1911 : the year Niagara froze
A while ago I wrote a post about what I believe the most spectacular waterfalls in the world are, but...
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A while ago I wrote a post about what I believe the most spectacular waterfalls in the world are, but...
Even among some scientific circles, Neanderthals are considered to be the 'stupid' cousins of the modern humans (although some claim...
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The researchers who have just returned from the underwater volcano eruption report that the volcano is still active and it...
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For some reason, many people believed the current flu vaccine will be effective against this swine flu that's already expanding...
There has been a lot of debate around the whole 'hobbit issue' and I've been watching that pretty closely. It...
Because of insufficient time and man power (if you want to help, just look at the banner in the right),...
Photo by Mark W. Moffet Seeing all the available houses in the neighborhood and then choosing is not necessarily the...
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Earth Hour is an initiative started by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund) that asks people everywhere...
The war on cancer is more intense than ever, and it's taking place on many, many fronts. We've seen the...
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When Oscar was diagnosed with a very aggresive form of cancer called anal sac adenocarcinoma, his days seemed numbered -...
Some of these are truly puzzling, some are shrouded in conspiracy theories.
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About 20 years ago, on March 13, 1989, the whole province of Quebec, Canada, suffered a blackout that by now...
As you probably know (but may very well choose to ignore), ageism is going rampant throughout virtually every civilized country...
Whether it's due to novels and movies or some morbid fascination, more and more people seem to be fascinated about...
This is what researchers believe to be the first true comeback of a gene in the human/great ape lineage; the...
The guys over at WHOI are doing more and more interesting things every day; just a few days ago I...
It seems science and creationism are just taking sides and throwing rocks at each other; recently, they've taken things to...
Despite whatever you may hear, it's obvious that we still don't have a clear understanding of the impact we're having...
Lava, the molten rock that flows from inside the Earth, can destroy everything in its path. Water, meanwhile is like...
In almost every belief there's an apocalypse, hanging above the believers' head like the sword of Damocles. But as far...
Today, on the 3rd Monday of January, ZME Science pays homage to the man that was Martin Luther King, being...
If you've ever been to a rock concert, you know that unique feeling when you leave the arena, and the...
As we learn (or at least should) at quite an early age, Galileo Galilei had quite the impact on science,...
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So the male mosquito comes, humming an Elvis song, with a rose in his mouth... maybe I'm taking this a...
Well ladies and gentlemen, you'd better fasten your seat belts, because we're in for quite a spin. The Milky Way...
Recently, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered no more, no less than 12 pulsars, and it also detected gamma ray...
The term "social engineering" is often misunderstood; what it refers to is the act of manipulating people (or masses of...
Probably 2008 will remain in history as the year of the economic crisis, or perhaps of the LHC, or perhaps...
Oh boy time sure do flies! It seems just yesterday it was January... still, it's the 2nd day of Christmas...
According to a report launched by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), more than a thousand species were discovered just in...
The latest study conducted by researchers from the Duke University Medical Center was performed on two groups of (old and...
It's obvious that one of the biggest challenges the president elect has to face is rejuvenating the infrastructure; let's talk...
We've heard the phrase "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" (or what is the other way around??) a...
Researchers over that the Indiana University conducted a study that led to rather surprising conclusions. Despite the fact that women...
If you're thinking McLeod, you couldn't be further from the truth. What you have to do is think small; not...
Feeling the need for scientific research to back up the 'dirty old men' myth, Gothenburg University and Oxford University scientists...
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Two of the biggest and most impressive stars from our galaxy have been "surprised" in some really amazing poses by...