Tag Archives: Science

Big Bang, Deflated? Universe May Have Had No Beginning

Posted on February 28, 2015 by The Great One

Isn’t science great? It’s always seeking answers and never stops questioning. TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tia Ghose If a new theory turns out to be true, the universe may not have started with a bang. In … Continue reading →

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New particle in physics may be found this year

Posted on February 17, 2015 by The Great One

Science continues to advance our knowledge and understanding of the universe. Meanwhile, religion has no answers; seeks no answers. Why should it, it started out with the “answers” millennia ago. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press  February 15, … Continue reading →

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Oldest Stars in the Universe Actually Younger Than Previously Thought

Posted on February 7, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting… This is the beauty of science, it is always seeking the facts and in doing so often makes corrections to prior data/information. It doesn’t start out with answers and then fits those answers to our world; as religion does. It … Continue reading →

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Evolution Deniers Believe in ‘Smorgasbord’ of Science

Posted on January 30, 2015 by The Great One

The religiously indoctrinated will do anything to justify their beliefs, despite the fact that in reality they KNOW that their beliefs are bogus. Such is the mind once tarnished with superstition. This is why religious people cannot or simply refuse … Continue reading →

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Giant asteroid set to buzz Earth, poses no threat

Posted on January 26, 2015 by The Great One

One of these asteroids is going to make “landfall” one day and ruin the flow of our lives… And while the men and women of science track these monsters and try to figure out how to destroy one (should it … Continue reading →

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Freaky Shark ‘Out of a Horror Movie’ Caught by Fisherman

Posted on January 23, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting… One would suppose that there are still “remnants” of prehistoric times looming in different parts of the globe. Naturally, these are rare and therefore only by chance would people stumble upon them, but they do exist nevertheless. TGO Refer … Continue reading →

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Bone Density Drop in Modern Humans Linked to Less Physical Activity

Posted on December 29, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Charles Q. Choi December 27, 2014 10:42 AM The relatively lightly built skeletons of modern humans developed late in evolutionary history, and may have been the result of a shift … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Krauss: How the Universe Became Something out of Nothing

Posted on December 27, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting, but then again, the speaker is a scientist, not a theologian. TGO Video: YouTube  

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A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Posted on December 27, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting and informative conversation. TGO Video: YouTube  

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science, Religion and the Universe | Moyers & Company

Posted on December 26, 2014 by The Great One

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a fascinating man. If interested, go ahead and view the video below. TGO Video: YouTube  

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Hands and Fins Share Common Genetic Origin

Posted on December 24, 2014 by The Great One

Scientific research continues to prove, time and time again, that evolution is factual and not just a fanciful suggestion by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace. Naturally, this is in conflict with religious belief that suggests, incorrectly so, that God created … Continue reading →

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Risk of dengue increases due to climate change, city growth: research

Posted on December 23, 2014 by The Great One

I know someone who lives in the Bahamas, Nassau to be exact, and contracted dengue fever a couple of years ago. He said it is the worst thing he has ever been inflicted with. Unfortunately, these kinds of diseases generally … Continue reading →

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Dark Matter Signal May Have Been Found In Mysterious X-Ray Data

Posted on December 14, 2014 by The Great One

Science continues to make advances, seemingly at a geometric rate. Meanwhile, religious fanatics continue to believe in books littered with fairy tales; the Bible, the Koran, the Book of Mormon…Will mankind ever become truly civilized and leave behind their barbaric … Continue reading →

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Shocking news: Electric eels exert remote control over prey

Posted on December 6, 2014 by The Great One

The wonders of nature. Evolution is such an interesting field; studying how animals and plants have adapted to the environment throughout hundreds of thousands and millions of years… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham December 4, … Continue reading →

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Depth of Biggest Sea on Saturn’s Moon Titan Measured by NASA Probe

Posted on November 12, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall  Kraken Mare, the biggest hydrocarbon sea on Saturn’s huge moon Titan, is at least 115 feet (35 meters) deep and perhaps much deeper, a new study suggests. Radar … Continue reading →

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The Science of ‘Interstellar’: Black Holes, Wormholes and Space Travel

Posted on November 11, 2014 by The Great One

Sounds like an interesting flick, if you’re into that sort of thing – you know, the universe, time travel, black holes, etc. TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall  The sci-fi epic “Interstellar” is just a movie, … Continue reading →

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The Real History of Space Travel

Posted on November 10, 2014 by The Great One

Informative article for you space-junkies. TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Hollywood Reporter By Graeme McMillan November 8, 2014 4:08 PM As the promotion for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar puts it, “Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant … Continue reading →

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Atheist scientist claims religion will be gone in a generation. Is he right?

Posted on November 6, 2014 by The Great One

I seriously doubt that religion will be eradicated in one generation. This would be the ideal situation, but after 3000 years-plus of religious dogma being inculcated in the minds of members of our gullible species, I seriously doubt that it … Continue reading →

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What is the Chaos Theory?

Posted on October 26, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Investopedia By: Bob Schneider AAA | The chaos theory is a complicated and disputed mathematical theory that seeks to explain the effect of seemingly insignificant factors. The chaos theory name originates from … Continue reading →

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Lack of ocean heat puzzles NASA hunt for warming ‘hiatus’

Posted on October 8, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press October 6, 2014 4:19 PM Washington (AFP) – The deep ocean may not be hiding heat after all, raising new questions about why global warming appears to have slowed in … Continue reading →

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Sam Harris: The Self is an Illusion

Posted on October 7, 2014 by The Great One

I have a friend who is obsessed with consciousness. He was involved in a motorcycle accident and was placed in a drug-induced coma to stop the swelling in his brain. Since then, his obsession with the subject of consciousness and … Continue reading →

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Some Galaxies Like Our Milky Way are Born in Colossal Crashes

Posted on September 19, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor September 18, 2014  The history of the Milky Way has a new wrinkle. Scientists used radio telescopes like the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array — a vast … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hawking Says ‘God Particle’ Could Wipe Out the Universe

Posted on September 9, 2014 by The Great One

Super-interesting stuff… While a great deal of what I read pertaining to the universe is “over my head” (no pun intended) as I am not an astronomer or physicist, it is still fascinating nonetheless… TGO Refer to story below. Source: … Continue reading →

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Newfound Asteroid Will Give Earth Super-Close Shave on Sunday

Posted on September 6, 2014 by The Great One

All of the madness going on here on earth; the fighting, the killing… Yet all it takes is one of these giant space rocks to collide with our planet and we are history… That wouldn’t be a very honorable way … Continue reading →

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Star Explosion’s Beauty Revealed by Space Telescope Photo

Posted on August 26, 2014 by The Great One

Awesome! The universe is truly a magnificent place. It really is a shame that we don’t completely understand it, at least not yet. But then again, there is a certain beauty in the mysterious. TGO Refer to story below. Source: … Continue reading →

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5 Viruses That Are Scarier Than Ebola

Posted on August 16, 2014 by The Great One

There always seems to be some sort of virus lurking that is a threat to our species… Hopefully none of these, or others yet discovered or which haven’t hopped over from another species will be our downfall. It would really … Continue reading →

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Specks of star dust likely first from beyond solar system

Posted on August 15, 2014 by The Great One

The universe is such a fascinating place. It would have been incredible to have been born 100 years from now, just to know and understand what will be common knowledge then. With scientific advancements growing at a seemingly geometric rate, … Continue reading →

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How Did Supermassive Black Holes Get So Big So Fast?

Posted on August 8, 2014 by The Great One

Black holes have always been fascinating, although rarely understood by the average Joe, such as me. In fact, I’m not so sure that even theoretical physicists such as Stephen Hawking really and truly understand black holes. Nevertheless, it is interesting … Continue reading →

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Universe Shouldn’t Be Here, According to Higgs Physics

Posted on June 24, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tia Ghose, Staff Writer  Modeling of conditions soon after the Big Bang suggests the universe should have collapsed just microseconds after its explosive birth, the new study suggests. “During the … Continue reading →

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Particle physics: Experiments give shape to Higgs

Posted on June 23, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press Paris (AFP) – Physicists on Sunday said they had learned more about the identity of the Higgs Boson, the elusive particle whose ground-breaking discovery was announced nearly two years ago. … Continue reading →

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The Black Hole Smokescreen

Posted on June 22, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Daily Beast By Matthew R. Francis Black holes are strange, seemingly paradoxical objects. By their nature, they are nearly invisible. Yet thanks to their powerful gravitational pull, they draw in matter, … Continue reading →

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Warm blooded or cold? Dinosaurs were somewhere in between

Posted on June 14, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham June 12, 2014 4:11 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The hot question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold blooded like reptiles, fish and amphibians … Continue reading →

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11-Million-Year-Old Weird Worm Lizard Discovered

Posted on June 4, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff…TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Stephanie Pappas, Senior Writer A profile view of the skull of an 11.6 million-year-old worm lizard, reconstructed with a CT scan. They look like snakes, but don’t be fooled: Legless, slithering … Continue reading →

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Scientists Have Discovered A Planet They Thought Was Impossible

Posted on June 2, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Business Insider By Leslie Baehr  The “Godzilla of Earths!” is in the foreground. Behind it is the smaller ‘lava world’. Their sun, in the back, appears to have been created only 3 … Continue reading →

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We’ll Find Alien Life in This Lifetime, Scientists Tell Congress

Posted on May 27, 2014 by The Great One

Finding intelligent alien life would be so cool, while at the same time very frightening. The odds of aliens being friendly as opposed to hostile is not very good. As Stephen Hawking stated: “If aliens visit us, the outcome would … Continue reading →

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‘Alien’ Catfish Baffles Scientists

Posted on May 15, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Elizabeth Palermo, Live Science Contributor Kryptoglanis shajii is a tiny, subterranean catfish with a number of defining skeletal features, including a bulging lower jaw similar to a bulldog’s. The fish’s … Continue reading →

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Alien Planet Camera Is Most Sensitive Exoplanet Imager Yet

Posted on May 14, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor A newly christened telescope imager built to snap photos of alien planets around distant stars is the most sensitive camera of its kind, preliminary tests … Continue reading →

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Debunked: Red Wine Antioxidant Won’t Help You Live Longer

Posted on May 13, 2014 by The Great One

Oh well, the perception that red wine made you live longer was good while it lasted… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer  Resveratrol — an antioxidant found in foods and drinks such as red … Continue reading →

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Scientists invent new letters for the alphabet of life

Posted on May 8, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – Scientists have taken the first steps toward writing the blueprint of life in an alphabet unknown to nature, they reported online in the journal Nature. Until now, … Continue reading →

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Dark Matter and Dark Energy Mysteries: Do Neutrons Hold the Key?

Posted on May 7, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  Neutrons bouncing in Earth’s gravity are helping to shed light on two of the greatest mysteries in the universe, dark matter and dark energy, researchers … Continue reading →

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Here’s The Most Remarkable Thing About The Universe, According To Bill Nye

Posted on May 3, 2014 by The Great One

In case anyone is interested in getting to know a little about Bill Nye, the “Science Guy.” It’s thanks to people like him that the religious nuts in this country haven’t completely taken over. TGO Refer to story below. Source: … Continue reading →

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Ancient flying reptile from China fills evolutionary gap

Posted on April 26, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham April 24, 2014  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was the start of something big – really big. Scientists on Thursday said they have found a fossil from 163 million … Continue reading →

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Poll: Big Bang a big question for most Americans

Posted on April 21, 2014 by The Great One

Unfortunately, most Americans have been inflicted with religious beliefs, passed on by their parents whose parents passed it onto them, etc., etc., etc. These beliefs stultify the minds of people when it comes to accepting other ideas. The reason is … Continue reading →

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Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet

Posted on April 18, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By ALICIA CHANG LOS ANGELES (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected — a distant, rocky world that’s similar in size to … Continue reading →

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Shoo fly: pesky insect escapes using fighter jet maneuvers

Posted on April 12, 2014 by The Great One

Flies are disgusting, but at the same time amazing creatures. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham April 10, 2014 2:57 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – What does a tiny fruit fly have in common with the world’s … Continue reading →

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Americas get front-row seat for lunar eclipse

Posted on April 9, 2014 by The Great One

For you star gazers out there… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By MARCIA DUNN  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — North and South America, get ready for the first eclipse of the year— in color. Next Tuesday morning, … Continue reading →

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Creationists Hate This Catholic

Posted on April 6, 2014 by The Great One

Talk about straddling the fence… Sorry folks, one cannot be a serious scientist and believe the mumbo-jumbo in the Bible, any more than one can be a devout Christian and disbelief in the resurrection of Christ. The two, religion and … Continue reading →

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Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth’s worst mass extinction

Posted on April 4, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham March 31, 2014 4:00 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sometimes bad things come in small packages. A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth’s atmosphere triggered a … Continue reading →

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Major Solar Flare Erupts from the Sun (Video)

Posted on April 2, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer March 31, 2014 12:26 PM The sun unleashed a major solar flare on Saturday (March 29), causing a radio blackout for several minutes on Earth, space … Continue reading →

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Does Dark Energy Spring From the ‘Quantum Vacuum?’

Posted on April 1, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall, Senior Writer  Observations of Planck and other satellites help to solve the equation of the state of dark energy. The mysterious dark energy that’s driving the universe’s accelerated … Continue reading →

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