Schemes to control climate change could backfire, warn scientists
© Patrimonio Designs Limited | Dreamstime.com Schemes to deliberately manipulate the Earth’s climate could prove useless, and at worst harmful, claims a new study. The strategies include reflecting sunlight from space, adding lime to the oceans, and irrigating vast expanses of the North African and Australian deserts to grow trees. Known as geoengineering, More...
Stonehenge mystery deepens
Image by Jose and Roxanne (Flickr) Scientists have pinpointed the exact source of many of the rocks used to build Stonehenge. The say the smaller stones, known as bluestones, came from a newly discovered site in More...
Legend of Viking Sunstone is true?
image: claumoho An ancient Norse myth describing a magical gem which could reveal the position of the sun when hidden behind clouds or even before dawn or after sunset, has been the subject of intrigue for many More...
NASA’s Kepler telescope finds 715 new planets outside solar system
NASA Handout The Earth’s galaxy is looking far more crowded and hospitable. NASA on Wednesday confirmed a bonanza of 715 newly discovered planets outside the solar system. Douglas Hudgins, NASA’s exoplanet More...
Ancient Zircon Reveals Age of Earth’s Crust
Image by sdixclifford (Flickr) A tiny sliver of ancient zircon reveals the crust of our planet formed at least 4.4 billion years ago—160 million years after the birth of the solar system, according to a new study. Earth More...
‘Gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana!
Image: Some rights reserved by Torben Bjørn Hansen (Flickr) A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a “gateway drug” effect is in fact accurate More...
Image by Guillaume Paumier Flikr During an excavation in the City of David, Jerusalem archaeologists encountered several mysterious stone signs that are thousands of years old. Until today, no-one has been able More...
Ancient step pyramid discovered in Egypt
Image credit: zoonabar flikr - Creative Commons A step pyramid, even more ancient than the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - The Great Pyramid of Giza - has been uncovered by archaeologists More...
Image by jimg944 Archaeologists have a made an intriguing and puzzling discovery. Hundreds of strange metallic mysterious glowing spheres have been unearthed beneath an ancient temple. The purpose of these spheres More...
Scientists Sign Declaration That Animals Have Conscious Awareness; Just Like Humans
Image by Loimere An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware More...