Science

One of the most spectacular anatomy exhibits that I have ever seen in my life has been the Body Worlds exhibit in Phoenix Arizona.  Body Worlds is an exhibit that shows real humans, who have been preserved through a process called plastination.  Each exhibit showcases different muscles and organs of the body.  Besides anatomy, the [...]

The battle between science and religion has been going on longer than any war known to man kind. While this battle sheds no blood or death — it is something that will never be settled. Theologists have been debating whether or not to teach evolution in school for years. Whether or not [...]

Light travels so fast that before now it was impossible to see the actual light waves in their smallest form.

“OSLO, Norway - Remains of a bus-sized prehistoric “monster” reptile found on a remote Arctic island may be a new species never before recorded by science, researchers said Tuesday.Initial excavation of a site on the Svalbard islands in August yielded the remains, teeth, skull fragments and vertebrae of a reptile estimated to measure nearly 40 [...]

‘Young chimps apparently have an extraordinary ability to remember numerals, and recall them even better than human adults do.
Although researchers have extensively studied chimpanzee memory in the past, the general assumption has been that it is inferior to that of humans, as with many other mental functions.
“There are still many people, including many biologists, who [...]

“Experts say that even at ages 16 and 17, when compared to adults, juveniles on average are more:— impulsive.
— aggressive.
— emotionally volatile.
— likely to take risks.
— reactive to stress.
— vulnerable to peer pressure.
— prone to focus on and overestimate short-term payoffs and underplay longer-term consequences of what they do.
— likely to overlook alternative courses of [...]

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“Skeleton of “Lucy” Discovered (1974)

“Lucy,” a 3.2 million-year-old female hominid of the species Australopithecus afarensis, was discovered by scientists in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression. An unprecedented 40% intact, Lucy was the first fossil hominid to really capture public notice. Although she was 3 feet, 8 inches tall and looked somewhat like a Chimpanzee, her bipedal knee [...]

“WASHINGTON  —  Nearby Venus is looking a bit more Earth-like with frequent bursts of lightning confirmed by a new European space probe.
For nearly three decades, astronomers have said Venus probably had lightning — ever since a 1978 NASA probe showed signs of electrical activity in its atmosphere. But experts weren’t sure because of signal interference.
Now [...]

“Oliver Curry, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, thinks two subspecies will emerge: a tall, slim, intelligent privileged class, and a short, squat, ugly, dim-witted race of servants.If that sounds remarkably like what H.G. Wells foresaw in “The Time Machine” with his Eloi and Morlocks, that’s because the division of species into [...]

“The DNA remnants of these ancient retroviruses, distant relatives of today’s HIV, account for an estimated 8 percent of the human genetic code and may have enabled master genes that account for some of the differences between us and our chimpanzee relatives.” (Link)
A virus can take two approached to replicating its DNA.  One way, which [...]