Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The BBC Wildlife Magazine put together a panel of judges to name greatest zoological discoveries of all time. OK, its an opinion piece by a couple of knowledgeable folks and is not in any way a definitive scientific ranking, but then any such list can only ever be subjective, after all, how do you ever … Read more
Note: The following has been re-posted from the original By ZACK KOPPLIN – WWW.RICHARDDAWKINS.NET Added: Wednesday, 17 November 2010 at 12:11 PM. You can Click here to go to that Original Article. A rare and welcome good news story – but please give your support if you can to ensure that Zach’s splendid work is … Read more
Just in case you have been on Mars and did not hear the news … there has been an announcement that we might have found a young Black Hole … born only 31 years ago in a mege-explosion … here is the picture … This composite image shows a supernova within the galaxy M100 that … Read more
Threre was an interesting article in the Guardian yesterday… (as a side note, its always the Guardian that appears to have the really insightful interesting articles … is that because they are more or less the only UK paper that is not owned by a bond villain :-) ) OK, so here is what is … Read more
This is truly amazing … Using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists have recently discovered a gigantic, mysterious structure in our galaxy. This feature looks like a pair of bubbles extending above and below our galaxy’s center. Each lobe is 25,000 light-years tall and the whole structure may be only a few million … Read more
An announcement has been made by the NASA Ames Director,Pete Worden. The exciting news is that they have started a project with DARPA called the Hundred Year Starship. In response some blogs are going nuts over this news … here are a couple of quotes I mined … A SENIOR NASA official has promised to … Read more