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India-US row escalates over diplomat's arrest
Indian leaders boycott US congressional delegation and mull retaliatory steps over arrest of diplomat in New York.
Claim: Solar, AMO, & PDO cycles combined reproduce the global climate of the past
Guest essay by H. Luedecke and
C.O.Weiss We reported recently about our publication [1] which shows
that during the last centuries all climate changes were caused by
periodic ( i.e. natural ) processes. Non-periodic processes like a
warming through the monotonic increase of CO2 in the atmosphere could
cause at most 0.1° to 0.2° warming […]
Useless or harmful: hand soap, vitamin pills, raw milk
Today, the news outlets are
full of reports that some "common supplements" of the modern life that
are believed to aid our health are claimed to be useless if not harmful.
I will mention three independent major stories:FDA against
anti-bacterial soapsPapers against vitamin pillsPaper counting illnesses
caused by raw milkThe common theme is that it seem incredible to me
that after so many years and after the sale of billions of these
products for hundreds of billions of dollars, the question whether these
things are helpful seems completely open.A typical Czech raw milk
vendor machine
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Taking On The Gun Control Crazies
According to the FBI, “active
shooter incidents” have tripled in recent years….then, they admit that
it probably hasn’t. (See below). The vast majority of “active shooter
incidents” do not end with dozens of deaths. Actually, most of them are
foiled by brave bystanders or by the police, and the mainstream media
flatly ignores those incidents. What the mainstream media focuses on and
hypes to the e
Climate Fat Cats exposed with naked conflicts of interest. Where was The BBC?
Another cycle of the Climate
Change Scare Machine is laid bare. David Rose explains how those
lobbying and advising the government on green policies are benefiting
from green projects. It’s all in the Daily Mail. The Green Industrial
Complex has simply bought everyone off, and, cleverly, done it with your
money. It’s the new business model really. Why work for customers and
compete in the free m
Windscreen wipers could soon be obselete
McLaren is working on a new
technology that could soon see traditional windscreen wipers disappear.
The new windscreen clearing mechanism is based on ...
Demonic Possession and Stigmata with Craig Santy
Tonight, we welcome writer, artist, producer and paranormal/occult
researcher Craig Santy to the broadcast. He was the producer of the
Hollywood blockbuster “Stigmata”, as well as the television productions
“Little Lost Souls: Children Possessed?” and “Crime 360″.
website: Facebook, IMDB, Twitter
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Milner-Zuckerberg Prizes for Mathematics
At the Hollywood-style awards
ceremony last night for $3 million string theory and biomedical research
prizes, it was announced that Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg will now
start funding something similar in mathematics, called the Breakthrough
Prize in Mathematics. According to the New York Times:
Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur, philanthropist and self-described
“failed physicist” who made a splash two years ago when he began
handing out lavish cash awards to scientists, announced Thursday that he
was expanding the universe of his largess again: This time, he will
begin handing out $3
Peter Higgs: “Today I wouldn’t get an academic job. It’s as simple as that”
The Guardian has an
interesting piece about Peter Higgs, evidently their reporter talked to
him on his way to the Nobel Prize ceremonies this week in Stockholm.
Higgs will be speaking tomorrow (Sunday), and I’m curious to hear what
he will have to say. His talk will be available live at the Nobel Prize
website.
Higgs points out that the kind of work he was awarded the prize for was
done in an environment that no longer exists:
He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today’s academic
culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and
keep churning out papers. He
Controversy over Yau-Tian-Donaldson
The last posting here was
about an unusually collaborative effort among mathematicians, whereas
this one is about the opposite, an unusually contentious situation
surrounding important recent mathematical progress.
What’s at issue is the proof of what has become known as the
“Yau-Tian-Donaldson” conjecture, which describes when compact Kähler
manifolds with positive first Chern class have a Kähler-Einstein metric.
This is analogous to the Calabi conjecture, which deals with the case
of vanishing first Chern class. Progress by Donaldson on this was first
mentioned on this blog here (based on h
Dec 11
2014 Milner Prizes
Last March an Oscar-style
ceremony hosted by Morgan Freeman was held in Geneva (see here) to award
the 2013 $3 million Milner Prize to Princeton string theorist Alexander
Polyakov. Tomorrow an even more lavish ceremony designed to turn
“Oscars of Science” into instant multi-millionaires will be held in
Mountain View, California (see here). It will feature Kevin Spacey,
Conan O’Brien and Glenn Clos
Dec 10
Latest on Amplitudes
This week the Simons Center is
hosting a workshop on “The Geometry and Physics of Scattering
Amplitudes”, talks are available here. Last week they (and the YITP)
held a one-day symposium on Trees, loops and precision QCD, based around
the work of Zvi Bern, Lance Dixon and David Kosower that was recently
awarded the 2014 Sakurai Prize. For more about this, see Dixon’s guest
post here, or his talk a
Dec 09
What’s Next?
Last week’s public lecture at
the Institute for Advanced Study by Nati Seiberg is now available
online. He was speaking with the title What’s Next? and promoting a
story about where particle physics is and where it is going pretty much
identical with that coming from his IAS colleagues. Despite the
overwhelming failure of string theory unification and the dramatic
evidence from the LHC ruling out
Dec 05
News from CERN
Here’s a roundup of recent
CERN-related news:
The status of the LHC and the LHC experiments was discussed here
yesterday. The LHC shutdown is more or less on track, first beams at 13
TeV total energy Jan. 2015, physics starting April 2015.
Both ATLAS and CMS have announced new data on tau-tau decays of the
Higgs, providing stronger evidence for this signal than was available
earlier. ATLAS sees a
Nov 27
Quantum Mechanics and Representation Theory: talk and book progress
Last week I gave a colloquium
talk at the Texas Tech math department, slides are here if you’re
interested. One motivation for the talk was to advertise the book
project I’m working on, which gives a lot more detail about these topics
if you find something interesting in the slides.
The current state of the book is visible here. There are 31 chapters
done, about another 5 to go. I also need to go
Nov 20
Progress on Twin Primes
There’s a new paper out on the
arXiv last night, Small gaps between primes, by James Maynard, which
brings the bound on the size of gaps between primes down to 600. This
uses some new methods, beating out the Polymath8 project, which has been
improving Zhang’s original bound of 70,000,000, getting it down to
4680.
To follow the Polymath8 project, the place to look is Terence Tao’s
blog, here. They
Nov 17
Philip Anderson’s 90th
birthday is coming up next month, and Princeton will host a workshop
commemorating the event. Witten and Wilczek will give talks on the
Anderson-Higgs mechanism, for which Anderson recently was not awarded a
Nobel Prize (for the history of this, more here).
Princeton condensed matter theorist Shivaji Sondhi has an article here
about the role of Anderson in the Higgs story, r
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First Direct Measurement of Infection Rates For Smartphone Viruses
Nobody has ever accurately measured the number of smartphones infected with malware. Until now.
Wikipedia's Secret Multilingual Workforce
Wikipedia’s various language
editions often carry entirely different content. Now one researcher has
identified a small band of multilingual editors who are working to
change that.
How Internet-Style Routing For Gas Could Dramatically Improve Europe's Energy Security
Routing gas around Europe
using the same decentralised control techniques developed for the
internet could reduce the way energy crises cascade, say network and
complexity theorists.
Dec 14
Other Interesting arXiv Papers
The best of the rest from the
arXiv preprint server.Cellphone based Portable Bacteria
Pre-Concentrating microfluidic Sensor and Impedance Sensing System
Dec 12
First Lasing Nanofibres Open the Way for Cheap, Soft Laser Textiles
By adding laser dyes to
organic fibers, researchers have demonstrated a technique that should
lead to textiles that lase at all visible frequencies.
Dec 09
The Emerging Technologies Shaping Future 5G Networks
The fifth generation of mobile
communications technology will see the end of the “cell” as the
fundamental building block of communication networks.
Dec 06
Other Interesting arXiv Papers
The best of the rest from the arXiv preprint server.Mobile and Remote Inertial Sensing with Atom Interferometers
Dec 05
Physicists Discover World's First Naturally Occurring Topological Insulator
The were first predicted in
2005 and first synthesized in the lab in 2008. Now physicists have
discovered a naturally occurring topological insulator that can be mined
from the earth’s crust.Topological insulators are one of the more
exciting new materials in science. This stuff is odd because is a
conductor on the surface but an insulator inside, rather like a block of
ice in which melting water
Dec 04
The Future of Photography: Cameras With Wings
The next generation of
photographers will think nothing of taking a camera out of their pocket
and releasing it to the skies, like a dove to the wind.
Dec 03
If you want a good answer, ask
a decent question. That’s the startling conclusion to a study of online
Q&As.If you spend any time programming, you’ll probably have come
across the question and answer site Stack Overflow. The site allows
anybody to post a question related to programing and receive answers
from the community.
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Federal Judge: NSA Phone Records Dragnet 'Likely Unconstitutional', 'Almost Orwellian'
A federal judge has found the
bulk collection of metadata of U.S. phone calls to be "indiscriminate"
and "arbitrary" and, therefore, in violation of the Constitution's 4th
Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure. His opinion was
hailed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden who has been asserting
that point as the central basis for his having leaked thousands of
classified documents in regard to programs run by the federal agency.
Politico's Josh Gerstein, who appears to have been the first to break
the news today, reports it this way...
A federal judge rul
Federal Court Denies 'True the Vote' Attempt to Intervene in Texas Photo ID Restriction Law Case
A federal District court judge
has nixed a rightwing "voter fraud" group's Motion to Intervene on
behalf of the state of Texas in the U.S. Dept. of Justice's lawsuit to
block the Lone Star state's polling place Photo ID restriction law.
Last month, The BRAD BLOG reported on the DoJ's Opposition motion filed
in response to the motion by the Republican "voter fraud" fraudsters who
call themselves "True the Vote" (TTV). In its motion, TTV sought to
become a party to the DoJ's federal legal challenge to SB-14, the
state's polling place Photo ID restriction law which T
'Green News Report' - December 12, 2013
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Scientists warn of abrupt climate change;
Prominent scientists call for a carbon tax... while Big Oil is secretly
planning for it; FDA moves to ban some antibiotics in factory farming;
PLUS: After moving to claim the North Pole as their own, Canada promises
to protect Santa from the Russians ... All those new fronts in the War
on Christmas in today's Green News Report!
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Dec 12
Yet Another Reason Internet Voting is a Terrible Idea: Targeted Attacks
Hijacked 'Vast Amounts of Data' to Foreign Countries Earlier This Year
[This article now
cross-published by The Progress...]
We've discussed, many times over the years, the madness of Internet
Voting schemes. Today we've got yet another piece of disturbing evidence
that underscores why such a scheme for American democracy would be
nothing short of insane.
The BRAD BLOG has highlighted how easily Internet elections can be
hacked by all sorts of nefarious folks (perhap
Dec 11
Bush-Appointed Director of Federal Housing Agency Finally Replaced After Filibuster Change
Yesterday, nearly five years
after President Barack Obama first assumed office, the U.S. Senate
removed what has been described by some progressives as the "single
largest obstacle to meaningful economic recovery" when it was finally
allowed to vote for the confirmation of Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) as the new
Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
In a vote allowed by a recent
Dec 10
'Green News Report' - December 10, 2013
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The climate action legacy of Nelson Mandela;
Historic water compact in the volatile Middle East; Air pollution linked
to autism; Water pollution linked to miscarriages; PLUS: Canada is
claiming the North Pole because... drill baby drill ... All that and
more in today's Green News Report!
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Dec 09
New Law Brought to State Legislature by Citizen Election Integrity
Advocate Now Makes It Slightly Easier to Oversee Election Results in CA
I'm in the middle of a number
of other things, but I wanted to just offer a quick --- and very belated
--- note of congrats to longtime citizen Election Integrity advocate
Tom Courbat of Riverside County, CA. (Decidedly not to be confused with
Pennsylvania's democracy-hating Gov. Tom Corbett.)
Late in the summer, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed AB 831, a
short and simple bill, brought to th
Government Slices Through RW Propaganda in SCOTUS 'Obamacare' Contraception Cases
[This article now
cross-published by The Progress...]
The government's Supreme Court petition [PDF] in the upcoming cases
concerning a supposed 'religious right' of for-profit corporations to
ignore the contraceptive coverage mandate of the Afford Care Act (ACA)
is a worthwhile read, simply because it slices through the fog of the
GOP's relentless, anti-Obamacare propaganda war. That war includes
Dec 06
In Memoriam: Nelson Mandela...
NELSON MANDELA, 1918 - 2013
Maine Governor Celebrates Global Warming For Opening Up Frozen Oil Shipping Passages
I asked on Thursday's Green
News Report, but it deserves highlight and asking again: Is Maine's
Governor Paul LePage (R) the dumbest governor in the country? Or the
dumbest governor in history?
Via David Edwards at RAW STORY...
Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) on Thursday encouraged people to look on the
bright side of global warming.
At the 64th annual Maine Transportation Conference, the governor buck
Dec 05
'Green News Report' - December 5, 2013
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Obama 'finds the courage': orders federal
government to increase use of renewable energy; Maine Gov. Paul LePage
(R) celebrates melting Arctic; ALEC and Koch Bros. launch an attack on
solar; Solar panel maker takes on Germany's electric utilities; PLUS:
The Heartland Institute is lying again, this time about the American
Meteorological Society ... All that and more i
Clear Channel to Remove L.A. and San Francisco's Only Commercial
Progressive Talk Radio Stations, Replace Them with More Rightwing Talk
The largest media market in
the world is about to lose its only non-Rightwing commercial talk radio
station. Los Angeles' KTLK 1150am will be flipped to a far Rightwing
station featuring hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and
other rightwing talkers. "The changes are set to take effect for the
first broadcast of 2014," according to the Los Angeles Times this
afternoon.
KT
Dec 03
'Green News Report' - December 3, 2013
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: It's official: Hottest spring on record Down
Under; Big Fossil Fuel = Big Tobacco; BP suit halts Gulf Oil Spill
compensation; New rules for toxic flame retardants; Say goodbye to
antibacterial soaps; PLUS: Wall Street may finally be looking to cover
its (unburnable) assets ... All that and more in today's Green News
Report!
Please help us connect the climate change d
Yes, Santa Claus, There is a Virginia: 'Recount' and Potential 'Contest' Still Ahead in VA AG Race
Election 2013 is but a memory
--- good or bad --- for much of the nation. But, in Virginia, election
officials, attorneys and partisans will still be busy as elves
throughout much of the holiday season, and potentially even beyond,
determining final results of the statewide November 5th Attorney
General's election this year.
Last week, on the day before Thanksgiving, Virginia's Republican AG
candi
Dec 01
'Haunting Parallels' in Denialist Tactics of Big Tobacco and Big Fossil Fuel
Great thanks to Peter Sinclair
and his "Climate Denial Crock of the Week" last week for plotting this
out in a quick video. The parallels between the denialist PR scams,
lies, pretend science, spending and attacks by both 'Big' industries
here are, indeed, striking.
It's also interesting to see both Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the man who
apologized to BP after the 2010 Gulf Oil Disaster, an
Nov 26
'Green News Report' - November 26, 2013
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Last-minute agreement at contentious UN climate
talks in Warsaw; U.S. methane emissions 50% higher than previously
thought; World's 1st genetically modified food animal one step closer to
market; PLUS: Ontario, Canada breaks up with coal, and Al Gore is happy
about it! ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
Help us continue connecting climate change dots
CBS' Lara Logan, Her Producer, to Take 'Leave of Absence' Following Bogus Benghazi Report
[This article now
cross-published by Salon...]
In the wake of 60 Minutes' bogus Benghazi report, starring an
eye-witness who, as it turns out, appears to have completely lied about
being there during the 2012 attack on the U.S. compound which resulted
in the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S.
personnel, rightwing reporter Lara Logan and her producer will be taking
a &quo
JFK on 'The Most Powerful and Precious Right'...
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Nov 25
Dumbest Wingnut of the Week? Or Dumbest Wingnut Ever?
I'd hate for this rather
high-larious conversation to get lost. Aside from being hysterical
funny, to me, anyway, it's also quite illustrative of how wingnuttery
works these days.
Purposely disinformed boobs are given false information by Rightwing
corporate charlatans to create an army of pawns and stooges all to ready
to spread the disinformation. Those pawns and stooges occasionally show
up in
Nov 24
Health Care Spending Flattens Since Passage of 'Obamacare', Corporate Media Fail to Notice
Let's keep this a secret from
the U.S. corporate media, but, as Sy Mukherjee and Andrew Breiner note
at ThinkProgress...
On Wednesday, the new head of the White House Council of Economic
Advisers released a bombshell report finding that U.S. health care
spending since 2010 has increased by just 1.3 percent - the smallest
cost growth over a three-year period in American history - while prices
in th
Nov 22
Deeds Released from Hospital: 'I Am Alive So Must Live'
Let's end this week far better
than it began
On Tuesday, Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds (D) was stabbed multiple
times in his own home, by his son Gus who, having reportedly had a
mental evaluation the day before, was not kept overnight, due to lack of
bed space in western Virginia.
Gus shot himself to death that morning, after stabbing his father who
was airlifted to the hospital in critical co
Senate Majority Invokes 'Democracy Option'
[This article now
cross-published by The Progressive...]
It took awhile. A few years even. But, on Thursday, Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) finally decided he'd had enough.
By a majority vote of 52 to 48, the U.S. Senate changed their rules to
partially end the filibuster, invoking what some refer to as the
so-called "nuclear option". The rule change, which will permit an up-or
Nov 21
'Green News Report' - November 21, 2013
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Impasse at the UN climate summit as developing
nations walk out of negotiations; Just 90 companies responsible for most
of man-made global warming emissions; 'Apocalyptic' rains strike again,
this time in Sardinia; PLUS: Didja hear the one about the Polish
environment minister who was fired in the middle of the UN climate
summit in Poland? ... All of those hot messes
New Report Cites U.S. Chamber's $12m Plot Against BRAD BLOG, Other Progressive Groups
Oh, what fun. This, of course,
is just one of the reasons why it's important that you help support and
fund the work we do here at The BRAD BLOG. We're up against the
unaccountable hoodlums and thugs like the far rightwing U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, the largest lobbying organization in the world. So we must be
doing something right.
And there is no tactic too dirty for the slimeballs at the Chamber
Nov 20
The Walking Drudge: Be Very Afraid
Think I just figured out why
Republicans are scared to death!!! of "illegal aliens". Republicans read
the Drudge Report. And where ever Drudge says "aliens", they see
"ZOMBIES!" instead.
See this section from Drudge's homepage last night for instance...
Scary, eh? Lock your doors! They're coming for you next!
VA AG Race: About That 500+ Vote Republican Pickup in Bedford County
Sometimes it's a good idea to
get a full explanation before these things become fodder in a
contentious partisan legal election contest. So that's what we've tried
to do. Happily, the General Registrar of Bedford County, VA was more
than willing to help.
Last week, and the week before, The BRAD BLOG devoted quite a bit of
coverage to the incredibly close Attorney General's race in Virginia. As
of
Nov 19
'Green News Report' - November 19, 2013
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Rare and deadly November tornado outbreak in
US; Record and extreme weather disasters on the rise; Dangerous cleanup
operation begins at Fukushima; PLUS: UN climate treaty negotiations
stall ... All those dots connected and more in today's Green News
Report!
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Horrific News Out of Virginia
This story is horrific. It
struck me even more so this morning, given that I had just been in
contact with Virginia state Senator Creigh Deeds (D) last week on
several occasions and had asked him to appear as my guest on the
KPFK/Pacifica Radio BradCast.
Deeds is currently said to be in critical condition after being stabbed
multiple times today in his own home, "in the head and torso,"
Fox' Kurtz Slams Bogus CBS Benghazi Report, Ignores Fox' Benghazi Reports From Same Source
[This article now
cross-published by Salon...]
Over the weekend, new Fox "News" lamestream media warrior Howard Kurtz
was appropriately critical of the pathetic "apology" CBS' 60 Minutes
offered for their bogus Benghazi report which was based entirely on a
lying "witness" to the September 2012 attack. (The guy was never there,
the story was completely made up.)
Fox do
Nov 18
Election Day 'Drug Bust' as Voter Suppression in NC Town?
From Brentin Mock of "Facing
South", a publication of the non-profit Institute for Southern
Studies...
Residents of Mount Gilead, a town of about 1,100 people in central North
Carolina, are reeling from a police sting operation that netted 59
arrests the morning of Election Day [11/5/2013]. All of those arrested
were African Americans, all for possession of drugs, alcohol and guns.
Some
All the King's Horses and all the King's Men...
The last graf from an AP
article describing the plunge in spending by "outside" Rightwing groups,
so far this year, on 2014 campaigns...
Americans for Prosperity, a group backed by the conservative billionaire
Koch brothers, saturated Iowa mailboxes and telephone lines recently to
support conservative city council candidates [in the November 5, 2013
election]. But they all lost.
Warren: Republicans Helping to 'Rig the Court' Through Filibuster of D.C. Circuit Court Nominees
Last week, Senator Elizabeth
Warren (D-MA), a former Harvard Law Professor, argued that Senators not
only have the right, but a constitutional duty to change the Senate
filibuster rules. She argued, in no small part to her fellow Democrats,
that the rules were being abused by Republicans as part of a "naked
attempt to nullify the results of the last Presidential election [in
order] to force u
Nov 16
In a letter this week, twenty
of the nation’s top climate scientists urged Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) to
impose an immediate moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing (aka
"fracking") as a means for extracting oil and natural gas in the Golden
State.
Just days later, the state issued new draft regulations for "fracking".
The new regulations were praised by the fossil fuel indu
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Scientists discover second DNA code
The breakthrough was made as
part of a project funded by the US National Human Genome Research
Institute. It has long been believed that DNA is respon...
Cairo sees snow for first time in 112 years
Abnormal weather across the
Middle-East has seen snow in some regions for the first time in decades.
Cairo is traditionally associated with sweltering...
Windscreen wipers could soon be obselete
McLaren is working on a new
technology that could soon see traditional windscreen wipers disappear.
The new windscreen clearing mechanism is based on ...
Yesterday
Was Noah's Ark a 'double-decker coracle' ?
Museum expert Irving Finkel
believes that the biblical vessel wasn't the shape depicted in most
pictures. A huge wooden boat large enough to house two...
NASA unveils prototype humanoid robot
The American space agency has
revealed that it has been developing a 6ft robot known as Valkyrie.
Weighing in at 20 stone, NASA's answer to Iron Man f...
Dec 15
China celebrates moon landing success
The mission represents the
first time any spacecraft has soft landed on the moon in over 37 years.
Some would say that China's space program has been ...
Are humans really smarter than animals ?
Evolutionary biologists
believe that some animals possess superior cognitive abilities to
humans. Scientists at the University of Adelaide have put fo...
Iran sends second monkey in to space
Iran's space program took
another firm step forwards this week as a second monkey was flown in to
space. President Hassan Rouhani announced that the p...
Dec 14
Could the universe be about to collapse ?
Scientists have highlighted
the possibility that the universe may one day collapse in on itself.
Despite the fact that the universe appears to be expa...
Could horoscopes be bad for you ?
While astrology may seem
harmless, new research has suggested that it could have an unexpected
dark side. The process of reading your star sign has lo...
Dec 13
Europa could be home to 200km high geysers
Geysers on Jupiter's icy moon
Europa may reach heights 20 times greater than that of Mount Everest.
The possibility was identified by researchers who ...
Dec 12
Starchild skull researcher Lloyd Pye has died
The author and paranormal
researcher died on Monday evening at the age of 67 after a battle with
cancer. Author of several books including the novels ...
Did dinosaur asteroid send life to Mars ?
The asteroid that wiped out
the dinosaurs may have also catapulted life to Mars and elsewhere.
Panspermia is the idea that life, far from relying sole...
New greenhouse gas dwarfs CO2 impact
A recently discovered gas
appears to be 7,000 times more impactful on climate change than CO2.
Perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA) is a non-naturall...
Dec 11
Mars One announces satellite and lander
The company aiming to send
humans on a one-way Mars trip is set to launch a robotic mission by
2018. With more than 200,000 applicants signed up for a...
Ancient hominin skeleton discovered
Fossil remains of an ancient
hominim species dating back 1.34 million years have been unearthed.
Discovered at the Olduvai Gorge site in Tanzania, the...
Supervolcano turns out to be double the size
The supervolcano at
Yellowstone National Park is believed to be 2.5 times larger than
earlier estimates. The natural beauty and hot springs of Yellows...
Dec 10
Strongest evidence yet found for life on Mars
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover
has provided enough evidence to suggest Mars could have supported life.
Scientists studying the data and photographs retur...
Private investigator films UFO
An investigator watching a
building in the early hours managed to film something unusual in the
sky. Joe Rodriguez had been on stakeout in Los Angeles...
Vast undersea freshwater reserves found
An international team of
scientists has discovered huge quantities of fresh water underneath the
ocean. The researchers estimate that there could be u...
Dec 09
Coldest place on Earth discovered
Scientists have measured a
record-breaking temperature of -91C on a mountain ridge in Antarctica.
America's National Snow and Ice Data Centre made the...
130 million-year-old 'sea monster' found
Palaeontologists have
uncovered the remains of a huge prehistoric predatory marine reptile.
The fossil remains were unearthed in Boyaca, a landlocked ...
Dec 05
Hubble detects water on five exoplanets
The Hubble Space Telescope has
picked up signs of water in the atmospheres of several distant worlds.
Two teams of planetary scientists made the disco...
'World's scariest advert' unveiled in Japan
The paranormal themed tyre
commercial is so terrifying that it comes with its own health warning.
Eager to make sure that their latest advertising cam...
Police mistake ghost hunters for burglars
A group of people on a ghost
tour in Gettysburg were arrested after police mistook them for burglers.
The group had been touring an allegedly haunted ...
Dec 03
Legends revisited: the Mary Celeste
The fate of the Mary Celeste
remains one of the most enigmatic and pervasive mysteries of all time.
The story goes that the ship was discovered adrift...
Crocodiles use tools to hunt birds
Crocodiles and alligators have
been observed using a special technique to lure and catch birds. In
recent years reptiles have been recognized as being...
China launches lunar lander mission
China has successfully
launched its latest lunar spacecraft in a bid to place a rover on the
moon. Chang'e 3 is the third spacecraft that China has se...
Dec 02
Are phobias passed down through DNA ?
Scientists believe that
phobias may be passed down between generations through a person's DNA.
Traditionally it was thought that memories and experien...
Amazon to launch drone delivery service
The online retail giant is
testing a new delivery system that used unmanned drones to send parcels.
The drones, called Octocopters, would be ca...
New species of wild cat discovered
A completely new cat species
known as the tigrina has been identified in northeastern Brazil. The
discovery was made when two populations of cats that...
Dec 01
Are we a cross between a pig and a chimp ?
One of the world's leading
hybridization experts believes that humans did not evolve entirely from
apes. Dr Eugene McCarthy has turned the conventiona...
Dendelion grows inside girl's ear
Doctors in China have
successfully removed a dandelion found growing in the ear of a
16-month-old girl. Ranran's parents had taken her to see a doctor...
CERN runs new anti-gravity experiment
Physicists at CERN are
attempting to test whether or not antimatter has anti-gravitational
properties. One of the more enigmatic materials believed to...
Nov 30
Japan to place giant solar belt around moon
A Japanese firm is aiming to
build a huge 250-mile-wide belt of solar panels around the moon's
equator. In a bid to help solve Japan's energy problems...
Oldest known Buddhist shrine discovered
Traces of an ancient wooden
structure have been found within the sacred Mayadevi temple in Lumbini.
The structure dates back to around the sixth centu...
Nov 29
Has Comet Ison been destroyed ?
The 'comet of the century'
didn't survive its close encounter with the sun and appears to have
broken up. While it was always a possibility that the s...
Prehistoric 'communal toilet' unearthed
A vast latrine dating back
more than 240 million years has been discovered in Argentina. Thought to
be the "world's oldest public toilet", the site ha...
Ronnie Vannucci Jr. recalls UFO encounter
The Killers' drummer has
recounted his own experience with a UFO during a recent magazine
interview. Now a staple part of one of the world's biggest p...
Nov 28
NASA plans to grow plants on the moon
One of NASA's new upcoming
projects will attempt to grow plants on the moon for the first time. The
Lunar Plant Growth Habitat team consists of scient...
Nov 27
Comet Ison set to provide spectacular show
It will soon be crunch time
for the 'comet of the century' as it passes through the corona of the
sun. Originally a resident of the Oort cloud, a larg...
'Monster' skate caught off Miami beach
A fisherman from Florida has
made headlines after catching a massive 800-pound skate fish. Captain
Mark Quartiano, who also goes by the nickname "Mark...
Woman records news on 140,000 VHS tapes
Marion Stokes took it upon
herself to single-handedly record over 35 years worth of news from the
TV. Between 1977 and 2012 Marion spent a great deal ...
Nov 26
Hanging Gardens of Babylon site discovered?
An Oxford University academic
believes she has found the precise location of the ancient wonder. The
legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of ...
Man has ability to 'taste' words and sounds
James Wannerton possesses the
unusual ability to derive an actual physical taste from places and
names. The 54-year-old suffers from a rare neurologic...
Moose-eating shark saved from choking
Two men in Newfoundland have
been credited with saving a shark from choking to death on a moose.
Sharks have something of a reputation for taking a bi...
Nov 25
Man films mysterious light over Canterbury
Sasha Shaker used his iPad to
record footage of a strange glowing sphere as it danced across the sky.
Sasha and his wife Carly had been returning home...
Awe inspires belief in the supernatural
Awe-inspiring scenes such as
the Grand Canyon have been found to invoke supernatural beliefs. The
claim is based on research conducted by a team from ...
Oldest Mars meteorite found in the Sahara
A rock discovered in the
Sahara desert has turned out to be the oldest Martian meteorite ever
found. In the not-too-distant future scientists hope to ...
Nov 24
Efforts renewed to clone extinct goat
Spanish scientists are
redoubling their efforts to clone the bucardo which died out 13 years
ago. The bucardo, an extinct mountain goat that is a sub-...
Stonehenge source discovered in Wales
Archaeologists admit that
they've been looking for clues in the wrong place for almost 100 years.
For the longest time the huge stone slabs that make ...
Black widows found in supermarket grapes
A shopper who had bought a
bunch of grapes returned home to find more than she had bargained for.
Yvonne Whalen had bought the grapes from a Giant Foo...
Nov 23
Astronomers observe huge cosmic explosion
A powerful supernova in a
distant galaxy has produced the largest gamma ray burst ever detected.
Referred to by scientists as "the monster", the enorm...
Ancient wine cellar discovered in Israel
A large wine collection has
been found in the ruins of a cellar dating back more than 3700 years.
The ancient collection was unearthed beneath a ruine...
Nov 22
Who terrorizes the tyrannosaurs ?
A newly discovered dinosaur is
believed to have been more than a match for the relatives of T. rex.
Known as Siats meekerorum, the 40ft long me...
Nov 21
'Poltergeist' disturbs Luton restaurant table
CCTV footage from Jimmy’s
World Grill and Bar in Luton shows chairs and cutlery moving on their
own. The peculiar footage, which seems to show objects...
Space station celebrates its 15th birthday
The International Space
Station is now 15 years old and is expected to continue until at least
2028. When the first module of the station went in to s...
Glowing lake mysteriously goes dark
A lake in Puerto Rico that
usually glows green has suddenly gone dark and nobody seems to know why.
The enigmatic lake is a popular tourist attraction...
Nov 20
Massive 'alien' squid captured on video
A huge 26ft long magnapinna
squid has been filmed by Shell from one of its submersible vehicles.
Like a creature from an alien planet or the war machi...
'Gate to Hell' guardian statues recovered
Two marble statues associated
with the recently discovered 'Gate to Hell' cave have been unearthed.
The so-called "Gate to Hell", otherwise known as P...
Nov 19
NASA's Maven Mars mission launches
The next spacecraft headed for
the Red Planet has launched successfully from Cape Canaveral. Rather
than landing on the surface like the Curiosity rov...
Viking apocalypse due in february next year
According to Norse mythology
the Vikings have their own version of doomsday and it is fast
approaching. The end of the world has come and gone several...
Active volcano discovered in Antarctica
Researchers have uncovered an
active volcano deep below the thick Antarctic ice sheet. The discovery
represents the first time active volcanism has be...
Nov 18
Does biocentrism prove there is an afterlife?
Professor Robert Lanza
believes the answer to life after death lies in the science of quantum
physics. Understanding what happens to us after we die i...
Ice hotel forced to install fire alarms
A hotel in Sweden made
entirely out of ice has been ordered to install alarms in case there is a
fire. Located in the Arctic town of Jukkasjarvi, the ...
Robots allow doctors to 'beam' in to hospital
Sophisticated mobile
teleconferencing machines are making it possible for doctors to help
more patients. These remarkable remote presence machines al...
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