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 to the degree that humans are — a list of animals that includes all mammals, birds, and even the octopus. But will this make us stop treating More...
Ancient Fish was First to Have Two Nostrils, Leading the Way for Vertebrates with Faces
Image by erbephoto The evolution of an ancient fish offers insight into how vertebrates, including humans, came to have a face. A team of European researchers have presented new fossil evidence on the origins of More...
Questions No One Knows The Answer To
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Synthetic DNA made
Image Credit: CodonAUG - Flikr - Creative Commons According to the latest scientific research, a new synthetic form of DNA, named XNA has been discovered. The molecules for XNA are similar to RNA and DNA, More...
NASA finds Microscopic Martians… then kills them!
Image credit: NASA Spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1976 detected live microbes and then cooked them. A team of international scientists have re-examined the data collected by the Viking probes. Joseph Miller, More...
Life on Earth didn’t start in the Sea
Charles Dawrin Charles Darwin claimed over 140 years ago that life did not start in the oceans, but instead began on land in ‘warm little ponds’. A new provocative study appears to back his claim! Read More...