NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn’t share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth.
This morning on Good Morning America, they brought a guest on to talk about flu prevention and cures for children. The guest was Dr Lawrence Rosen of the Whole Child Center in Oradell, New Jersey. Generally not a big deal right? They have stuff like this on all the time right? Unfortunately this is a big deal.
Scientists have discovered ways to study the earth’s climate, going back millions of years and those who specialize in studying ancient climates are known as Paleoclimatologists. Paleoclimatologists use natural elements in the environment to find “proxy climate data” related to the past. Studies of these types use several different methods of collecting data, so they are assured of forming the most accurate analysis possible.
Plenty of today’s scientific theories will one day be discredited. So should we be skeptical of science itself?
The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a “mini-Big Bang” by smashing together lead ions instead of protons.
Travis Roy of Granite State Skeptics had a nice article written about him and his organization in the Nashua Telegraph. It centers around the group and their philosophy of “Don’t be a Dick”, of which I’m sure Phil Plait isn’t tired AT ALL of hearing that term…
The second episode of The Drunken Skeptics podcast is here! In this episode, we talk to veteran journalist Jack Lessenberry. We also talk to Dr. Gerald Smith about the potential fallacy of the Asian Carp issue.
Episode 2 of The Drunken Skeptics podcast is almost ready! Here is a little teaser of what’s coming up.
A couple of weeks ago, Ed Yong from Discover Blogs posted an entry about a scientific published paper that proposed a new theory that the origin of life may have occurred in an environment consisting of ice, as opposed to the more commonly held belief - a heated super venting of the ocean that churned organic molecules into a primordial [...]
Engineering new synthetic organisms offers promise of fighting disease and even global warming, but also comes with risk. Now two-thirds of Americans surveyed in a new poll say the field should move forward, while one-third supports a ban until researchers better understand the possible
