NASA scientists say that the Moon may be shrinking – but it’s not disappearing, don’t be afraid! The scientists reached this conclusion after studying a series of pictures taken by a spacecraft orbiting our home planet’s closest neighbor. The pictures show a series of small cliffs that were risen while the Moon’s surface cooled over [...]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its British counterpart, the Met Office have released a report today that confirmed the existence of global warming. According to the yearly climate change report released by the two institutions we live through the warmest period of the decade – but this decade was also the warmest [...]
Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) published results describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The research team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplasma mycoides genome. The synthetic cell is called Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 and is the proof of principle that genomes can be [...]
Scientists have announced the discovery of a 47-million-year-old human ancestor. Discovered in the Messel Pit, Germany, the fossil is twenty times older than most fossils that explain human evolution. Known as “Ida,” the fossil is a transitional species, showing characteristics of the very primitive nonhuman evolutionary line (prosimians, such as lemurs), but even more closely [...]
Researchers tested ocean water, did not measure mercury in any actual fish A new study about mercury in the Pacific Ocean is completely irrelevant to consumers who eat tuna and other marine fish, the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) said. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists, whose work was published today in the journal Global [...]