Science
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Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre | Alan Rusbridger
As global warming argument moves on to politics and business, Alan Rusbridger explains the thinking behind the Guardian newspaper's major series on the climate crisis A polar bear in the arctic ...
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Antarctica's Retreating Ice May Re-Shape Earth | Luis Andrews Henao and Seth Borenstein
THE BIG MELT In this Jan. 22, 2015 photo, a zodiac carrying a team of international scientists heads to Chile's station Bernardo O'Higgins, Antarctica. Water is eating away at the Antarctic ice, ...
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Self-Mummified Monk Discovered Inside Buddha Statue | Krisztina Than
A gold statue of Buddha housed at Hungary's Natural History Museum has been discovered to contain the mummified body of an ancient Chinese monk. PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy Drents Museum March 6, 2015 ...
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Harvard Unveils MRI Study Proving Meditation Literally Rebuilds The Brain’s Gray Matter In 8 Weeks | FeelGuide
feelguide.com Nov. 19, 2014 (FeelGuide.com) -- Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced neuroscientists ...
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How Science Died at the World Trade Center | Kevin Ryan
digwithin.netFeb. 15, 2015 (DigWithin.net) -- Science has been misused for political purposes many times in history. However, the most glaring example of politically motivated pseudoscience -- that ...
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BOOKS: 'Unprecedented,' By David Ray Griffin | Joel S. Hirschhorn
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 11, 2015 Every so often a nonfiction book comes along that, because of its objective, comprehensive coverage of a hot topic, should be carefully read with ...
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Hindsight and foresight together more accurately 'predict' quantum system's state than foresight alone | Phys.org
Time evolution in a monitored system. (a) Simplified experimental setup consisting of a transmon circuit coupled to a waveguide cavity. (b) We prepare the qubit in an initial state (Tr(ρiσx) = +1) ...
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No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning
This is an artist's concept of the metric expansion of space, where space (including hypothetical non-observable portions of the universe) is represented at each time by the circular sections. Note ...
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WATCH: Rare Video of a Mysterious Whale That Surfaced in Hawaii | Lisa Denning
Blainville’s beaked whales like to dive in deep offshore waters and are seldom seen. Feb. 5, 2015 (TakePart.com) -- How lucky is it that when two young Blainville’s beaked whales made a recent ...
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As Night Closes In | John Michael Greer
Feb. 4, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- I was saddened to learn a few days ago, via a phone call from a fellow author, that William R. Catton Jr. died early last month, just short of his 89th birthday. ...
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TOON: No Vaccine For Stupid | Gregory Crawford
Gregory Crawford -- World News Trust Feb. 4, 2015 "No Vaccine for Stupid." Editorial cartoon by Gregory Crawford. © 2015 World News Trust TOON: No Vaccine For Stupid by Gregory Crawford is licensed ...
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