics, cosmology and the like.

Extra funds help float Noah’s Ark replica in Kentucky

Posted on March 2, 2014 by The Great One

Reading this article just about made me gag! To think of all the people in this country who are homeless; hungry; ill; without the means to take care of their families; you name it, and these mental cripples, these morons … Continue reading →

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Baby’s Rare Brain Tumor Had Teeth

Posted on February 27, 2014 by The Great One

Wow, this is really weird, and pretty disgusting… Good thing the baby is doing well. Hopefully he or she will have a long and healthy life. TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer  A 4-month-old … Continue reading →

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Scientists pinpoint exotic new particle called quantum droplet

Posted on February 27, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the field of quantum physics, you could call this a droplet in the bucket. Physicists in Germany and the United States said on Wednesday … Continue reading →

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Record-Breaking Meteorite Crash on Moon Sparks Brightest Lunar Explosion Ever

Posted on February 25, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Megan Gannon, News Editor  The impact of a large meteorite on the lunar surface on Sept. 11, 2013, resulted in a bright flash, observed … The high-speed impact of a wayward … Continue reading →

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Confirmed: Oldest Fragment of Early Earth is 4.4 Billion Years Old

Posted on February 23, 2014 by The Great One

The earth is 4.4 billion years old? Don’t tell that to a fundamentalist Christian, as he or she will argue with you until the end of days, insisting that the entire universe, not earth, but the universe is only 6000 … Continue reading →

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Quarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth, Survey Finds

Posted on February 18, 2014 by The Great One

There is no limit to the ignorance and just plain stupidity of the human race, and that includes Americans. I suppose that if people still believe in gods and ghosts, why not believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth. … Continue reading →

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Fly Larva Crawls Inside Woman’s Ear

Posted on February 13, 2014 by The Great One

This is disgusting. TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer  A woman in Taiwan had an unusual cause of her ear pain: a fruit fly larva was wriggling around inside her ear canal. The 48-year … Continue reading →

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Star-rich galaxy found from universe’s baby years

Posted on February 11, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Irene Klotz February 10, 2014 9:50 PM CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Astronomers have found an old and distant galaxy that is believed to date back to a time when … Continue reading →

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Stargazing Duo Snaps Gorgeous Photo of Triangulum Galaxy

Posted on February 10, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nina Sen, SPACE.com Contributor February 9, 2014 10:19 AM The Triangulum Galaxy, catalogued Messier 33 or NGC 598, is a spiral galaxy located approximately 3 million … Two astrophotographers teamed up … Continue reading →

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Exotic Particles, Tiny Extra Dimensions May Await Discovery

Posted on February 9, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Katia Moskvitch, LiveScience Contributor February 7, 2014 11:32 AM LONDON — Exotic particles never before detected and possibly teensy extra dimensions may be awaiting discovery, says a physicist, adding that … Continue reading →

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Bears, eagles, seals: How endangered animals fare

Posted on February 4, 2014 by The Great One

Two of my favorite animals (and some of the most amazing in North America)  the grizzly bear and gray wolf, are on the endangered species. This is truly sad. Anything and everything that can be done to protect these magnificent … Continue reading →

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Structure of ‘Baby Milky Way’ Galaxy Seen for the First Time

Posted on February 4, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor Astronomers have gotten their first clear look at galaxy in the very early universe that could have evolved into a structure somewhat like the Milky … Continue reading →

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Ophidiophobics beware: flying snakes have great aerodynamics

Posted on February 1, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham January 30, 2014 3:48 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – This may be the last thing that anyone with a touch of ophidiophobia – fear of snakes – would want … Continue reading →

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Modern humans more Neanderthal than once thought, studies suggest

Posted on January 30, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) – It’s getting harder and harder to take umbrage if someone calls you a Neanderthal. According to two studies published on Wednesday, DNA from these … Continue reading →

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Solar Wind Creates Water in Star Dust, Implications for Life

Posted on January 29, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  Solar wind can form water on interplanetary dust, potentially adding to the primordial soup that gave rise to life on Earth, scientists say. On Earth, … Continue reading →

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7,000-Year-Old Human Bones Suggest New Date for Light-Skin Gene

Posted on January 28, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tia Ghose, Staff Writer January 26, 2014 2:04 PM An ancient European hunter-gatherer man had dark skin and blue eyes, a new genetic analysis has revealed. The analysis of the … Continue reading →

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Milky Way’s Huge Black Hole to Gobble Gas Cloud Soon

Posted on January 25, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor January 24, 2014 2:11 PM A compilation of Swift telescope observations of the center of the Milky Way, where a supermassive black … A giant gas … Continue reading →

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Male Spiders Must Twerk — or Be Eaten

Posted on January 17, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Stephanie Pappas, Senior Writer  Miley Cyrus may have made “twerking” a household word, but male black widow spiders are the real masters of the rump-jiggling dance move. These arachnids twerk … Continue reading →

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Strange Ancient Fish Had Front And Back Legs

Posted on January 14, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience Contributor The closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans likely evolved the foundation for rear legs even before the move to … Continue reading →

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Smallest, Faintest Galaxies of the Ancient Universe Spotted

Posted on January 14, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor  Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the light-bending properties of the massive galaxy cluster Abell … Two of NASA’s most powerful space telescopes have teamed up … Continue reading →

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Dark Matter Near Earth Peaks Every March, New Study Suggests

Posted on January 7, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Scientific American By Clara Moskowitz January 6, 2014 6:30 AM Billions of particles of invisible “dark matter” are probably flying through your body right now, passing through the spaces between your atoms … Continue reading →

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10 Coolest Archaeology Discoveries of 2013

Posted on January 2, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tia Ghose, Staff Writer December 31, 2013 1:14 PM Archaeologists dig through the faint traces of the past to learn more about human history. And 2013 was a big year … Continue reading →

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Bizarre Physics, Exomoons and Humanoids: Science Wishes for 2014

Posted on January 1, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Stephanie Pappas, Senior Writer December 31, 2013 8:31 AM Science breakthroughs in the past year include the discovery of new planets far beyond Earth’s solar system, the confirmation of an … Continue reading →

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The biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2013

Posted on December 29, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: THE WEEK From cloning to potential alien life By The Week Staff | 8:00am ET A galaxy teeming with Earths Astronomers calculated that there are 11 billion possibly habitable planets in our galaxy, greatly … Continue reading →

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Star Trails and Milky Way Shine over Lighthouse in Dazzling Photo

Posted on December 26, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nina Sen, SPACE.com Contributor  The Milky Way moves across the night sky in this stunning composite image recently sent to SPACE.com. Astrophotographer Mike Taylor combined 65 frames from a static time … Continue reading →

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The Virgin Birth: Why We Believe

Posted on December 24, 2013 by The Great One

People can justify anything. When a person or group of persons decides to believe in something, regardless of how absurd that something may be, they’re  going to believe it; period. Believing in miracles, virgin births, the supernatural, etc. is ridiculous. … Continue reading →

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Ants Stay Clean by Squirting Antimicrobials from Their Butts

Posted on December 23, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Laura Poppick, Staff Writer December 21, 2013 2:28 PM Ants may not seem particularly germaphobic, since they live in bacteria-rich dirt and often eat decaying plants and animals. But some … Continue reading →

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Hippie Chimps: New Clue May Explain Bonobo Peacefulness

Posted on December 20, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Megan Gannon, News Editor  Bonobos have a reputation among the great apes as “hippie chimps,” and new research hints that high levels of a key thyroid hormone may play a … Continue reading →

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Scientists discover greenhouse gas 7,100 times more potent than carbon dioxide

Posted on December 11, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff.. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Geekquinox By Scott Sutherland | Geekquinox A team of chemists from the University of Toronto has published a study that found a gas called perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA), which has been in use for … Continue reading →

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Record low temperature recorded in Antarctica: scientists

Posted on December 10, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Irene and Klotz | Reuters By Irene and Klotz SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Arctic air blasting the eastern United States is positively balmy compared to the record minus 136 … Continue reading →

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Does Age Bring Death? Not For All Species

Posted on December 9, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Stephanie Pappas | LiveScience.com Humans have a pretty straightforward view of aging: They’re born, they mature, they gradually become weaker and lose fertility, and eventually, they die. But in nature, … Continue reading →

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Cockroaches Munched on Dinosaur Poop

Posted on December 8, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGORefer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer  Scientists now have an answer to a question you never knew you had: What happened to all the dinosaur dung? Cockroaches vacuumed it up, a new study … Continue reading →

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Venus Now Shining at Its Brightest: How to See It

Posted on December 7, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGORefer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Geoff Gaherty, Starry Night Education December 5, 2013 6:56 PM Venus is shining at its brightest in the low southwestern night sky just after sunset, making it a fine time for … Continue reading →

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Scientists to Congress: We Have the Technology to Find Alien Life

Posted on December 6, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGORefer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer  For thousands of years, humans have been wondering whether there’s life elsewhere in the universe. Now, the technology finally exists to search for it. To find extraterrestrial … Continue reading →

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Signs of Water Found on 5 Alien Planets by Hubble Telescope

Posted on December 4, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall, Senior Writer NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected water in the atmospheres of five planets The five exoplanets with hints of water are all scorching-hot, Jupiter-size worlds that are … Continue reading →

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How to Find Alien Life on Dying Planets

Posted on December 2, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  If life does exist anywhere else in the universe, it may only be fleeting. Now scientists are researching how signs of life might look on … Continue reading →

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Giant Electric Fields May Supercharge Particles In Earth’s Radiation Belts

Posted on December 1, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  Huge electric fields in the radiation belts around Earth may help explain how electrons surrounding the planet can be accelerated to speeds near that of … Continue reading →

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Rise of the New Atheists “The Unbelievers”

Posted on November 30, 2013 by The Great One

A very interesting interview with two fascinating scientists; Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins… TGO Video: YouTube

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Seeing Coldest Blobs in the Universe in New Light

Posted on November 30, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience   By Becky Oskin, Staff Writer  Physicists have come up with a new way to gaze longingly at some of the weirdest matter on Earth — the super-cold, super-calm gas called … Continue reading →

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No sign of comet after pass around sun: scientists

Posted on November 30, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Irene Klotz November 28, 2013 3:34 PM (Reuters) – A comet’s 5.5-million-year journey to the inner solar system apparently ended during a suicidal trip around the sun, leaving no trace … Continue reading →

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What 11 Billion People Mean for Space Travel

Posted on November 28, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Mike Wall, Senior Writer  Robert Zubrin wants humanity to put down roots on Mars, and he thinks he knows how to make it happen at a reasonable price. The key … Continue reading →

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Milky Way s Black Hole Is Shooting Particle Jets

Posted on November 26, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… Refer to story below. Source: Scientific American By Clara Moskowitz  A torrent of energetic particles appears to be spewing from the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, coming from the gigantic black hole that lies at its heart, … Continue reading →

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Bill Nye: Debate Over Evolution In Texas Schools Is Jeopardizing Our Future

Posted on November 24, 2013 by The Great One

How stupid can people be? Is it possible that the human race can be so easily brainwashed into believing the most absurd falsehoods, despite all of the overwhelming evidence against such propositions? The answer, of course, is yes! These creationist … Continue reading →

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That Lovin’ Feeling: Guys’ Brains Respond to Gentle Touch

Posted on November 19, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer  Sometimes, science requires test tubes and Petri dishes. And other times, it involves stroking men wearing only their underpants. In a new study, researchers from Aalto … Continue reading →

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Human Evolution Shaped By Climate Change & Plate Tectonics, New Research Suggests

Posted on November 18, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Scientific American  |  By Mark Maslin, The Conversation Posted: 11/15/2013 9:07 am EST  |  Updated: 11/18/2013 8:04 am EST Editor’s note: The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication … Continue reading →

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Comet ISON Headed for Close Sun Encounter on Thanksgiving

Posted on November 15, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall, Senior Writer Comet ISON’s highly anticipated flyby of the sun is now just two weeks away, and scientists and skywatchers alike hope the encounter gives them another reason … Continue reading →

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As Myth Marries Science, the Origin Story Matters (Op-Ed)

Posted on November 10, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting article… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Roger Briggs November 8, 2013 5:09 PM Imagine that you just woke up where you are right now, with no memory of the past. You have amnesia. Your body and … Continue reading →

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Scientists say new dinosaur found in Utah is relative of T. rex

Posted on November 8, 2013 by The Great One

I can’t imagine what it must have been like with these huge reptiles roaming the earth. It would be so cool if Jurassic Park (the movie) could become reality. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Laila Kearney (Reuters) … Continue reading →

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Study: 8.8 billion Earth-size, just-right planets

Posted on November 5, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By SETH BORENSTEIN  WASHINGTON (AP) — Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets … Continue reading →

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Spooky Nebula is Coldest Known Object in Universe

Posted on October 30, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com   by Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor A ghostly nebula shining about 5,000 light-years from Earth is also the coldest known object in the universe. The dead star creating the Boomerang Nebula … Continue reading →

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