2010 was a great year for science. From the bizarre and seemingly pointless to the truly innovative; I loved it all. I'm an advocate of making science accessible to the masses. All of us should appreciate the effort of scientists, geeks and poindexters, who keep our World spinning and make stories like these...
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“Knowledge is power.” “The mind has no limits.” Regardless of the quip used to emphasize how important the brain is to the being using it, survival says it best. In a Darwinist dream come true, the smartest and strongest are those to reproduce first and most often. Despite the fact that this may hold true for som...
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The human race is a very creative group of creatures. This is evident in some of the fantastic theories that we either make up or foolishly believe because someone else made it up and made it sound good. This list comprises ten of these theories about the earth and the moon. Some of these are pretty solid theorie...
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Global warming is a complex problem and no one seems to agree on exactly what caused it. In fact, many people still believe it is a myth or that science is just plain wrong. Either way, as the evidence mounts the question is not whether you believe but what to do about it if it is true. Here are some very clever ...
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With all the advances in technology and new discoveries about our solar system and the universe, we spend a lot of our time looking towards the heavens. We spend so much time with our heads in the collective clouds that we sometimes forget to look down. Mother Earth has a lot to offer in the form of new discovery...
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Until the 1970s, life, as generally understood, was believed to be entirely dependent on energy from the Sun. However, In 1977, during an exploratory dive to the Galapagos Rift scientists discovered colonies of clams, tube worms, crustaceans, and other classified creatures gathered around deep undersea volcanic f...
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Perpetual motion is motion that, once started would never stop. It would continue to be in motion without the benefit of outside or external influence and thus generating energy. The problem is that perpetual motion is impossible according to the laws of physics, specifically the first two laws of Thermodynamics....
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